单选题
After 20 years of marriage, a husband may still not understand his wife. How is it that she is never at a
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for words? How can she
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the names of a couple they met on
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years ago? Now we know
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to tell him: It"s her brain.
Although there are obviously cultural
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for the differences in emotions and behavior,
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breakthrough research reveals that the
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of many puzzling differences between men and women may
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in the head. Men"s and women"s brains
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much in common, but they are definitely not the same
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size, structure or insight. Broadly speaking, a woman"s brain, like her body, is ten to fifteen percent smaller than a man"s,
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the regions dedicated to the language may be more densely
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with brain cells.
Girls generally speak earlier and read faster. The reason may be
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females use both sides of the brain when they read. In
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, males rely only on the left side.
At every age, women"s memories
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men"s. They have a greater ability to
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names with faces than men do, and they are
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at recalling list. The events people remember best are those that an emotion is attached to.
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women use more of their right brains, which
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emotions, they may do this automatically.
While we don"t yet know what all these findings imply, one thing is
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: Male and female brains do the same things, but they do them differently.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查词语的固定搭配。loss的意思是“困惑不解，茫然失措”，a loss for words是同定搭配，意思是“茫然而语塞”，所以本题的答案选A。