2019年大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)A类(研究生)决赛真题试卷(精选)
试卷名称:2019年大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)A类(研究生)初赛真题试卷
Just as people’ s bodies age at different rates, so do their minds. As adults advance in age, the perception of sights, sounds and smells takes a bit longer, and laying down new information into memory becomes more difficult. The ability to retrieve memories also quickly slides and it is sometimes harder to concentrate and maintain attention.
On the other hand, the ageing brain can create significant benefits by tapping into its extensive hoard of accumulated knowledge and experience. The biggest trick that older brains employ is to use both hemispheres simultaneously to handle tasks for which younger brains rely predominantly on one side. Electronic images taken by cognitive scientists at the University of Michigan, for example, have demonstrated that even when doing basic recognition or memorization exercises, seniors exploit the left and right sides of the brain more extensively than men and women who are decades younger. Drawing on both sides of the brain gives them a tactical edge, even if the speed of each hemisphere’ s process is slower.
In another experiment, Michael Falkenstein of the University of Dortmund in Germany found that when elders were presented with new computer exercises they pauses longer before reacting and took longer to complete the tasks, yet they made 50% fewer errors, probably because of their more deliberate pace.
One analogy for these results might be the question of who can type a paragraph “better“ : a 16-year-old who glides along at 60 words per minute but has to double back to correct a number of mistakes or a 70-year-old who strikes keys at only 40 words per minute but spends less time fixing errors? In the end, if “better“ is defined as completing a clean paragraph, both people may end up taking the same amount of time.
Questions 71-75
Complete the summary below with information from the passage, using no more than three words for each blank.
The conversation between Jake and Rita is used to give an example of the changes that occur in our brains over time. People’ s bodies and【A1】______grow older at varying stages. As we age our senses take longer to process information and our aptitude for retrieving【A2】______also decreases.
However, older people’ s brains do have several advantages. Firstly, they can call upon both the【A3】______which are already stored in their brain. Secondly, though the【A4】______of each side of their brain is reduced, they are able to use both sides at once. In the last paragraph, the analogy is used to illustrate the point that working faster does not always【A5】______.
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