《2025年亮点给力大试卷八年级英语上册译林版》

六、(2025·扬州市江都区华君外国语学校期中)阅读理解。(10 分)
新素材 科普知识 ① Memory is the ability to remember things. A good memory can help us do better in school, such as language learning. A few people are born with amazing memories, but most people need to improve their memories by practising. Here are some secrets about memories.
② We can still remember things that happened in our childhood but not those last week. In fact, if the things have strong connections with our feelings in our mind, we can remember them longer. When things happen for the first time, children often have strong feelings. Also, parents tell us the interesting or funny stories from our childhood again and again. As a result, we remember them much better.
③ It's natural for common people to forget the new words which they learnt yesterday. Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote a book called Memory and showed a famous forgetting curve. According to him, the quickest loss(失去) of memory happens during the very early period after learning. That means going over what we've learnt during this period can help us very well to remember the information.
④ A 15-year-old sometimes forgets things, but that doesn't mean his or her memory is getting worse. Our memory reaches its full power at the age of 25. At that point, we can remember up to 200 pieces of information in a second. But after this age, the brain(大脑) starts to get smaller. By middle age, our memory is much worse than when we were young.
( )1. 新考法 组合选择 Why is it easier to remember things in our childhood?
a. Because they were special. b. Because we got strong feelings from them.
c. Because they were helpful. d. Because we have heard them many times.
A. ad B. bd C. ac D. bc
( )2. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. A person has his or her best memory at the age of 25.
B. A fifteen-year-old's memory is worse than a middle-aged man's.
C. A person's memory gets worse only because the brain gets smaller.
D. A child usually remembers over 12,000 pieces of information in a minute.
( )3. 新考法 篇章结构 How is the passage organized?
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( )4. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The ways to improve memories.
B. The introduction to Hermann Ebbinghaus.
C. The secrets about memories.
D. The causes of remembering things better.

答案： 1. B 【解析】根据第二段内容可知，我们更容易记住童年时期的事情的原因有两点：一是我们对首次发生的事情有强烈的感受(b)；二是这些事情是我们多次听父母提及的(d)。 2. A 3. D 4. C