专题09 阅读理解20篇(浙江专用)（名校期中真题）-2023-2024学年八年级英语下学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（人教版）

期中复习之阅读理解20篇(浙江专用) (名校期中真题) （22-23八年级下·浙江台州·期中）“What’s the name of the man living next door? I can’t remember it right now.” Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this? Usually, we think old people’s memories (记忆力) become bad because their brains (大脑) can’t work quickly. But a team of German scientists has a different idea. “The human brain works slower in old age,” said scientist Michael Ramscar, “but only because they have kept much more information over time.” The findings are a result of many computer simulations (模拟) of learning and memory. Scientists let the computers read words and learn new things each day. When the computer “reads” only so much, its result in memory tests is the same as that of a young man. But if the computer learns much more than that, its result is the same as that of an older man. It is slower because more information makes the computer’s database (数据库) grow and the computer has more data to work with—it takes time. This is the same as old people. Think about this. A man knows two persons’ birthdays. Another man knows the birthdays of 2,000 people, but can only match the right man to the right birthday nine times out of ten. Can you say that the first man has a better memory than the second one? The fact is that “The larger the library you have in your head, the longer it usually takes to find a word,” Benedict Carey, a science reporter for the New York Times, wrote in a report about the study. 1．The writer uses the question at the beginning to ________. A．make readers think of their friends B．say that many people have bad memories C．make readers interested in the passage D．show why older people like asking questions 2．The scientists did the study by ________. A．asking old people questions B．reading books and some useful reports C．following the lives of a group of old people D．using computers to simulate man’s learning and memory 3．Why do old people forget other people’s names easily? A．Because they have a very po