C

Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A professor who conducts research over in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate on one task, causes us to miss just about everything else. Because we can't see what we can't see, our lecturer was determined to catch us in the act. He had us watch a video of six people tossing (投掷) basketballs back and forth, three in white shirts and three in black, and our task was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white. The tape rolled, and everyone began counting.

Everyone except me. I'm dyslexic (患阅读困难症的), and the moment I saw that tape with the confusing basketball tossers, I knew I wouldn't be able to keep track of their movements, so I let my mind wander. I became curious, though, when about 30 seconds into the tape, a gorilla (大猩猩) walked in among the players. She (we later learned a female student was in the gorilla suit) stared at the camera, beat her chest with her fist, and then went away while they continued passing the balls.

When the tape stopped, the professor asked how many people had counted at least a dozen basketball tosses. Hands went up all over. He then asked who had counted 13, 14, and congratulated those who'd scored the perfect 15. Then he asked, "And who saw the gorilla?" I raised my hand and was surprised to discover I was the only person at my table and one of only three or four in the large room to do so. He'd set us up, trapping us in our own attention blindness. Yes, there had been a trick, but he wasn't the one who had played it on us. By concentrating so hard on counting, we had managed to miss the gorilla in the midst.

Attention blindness is the fundamental organizing principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a great opportunity. My take is different from that of many neuroscientists: Where they see the shortcomings of the individual, I sense an opportunity for cooperation. Fortunately, given the interactive ( 互动的) nature of most of our lives in the digital age, we have the tools to control our different forms of attention and take advantage of them.

It's not easy to admit that everything we've learned about how to pay attention means that we've been missing everything else. It's not easy for us logical, intelligent, confident types to admit that the very key to our success-our ability to discover a problem and solve it, an achievement obtained in all those years in school and beyond-may be exactly what limits us. No one ever told us that our way of seeing left out everything else.

62.Which of the following is true about the writer when the tape was played?

A. Like everyone else, the writer was counting carefully.

B. The writer had difficulty keeping track of the tossers' movements.

C. The writer showed great curiosity about what the players were doing.

D. The writer tried hard to stop her mind from wandering.

63.What's the total number of basketball tosses by the players in white shirts in the video?

A. 13. B. 14. C. 15. D. 30.

64.Most of the people failed to notice the gorilla in the video because _ .

A. they focused on the basketball tossing only

B. they were trapped by the basketball players

C. they did not know what they were supposed to do

D. they did not listen to the lecture carefully

65.In the writer's opinion, attention blindness .

A. should be viewed as a shortcoming of the individual

B. might be overcome if we can discover problems and solve them

C. makes it possible for us to work together for a shared purpose

D. helps us to become logical, intelligent and confident types of people

D

In this passage adapted from a novel, a Canadian woman recalls for her childhood during the 1960s. Originally from China, the family travelled to lrvine, Ontario, Canada, where the parents opened a restaurant, the Dragon Cafe.

As a young girl I never really thought about my parents?lives in Irvine, how small their world must have seemed, never extending beyond the Dragon Cafe. Every day my parents did the same jobs in the restaurant. I watched the same customers come for meals, for morning coffee, for afternoon soft drinks and French fries. For my parents one day was like the next. They settled into an uneasy and distant relationship with each other. Their love, their tenderness, they gave to me.

But my life was changing. I became taller and bigger, my second teeth grew in white and straight. At school I began to learn about my adopted country. I spoke English like a native, without a trace of an accent. I played, though, and dreamed in the language of our Irvine neighbors.

A few years later and I would no longer remember a time when I didn't speak their words and read their books. But my father and Uncle Yat still spoke the same halting English. My mother spoke only a few words. I began to translate conversations they had with the customers, switching between English and Chinese. Whenever I stepped outside the restaurant it seemed I was entering a world unknown to my family: school, church, friends' houses, the town beyond Main Street, I found it hard to imagine a year without winter any more, a home other than Irvine.

For my mother, though, home would always be China. In Irvine she lived among strangers, unable to speak their language. Whenever she talked about happy times, they were during her childhood in that distant land. A wistful smile would soften her face as she told me about sleeping and playing with her sister in the attic above her parents' bedroom. She once showed me a piece of jade-green silk cloth that was frayed and worn around the edge. In the center was a white lotus floating in varying shades of blue water, the embroidery(刺绣) so fine that when I held it at arm's length the petals looked real. I had been helping her store away my summer clothes in the brown leather suitcase from Hong Kong when I noticed a piece of shiny material spread it on her lap.

"My mother embroidered this herself. I was going to have it made into a cushion, but then my life changed and over here there seems to be no place for lovely things. It's all I have that reminds me of her," she said. "Maybe, Sun-Jen, one day you will do something with it." I admired the cloth some more, then she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase.

There was little left from her old life. She said it was so long ago that sometimes it felt as if it had never happened. But she described her life with such clarity and vividness that I knew all those memories lived on inside her. There was so little in this new country that gave her pleasure.

The good things she found were related in some way to China: an aria from a Chinese opera, a letter from a relative back home or from Aunt Hai-Lan in Toronto, written in Chinese, a familiar-looking script that I couldn't read and that had nothing to do with my life in Canada.

There were times when I felt guilty about my own happiness in Irvine. We had come to Canada because of me, but I was the only one who had found a home.

66.In the opening paragraph, the narrator emphasizes primarily_ about her parents?

A. the dependability B. the diligence

C. their routine lives D. their evolving relationship

67.The primary purpose of the second paragraph is to

A. provide insight into the motivations of the narrator's parents and uncle

B. emphasize the great transformation the narrator undergoes

C. describe the complex interrelationships in the narrator's family

D. reveal the narrator's preference for a cold climate over a warm one

68.According to the narrator, her mother experienced feelings of_ in Canada.

A. isolation B. confusion C. stability D. security

69.The items mentioned in paragraph 4 had meaning for the mother because they____.

A. introduced her to a world rich in culture

B. helped connect the narrator and her mother

C. supplied her with familiar associations

D. provided relief from her boring work routine

70.Which of the following best characterizes the narrator's development?

A. She grows apart from the cultural tradition of her parents.

B. She overcomes the guilt she felt about her new found happiness.

C. She begins to view the inhabitants of lrvine from her mother's perspective.

D. She communicates less and less with her parents.