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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 46 to 50.
Most adults struggle to recall events from their first few years of life and now scientists have identified exactly when these childhood memories are lost forever. A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take (46) ___________ around the age of seven.
The rapid decline of memories persisting while children are five and six is owing to the change in the way memories are formed.
Before the age of seven, children tend to have an (47) ___________ form of recall with no sense of time and place in their memories. In older children, however, the early recollected events tend to be more adult like in their content and the way they are formed. Faster rate of forgetting in children and higher turnover of memories means early memories are less likely to survive. (48) ___________, memories of younger children tend to lack autobiographical narrative leading to a process known as “retrieval induced forgetting” (49) ___________ the action of remembering causes other information to be forgotten. Consequently, if childhood memories can survive into the ninth or tenth year of life, they may stay a chance of (50) ___________ it into adulthood.
Câu hỏi:(46) ___________
- A. affect
- B. effective
- C. effect
- D. effectively
Lời giải tham khảo:
Đáp án đúng: C
A. affect (v): tác động
B. effective (a): có hiệu quả
C. effect (n): tác động/ hiệu ứng/ hiệu quả
D. effectively (adv): một each có hiệu quả
Câu hỏi về từ vựng và ngữ pháp. Chọn đáp án C vì cụm từ “take effect” là cụm kết hợp từ (collocation) và có nghĩa là: bắt đầu có tác dụng, tác động/ có hiệu lực/ ngoài ra, sau “take” cần có một danh từ làm tân ngữ, nên chỉ có thể chọn C - effect (n).
Trích bài: A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take effect around the age of seven.
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- A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take (46) ___________ around the age of seven.
- Before the age of seven, children tend to have an (47) ___________ form of recall with no sense of time and place in their memories.
- (48) ___________, memories of younger children tend to lack autobiographical narrative leading to a process
- (49) ___________ the action of remembering causes other information to be forgotten.
- onsequently, if childhood memories can survive into the ninth or tenth year of life, they may stay a chance of (50) ___________ it into adulthood.
