第三篇

Memory One day more than fifty years ago, a young man had an accident on his mo tor-bike in which he suffered a few apparently minor injuries. There was a bruise (肿) on the left side of his forehead and some slight bleeding from his left ear. He was taken to hospital for examination but X-rays did not reveal any other in juries. Nevertheless, the doctor who was treating him decided to keep him in ho spital for further observations because the young man was having difficulty in s peaking and seemed very confused. At the time of the accident, the young man was 22 years old, and the dat a was August, 1933. A week later, he was able to carry on what seemed a perfectly normal conversation. However, he told the doctor that he was only 11 years old and that the date was February, 1922. What is more, he could not remember anyth ing that had happened since 1922. For example, he could not recall having spent five years in Australia, or coming back to England and working for two years on a golf course. As time went by part of his memory of the eleven missing years come back . A few weeks later, he even remembered his years in Australia. But the two years of his life just before the accident were still a completely a blank. Three we eks after his injury, he went back to the village where he had been living for t hose two years. Everything seemed unfamiliar and he did not recall ever having b een there before. Despite this, he was able to take up his old job again in the village an d to do it satisfactorily. But he often got lost when walking around the village a nd found it difficult to remember what he had done during the day. Slowly, howev er, his memory continued to return so that, about ten weeks after the accident, he could even remember most of the previous two years. There remained only one complete gap in his memory: he could remember absolutely nothing about what he h ad done a few minutes immediately before the accident or the accident itself.

31、This part of his memory never came back.When did the accident happen____?

A.In February 1922.

B.A few years ago.

C.when the young was in Australia.

D.Over half a century ago.

32、(同31题)How about the young man immediately after his accident____?

A.He was able to hold a perfectly normal conversation

B.He was taken to hospital with severe injuries

C.He was too badly injured to be taken to hospital

D.There were some difficulties in his speaking

33、(同31题)What was he unable to remember a few weeks after the accident____?

A.The previous 11 years of his life.

B.Anything about the village he had been living in.

C.A few years he had spent in Australia.

D.The two years before he came to live in the village.

34、(同31题)What was the thing that he was never able to remember____?

A.What happened immediately before or during the accident.

B.What he had done for ten weeks after the accident.

C.All of the previous years before the accident.

D.His way round the village itself.

35、(同31题)Which of the following is correct____?

A.The accident "killed" the young man’s memory.

B.The accident left a gap in his head.

C.The accident made the young man uncomfortable.

D.the accident left a gap in his memory.