doesn't become too full.
41. What have past behavioral studies found about our brain?
A. Its capacity actually knows no limits. B. It grows sophisticated with practice.
C. It keeps our most precious memories until life's end. D. New information learned pushes old information out. 42. What is the benefit of forgetting?
A. It frees us from painful memories. B. It helps slow down our aging process. C. It facilitates our access to relevant information. D. It prevents old information from forming associations. 43. What is the emphasis of current studies of memory?
A. When people tend to forget. B. What contributes to forgetting.
C. How new technology hinders memory capacity. D. Why learning and forgetting are complementary.
44. What do people find about their rare ability to remember every detail of their life?
A. It adds to the burden of their memory. B. It makes their life much easier. C. It contributes to their success in life. D. It constitutes a rare object of envy.
45. What does the passage say about forgetting?
A. It can enlarge our brain capacity.
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B. It helps get rid of negative memories. C. It is a way of organizing our memories. D. It should not cause any alarm in any way.
(B)
That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart — the one
we believed would marry her — had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the nerve to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man — a young man then — going in and out with a market basket.
\— any man — could keep a kitchen properly, \not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.
A neighbor, a woman, complained to the mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old. \
\
\servant of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him about it.\
The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in timid
deprecation. \really must do something about it, Judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something.\That night the Board of Aldermen met — three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation.
\time to do it in, and if she doesn’t...\
\So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they
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recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.
That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town,
remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a picture, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.
46. What did the Negro man possibly do in the family?
A. He was an adopted son. B. He worked as a servant. C. He kept the family alive. D. He helped kill the snakes and rats.
47. What did the ladies mean by saying the underlined sentence in paragraph 2?
A. Men were good at cleaning kitchen in a proper way. B. The Negro man seemed to keep the kitchen properly. C. Men were not able to manage the kitchen well. D. Men were very likely to make a kitchen smelly.
48. What was the attitude of Judge Stevens towards the complaints initially?
A. He remained neutral without giving suggestions. B. He considers the complaints unreasonable. C. He thought it was the Negro man to blame.
D. He thought they were trivial and could be easily solved.
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49. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Four men tried to sow something in Emily’s lawn after midnight. B. Emily probably noticed some ones cross on her lawn. C. The four men tried to find out where the smell came. D. The smell was finally got rid of by the four men. 50. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Emily’s great aunt was driven crazy by her father. B. Emily looked down upon the young men who were not rich. C. Emily’s family was too distinguished to be appreciated. D. Emily’s father had set lots of barriers for her pursuers.
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二、选词填空（1.5X20=30）
请用所给的词完成短文，每个词只能用一次。所给的词中有两个是多余的。
(A)
A. relax B. slaves C. survived D. distracted E. disease F. fast G. divided H. affordable I. control J. accessible K. drawing L. companion Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening, sometimes till dawn. Though I know you help me, sometimes you’re making me do things with 1 attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll keep in my feelings towards you, but you’re 2 me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my workplace. You’re just a window for our entertainment and information. But we people aren’t satisfied only with the window. So we open all our doors for you. Is this a(n) 3 or some kind of attachment? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment will you commit me to the lifelong togetherness?
Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can 4 ? You’re a poison — not a slow one but a super 5 poison which holds our mind and makes us dance to its tune.
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Nowadays you’re so 6 that anyone can buy and make you our 7 . You’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll always be concerned about your “health”. Because you accompany us everywhere and never let us be alone.
If you were a real person made of flesh and blood would we love you the same? You 8 us with your numerous talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We’re all your 9 . Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations 10 , but if they did why can’t we?
(B)
A. methods B. place C. sick D. stolen E. true F. replaced G. missed H. cruel I. characters J. feared K. tell L. tall Tales of the supernatural are common in all parts of Britain. In particular, there was (and perhaps still is) a belief in fairies (仙女) . Not all of these fairies are the friendly, people-loving 1 that appear in Disney films, and in some folktales they are 2 and cause much human suffering. This is 3 in the tales about the Changeling. These __4___ the story of a mother whose baby grows ___5___ and pale and has changed so much that he is almost unrecognizable to the parents. It was then __6___that the fairies had come and stolen the baby away and __7___ the human baby with a fairy Changeling. There were many ways to prevent this from happening: hanging a knife over the baby’s head while he slept or covering him with some of his father’s clothes were just two of the recommended __8___. However, hope was not lost even if the baby had been __9___. In those cases there was often a way to get the real baby back. You could __10___ the Changeling on the fire — then it would rise up the chimney, and you would hear the sound of fairies’ laughter and soon after you would find your own child safe and sound nearby.
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Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘It’s iniquitous,’ they say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the
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2018学年广州市高三英语词汇竞赛(2018 01) -文档资料
