2009年12月英语六级真题及答案

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　The ancient Greeks developed basic memory systems called Mnemonics. The name is (36)________ from their Goddess of Memory, Mnemosene. In the ancient world, a trained memory was an (37)________ asset, particularly in public life. There were no (38)________ devices for taking notes and early Greek orators(演说家) delivered long speeches with great (39)________ because they learned the speeches using Mnemonic systems.

　　The Greeks discovered that human memory is (40)________ an associative process-that it works by linking things together. For example, think of an apple. The (41)________ your brain registers the word ‘apple’, it (42)________ the shape, colour, taste, smell and (43)________ of that food. All these things are associated in your memory with the word ‘apple’.

　　(44)_______________________________________________________________________. An example could be when you think about a lecture you will have had. This could trigger a memory about what you were talking about through that lecture, which can then trigger another memory.

　　(45)_______________________________________________________________________. An example given on a website I was looking at follows: Do you remember the shape of Austral, Canada, Belgium, or Germany? Probably not. What about Italy, though? (46)_________________ ____________________________________________________________________. You made an association with something already known, the shape of a boot, and Italy’s shape could not be forgotten once you had made the association.