Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 33 to 37.
Most adults struggle to recall events from their first few years of life and now scientists have identified exactly when these childhood memories are lost forever. A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take (33)___________around the age of seven.
The rapid decline of memories persisting while children are five and six is owing to the change in the way memories are formed.
Before the age of seven, children tend to have an (34) ___________form of recall with no sense of time and place in their memories. In older children, however, the early recollected events tend to be more adult like in their content and the way they are formed. Faster rate of forgetting in children and higher turnover of memories means early memories are less likely to survive. (35) ___________ , memories of younger children tend to lack autobiographical narrative leading to a process known as “retrieval induced forgetting” (36) ___________the action of remembering causes other information to be forgotten. Consequently, if childhood memories can survive into the ninth or tenth year of life, they may stay a chance of (37) ___________it into adulthood.
Đáp án C
A. affect (v): tác động
B. effective (a): có hiệu quả
C. effect (n): tác động/ hiệu ứng/ hiệu quả
D. effectively (adv): một each có hiệu quả
Câu hỏi về từ vựng và ngữ pháp. Chọn đáp án C vì cụm từ “take effect” là cụm kết hợp từ (collocation) và có nghĩa là: bắt đầu có tác dụng, tác động/ có hiệu lực/ ngoài ra, sau “take” cần có một danh từ làm tân ngữ, nên chỉ có thể chọn C - effect (n).
Trích bài: A new study into childhood amnesia has found that it tends to take effect around the age of seven.
Tạm dịch: Một nghiên cứu mới về hội chứng quên ở trẻ em đã cho thấy hội chứng này bắt đầu có tác động khi trẻ vào khoảng 7 tuổi.
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