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　　高考英语阅读理解训练新闻专题
　　高考阅读理解训练新闻专题（一）
　　1、
　　Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he e to analyse their embarrassing errors，he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups.
　　One of the women，for instance，on leaving her house for work one morning threw her pet dog her ear-rings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a puter，”explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her ear-rings. But somehow the action got reversed（颠倒）in the programme. ”About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were there“programme assembly failures. ”
　　Twenty percent of all errors were“test failures”——primarily due to not verifying the progress of what the body was doing. A man about to get his car out of the garage passed through the back yard where his garden jacket and boots were t them on——much to his surprise. A woman vi reported：“I got into the bath with my socks on. ”
　　The monest problem was information“storage failures”. People forgot the names of people whose faces they knew，went into a room and forgot why they were there，mislaid something，or smoked a cigarette without realizing it.
　　The research so far suggests that while the“central processor”of the brain is liberated from second-to-second control of a well-practised routine，it must repeatedly switch back its attention at important decision points to check that the action goes on as intended. Otherwise the activity may be“captured”by another frequently and recently used programme，resulting in embarrassing errors.
　　1. The purpose of Professor Reason’s research is ______.
　　A. to show the difference between men and women in their reasoning
　　B. to classify and explain some errors in human actions
　　C. to find the causes which lead to puter failures
　　D. to pare puter functions with brain workings
　　2. Which of the following might be grouped under“programme assembly failures”?
　　A. A woman went into a shop and forgot what to buy.
　　B. A man returning home after work left his key in the lock.
　　C. A lady fell as she was concentrating on each step her feet were taking.
　　D. An old man，with his shoes on，was trying to put on his socks.
　　3. The word“verifying”in paragraph 3 can be replaced by ______.
　　A. improving B. changing
　　C. checking D. stopping
　　4. According to the passage，the information“storage failures”refer to ______.
　　A. the destruction of information collecting system
　　B. the elimination of one’s total memory
　　C. the temporary loss of part of one’s memory
　　D. the separation of one’s action from consciousness
　　2、
　　The science of physics today is as current as the morning newspaper. Indeed，as a result of new advances in physics and their rapid application to inventions designed to satisfy man’s wants，the world itself has been changing rapidly. Space technology，industrial technology，and the technology of the home，the farm，the office，the bank，and the department store have all been revolutionized.
　　Clearly，every grown-up today would understand the world he lives in much better if he knew something about physics. Whether it be Congress（美国国会）voting huge sums of money for new warships，space exploration，or atomic energy；the office staff learning to use a new puter；son Bobby wanting to know about going to the moon；or the housewife learning to operate a new electric stove，physics seems to be everywhere.
　　Teachers in thousands of schoolrooms in America are trying to municate some of the exent and importance of these new developments to their students. They know that some of their eager students will someday be scientists and will themselves then contribute（贡献）to the development of new knowledge or its application to new things.
　　But in any case，they can be sure that if they bring a knowledge of science（any science）to their students in meaningful and stimulating ways，they have contributed much to helping each one live a more meaningful life.
　　1. The application of new advances in physics to inventions　　　.
　　A. may solve all the problems in teaching