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It may come as a surprise to many an exhausted mother or father—but thi

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问题          It may come as a surprise to many an exhausted mother or father—but thinking about your children could improve your memory, a study suggests.
         Researchers【C1】__________that when thinking about raising children, an adult’s memory "goes up a gear". It seems that the【C2】__________ necessity to protect children helps our brains to store information we would otherwise forget.
         Researchers at Binghamton University, New York carried out a series of tests to see if thinking about bringing up children improved one’s sense of【C3】__________and found that it did- Ralph Miller, a psychology professor said, "Our ability to think and memorize information arises from our nervous systems. As our nervous systems are a product of【C4】__________and past experiences, one can【C5】__________expect that how well we memorize information today is【C6】__________ by natural selection that occurred among our ancestors long ago."
         Professor Miller and his colleagues tested the theory by asking【C7】__________to imagine they were living in the ancient grasslands of Africa, and to remember a series of words such as rock, apple, ball and stick. They were asked to rate the relevance of each item to how much use it was to their survival. When presented with a【C8】__________that involved raising children they remembered many more of the words. But in another situation—a task involving finding a mate— the memory was not so good.
         The researchers said that while both activities【C9】__________to survival, our prehistoric ancestors may not have realized that mating could result in children because of the nine months between mating and【C10】__________. This research demonstrates that our genes not only have an impact on our anatomy(解剖构造) and physiology, but also on the ways in which we think.
A) biological
B) birth
C) claim
D) consequent
E) evolution
F) influenced
G) objected
H) premier
I) reasonably
J) recall
K) relate
L) reverse
M) scenario
N) simply
O) subjects [br] 【C5】
选项
答案 I
解析 副词辨析题。本空位于情态动词can和谓语动词expect之间，且句子成分完整，因此应填副词修饰谓语动词。由文章内容可知，我们的记忆力来自神经系统，而神经系统又是进化和过去经历的产物，因此我们可以预测今天我们记忆信息的能力与自然选择有关系。由此可见，这种预测是有根据的，因此修饰expect的副词应含有“有理由，有根据”的含义，所以本题答案是reasonably。
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