Question

Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.

    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning<推論；說(shuō)服> and spatial <空間的>skills), while women tend to excel (擅長(zhǎng)) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).

    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline (衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.

    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline. Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive（認(rèn)知的；認(rèn)識(shí)的） decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.

    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated（旋轉(zhuǎn)的） form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范疇) as possible in the given time, e.g.  "object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing. The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter are typically dominated(占有主導(dǎo)地位的) by women.

    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average. And though performance declined with age for both genders（性別）, women showed obviously less decline than men overall（全部地）.

The underlined word in the second paragraph means_________.

   A. natural     B. great C. obvious D. absolute

According to the passage, which of the following can Not be typed into the same category?

   A. cloud   B. sheep C. trees D. goose

Which of the following statements is true according the article?

   A. Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.

   B. Women stand out at remembering people’s names.

   C. Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time.

   D. Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.

One important factor that affects the correctness of the results is that _________.

   A. the old men tested may not have shown such cognitive decline

   B. people surveyed are all old

   C. people taking part in this test came from all over the world   D. women live longer than men

The author aims to tell us that __________.

   A. women’s minds perform better than men’s

   B. men’s minds decline more with age

   C. everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older

D. a survey on human’s mind decline was done recently

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】C

【小題3】B

【小題4】A

【小題5】B

解析:

【小題1】詞意猜測(cè)題。男女大腦的思維在某些方面的差異是天生固有的。

【小題2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第五段可推斷出選項(xiàng)中這類物體是以白色為限定范疇  的，故選項(xiàng)C為答案。

【小題3】推理判斷題。男性在推理和空間思維方面占優(yōu)勢(shì)，女性在提取大腦中儲(chǔ)存的記憶信息方面占優(yōu)勢(shì)。故答案為B。

【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段可知。文章只是說(shuō)調(diào)查涉及到老年人，但并不都是老年人，故排除B。選項(xiàng)D不是造成調(diào)查結(jié)果不準(zhǔn)確的原因。

【小題5】主旨理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段可知。