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北京市西城区 2019—2020 学年度第二学期期末试卷 八年级英语附加题 2020.7 试卷满分:20 分 一、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出 最佳选项。（共8分，每小题2分） “What is your earliest memory?” For most people, the earliest memories are reported as taking place at around the age of three or four. Catriona Morrison, a professor of the University of Bradford believes that memories first appear when we are able to start telling stories about our lives. In other words, they’re connected to storytelling and language. Studying a person’s earliest memory is a difficult thing to do. For one thing, it can be quite difficult to get someone to remember his/her earliest memory. For another, studying these kinds of memories requires a researcher to place a lot of trust in the person trying to remember. I tested this out by asking workers in the NS office about their earliest memories. Indra, our digital sub-editor, says she thinks she remembers her mum shouting: “Nikki! Nikki! Diana’s dead!” Indra was two and a half years old when Princess Diana died. For those, like me, who are unable to think of a certain earliest memory off the top of their heads, Morrison says she tries to make the task easier by asking people to describe their first holiday or Christmas and how emotional the memory is for them. Following this, she will then ask them about their earliest memory. But which memories do we keep, and which do we lose? Morrison tells me that our early memories are usually connected with some sort of emotion: good or bad. Dr. Tim Wildschut, a professor of psychology at the University of Southampton, describes a study that he is working on now, in which he asks people to keep a diary and