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Directions:  Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

As infants, we can recognize our mothers within hours of birth. In fact, we can recognize the   小题1: of our mother’s face well before we can recognize her body shape. It’s   小题2:  how the brain can carry out such a function at such a young age, especially since we don’t learn to walk and talk until we are over a year old. By the time we are adults, we have the ability to distinguish around 100,000 faces. How can we remember so many faces when many of us find it difficult to   小题3:  such a simple thing as a phone number? The exact process is not yet fully understood, but research around the world has begun to define the specific areas of the brain and processes   小题4:  for facial recognition.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that they have succeeded in   小题5:  a specific area of the brain called the fusiform face area (FFA), which is used only for facial recognition. This means that recognition of familiar objects such as our clothes or cars, is from   小题6:  in the brain. Researchers also have found that the brain needs to see the whole face for recognition to take place. It had been   小题7:  thought that we only needed to see certain facial features. Meanwhile, research at University College London has found that facial recognition is not a single process, but   小题8:  involves three steps. The first step appears to be an analysis of the physical features of a person’s face, which is similar to how we scan the bar codes of our groceries. In the next step, the brain decides whether the face we are looking at is already known or unknown to us. And finally, the brain furnishes the information we have collected about the person whose face we are looking at. This complex   小题9:  is done in a split second so that we can behave quickly when reacting to certain situations.

Answer 1

小题1:J
小题2:H
小题3:B
小题4:E
小题5:F
小题6:I
小题7:D
小题8:G
小题9:C

【文章大意】文章讲述的是最新的一项研究，关于人类对于面部识别的研究，研究结果显示，大脑中存在一个特定的区域，该区域有别于其他的区域，该区域专门负责面部识别。而且该过程是一个负责的过程，不是一个简单的过程，包含三个步骤，这些步骤（过程）都是在一瞬间完成的，这样我们就可以在一定的场合做出迅速的反应。
小题1:根据句子结构可知，此处应填一个名词，即我们的母亲面部的……，选项中可以选择的名词只有3个，即processing , recall和composition，分别意为过程、进程；召回，回忆；作为，作曲，构成。此处句意为，实际上，在我们认识她们（母亲）的身体体型之前，我们就能很好的认识她们的面部结构。因此选择J
小题2:根据句意和句子结构可知，此处应填一个形容词，意为在如此小的年纪，大脑是如何使用这个功能的，这是非常……（的现象），明显fascinating 吸引人的，迷人的，让人感兴趣的，比较合适。
小题3:根据上一句的“How can we remember so many faces ”可知，此处讲的是记忆/记住东西的问题，即记住10万张脸，记住一个电话号码，因此选择recall意为回想起，句意为，为什么我们能记住多达10张脸，而有的人却连回忆一个电话号码都觉得很困难。
小题4:根据句子结构可知，此处填的是一个形容词，此时形容词只剩一个E项未选。意为必须的，该句句意为，我们还无法理解具体的过程是怎样的，但是全世界都已经开始了研究，为了寻找大脑的那个特定区域，和面部识别所必须的过程。
小题5:根据前面的 have succeeded in 可知，此处填的是一个doing 形式的单词，因此只能选择C或者F，C意为过程，进程，F意为查找、定位，根据句意为可知F正确。句意为，麻省理工学院的研究员们相信他们已经找到了大脑中被称为FFA的一个特殊区域。
小题6:根据上一句的“which is used only for facial recognition”可知，大脑中有一块特定的区域是专门负责人脸识别的，因此，该处选择I意为，我们对熟悉物品的识别，比如衣服或者汽车，是来自大脑别处的（是和人脸识别所用到的那部分大脑是不同的，来自不同的地方）
小题7:根据句子机构可知，此处要选择一个词来修饰动词thought, 因此要寻则副词，这里修饰动词的副词只有一个，那就是D项，previously，意为之前地，先前地。句意为，之前人们认为，我们只需要看到某些面部特征即可。
小题8:根据but可知，前后意思是相反的，句意为，伦敦大学学院的研究发现，面部识别不是一个单一的过程，而是（instead）是包含这三个步骤。
小题9:根据句子结构可知，此处填的是一个名词，根据上文名词的选择，再根据上文的“ research at University College London has found that facial recognition is not a single process”，可知此处只有C项，processing过程，进程符合句意。句意为，这个复杂的过程在一瞬间就完成了，因此，我们就可以迅速地对某种情形作出反应。