单选题
Humans are the only species known to have consciousness, awareness that we have brains and bodies【C1】______adaptability that we can affect the course our lives take, that we can make choices【C2】______that vastly affect the quality of our lives—biologically, intellectually, environmentally, and spiritually. As humans, we have the ability to mold our【C3】______beings to become what or who we wish to become. While some of us may,【C4】______, have genetic and biological imperatives that may require medication or training to overcome, or at least to modulate, the vast majority of us do, in fact, hold our emotional【C5】______in our hands. All that【C6】______, until the last decade, scientists believed that the human brain and its connections were formed during gestation and infancy and remained【C7】______unchanged through childhood. They believed that humans had a given number of neurons in a specific brain structure, and【C8】______the number might vary among people, once you were done with childhood development, you were set in this【C9】______. Your connections were already made, and the learning and growing period of your brain was over. In the last decade, however, researchers have found【C10】______evidence that this is not so, and that something called neuroplasticity continues throughout our lives.
【答案解析】解析:根据选项可知,本题考查句意和词组。“…that we can make choices 52 that vastly affect the quality of our lives…”的大意是“这种意识能让我们做出当下对自己生活产生重大影响的决策”。in the event“在某个事件上”,in an attempt“尝试”,at the moment“当下”,along the way“沿途”。根据题意,D为最佳选项。
【答案解析】解析:本题考查非谓语动词和习惯说法。该句的主谓结构为scientists believe,因此all that后的谓语动词应该相应变成非谓语结构。纵观四个选项,只有B符合要求。all that being said是独立主格结构,充当状语,意思是“综上所述”。
单选题
【C7】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:more or less“或多或少”,pretty much“十分,非常”,as ever“和以往一样”,if any“即使有的话也……”。该句的下文说,科学家们认为一旦人脑成型,神经元便会保持稳定。由此信息便可回溯到空格中应该为pretty much unchanged,意思是“保持高度稳定”。
单选题
【C8】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:本题考查逻辑关系。while放在句首,表示让步,放在句中表示对比;despite“尽管”,表示让步,后面连接的是that从句;nevertheless“然而”,表示转折,放在句中时往往用标点隔开;since“因为,既然”,表示因果。“They believed that humans had a given number of neurons in a specific brain structure”讲道,科学家们相信在人类某个大脑结构中存在一定数量的神经元。and后的句子中含有两个信息的缺失,需要我们找到语义线索来确定逻辑关系。vary“变化”,done with childhood development“童年发展完成”,be set“定型”,有以上三个重点线索可知,这里的逻辑关系应该为“虽然……变化,但是一旦完成童年发展,你就会……成型”。因此这里应该选择表示“尽管”的连词。因引导句子,故while是正确答案。
单选题
【C9】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析:该句的意思是“一旦儿童发展阶段完成,大脑便会成型”。in the mold是正确答案。in this case“这种情况”,in this sense“在这个意义上”,in this mold“以这种形式”,in this condition“在这种条件下”。