The Collectors

We can infer that the author thinks that trying to...

Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 37.
EARLIEST MEMORIES
How far back can you remember? Really think about it. What is your earliest memory? Perhaps images of a birthday party come to mind, or of a long-ago family vacation. Now think about how old you were when the event occurred. Chances are that those early memories extend no further back than your third birthday. And although conversations with family members or photo albums may trigger more, the fact is that you can probably only come up with a handful of memories from between the ages of three and seven.
Anything earlier than about 3.5 years is, for most people, a blank slate. Most of us have what the psychologist Sigmund Freud first called childhood amnesia - an inability to remember our earliest childhood experiences. Or do we?
As science continues to reveal more and more about the mysteries of the brain, the question of just how far back we truly can remember and how those memories affect us as adults is coming into the spotlight. Every emotionally meaningful experience whether joyous or painful-is stored in memory and seems to have a lasting impact. The way our world feels to us as babies influences our developing personality, emotions, and relationships for the long term.
Aside from the childhood stories we can remember, there are many different kinds of "memory." And we probably "remember" a lot more than we realize. For example, we all know the terms short-term memory and long-term memory. But have you heard the terms explicit memory and implicit memory?
Explicit memory is the kind of memory that is conscious and gives us the ability to tell a story that makes sense of what happened. This type of memory only develops fully in most people around the age of three.
Implicit memory is available in our brain from birth, or possibly even earlier. Implicit memory is unconscious. So, while we may not remember the events of those earliest memories, they have left a lasting impression on our thinking, feeling, and behavior.
Because of the ability our brain has to store and hold information from an extremely early age, psychologists today are stressing more and more the importance of creating positive early childhood memories. While a child may not "remember" images from infancy, psychologists agree that the images stick with us and form the basis of many of our future feelings and opinions.
Just as we might not remember learning to walk, even though our legs and feet seemed to do this perfectly now, some of our most important lessons in human relations were learned at a time that our bodies, but not our minds, can remember.
We can infer that the author thinks that trying to remember the emotions you had before the age of three _______.
A. should be avoided because it could be dangerous.
B. is impossible because you could not speak yet.
C. is important to understand how you feel today.
D. is not possible for most people.
Giải thích:
Chúng ta có thể suy luận rằng tác giả cho rằng cố gắng nhớ lại những cảm xúc mà bạn đã có trước khi ba tuổi _____.
A. nên tránh vì nó có thể nguy hiểm.
B. là không thể vì bạn chưa thể nói.
C. là quan trọng để hiểu cảm giác của bạn ngày hôm nay.
D. là không thể đối với hầu hết mọi người.
Thông tin: Anything earlier than about 3.5 years is, for most people, a blank slate.
(Đối với hầu hết mọi người, bất cứ điều gì sớm hơn khoảng 3,5 tuổi đều là một bảng trống.)
Đáp án D.
 

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