阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项. What were you like as a teenager? I was a ___21___. I w
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
What were you like as a teenager? I was a ___21___. I was rude to my parents, always stayed out late, never did my homework, hung out with the wrong people and made many ___22___ decisions. Apparently, this is the age when teenagers are out of control and ___23___ badly. If you're a teenager now, you think this is ___24___ criticism or it's not your fault. Well, you might be ___25___!
Experts have found that it's a teenager's brain that is to ___26___. Between the ages of ___27___ 13 to 19 the brain is still developing in areas that ___28___ behaviour. This has an/a ___29___ on learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making. This is quite a new ____30____, according to Professor Sarah, ''when I was at university, the dogma (教条) in the text books was that the vast brain ____31____ goes on in the first few years of life and nothing much ____32____ after mid-childhood. That dogma is completely ____33____.''
So our brains are still developing much later than was originally thought. Is this the perfect excuse for teenagers to ____34____ and not get their homework done on time? It's something to do with our prefrontal cortex (前额皮层). It's involved in many high-level cognitive (认知的) ____35____ such as decision making and planning. This region is undergoing large amounts of development during the adolescent years. For an/a____36____, this hasn't developed yet. So getting organized to do their homework, for example, can be a bit ____37____.
I wish I'd known about this because instead of telling my ____38____ I'd left my homework on the bus or that the dog had ____39____ it. Now I could say, ''Sorry sir, my ____40____ isn't developed enough for the cognitive task of planning my homework''.
21. A. prince B. nightmare C. fool D. joke
22. A. real B. wise C. bad D. good
23. A. dress B. talk C. react D. behave
24. A. unfair B. practical C. fun D. reasonable
25. A. dull B. right C. wrong D. precise
26. A. praise B. blame C. wake D. call
27 A. appropriately B. alternatively C. frequently D. approximately
28. A. control B. use C. express D. play
29. A. touch B. impact C. role D. advantage
30. A. way B. invention C. discovery D. job
31. A. exploration B. experiment C. progress D. development
32. A. changes B. stays C. remains D. leaves
33. A. true B. unknown C. false D. satisfying
34. A. get over B. hang around C. look around D. take off
35. A. interests B. results C. drawbacks D. tasks
36. A. adult B. scientist C. teenager D. baby
37. A. exhausting B. simple C. challenging D. late
38. A. boss B. teacher C. trainer D. colleague
39. A. eaten B. seen C. passed D. recognized
40. A. knowledge B. body C. identity D. brain
【答案】
What were you like as a teenager? I was a ___21___. I was rude to my parents, always stayed out late, never did my homework, hung out with the wrong people and made many ___22___ decisions. Apparently, this is the age when teenagers are out of control and ___23___ badly. If you're a teenager now, you think this is ___24___ criticism or it's not your fault. Well, you might be ___25___!
Experts have found that it's a teenager's brain that is to ___26___. Between the ages of ___27___ 13 to 19 the brain is still developing in areas that ___28___ behaviour. This has an/a ___29___ on learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making. This is quite a new ____30____, according to Professor Sarah, ''when I was at university, the dogma (教条) in the text books was that the vast brain ____31____ goes on in the first few years of life and nothing much ____32____ after mid-childhood. That dogma is completely ____33____.''
So our brains are still developing much later than was originally thought. Is this the perfect excuse for teenagers to ____34____ and not get their homework done on time? It's something to do with our prefrontal cortex (前额皮层). It's involved in many high-level cognitive (认知的) ____35____ such as decision making and planning. This region is undergoing large amounts of development during the adolescent years. For an/a____36____, this hasn't developed yet. So getting organized to do their homework, for example, can be a bit ____37____.
I wish I'd known about this because instead of telling my ____38____ I'd left my homework on the bus or that the dog had ____39____ it. Now I could say, ''Sorry sir, my ____40____ isn't developed enough for the cognitive task of planning my homework''.
21. A. prince B. nightmare C. fool D. joke
22. A. real B. wise C. bad D. good
23. A. dress B. talk C. react D. behave
24. A. unfair B. practical C. fun D. reasonable
25. A. dull B. right C. wrong D. precise
26. A. praise B. blame C. wake D. call
27 A. appropriately B. alternatively C. frequently D. approximately
28. A. control B. use C. express D. play
29. A. touch B. impact C. role D. advantage
30. A. way B. invention C. discovery D. job
31. A. exploration B. experiment C. progress D. development
32. A. changes B. stays C. remains D. leaves
33. A. true B. unknown C. false D. satisfying
34. A. get over B. hang around C. look around D. take off
35. A. interests B. results C. drawbacks D. tasks
36. A. adult B. scientist C. teenager D. baby
37. A. exhausting B. simple C. challenging D. late
38. A. boss B. teacher C. trainer D. colleague
39. A. eaten B. seen C. passed D. recognized
40. A. knowledge B. body C. identity D. brain
【答案】
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