英语四级听力-短对话 225

 

Test 3Section CMemory is our most important possession. Without memory, you wouldn't know who you are. You couldn't think about the past or plan for the future. Memory is (36) ______ for everything we do as human beings. It's (37) ______ that we have this magical time machine in our heads that (38) ______ us to record experiences and then use that information at a later time. (39) ______ how the brain makes and (40) ______ memories has to be one of the most important of all scientific (41) ______ .

People who feel they must (42) ______ for having a bad memory should stop using a poor memory as an excuse for forgetting things. The only people who have a poor memory are those whose memory function has been (43) ______ by disease or damage. (44) _____________________________________________________________ . You must associate it with something. You must exercise it or risk losing its effectiveness. (45) _______________________________________________________________ . Second, cramming¹ for finals is a very bad way to learn something that will last. Information from cramming will come in and go out. (46) ______________________________________________________ .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

答案解析：

36. essential解析：此处需要形容词，注意双写s和词尾tial。

37. amazing解析：此处是现在分词用作形容词，不可遗漏-ing。注意不要写成形似近音词amusing。

38. enables解析：此处需要动词作谓语，用法是接不定式作宾语补足语。注意that指代的是this magical time machine，故该谓语动词用第三人称单数。

39. Discovering解析：此处需要动名词作主语，注意ing。由于此词位于句首，因此要大写首字母D。

40. preserves解析：此处需要与makes并列的动词，注意开头的p不要漏掉。

41. pursuits解析：根据one of和all可知此处需要名词复数形式，拼写时注意ur和ui。

42. apologize解析：根据must可知此处需要动词原形。

43. compromised解析：根据has been和by可知此处需要过去分词表示被动，所以不要漏写词尾d。

44. 标准答案：All the rest of us must accept the responsibility to make an effort to remember things听音关键：the rest，responsibility，remember答案重构：All the others must accept the responsibility to try to remember things画龙点睛：此题可采用同义替换法简化。

45. 标准答案：Students and faculty² should understand that a good education involves an emphasis on understanding rather than sheer memorization听音关键：students，faculty，good education，emphasis，understanding答案重构：Students and faculty should know that a good education emphasizes understanding more than sheer memorization画龙点睛：关键是要抓住主谓宾和比较结构46. 标准答案：If you want to retain what you learn, you must spread out the learning process听音关键：to retain，must spread，learning process答案重构：To remember/memorize what you learn, you must spread out the learning process画龙点睛：根据上下文，此处的retain就是remember/memorize的意思，不会写可以替换。此处的条件状语从句也可改写为不定式结构。

1 cramming   

n.塞满，填鸭式的用功v.塞入( cram的现在分词 )；填塞；塞满；（为考试而）死记硬背功课

参考例句：

• Being hungry for the whole morning, I couldn't help cramming myself. 我饿了一上午，禁不住狼吞虎咽了起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She's cramming for her history exam. 她考历史之前临时抱佛脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。