Question

You will spend hours at the gym training your body, but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (腦力上地) active and healthy.

Play games

Your brain is a muscle just like the ones in the rest of your body. If you don’t use it, you will lose it. For example, doing a crossword puzzle (縱橫填字游戲) once a day is a good way to give the brain the exercise it needs. This kind of puzzle is good at training different areas of the brain. But remember that when doing this puzzle, you should gradually increase the complexity (復雜度); otherwise, it will become repetitive (重復乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.

Talk aloud

Although it might sound strange to you, talking aloud is a great way to boost your memory. A good exercise to try is counting to 99 in threes as fast as you can.

Be a team leader

If you find you can do your work very easily, you should find a new task. It is important that your job should be mentally challenging. Complex jobs are often more challenging and make the brain work a little harder.

Learn a language

A study found that, compared with those who could speak only one language, the people who could speak two languages had a slower rate of cognitive (認知能力) decrease. Learning a new language is very challenging and it makes sure that different areas of the brain have their lights on.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Why you should train your brain.

B. How to be a good team leader.

C. Training the brain is more important than training the body.

D. How to make your brain healthy and work actively.

2.Which word can replace the word "boost" in the third paragraph?

A. Change. B. Promote.

C. Decrease. D. Lose.

3.We should gradually increase the complexity when doing crossword puzzles because ______.

A. if we don’t use our brain, we will lose it

B. we should make our brain face different challenges

C. our brain is a muscle like other parts in our bodies

D. these puzzles can work on different areas of the brain.

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要介紹的是四個鍛煉我們大腦的方法以及在進行這些鍛煉時的注意事項。

1.but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally (腦力上地) active and healthy.可知本文主要介紹的是四個鍛煉我們大腦的方法。故D正確。

2.Although it might sound strange to you, talking aloud is a great way to boost your memory.句義：盡管這聽起來很奇怪，但是大聲說話是促進記憶的一個好方法。所以該詞表示B項含義。

3.B 推理題。根據(jù)第二段最后一句But remember that when doing this puzzle, you should gradually increase the complexity (復雜度); otherwise, it will become repetitive (重復乏味的) and stop being mentally challenging.可知我們要循序漸進，要讓我們的電腦面對不同的挑戰(zhàn)。不然大腦會停止這種精神上的鍛煉。故B正確。

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