四川省广安一中高考英语短文语法填空和阅读类暑假选练(12).doc

【浙江省金丽衢十二校 2014 高考英语第二次联考】 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的．四个选项（ A,B,C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将 该选项标号涂黑。 Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it was to study English..No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese. I made a few suggestions based on my ～ experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher, Dr. Smith ． He is a gifted linguist （语言学家）， and has an amazing ability to memorize things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc ． His advice to us students is that for memorization purposes, there is forty minutes each day in whichour memory is more receptive than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes. This 40-minute super memory period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we sleep, hnd the 20 minutes after we first awake. The theory supporting this is pretty simple. First, the last information we input into our brain before bed has a better chance of taking root than information obtained during the noisy daytime; and ， second, our mind is free of disturbance when we first awake in the morning 一 so more receptive to inputs, like a blank slate （石 板）． I took the advice to heart and it served me well in my school years ． In myuniversity days, our Chinese teacher would assign us 200 new vocabulary words each day, on which we would be quizzed the following day. Without the magic 40-minute technique, theres no way I would have - 1 - passed those daily quizzes. As far as language study goes, its not only useful for memorizing vocabulary. Its also a very useful window of time to listen to the language were studying even with background noise, and even if its at a level we find difficult to understand. It might be audio （声音 的） language study aids, or just radio, TV or whatever. Beyond our years of formal education, memory skills are hugely important in any career. How many times have we heard a speaker read their speec