2017年6月大学英语四级真题试卷及答案(第1套)
including lily,whichwould have madethe beer sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn'tbecome a (33)L) staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, accordingto the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have (34)Arrived in the region not asfood, but as (35)G) raw material for beer brewing.
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Section B
Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
The Blessing and Curse of the People Who Never Forget
A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail—and after years of research, neuroscientists (神经科学专家) are finally beginning to understand how they do it.
[A]For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives. As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.
[B]Ask NimaVeiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work. “M y memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping,” he explains.
[C]Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday party. He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his
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