单选题 Researchers at Yale University Medical School and the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., have taken a pretty good look at what happens in the brain of a drunken driver. And it isn"t pretty. Using【C1】______scans, the scientists compared the neural activity that【C2】______on and off like lights on a police car as both sober【C3】______game. The maps of activity in different areas of the brain【C4】______in new detail the impact that drinking has on a complicated【C5】______task such as driving. "No one had seen that in a scanner【C6】______." said Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, a Yale psychiatrist and director of the Olin Center. Pearlson and Vince Calhoun, a researcher at Yale and Olin, first conducted brain scans on【C7】______drivers as they played the driving simulation game and then as they watched others play the game. Those scans gave the researchers a baseline of【C8】______activity in the unimpaired driver. Subjects were then given a low dose or a high dose of booze—enough to get their blood alcohol content to either 0.04 percent or 0.10 percent. An inebriated driver often will speed because alcohol has affected the cerebellum, a primitive area of the brain involved in【C9】______function, the researchers found. But drunken drivers【C10】______in and out of traffic because of errors in the front parietal cortex, which translates sensory information and helps in the decision-making process, Pearlson said. Drinking did not seem to change activity in five other areas of the brain associated with driving, such as vision centers, the researchers found. But to the surprise of no one, the more the subjects drank, the more trouble they had with their driving.
单选题 【C1】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:imaging
单选题 【C2】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:像警车上的灯一样一闪一闪的,所以用flicker意为“闪动,闪烁”。
单选题 【C3】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:driving simulation game驾驶仿真游戏。
单选题 【C4】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:该句的意思是“大脑不同区域的活动图详细地显示了喝酒对诸如驾驶这样复杂的大脑任务的影响”。
单选题 【C5】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:参见54题的注释。
单选题 【C6】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:该句的意思是“以前没有人在扫描仪里见过那个”。能放在句尾的副词只有ever和before,根据句意应该选before。
单选题 【C7】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:根据上下文得知,该实验应该是先对未喝酒的驾驶员进行实验。因此选sober意为“清醒的,未醉的”。
单选题 【C8】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:这些扫描给研究人员提供了未受酒精损害的驾驶员的神经活动的原始资料。neural activity指“神经活动”。
单选题 【C9】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:motor有“运动神经的,运动的”之意。
单选题 【C10】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:weave in and out(of)迂回前进,曲折前行,是固定搭配。dive下潜,俯冲;fade减弱下去,消失:appear出现,都不符合题意。