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【题目】阅读下文并回答问题。
Some people seem to have extraordinary (非凡的）memories. Zheng Aiqiang, a “memory athlete” on TV show Super Brain, can remember 2,660 numbers in just one hour!
You would think people like this have special brains. But according to a recent study by researchers from the US and the Netherlands, the brain structures（结构）of ordinary people and 23 of the world's leading memory athletes show no difference.
That's because good memories can be trained. New research in the journal Neuron (神经元期刊) suggests that you can become a super memorizer with just six weeks of hard training.
Researchers found that technique (技巧）called loci, invented by ancient Greeks, can greatly help improve memory. By using loci, you are using your imagination to improve the brain's memory networks. You can link（关联）something you need to remember with a place that you know very well. For example, to remember a list of numbers, imagine yourself walking through your house. Each thing is linked to a number. For example, zero could be handle（把手）on the door and five could be the painting on the wall.
In one study, some ordinary people were given 20 minutes to remember 72 words. First they could only remember 26 of them. But when they were taught loci, they could remember 62 words.
“Not everyone can become a memory champion. But everyone using the technique can improve a lot from the level they're at,” said Boris Konrad, one of the researchers in the study.
（1）Is Super Brain a TV show?

（2）Who was loci invented by?

（3）How can you remember more words in twenty minutes according to Paragraph 5?

（4）Is loci helpful to you? Why or why not?

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）Yes. / Yes, it is.
（2）By (the) ancient Greeks./Ancient Greeks./ The ancient Greeks.
（3）By using loci. I can remember more words by using loci. I can remember more words by being taught loci.
（4）Yes. Because it can help me remember more words. Yes. Because it can improve my memory./....No. Because I have some better ways to improve my memory./.....
【解析】有些人有着超凡的记忆力。参加过《最强大脑》电视节目的郑爱强，一个小时内能记住2660个数字。研究表明，人的大脑差异并不明显，他们是经过专门的训练而获得超凡的记忆力的。古希腊人发明的位置记忆法可以大大提高人的记忆能力。并非每个人都能成为记忆冠军，但使用这种技术每个人都能从他们原有的水平上提高很多。
（1）根据短文中的句子“Zheng Aiqiang, a “memory athlete” on TV show Super Brain, can remember 2,660 numbers in just one hour!”可知，《最强大脑》是一档电视节目。所以答案是Yes. / Yes, it is.
（2）根据短文的第四段开头的句子“Researchers found that technique (技巧）called loci, invented by ancient Greeks, can greatly help improve memory.”可知，位置记忆法是古希腊人发明的，所以答案是By (the) ancient Greeks./Ancient Greeks./ The ancient Greeks.
（3）根据短文第五段最后的句子“But when they were taught loci, they could remember 62 words.”可知，运用位置记忆法可以在有限的时间内记住更多地单词。所以答案是By using loci. I can remember more words by using loci. I can remember more words by being taught loci.
（4）答案不唯一，只要给出合理的解释即可。