In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects

[材料题] Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses (差错) in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机的) .One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer," explains the professor. "People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman's custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme." About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these "programme assembly failures."Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing -

单项选择题1.In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects: A、to keep track of people who tend to forget things; B、to report their embarrassing lapses at random; C、to analyse their awkward experiences scientifically; D、to keep a record of what they did unintentionally

单项选择题2.Professor Smith discovered that: A、certain patterns can be identified in the recorded incidents; B、many people were too embarrassed to admit their absent-mindedness; C、men tend to be more absent-minded than women; D、absent-mindedness is an excusable human weakness

单项选择题3."Programme assembly failures" (Line 6, Para.2) refers to the phenomenon that people: A、often fail to programme their routines beforehand; B、tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry; C、unconsciously change the sequence of doing things; D、are likely to mess things up if they are too tired

单项选择题4.We learn from the third paragraph that: A、absent-mindedness tends to occur during certain hours of the day; B、women are very careful to perform actions during peak periods; C、women experience more peak periods of absent-mindedness; D、men's absent-mindedness often results in funny situations

单项选择题5.It can be concluded from the passage that: A、people should avoid doing important things during peak periods of lapses; B、hazards can be avoided when people do things they are good at; C、people should be careful when programming their actions; D、lapses cannot always be attributed to lack of concentration

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