2021高考英语一轮复习Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumour课时作业新人教版必修4英语练习题.pdfVIP

　Unit 3　A taste of English humour Ⅰ.阅读理解 [2020·成都第三次诊断]Can you trust your very first childhood memories? Maybe not, a new study suggests. Past studies show that peoples earliest memories typically form around 3 to 3.5 years of age. But in a recent survey of more than 6,600 people, British scientists have found that 39 percent of participants claimed to have memories from age 2 or younger. These first memories are likely false, the researchers said. This was particularly the case for middle­aged and older adults. For the study, researchers asked participants to describe their first memory and the age at which it occurred. Participants were told they had to be sure the memory was the one that had happened. For example, it shouldnt be based on a photograph, a family story or any source other than direct experiences. Then the researchers examined the content, language and descriptive details of these earliest memories and worked out the likely reasons why people would claim to have memories from an age when memories cannot form. As many of these memories dated before the age of 2, this suggests they were not based on actual facts, but facts or knowledge about their babyhood or childhood from photographs or family stories. Often these false memories are fired by a part of an early experience, such as family relationships or feeling sad, the researchers explained. “We suggest that what a rememberer has in mind when recalling fictional early memories is... a mental representation consisting of remembered pieces of early experiences and some facts or knowledge about their own babyhood or childhood，\” study author Shania Kantar said in a journal news release. “Additionally, further details may be unconsciously inferred or added. Such memory－ like mental representations come, over time, to be collectively experienced when they come to mind, so for th