题文

Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order? Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes! In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake! To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.” Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places. 小题1:Why was Lara’s success special? A．She was just a little girl. B．She was the 2002 champion. C．She was from Germany. D．She remembered more words. 小题2:What is true about Mr. Tomoyori? A．He found pi easy to remember. B．His memory was the best in the world. C．He used stories to help remember words. D．He only made one mistake while saying pi. 小题3:Who remembered the greatest numbers according to the passage? A．Andi. B．Lara. C．Mr. Goto. D．Mr. Tomoyori.

题型：阅读理解  难度：中档

答案

小题1:A 小题2:C 小题3:C

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了人们神奇的记忆力。混淆52扑克牌，抬头七秒钟，你还记得他们吗？在世界记忆锦标赛上的参赛选手就能记住。文章为我们介绍了几位记忆超人。 小题1:细节理解题。根据第二段第三句 a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!得知，故选 A。 小题2:细节理解题。根据第四段第二句 He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds.得知，故选 C。 小题3:细节理解题。根据第五段 another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.得知，故选 C。

据专家权威分析，试题“Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now ..”主要考查你对  历史文化类阅读  等考点的理解。关于这些考点的“档案”如下：

历史文化类阅读

考点名称：历史文化类阅读

• 历史文化类阅读：
  本类题型常用的方式是夹叙夹议。叙述的目的是为了议，所以要把握其议才是主要方面。
  阅读这类文章，先弄清其引入的话题，再弄清里面人物对其不同的看法，然后理解作者本身对话题的观点看法或思考。

• 初中英语阅读理解的解题技巧：
  一、要注意养成良好的阅读心理，阅读时要去掉杂念，心绪要安定，精神要专一，要形成一种惬意的顺向心理。
  切不可一遇到几个生词难句，就心烦意乱，失去自控能力。心理学家告诉我们，任何恐慌，过分紧张的情绪都会形成一种消极因素妨碍大脑的正常思维功能。
  因此，遇到困难一定要从容不迫，心无旁骛。这样才能对所读的文章印象清晰，理解深刻。
  
  二、要提高视读的速度，考阅读理解，从另一个方面来说，考的是考试速度。因此做阅读理解时，要注意培养自己快速阅读的习惯。
  切不可在个别难懂的词句上磨蹭，只要全篇理解了，个别难懂的词句可以根据上下文和构词法去猜测，去推断。
  
  三、对文章的评价分析，一定要坚持“词不离句，句不离篇”，要理解文章作者的原意，而不能按你自己的意愿去想当然。
  切记：一想当然，就会出错。