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U7单元练习(满分90分)
一、语法选择(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
Who would win in a competition about memorizing numbers, a chimp(黑猩猩) ___1___ a teenager? The teenager? Think again. So far scientists ___2___ many studies. They show that chimps do better than human beings ___3___ it comes to this kind of problem. We have to rethink what we believe about human memory.
Scientists say that there ___4___ different kinds of memories. They are short-term memory and long-term memory. Our short-term memory saves information for ___5___ seconds or some minutes. Long-term memory holds the information we try hard to keep and it’s ___6___ to everyone in our daily life.
Scientists have ___7___ found that people memorize things in different ways. Some memorize things better ___8___ the help of different kinds of pictures. ___9___ memorize things through sounds. If you put different ways of memories together, you can remember a lot of things. So why not ___10___ to remember English words with pictures? At ___11___ same time, you can listen to recordings of the same group of words. It may help you a lot.
People ___12___ memorize things if they don’t learn them. Learning needs much attention(注意力). It takes about eight seconds ___13___ a piece of information and store(存储)it in the memory. So, try to pay attention to ___14___ when you need to memorize it. The ___15___ time to study is the early morning in a day. That’s because our brains work best in the early morning. We can take in and understand information quickly.
1. A. and B. or C. but D. so
2. A. makes B. are making C. have made D. will make
3. A. when B. because C. unless D. before
4. A. is B. are C. was D. be
5. A. much B. little C. a few D. a little
6. A. importance B. important C. importantly D. more importantly
7. A. too B. also C. as well D. either
8. A. in B. at C. of D. with
9. A. Other B. The other C. Others D. Another
10. A. try B. trying C. to try D. to trying
11. A. a B. an C. the D. /