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What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you heard thunder or watched a

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问题     What’s your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom (1)_____ events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2)_____ children younger than three or four (3)_____ retain any specific, personal experiences.
    A variety of explanations have been (4)_____ by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippo-campus; the region of the brain which is (5)_____ for forming memories, does not mature until about the age of two. But the most popular theory (6)_____ that, since adults don’t think like children, they cannot (7)_____ childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8)_____ one event follows (9)_____ as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental (10)_____ for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the (11)_____. It’s like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.
    Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new (12)_____ for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to (13)_____. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else’s spoken description of their personal (14)_____ in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15)_____ of them into long-term memories. In other (16)_____, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about (17)_____—Mother talking about the afternoon (18)_____ looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this (19)_____ reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form (20)_____ memories of their personal experiences.
Notes: childhood amnesia 儿童失忆症。

选项 A、reflect
B、attain
C、access
D、acquire
答案C
解析 词义搭配。access vt.(计算机用语)存取。例如：She accessed three different files to find the correct information. (她存取了三个文件以找寻她所要的信息)。又如：The files were accessed every day to keep them up to date. (文件每日存取，使之不断更新)。
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