Like most people,I had a lot of time on my hands these past few years,and I spent most of it on my phone.This,together with anxiety medication (藥物治療),has made my brain weak.I've never had a very good memory,but by summer of 2021,I saw the little memory that I did have disappear suddenly while Googling "ben afleCk brther bad 1."
I grew frustrated.I couldn't remember the name of Joan Holloway's military husband from Mad Men without looking it up,or the name of my college friend,who would come into my dorm regularly to talk about how much he worked out.None of this was especially useful or life-changing information,but I wanted to remember it without making a shameful mess of my search history.
Inspired by a desire to impress myself and others,I decided to stop looking stuff up online and see what happened.When I couldn't remember the character from Mad Men,instead of instantly turning to my phone,I just sat there,thinking,very hard. (Aha!Greg was his name.) And so my new skill was born:Strong Brain.
For a few months,I didn't make any progress.Sometimes I would sit without knowing something for hours,well after whoever I was with had looked it up and had moved on to knowing the next thing that I couldn't remember.I was frequently laughed at and made to feel stupid for sitting with my arms crossed.I was teased for not coming up with answers to things that no one on earth should know simply because I took an attitude against looking them up.
But while the sounds of my haters got louder and louder,my brain beefed up in my defense.As friends tried to remember the name of the actor who played Robin Williams's sweetheart in Jumanji,I spoke unthinkingly with 'Bonnie Hunt'.
If you're like me and have always wanted to be the shiny,pretty person at a party that everyone is listening to and smiling at and wondering where she got her hair cut,I think Strong Brain is the party trick for you.
(1)What do we learn about the author from paragraph 1?
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A
A.She was overusing the phone.
B.She wasted a lot of time on the calls.
C.She was addicted to anxiety medicine.
D.She made many spelling errors while searching.
(2)What did the author decide to do after the summer of 2021?
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A
A.Improve her recall.
B.Seek help from medicine.
C.Clear up her search history.
D.Connect with her college friend.
(3)What did other people think of the author's new skill training?
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A.Difficult.
B.Important.
C.Ridiculous.
D.Rewarding.
(4)What is the best title of the text?
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B
A.My Concern over Anxiety.
B.My Way to Be Brain-Strong.
C.My Fight with High Technology.
D.My Suffering from Poor Memory.