单选题 What's your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom (1) events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2) children younger than three or four (3) retain any specific, personal experiences.
A variety of explanations have been (4) by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippo-campus, the region of the brain which is (5) for forming memories, does not mature until about the age of two. But the most popular theory (6) that, since adults don't think like children, they cannot (7) childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8) one event follows (9) as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental (10) for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don't find any that fit the (11) It's like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.
Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new (12) for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren't any early childhood memories to (13) . According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else's spoken description of their personal (14) in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15) of them into long term memories. In other (16) , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about (17) — Mother talking about the afternoon (18) looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this (19) reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form (20) memories of their personal experiences.

单选题 [A] figure [B] interpret [C] recall [D] affirm

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[注释] 词义搭配。recall vt. 想起。例如：recall old faces(想起老朋友的面貌)；又如：I remember her face but I cannot recall where I met her. (我记得她的面貌，但想不起在什么地方见过她)。figure vt. 图示，塑造(形象)；想象。如：figure something to oneself(心中描绘某物)。interpret vt. 解释，说明；affirm vt. 断言，肯定。

单选题 [A] now that [B] even if [C] as though [D] just as

单选题 [A] largely [B] rarely [C] merely [D] really

单选题 [A] refuted [B] defied [C] proposed [D] witnessed

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[注释] 词义搭配。propose vt. 提出；refute vt. 反驳；defy vt. (公然)对抗，蔑视，如：defy the law(目无法纪)；witness vt. 目睹；(for)(签名)作证支持…，(against)(签名)作证反对…。例如：1)Your brother will witness for you in this charge．(在这次控告中你兄弟将为你作证辩护。)2)He will witness against you if only out of spite．(假如出于恶意，他将作证说明你有罪。)

单选题 [A] responsible [B] suitable [C] favorable [D] available

单选题 [A] declines [B] assesses [C] estimates [D] maintains

单选题 [A] reflect [B] attain [C] access [D] acquire

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[注释] 词义搭配。access vt. (计算机用语)存取。例如：She accessed three different files to find the correct information．(她存取了三个文件以找寻她所要的信息。)又如：The files were accessed every day to keep them up to date．(文件每日存取，使之不断更新。)