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　　2016学年第一学期高二英语周末卷九 2016.12
　　I. Grammar
　　Forget Twitter and Facebook, Google and the Kindle. Television is still the most influential medium around. Indeed ,for many of the poorest regions of the world, it remains the next big thing——finally becomes globally available. And that is a good thing, because the TV revolution is changing lives for the better.
　　Across the ___1____ (develop) world, around 45% of families had a TV in 1995; by 2005 the number ____2___ (climb) above 60%. That is some way behind the U.S. ,where are more TVs than people, and where people now easily get access ___3____ the Internet. Five million more families in sub-Saharan Africa ___4____(get) a TV over the next five years. In 2005 , after the fall of the Taliban（塔利班）,____5___ had outlawed TV, 1 in 5 Afghans had one. The global total is another 150 million by 2013——pushing the numbers to well beyond two thirds of families.
　　Television’s most powerful effect will be on the lives of women. In India, researchers Robert Jensen and Emily Oster found ___6___ when TVs reached villages, women were more likely to go to the market without their husbands’ approval and ___7___ likely to want a boy ____8__ ___8____ a girl. They were more likely to make decisions over child health care. TV is also a powerful medium for adult education. In the Indian state of Gujarat, ___9___ (play) Hollywood songs with words in Gujarati on the screen within six months had made a small but significant improvement in viewer’s reading skills.
　　Too much TV ___10____ (associate) with violence, overweight and loneliness. However, TV is having a positive influence on the lives of billions worldwide.
　　II. Cloze:
　　What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk?  The first time you heard thunder or watched a television programme?  Adults seldom ___11___ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four ___12____ retain(记住) any specific, personal experiences.
　　A variety of explanations have been ___13___ by psychologists for this “childhood amnesia”(儿童失忆症).  One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature ___14___ about the age of two.  But the most popular theory maintains that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot ___15___ childhood memories.  Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or ___16___ -- one event follows ___17___ as in a novel or film.  But when they search through their mental ___18___ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the __19___.  It’s like trying to find a Chinese work in an English dictionary.
　　Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new __20___ for childhood amnesia.  She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to recall.  According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use __21___ spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term impressions of them into long-term memories.  In other ___22___, children have to talt their experiences and hear others talt ___23___ -- Mother talking about the afternoon __24___ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park.  Without this ___25___ reinforcement（强化）, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form permanent memories of their personal experiences.
　　11. A. recall             B. resolve             C. involve            D. interpret
　　12. A. merely            B. really              C. largely            D. rarely
　　13. A. proposed          B. witnessed           C. canceled          D. figured
　　14. A. after              B. since               C. until              D. once