1、下面的短文有10处空白,短文后列出12个词,其中10个取自短文,请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。 Forgetting and Memory That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an - obvious but nevertheless （1） activity called remembering. Learning could not occur without the function popularly named memory. Constant practice has such as effect on memory as to lead to skillful （2） on the piano, to recitation of a poem, and even to reading and understanding these words. So-called intelligent behaviour demands memory,（3） being a primary requirement for reasoning. The ability to solve any problem or even, to （4） that a problem exists depends on memory. Typically, the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier, experiences. Practice (or review), tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. Over a period of no practice what has been （5） tends to be forgotten; and the adaptive consequences may not seem obvious. Yet, dramatic, instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive. In this sense, the ability to forget can be （6） to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals. Indeed, when one’s memory of emotionally painful experience. lead to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief. Nevertheless, an evolutionary interpretation might make it difficult to understand how the commonly gradual process of forgetting survived natural （7）. In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is （8） to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration. Without forgetting, adaptive ability would suffer, for example, learned behaviour that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be. Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards) forgot so little that their everyday activities were full of （9）.This forgetting seems to serve that survival of the individual and the species. Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting. In this view, continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage(input) and forgetting (output). Indeed, there is evidence that the rate （10） which individuals forget is directly related to how much they have learned. Such data offers gross- support of contemporary models of memory that assume an input-output balance. A. performance B. selection C. learned D. between E. remarkable F.at G. interpreted H. confusion I. remembering J. of K. recognize L. helpful 简答题 20分

2、下面的短文有10处空白,每处空白后的括号内有一个词,请根据短文内容将其正确的形式填入文中,以恢复文章原貌。 distaste Dave Brubeck and His Jazz Take Five"", the smoky instrumental by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was a （11）(music)milestone--a deceptively(似是而非地)complex jazz composition that introduces new,（12） (adventure)sound to millions of （13）(listen). In a career that spanned almost of American jazz since World War II Brubeck's celebrated quartet(四重奏)combined exotic(异国情调的), （14）(challenge )tempos with classical influences to create （15）(last)standards. Brubeck combined classical influences and his own （16）(innovate) on the seminal 1959 album Time Out by his classic quartet. It was the first jazz album to （17）(deliberate) explore time I signatures outsides of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time. He was also the first modern jazz （18） (music) pictured on the cover of Time magazine--on Nov 8, 1954. His experience in World War Ⅱlet him to look beyond jazz and to compose some other （19） (extend)works touching on themes involving （20） (religious) civil rights and peace. In a 2010 interview Brubeck said, "If there is heaven, let it be good place for all of us to jam(即兴音乐) together and have a wonderful musical experience. 简答题 20分

3、短文作文。 假设你是刘红，请你就本校图书馆的状况给校长写一封120词左右的英文信，内容应设计图书馆的藏书量和更新状况、环境和服务等。 简答题 30分