Part II Vocabulary (15 points)

Directions: In this section there is a passage with ten blanks,Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the word list following the passage. And then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Some people say they have no memory at al1:“IT just can’remember a thing!" But of course we all have a memory. Our 1___ tells us who we are. Our mermory helps us to make use in the present of what we have 2____in the past.

In fact we have different types of memory.For example, our visual memory helps us 3___ facts and places.Some people have such a strong visual memory.They can remember 4____ what they have seen,for example,pages of a book,as a complete picture.

Our 5____ memory helps us remember words and figures we may have heard but not seen or written:6____ of a shopping list,a chemical formula,dates,or a recipe.

With our emotional memory,we recall situations or places where we had strong feelings.perhaps of happiness or unhappiness.We also have special mermories for smell, taste,touch and sound, and for performing physical movements.

We have two ways of storing any of these memories.Our short-term memory 7____ items for up to thirty seconds-enough to remember a telephone number while we 8___.Our long-term memory,on the other hand,may store items for a lifetimne. Older people in fact have a much better long-term memory than short-term, They may forget what they have done only a few hours ago,but have the clearest remembrance of when they were very 9_____. 

Psychologists tell us that we only remember a few facts about our past, and that we invent the rest.It is as though we remember only the outline of a story.We then make up the details.We often do this in the way we want to remember them, usually so that we appear as the heroes of our own past-or maybe victims needing 10_____.

1-5: JADCB 6-10:FHLIO

A. learnt

B.verbal

C.exactly .

D.recall

E.old

F.items

G.Putting

H.stores

I.young

J.memory

K.says

L.dial

M.treatment

N.same

O.sympathy