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Mental models guide our perceptions and help us make predictions. Most of our mental models are built 1 the structure of our nervous systems, and we are usually 2 of them.
We 3 the world not according to direct knowledge of reality, but according to mental models, which people often mistake 4 reality. For example, we all share a built-in mental model that the world is continuous, 5 our eyes tell us differently. This built-in mental model tells us what to "see" in a part of the eye that doesn''t 6 see anything. This "blind spot" model causes us to 7 made-up information (a continuation of surrounding patterns ) and 8 that if we look at a previously hidden spot, it will look like its 9 .
Not all mental models are built in; some we learn or 10 . For example, most people believe that the automobiles driving down the street will not turn 11 the sidewalk and hit pedestrians. If we believe 12 , we would act like 13 squirrels, always stopping to look around and proceeding 14 no automobiles were operating nearby.
We use mental models of our surroundings to perceive what we believe to be 15 and to predict what may happen. These mental models 16 to our surroundings--we have mental models of objects ,of the environment ,and of other people--and to our own capabilities and 17
All of our mental models are, unfortunately, approximations 18 in the lump of nervous tissue we call the brain. Sophisticated 19 the brain is, it is very small and simple compared with the 20 of the outside world.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】通读全文可知,此文主要讨论我们大脑中的mental models(思想模式)及其功能,可归人心理学范畴。所给4个介词皆可与be built搭配,但意思各异:be built by:被……所建;be built for:为……所建;be built into:be made a part of sth.that cannot be separated 构成……不可分割的一部分;be built on:建在……之上;依赖……。根据句意,应当选C。
【答案解析】这4个词的词尾相同,但词义各异:A.fantacies:幻想;B.efficiencies:效能; C.proficiencies:熟练;D.tendencies:natural likelyhoods of developing,acting or moving, in a particular way(倾向,趋势)。从句意看来,只有D项可取。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】本文的第2句说,我们的思想模式是神经系统结构的一部分,但未说明其具体部位。据此,这里选用contained意思最为概括,与上述一致。B、D二词因有具体位置色彩而不宜采用。C.involved的汉语释义中虽有“包含”,但其本义为 have as a necessary consequence(产生某种必然结果),由此引申为“牵涉”、“包含”。
【答案解析】所给4词虽然都以-ities结尾,但考虑到从句中的sophisticated(复杂的), A.necessities(生活必需品),B.infinities(大宗,大量)可先排除。D.perplexities: puzzling or confusing things(令人困惑的事物),不合句意需要。只有C.complexities: things that are difficult to understand or explain(复杂的事物)可与sophisticated相呼应。