阅读表达--篇章5.docx

阅读表达一就某事表达个人观点(篇章5)阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。Some people see colors when they hear different sounds. Others see colors when they see words and numbers printed in black and white. These interesting people are called synaesthetes, and what they experience is called synaesthesia.A study at the University of Sussex is finding out how learning to see sounds as colors or think of letters in colour could improve your TQ and memory. One of the study leaders, Dr Bor says that canying out these tests has given them the opportunity to find out more about how people use different kinds of memory.Dr Bor based his latest research around something scientists already know a lot about-" chunking”. He explains that this is a way of breaking large pieces of information into smaller units, to make it easier to remember. "When I give you my phone number, 01274737215, you probably remember it as 012 74 7372 15, or something similar. If you can remember 012 and the first 74, you can remember the rest. You can get some amazing benefits from chunking!nThis is really important for understanding synaesthesia. Dr Bor says that synaesthesia adds extra information to things that are difficult to remember, such as letters and numbers, or extra colors. This helps us remember things better. And Dr Bor's own study of one amazing person, who has both synaesthesia and a very strong memory advantage, supports this idea as well.The study began as a way to test whether synaesthesia is connected to greater abilities to do certain things and aimed to create a way of learning synaesthesia to develop benefits for everyone. After training, people were able to pass the normal synaesthesia tests, and their IQ jumped up about 12 points! But Dr Bor says they need to test the increase in IQ with different groups of people apart from clever students who took part in this study.40. According to the passage when do people experience synaesthesia?41. How can synaesthesia help improve memory?42. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why? Dr Bor has proved that the IQ of people from different groups was able to improve about 12 points after learning synaesthesia.43. Besides synaesthesia, what do you think are some other ways to improve your memory? (In about 40 words)