Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are
required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a
word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please
mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line
through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than
once.
Let’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that
those who can’t seem to keep their inner monologues (独白) in are actually more
likely to stay on task, remain ___26___ better and show improved perception
capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering.
According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act
of using verbal clues to ___27___ mental pictures helps people function
quicker.
In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty ___28___
and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were ___29___ to repeat
out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips ___30___
. Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who
didn’t, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found
that ___31___ the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped
quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and
slowed you down.
Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps
children learn, although doing so when you’ve ___32___ matured is not a great
sign of ___33___The two professors hope to refute that idea, ___34___ that just
as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using
language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”.
Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and,
whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At
any ___35___ , there’s still such a thing as too much information.
A) Apparently
B) Arrogance
C) Brilliance
D) Claiming
E) Dedicated
F) Focused
G) Incur
H) Instructed
I) Obscurely
J) Sealed
K) spectators
L) Trigger
M) Uttering
N) Volume
O) Volunteers
答案：26-30：F L O H J
31-35：M A C D N
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