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【单选题】As the baby-boomer generation contemplates the prospect of the Zimmer frame there has never been more interest in delaying the process of ageing. One consequence has been a(n) (1) rise in the popularity of brain-training games.But how (2) really is a daily dose of cryptic crossword
Robert Wilson, a neuropsychologist at Rush University inChicago, and his colleagues decided to (3) out, (4) following a group of people without dementi
A、Participants were asked to (5) how frequently they engaged in cognitively (6) activities. The researchers were looking for such things as reading newspapers, books and magazines, (7) challenging games like chess, listening to the radio and watching television, and (8) museums.
The good news, as they report in Neurology, is that (9) activity of this sort seems to slow the rate of (10) decline in those without cognitive (11) . The bad news is that in those who do then developAlzheimer’s disease it is associated with a more rapid (12) decline.
What seems to be happening is that cognitive stimulation helps (13) the effect of the neurodegenerative lesions associated with dementi
A、It does not, (14) , make them go away. They continue to (15) , so that when the disease does eventually take (16) there are more of them around than there otherwise would be, which results in a more (17) cognitive fall off. That is not a message of despair, (18) , because the length of time someone suffers from dementia is thus (19) and their healthy life prolongeD、So the message is, (20) on with the crosswords.

A、sustaining B、transformingC、recedingD、stimulating
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解析] 本题考查现在分词的辨析。由前文提到“大脑训练游戏的迅速兴起”以及后文举例提到的“读报、读书、读杂志、玩类似国际象棋这样的挑战游戏、听广播、看电视、参观博物馆”，可以知道这些都是一些认知激发类的活动。正确答案是D项stimulating刺激的，有刺激性的。A项sustaining强调可持续的。B项transforming强调形式的转化、转变。C项receding后退，减弱，词义不合适。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>