You will spend hours at the gym training your body, but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (腦力上地) active and healthy.
Play games
Your brain is a muscle just like the ones in the rest of your body. If you don’t use it, you will lose it. For example, doing a crossword puzzle (縱橫填字游戲) once a day is a good way to give the brain the exercise it needs. This kind of puzzle is good at training different areas of the brain. But remember that when doing this puzzle, you should gradually increase the complexity (復(fù)雜度); otherwise, it will become repetitive (重復(fù)乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.
Talk aloud
Although it might sound strange to you, talking aloud is a great way to boost your memory. A good exercise to try is counting to 99 in threes as fast as you can.
Be a team leader
If you find you can do your work very easily, you should find a new task. It is important that your job should be mentally challenging. Complex jobs are often more challenging and make the brain work a little harder.
Learn a language
A study found that, compared with those who could speak only one language, the people who could speak two languages had a slower rate of cognitive (認(rèn)知能力) decrease. Learning a new language is very challenging and it makes sure that different areas of the brain have their lights on.
小題1:What is the main idea of this passage?
A．Why you should train your brain.
B．How to be a good team leader.
C．Training the brain is more important than training the body.
D．How to make your brain healthy and work actively.
小題2:Which word can replace the word "boost" in the third paragraph?
A．Change.B．Promote. C．Decrease.D．Lose.
小題3:We should gradually increase the complexity when doing crossword puzzles because ______.
A．if we don’t use our brain, we will lose it
B．we should make our brain face different challenges
C．our brain is a muscle like other parts in our bodies
D．these puzzles can work on different areas of the brain
小題4:Which group of people have a slower rate of cognitive decrease?
A．Those who don’t often do crossword puzzles.
B．Those who don’t often count to 99 in threes.
C．Those who do their work very easily.
D．Those who can speak more than one language.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:D

試題分析：文章指出經(jīng)常參與腦力勞動(dòng)有助于保持思維的敏捷，作者介紹了幾種訓(xùn)練腦力的方法。
小題1:主旨題：從第一段的句子：Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (腦力上地) active and healthy.可知文章主題是 經(jīng)常參與腦力勞動(dòng)有助于保持思維的敏捷。選D
小題2:猜詞題：從句意看：大聲說話會(huì)提高腦力。選B
小題3:推理題：從這段的句子：otherwise, it will become repetitive (重復(fù)乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.可知大腦要有挑戰(zhàn)。選B。
小題4:推理題：從最后一段的句子：the people who could speak two languages had a slower rate of cognitive (認(rèn)知能力) decrease. 可知D是正確的。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：以推理題的考查為主，推理的根據(jù)來(lái)自于上下文，最主要的方法是根據(jù)詞義關(guān)系推斷具體細(xì)節(jié)。
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