2015职称英语《卫生类》阅读理解试题带答案(五)
Memory Class
Stan Field knows what age can do to a person's memory,and he's not taking any chances with chooses his food carefully and gets plenty of also avoids stress,coca cola and cigarette 's more,at breakfast each morning,the 69-year-old chemical engineer swallows a plateful of pills in the hope of boosting his brain power.
Michelle Arnove is less than half Field's age,but no less concerned about her
e working round the clock to finish a degree in film studies,the 33-year-old New Yorker had the alarming sensation that she had stopped retaining anything."I couldn't even remember names," she says."1 thought,'Oh no,I'm over 's all downhill from here." Besides loading up on supplements,Arnove signed up for a memory-enhancing course at New York's Mount Siani Medical when she got there,she found herself surrounded by people who were just as worried as she was.
For millions of Americans,and especially for baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人),the demands of the Information Age conflict with a sense of declining physical power."When boomers were in their 30s and 40s,they launched the fitness boom," says Cynthia Green,the psychologist who teaches Mount Sinai's memory class."Now we have the mental-fitness ry is the boomers' new life-crisis issue." And of course a major marketing demand for books and seminars has never been greater,says Jack Lannom,a Iongtime memory trainer whose weekly TV show,
"Mind Unlimited," goes out to 33 million homes on the Christian ous consumers are rushing to buy do-it-yourself programs and supplement makers are trying to sell everything but sawdust (木屑) as a brain booster.
But before you get out your checkbook,a few questions are in everyday forgetfulness signal declining brain function? Is "megamemory" (超强记忆) a realistic goal for normal people? And if you could have a perfect memory,would you really want it? Until recently,no one could address those issues with much authority,but our knowledge of memory is techniques are revealing how different parts of the brain interact to preserve meaningful ogists are trying to understand the underlying (潜在的) chemical processes and neuroscientists (神经系统科学家) are discovering how age,stress ,and other factors can disrupt one is close to finding the secret to perfect recall,but as you'll see,that may be just as well.
does Stan Field take at breakfast?
only.
and pills.
ing.
eful of pills only.
is the meaning of "working round the clock"?
iring clocks.
ng clocks.
ing with a clock nearby.
ing day and night.
baby-boomers living in the Information Age feel that
r financial status is declining.
r political influence is declining.
r physical power is declining.
r will power is declining.
h of the following does NOT indicate people's enhanced awareness of the importance of memory?
demand for books on memory.
demand for seminars on memory.
demand for memory-enhancing supplements.
demand for coca cola and cigarettes.
rding to the writer, the secret to perfect memory
been found.
never be found.
found a long time ago.
not in sight yet.
答案:11.B 12.D 13.C 14.D 15.D
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