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A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent,increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
Until now,it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught(though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing).
But in the new study,researchers describe a method for improving this skill,along with experiments to prove it works.
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence,so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence.
First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests. Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game,in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard. During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items,monitor ongoing performance,manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time.
The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8,12,17 and 19 days,respectively. To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills,the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training.
The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,were striking. Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater. Moreover,the longer they trained, the higher their scores were. All performers,from the weakest to the strongest,showed significant improvement.
“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training.”said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper.“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,”he added,“and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains.”
67.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________.
A.memorizing telephone numbers
B.improving working memory
C.training in concentration
D.recalling a card
68.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________.
A.ignoring irrelevant items
B.monitoring ongoing performance
C.managing two tasks at the same time
D.using previous experience
69.When the experiment was conducted,the researchers______________.
A.trained the four groups for the same period of time
B.only made comparisons between the four groups
C.compared the four groups with control groups
D.trained the four groups together
70.By writing the article,the writer intends to ______________.
A.inform the readers of a new study
B.call on people to be trained to increase intelligence
C.prove one’s born brainpower can be improved
D.tell people the improved intelligence will last forever
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent,increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
Until now,it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught(though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing).
But in the new study,researchers describe a method for improving this skill,along with experiments to prove it works.
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence,so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence.
First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests. Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game,in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard. During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items,monitor ongoing performance,manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time.
The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8,12,17 and 19 days,respectively. To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills,the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training.
The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,were striking. Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater. Moreover,the longer they trained, the higher their scores were. All performers,from the weakest to the strongest,showed significant improvement.
“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training.”said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper.“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,”he added,“and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains.”
67.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________.
A.memorizing telephone numbers
B.improving working memory
C.training in concentration
D.recalling a card
68.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________.
A.ignoring irrelevant items
B.monitoring ongoing performance
C.managing two tasks at the same time
D.using previous experience
69.When the experiment was conducted,the researchers______________.
A.trained the four groups for the same period of time
B.only made comparisons between the four groups
C.compared the four groups with control groups
D.trained the four groups together
70.By writing the article,the writer intends to ______________.
A.inform the readers of a new study
B.call on people to be trained to increase intelligence
C.prove one’s born brainpower can be improved
D.tell people the improved intelligence will last forever
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent,increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
Until now,it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught(though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing).
But in the new study,researchers describe a method for improving this skill,along with experiments to prove it works.
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence,so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence.
First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests. Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game,in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard. During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items,monitor ongoing performance,manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time.
The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8,12,17 and 19 days,respectively. To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills,the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training.
The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,were striking. Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater. Moreover,the longer they trained, the higher their scores were. All performers,from the weakest to the strongest,showed significant improvement.
“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training.”said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper.“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,”he added,“and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains.”
67.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________.
A.memorizing telephone numbers
B.improving working memory
C.training in concentration
D.recalling a card
68.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________.
A.ignoring irrelevant items
B.monitoring ongoing performance
C.managing two tasks at the same time
D.using previous experience
69.When the experiment was conducted,the researchers______________.
A.trained the four groups for the same period of time
B.only made comparisons between the four groups
C.compared the four groups with control groups
D.trained the four groups together
70.By writing the article,the writer intends to ______________.
A.inform the readers of a new study
B.call on people to be trained to increase intelligence
C.prove one’s born brainpower can be improved
D.tell people the improved intelligence will last forever
In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day.Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game.This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation or commencement(颁授学位典礼) day.Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks before the day.
Several days before Homecoming,students start to decorate the school.There are signs to wish luck to the team,and many other signs to welcome all the students.Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after they leave school.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago.Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game.When the game is half over,the band comes onto the field and plays school songs.Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears.All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King.It is a great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming is a happy day,but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game.Even if the team loses,the students still enjoy Homecoming.Some stay at the school to dance,and others go to a party.For everyone it is a day worth remembering.
1.The most important thing of the year in high schools and colleges is in America.
A.Homecoming B.the football game C.graduation D.to go to a party
2.When do students begin to arrange everything for Homecoming?
A.The day before Homecoming. B.Many weeks before the day.
C.At the beginning of each term. D.Several days before Homecoming.
3.Which of the following is NOT done on Homecoming Day?
A.To see old friends. B.To call on teachers they remember.
C.To watch the football game. D.To see their parents.
4.The underlined word vote in the passage means .
A.call B.make or choose C.give D.show
5.Who can probably become Homecoming Queen or King?
A.The student who is liked most by the others.
B.The guest who is most popular with the students.
C.The student who is most liked by the teachers.
D.The player who plays best in the football game.
I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston.My dad and I 36 a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too 37 for a 15-year-old girl and her father.Dad’s second marriage was 38 and my stepmother had 39 us both out of the house the previous week.Dad had no 40_ what to do with me.And that’s when my other family 41 .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home 42 their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to.I 43 with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She 44 I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs.Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. 45 I could tell, for the Beaches there was no 46 between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I 47 college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school.Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew 48 about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su.When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to _49 his kids.Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely 50__ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy.I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
51 the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman.They gave me a(n) 52 that allowed me to grow and change.They kept me from being paralyzed by my _53 , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I 54 family.For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was 55 , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
36.A.lived B.shared C.possessed D.bought
37.A.cheap B.noisy C.small D.limited
38.A.in trouble B.in sight C.in place D.in parts
39.A.struck B.removed C.kicked D.knocked
40.A.plan B.choice C.chance D.idea
41.A.looked after B.showed up C.turned over D.came across
42.A.so B.because C.until D.while
43.A.worked B.traveled C.lived D.learned
44.A.worked out B.called up C.watched out D.made sure
45.A.As long as B.As far as C.As soon as D.As many as
46.A.change B.problem C.conflict D.difference
47.A.set off B.left for C.entered into D.admitted into
48.A.all B.little C.something D.nothing
49.A.supply B.teach C.encourage D.raise
50.A.different B.unfair C.easy D.hopeful
51.A.Thanks to B.In spite of C.Except for D.But for
52.A.home B.house C.ability D.lesson
53.A.choice B.failure C.past D.present
54.A.doubt about B.call on C.center on D.believe in
55.A.born B.accepted C.educated D.deserted
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