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【单选题】What’s your earliest childhood memoryCan you remember learning to walk Or talk The first time you heard thunder or watched a television programAdults seldom (1) events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2) children younger than three or four (3) retain any specific, personal experiences.

A、variety of explanations have been (4) by psychologists for this " childhood amnesia " . One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is (5) for formling memories, does not mature until about the age of two.But the most popular theory (6) that, since adults don’t think like children, they cannot (7) childhood memories.Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8) —one event follows another as in a novel or film. (9) , when they search through their mental (10) for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the (11) . It’s like trying to find aChinese word in anEnglish dictionary.
Now psychologistAnnette Simms of the New York State University offers a new (12) for childhood amnesi
A、She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to recall.According toDr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else’s spoken (13) of their personal (14) in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15) of them into long-term memories. (16) , children have to talk about their (17) and hear others talk about them—Mother talking about the afternoon (18) looking for seashells at the beach orDad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this (19) reinforcement, saysDr.Simms, children cannot form (20) memories of their personal experiences.
[A] largely[B] rarely[C] merely[D] really
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 词汇辨识题。rarely是否定副词，意为“很少”，与主句中的seldom(很少)前后照应。选项[A]largely意为“主要地”，例如：The accident was largely due to his carelessness. 选项[C]only意为“仅仅”，例如：He is not only a good artist, but a great one. 选项[D]really意为“真正地”。全句可译为：成年人很少能想起比入学前一年左右更早的事情，就像三四岁以前的孩子很少能记得任何具体的个人经历一样。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>