Part IV Cloze (15 minutes, 10 points)

　　Directions: In this part, there is a passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

　　What's your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The

　　first time you  66  thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom  67 events much

　　earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four

　　68  retain any specific, personal experiences. A variety of explanations have been  69  by

　　psychologists for this  "childhood amnesia"  (儿童失忆症). One argues that the hippocampus, the　region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature 70 about the age of　two. But the most popular theory  71  that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot　  72 childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or 73-one event follows  74  as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental  75  for　early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don't find any that fits the  76  . 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  77  for

　　childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply  78  any early childhood memories to recall.

　　According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use  79  spoken description of their personal

　　experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly  80  impressions of them into long-term memories. In other  81  , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about  82  --Mother talking about the afternoon  83  looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this  84  reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form 85 memories of their personal experiences.

　　66. A. listened          B. felt              C. touched　   D. heard

　　67. A. involve             B. interpret         C. recall             D. resolve

　　68. A. largely             B. rarely             C. merely             D. really

　　69. A. canceled            B. figured            C. proposed           D. witnessed

　　70. A. until               B. once              C. after               D. since

　　71. A. magnifies           B. intervenes          C. contains            D. maintains

　　72. A. reflect              B. attain              C. access             D. refer

　　73. A. narratives           B. forecasts         C. regulations       D. descriptions

　　74. A. the rest             B. another            C. the other           D. others

　　75. A. outputs             B. dreams            C. flashes             D. files

　　76. A. footstep            B. pattern            C. frame             D. landscape

　　77. A. emphasis            B. arrangement        C. explanation         D. factor

　　78. A. aren't              B. weren't            C. isn't               D. wasn't

　　79. A. anyone else         B. anyone else's       C. some else          D. someone else's

　　80. A. forgotten            B. remembered        C. forgetting          D. remembering

　　81. A. senses             B. cases              C. words             D. means

　　82. A. him               B. theirs             C. it                 D. them

　　83. A. used               B. chosen            C. taken             D. spent

　　84. A. habitual            B. verbal            C. pretty             D. mutual

　　85. A. permanent          B. conscious          C. subordinate        D. spiritual

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