Memory Test
1“I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to
remember anything you need to know at school,”promised lecturer lan
Robinson to a hundred schoolchildren.He slapped his hand down on the
table.“When I’ve finished in two hours’ time,your work will be far more
effective and productive.Anyone not interested,leave now.”The entire room
sat still.
2Robinson calls himself the Mind Magician (魔术师).He specializes in doing
magic tricks that look totally impossible,and then he reveals that they
involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery (骗术).“I
have always been interested in tricks involving memory-being able to reel
off (一口气 说出) the order of cards in a pack,that sort of thing,”he explains.
3Robinson was already lecturing to schools on his magic techniques when
it struck him that students might find memory techniques even more
valuable.“It wasn’t difficult area to move inot,as the stuff’s all there
in books.”So he summarized everything to make a two-hour lecture about
five techniques.
4“You want to learn a list of a hundred things?A thousand?No
problem,”says Robinson.The scandal is that every child is not taught the
techniques from the beginning of their school life.The schoolchildren who
were watching him thought it was brilliant.“I wish I’d been told this
earlier,”commented Mark,after Robinson had shown them how to
construct“mental journeys”.
5Essentially,you visualize (想象) a walk down a street,or a trip round a
room,and pick the points where you will put the things you want to
remember-the lamppost,the fruit bowl.Then in each location you put a
visual representation of your list-phrasal verbs,historical
dates,whatever-making them as strange as possible.It is that simple,and it
works.
6The reaction of schools has been uniformly enthusiastic.“The pupils
benefited enormously from lan’s presentation,”says Dr Johnston,head of the
school where Robinson was speaking.“ldeally we should run a regular class
in memory techniques so pupils can pick it up gradually.”
23.Paragraph 2 _________.
24.Paragraph 3 _________.
25.Paragraph 4 _________.
26.Paragraph 5 _________.
A.Good results
B.An ancient skill
C.Gaining attention
D.Memory tricks
E.A lecture on memory techniques
F.Ways to improve memory
27.The memory techniques used are no more complex than the old ___.
28.Robinson taught children to use“mental journeys”to improve ___.
29.Robinson told the pupils that all the memory techniques could be
found in ___.
30.The schoolchildren got a lot from the magician’s ___.
A.books
Bl.ecture
C.tricks
D.facts
E.memory
F.list
第4部分:阅读理解(第31~45题,每题3分,共45分)
下面有3篇短文,每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容,为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇Renewable Energy Sources
Today petroleum(石油)provides around 40% of the world’s energy
needs,mostly fuelling automobiles.Coal is still used,mostly in power
stations,to cover one-quarter of our energy needs,but it is the least
efficient,unhealthiest and most environmentally damaging fossil
fuel(矿物燃料).Natural gas reserves could fill some of the gap from oil,but
reserves of that will not last into the 22nd century either.Most experts
predict we will exhaust easily accessible reserves within 50
years.Less-polluting renewable energy sources offer a more practical
long-term energy solution.“Renewable”refers to the fact that these
resources are not used faster than they can be replaced.
Hydroelectric(水力发电的)power is now the most common form of renewable
energy,supplying around 20% of world electricity.China’s Three Gorges Dam
is the largest ever.At five times the size of the US’s Hoover Dam,its 26
turbines(涡轮机)will generate the equivalent energy of 18 coal-fired power
stations.It will satisfy 3% of China’s entire electricity demand.
In 2003,the first commercial power station to use tidal(潮汐的)currents in
the open sea opened in Norway.It is designed like windmill(风车),but others
take the form of turbines.
As prices fall,wind power has become the fastest growing type of
electricity generation-quadrupling(翻两番)worldwide between 1999 and
2005.Modern wind farms consist of turbines that generate
electricity.Though it will be more expensive,there is more than enough
wind to provide the world’s entire energy needs.Wind farms come in onshore
and offshore forms.They can often end up at spots of natural beauty,and
are often unpopular with residents.And turbines are not totally
harmless-they can interfere with radar,alter climate and kill sea
birds.Scotland is building Europe’s largest wind farm,which will power
200,000 homes.The UK’s goal is to generate one-fifth of power from
renewable sources,mainly wind,by 2020.But this may cause problems,because
wind is unreliable.
31.According to the passage,which of the following is the most polluting
energy resource?
A.Petroleum.B.Coal.
C.Natural gasD.Water.
32.China’s Three Gorges Dam
A.is the first hydroelectric dam in the world.
B.is of the same size as the US’s Hoover Dam.
C.can generate around 3% of world electricity.
D.is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.
33.Which country took the lead in making use of tidal currents to
produce power in 2003?
A.The UK.B.China.
C.Norway.D.The US.
34.One of the problems with wind farms is that
A.there is not enough wind.
B.wind is not reliable.
C.they can only be built on the sea.
D.they might influence the world economy.
35.According to the passage,resources like wind are
A.renewable.B.recyclable.
C.damaging.D.scarce.