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1、阅读理解,Please read the following passage carefully,then answer the questions.,Good luck!,Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people,23 of themwomen,to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for afortnight.When he came to analyze their embarrassing lapses in aScientific report,he was surpris
2、ed to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings,nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random.One of the women,for instance,on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear.“The explanation for this is that the brain is lik
3、e a computer,”explains the professor.“People program Themselves to do certain activities regularly.It was the womans Custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings.But somehow the action got reversed in the programme.”About one in twenty of the incidents the voluntee
4、rsreported were these“programme assembly failures”.,Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing-an average of twelve each.There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest.These are two hours some time between eight a.m.and noon,bet
5、ween four and six p.m.with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m.Among men the peak seems to be when“a changeover in brain program”occurs,as for instance between going to and from work.Women on average reported slightly more lapses-12.5 compared with 10.9 for men-probably because they were more r
6、eliable reporters.1.In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects（）A.to keep track of people who tend to forget things B.to report their embarrassing lapses at randomC.to analyze their awkward experiences scientifically,D.to keep a record of what they did unintentionally2.We learned from the third
7、 paragraph that()A.absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain ours of the dayB.women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods C.women experience more peak periods of absent-mindedness D.mens absent-mindedness often results in funny situations摘自03年大学英语四级试题,Please write answers on your paper.1.D 2.A第六小组:毕越 王萍 耿光远 田玉霞,Thank you!,
