Question

閱讀下面的短文，并根據(jù)短文后的要求答題（共5小題；每題3分，滿分15分）

（1）Around 15 million of us will leave a cup of tea to go cold today while a similar amount will forget where they put the keys to their house or car. Meanwhile, 12 million people will go to the shops only to completely forget what they went for according to research carried out by the National-Lottery.co.uk.

(2) Passwords and chores such as taking food out of the freezer the night before and charging the mobile phone also featured highly on the list. And more than one in ten admits forgetting to buy a lottery ticket which may have cost them a win.

(3) The study also found men are more likely to ___________, even though women generally have more to remember. Busy modern lifestyle, increased workloads and pressures as well as modern technology were to blame for the increase in our levels of forgetfulness.

(4) A National Lottery spokesman said, “The British are more hectic than ever in their work and personal lives and it seems we just have too much to remember for our crowded minds.”

(5) The study found that the technology boom has also played a part, leaving us with more devices than ever before to plug in and charge or take care of.

(6) Despite work pressures it is within the home environment where most things are forgotten, such as credit card payments, children’s school events or food related things.

(7) The study found one in four people have missed an important appointment and nearly one in five have fallen out with a friend over a forgotten date or event. The research also found that despite the number of things people forget only one in four people actually admit to being forgetful.

(8) Women performed much better than men in the report, failing to recall an average of 2.5 things every day compared to 3.5 things for men.

List at least three things that people often forget based on the passage.(within 15 words)

(1) _______________________________________________________________

(2)________________________________________________________________

(3)_______________________________________________________________

Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words. (within 5 words)

___________________________________________________________________

Which sentence in this passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

The researchers discovered that only a quarter of people acknowledge that they have a bad memory even though they forget to do lots of things.

_____________________________________________________________________

What would be the best title for the passage?(within 10 words)

_____________________________________________________________________

Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 into Chinese.

______________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

【小題1】where they put their keys; what they went to the shop for; passwords

【小題1】forget things than women

【小題1】The research also found that despite the number of things people forget only one in four people actually admit to being forgetful.

【小題1】Adults forget an average of three things a day

【小題1】盡管工作時(shí)壓力比較大，但是最容易忘事的地方卻是在家里，比如結(jié)算信用卡款額，孩子學(xué)校里的事情或是與食物相關(guān)的瑣事。

解析:

略