考研英语二(阅读)模拟试卷16(题后含答案及解析).pdf

考研英语二（阅读）模拟试卷16题（后含答案及解析）

全部题型2.ReadingComprehension

SectionIIReadingComprehension

PartADirections:Readthefollowingfourtexts.Answerthequestionsbelow

eachtextbchoosingA,B,CorD.(40points)

Whisitthatmostofuscanrememberourprecisesurroundingsthe

momentthatwefirstlearnedofJohnFitzgeraldKennedsassassination,the

ChallengerexplosionorthefalloftheTwinTowers,butnotsa,whatgroceraisle

wewerestandinginwhenthephonecallcametoremindustopickupmilk?Whatis

itaboutthetiming——ormorespecificall,thecoincidencewithintenseexperience—

thatsealsinvisualmemoriesmoreeffectivel?Thatsthequestionthatanewstud

frompschologistsattheUniversitofWashingtonsetouttoanswer.Thestud,

publishedonlinerecentlintheopen-accessjournalPLoSBiologincludedaseries

offourexperiments.Ineachexperiment,whichincludeddistinctparticipants,Jeffre

Y.Linandcolleaguesshowedstudsubjects16photographsdepictingfamiliar

landscapes.Thefirsttime,participantsmerellookedattheimages;thesecondtime,

thewerealsoaskedtofbcusonanumbershowninthemiddleoftheimage;thethird

time,thealsohadtomakenoteofanauditorcueasthelookedattheimages;and

finall,thewereshownimageswithanumberinthemiddle,buttoldtoignorethe

numberandfbcusonlonthescenedepicted.Researchersfoundthat,when

shownanimagelaterandaskedtorecallifithadbeenamongthosethedalread

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seen,subjectsmemorformationwasconsistentlbestwhenthehadalsobeen

tringto