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Older adults tend to be forgetful because of______.
A．their broader range of attention
B．the harm of Alzheimer's disease
C．their wide information
D．their frustration from limited attention
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第1题
Some brains do deteriorate with age. Alzheimer's disease, for example, strikes 13 percent of Americans 65 and older. But for most aging adults, the authors say, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact, like a name or a telephone number. Although that can be frustrating, it is often useful. "It may be that distractibility is not, in fact, a bad thing," said Shelley H. Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard whose work was cited in the book. "It may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind. "
For example, in studies where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, adults 60 and older work much more slowly than college students. Although the students plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand. That indicates that they are not just stumbling over the extra information, but are taking it in and processing it. When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students.
"For the young people, it's as if the distraction never happened," said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute. "But for older adults, because they've retained all this extra data, they' re now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they've soaked up from one situation to another. "
Such tendencies can yield big advantages in the real world, where it is not always clear what information is important, or will become important. A seemingly irrelevant point or suggestion in a memo can take on new meaning if the original plan changes. Or extra details that stole your attention, like others'yawning and fidgeting, may help you assess the speaker's real impact.
From the first two paragraphs, we learn that______.
A．aging brains tend to process more information simultaneously
B．one becomes forgetful when he gets old
C．older people don't think their brainpower is declining
D．the aged always stress long-term benefit
第2题
There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today's world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and ideas. They don't like to feel that their beliefs and values are being questioned and threatened. They would like the young to learn from them, but the young refuse to accept their values. They cannot understand why the young complain about the conventional things and old systems and why they want to make changes in these things to fit the needs of modern society, As a result, the old people think the young are not what they were, and most young people are unable to learn from the parents and elders who they will never be.
In order to reconcile the differences, both generation should realize that the world has changed, and that new responses are necessary for many of the problems of society. Besides, some forms of organizations should be established to help the young and the old exchange their ideas and strengthen their mutual understanding so as to bridge the gap.
One important reason for the difference existing between the young and the old is that ______.
A．they live in different ages
B．they live in different countries
C．they live in separate planets
D．they hate each other
第3题
Adults tend to interpret the action of children______their own experiences.
A．in terms of
B．in the habit of
C．in words of
D．in the account of
第4题
Young adults ______ older people are more likely to prefer pop songs.
A．other than
B．more than
C．less than
D．rather than
第5题
A．change people's conservative attitudes toward their lifestyle
B．help young people make friends with the opposite sex
C．make them competitive id the job market
D．help them achieve success in their interpersonal relationships
第6题
A．do harm to younger generations
B．end up with few or no benefits
C．give play to their potentials
D．shed light on social trends
第7题
" A mother giving birth in spring spends the last stage of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer, " said one of the scientists. "When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies have tendency to infections of the digestive system. " In Austria, adults born in autumn lived about seven months longer than those born in spring, and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture is similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition (营养) at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists.
The passage is mainly about______.
A．how the month of birth is related to life expectancy
B．how the seasonal pattern affects the health of new-born babies
C．how nutrition in different seasons influences life expectancy
D．why people born in autumn are free from chronic illness
第8题
There are a number of factors, which determine the onset of smoking, and these are largely psychological and social. They include availability of cigarettes, curiosity, rebelliousness, appearing thought, anticipation of adulthood, social confidence, the example of parents and teachers, and smoking by friends and older brothers and sisters.
It should be much easier to prevent children from starting to smoke than to persuade adults to give up the habit once established, but in fact this has proved very difficult. The example set by people in authority, especially parents, health care workers, and teachers, is of prime importance. School roles should forbid smoking by children on the premises. This role has been introduced at Summerhill School where I spent my schooldays.
There is, however, a risk of children smoking just to rebel against the rules, and even in those schools which have tried to enforce no smoking by corporal punishment there is as much smoking as in other schools. Nevertheless, banning smoking is probably on balance beneficial. Teachers too should not smoke on school premises, at least not in front of children.
In this passage the author puts an emphasis on ______.
A．the effect of smoking among children
B．the difficulty in preventing children from smoking
C．the reasons why children start smoking among children
D．the measures to ban smoking among children
第9题
It is true that parents often find it difficult to win their children ' s【65】and they tend to forget how they themselves felt when young.
For example, young people like to act on the spot【66】much thinking. It is one of their ways to show that they have grown up and they can【67】any difficult situation. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things ahead, at【68】in the back of their minds, and do not like their plans to be upset by something unexpected.
When you want your parents to let you【69】something, you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry at their【70】in clothes, in entertainment and in music. But they do not【71】to cause any trouble; it is just that they feel cut off from the older people' s world, into which they have not yet been【72】. That' s why young people want to make a new culture of their【73】And if their parents do not like their music【74】entertainment or clothes or their way or speech, this will make the young people extremely happy.
Sometimes you are so proud【75】yourself that you do not want your parents to say "yes" to【76】you do. All you want is to be left alone and do what you like. It is natural enough, after being a child【77】so many years, when you were completely【78】your parent' s control.
If you plan to control your life, you' d better【79】your parents over and try to get them to understand you. If your parents see that you have a high sense of【80】, they will certainly give you the right to do what you want to do.
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第10题
There is some relationship between age and children’s characteristic reaction to divorce. As the child grows older, the greater is the likelihood of a free expression of a variety of complex feelings, an understanding of those feelings, and a realization that the decision to divorce cannot be attributed to any one simple cause. Self-blame virtually disappears after the age of 6, fear of abandonment diminishes after the age of 8, and the confusion and fear of the young child is replaced in the older child by shame, anger, and self-reflection.
Gender of the child is also a factor that predicts the nature of reaction to divorce. The impact of divorce is initially greater on boys than on girls. They are more aggressive, less compliant, have greater difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and exhibit problem behaviors both at home and at school. Furthermore, the adjustment problems of boys are still noticeable even two years after the divorce. Girls’ adjustment problems are usually internalized rather than acted out, and are often resolved by the second year after the divorce. However, new problems may surface for girls as they enter adolescence and adulthood. How can the relatively greater impact of divorce on boys than on girls be explained？ The greater male aggression and noncompliance may reflect the fact that such behaviors are tolerated and even encouraged in males in our culture more than they are in females. Furthermore, boys may have a particular need for a strong male model of self-control, as well as for a strong disciplinarian parent. Finally, boys are more likely to be exposed to their parents’ fights than girls are, and after the breakup, boys are less likely than girls to receive sympathy and support from mothers, teachers, or peers.
第36题：Temperamental, irritable kids have difficulty adapting to parental divorce because_____.
［A］ they care too much about the life change
［B］ the great stress of their families diminishes their ability
［C］ they tend to lose temper easily and are sensitive to the life change
［D］ they are faced with more parents’ fights than the relaxed, easygoing children
