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The dying soldier had the message ______ straight to the headquarters. A. be sent B. being sent C. sent D. to be sent

单选题The best title of this story is ______.

单选题The principle justifying passive euthanasia in Europe is that terminally ill patients are ______.

单选题According to the passage, which one is tree?

单选题What ______ suppose would happen if the director knew you felt that way? A. will you B. do you C. would you D. you would

单选题The doctor suggested that your brother avoid ______ his right hand. A. to be using B. using C. having been using D. to use

单选题In winter, people in Devon and Cornwall, ______.

单选题Signs of deafness had given him great anxiety as early as 1798. For a long time he successfully concealed it from all but his most intimate friends, while he consulted physicians and quacks with eagerness. But neither quackery nor the best skill of his time availed him, and it has been pointed out that the root of the evil lay deeper than could have been supposed during his lifetime. Although his constitution was magnificently strong and his health was preserved by his passion for outdoor life, a post-mortem examination revealed a very complicated state of disorder, evidently dating from childhood (if not inherited) and aggravated by lack of care and good food. The touching document addressed to his brothers in 1802, and known as his "will" should be read in its entirety. No verbal quotation short of the whole will do justice to the overpowering outburst which runs in almost one long unpunctuated sentence through the whole tragedy of Beethoven's life, as he knew it then and foresaw it. He reproaches men for their injustice in thinking and calling him pugnacious, stubborn, and misanthropical when they do not know that for six years he has suffered from an incurable condition aggravted by incompetent doctors. He dwells upon his delight in human society from which he has had so early to isolate himself, but the thought of which now fills him with dread as it makes him realize his loss, not only in music but in all finer interchange of ideas, and terrifies him lest the cause of his distresses should appear. He declares that, when those near him had heard a flute or a singing shepherd while he heard nothing, he was only prevented from taking his life by the thougth of his art, but it seemed impossible for him to leave the world until he had brought out all that he felt to be in his power. He requests that after his death his present doctor , if surviving, shall be asked to describe his illness and to append it to this document in order that at least then the world may be as far as possible reconciled with him. He leaves his brothers property, such as it is, and in terms not less touching, if more conventional than the rest of the document, he declares that his experience shows that only virtue has preserved his life and his courage through all his misery. During the last twelve years of his life, his nephew was the cause of most of his anxiety and distress. His brother, Kaspar Karl, had often given him trouble—for example, by obtaining and publishing some of Beethoven's early indiscretions, such as the trio variations, op. 44, the sonatas, op. 49, and other trifles. In 1815, after Beethoven had quarreled with his oldest friend, Stephan Breuning, for warning him against trusting his brother in money matters, Kaspar died, leaving a widow of whom Beethoven strongly disapproved, and a son, nine years old, for the guardianship of whom Beethoven fought the widow through all the law courts. The boy turned out utterly unworthy of his uncle's persistent devotion and gave him every cause for anxiety. He failed in all his examinations, including an attempt to learn some trade in all his examinations, including an attempt to learn some trade in the polytechnic school, whereupon he fell into the hands of the police for attempting suicide, and after being expelled from Vienna, joined the army. Beethoven's utterly simple nature could neither educate nor understand a human being who was not possessed by the wish to do his best. His nature was passionately affectionate, and he had suffered all his life from the want of a natural outlet for it. He had often been deeply in love and made no secret of it. But Robert Browning had not a more intense dislike of "the artistic temperament" in morals, and though Beethoven's attachments were almost hopelessly above him in rank, there is not one that was not honorable and respected by society as showing the truthfulness and self-control of a great man. Beethoven's orthodoxy in such matters has provoked the smiles of Philistines, especially when it showed itself in his objections to Mozart's Don Giovanni and the grounds for selecting the subject of Fidelio for his own opera. The last thing that Philistines will ever understand is that genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it, and Beethoven's life, with all its mistakes, its grotesqueness, and its pathos, is as far beyond the shafts of Philistine wit as his art.

单选题{{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} Regular child care provided outside home or by someone other than the mother does not in itself undermine healthy emotional connections between mothers and their 15-month-old infants, according to a long-term national study. The finding holds even if care begins during the first 3 months after birth and runs for 30 hours or more per week. Among infants who receive unkind and unresponsive care from their mothers, however, the mother-child relationship may be damaged. "This research helps us put apart complexities regarding child care that have not previously been studied in detail," contends Jay Belsky, a psychologist. The investigation consists of 1,153 children and their families living in or near Boston. The youngsters, no more than 1 month old when they entered the study in 1991, will be tracked until the age of 7. Experimenters administered questionnaires to mothers in their homes and videotaped baby caretakers interacting with the kids at ages 1, 6, and 15 months. Independent observers rated the quality of each child care efforts and noted infant nervousness. Unlike most previous studies, this one allows researchers to observe each caretaker's personality at child nursing, and kids' emotional reaction by the equipment.

单选题Which of these statements is NOT true according to the first paragraph of the article?

单选题He is not such a man ______ would leave his work half done.A. thatB. whichC. whoD. as

单选题Man: I'm looking for an unfurnished two-bedroom apartment, but all your apartments are furnished. Woman: We can take care of that. We can simply remove the furniture. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题During the Olympic Games, people from all over the world come together in peace and friendship. The first Olympic Games that we have (1) of were in Greece in 776 B. C. The games lasted one day. The only (2) in the first thirteen Olympic Games was a race. Men ran the length of the stadium. In 1896 the games were (3) again in Athens, Greece. The Greeks (4) a new stadium for the competition. 311 (5) from thirteen countries (6) in many events. The (7) became national heroes. After 1896, the games were held every four years during the summer in different cities around the (8) . In 1908, in London, England, the first gold (9) were given to winning athletes. The Olympic Winter Games (10) in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Athletes competed in (11) events such as skiing, ice skating and ice hockey. Today the Winter Games take place (12) four years. Until recently, Olympic competitors could not he (13) athletes. All of the athletes in the Olympic Games were amateurs. Today, (14) , many of the Olympic athletes are professionals who play their sports (15) money during the year. Some people disagree with this idea.

单选题Which of the following can be the best candidate for the title of the passage?

单选题Always tell your neighbours when you are going, as a______against burglary.