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.
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D. It constitutes a rare object of envy. 45. What does the passage say about forgetting? A. It can enlarge our brain capacity. 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, \ladies said; so they were 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,
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eighty years old.
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\\just a snake or a rat that 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. \I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something.\— three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation.
\simple enough,\he said. \her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she doesn’t...\ \of smelling bad?\
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
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all the outbuildings. As they 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.
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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. 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.
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广州市高三英语词汇竞赛(2018 01)
