雅思阅读真题（Part 1）
Part 1 · 考频：中频 · 最近考试：2024.1.13/2021.12.25/2011.3.19
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The working day has just started at the head office of Barclays Bank in London. Seventeen staff are helping themselves to a buffet breakfast as young psychologist Sebastian Bailey enters the room to begin the morning’s training session. But this is no ordinary training session. He’s not here to sharpen their finance or management skills. He’s here to exercise their brains.
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答案：NO
原文定位：At one point the bankers are instructed to shut their eyes and visualize themselves filling the room and then the building
答案：Lawrence Katz
原文定位：Katz, And neurologists have proved time and again that people who lose brain cells suddenly during a stroke often sprout new connections to compensate for the loss-especially if they undergo extensive therapy to overcome any paralysis
答案：Sebastian Bailey
原文定位：Bailey agrees that the trick is simple. But it is surprising how few such tricks people have to call upon when they are suddenly asked to be creative: "They tend to just label themselves as uncreative, not realizing that there are techniques that every creative person employs
答案：Sebastian Bailey
原文定位：Seventeen staff are helping themselves to a buffet breakfast as young psychologist Sebastian Bailey enters the room to begin the morning’s training session;He’s here to exercise their brains;Today’s workout, organized by a company called the Mind Gym in London, is entitled “having presence”. What follows is an intense 90-minute session
答案：Guy Claxton
原文定位：The problem, says Claxton, is that most of us never get proper training in these skills. We develop our own private set of mental strategies for tackling tasks and never learn anything explicitly
答案：YES
原文定位：But whatever the style, the companies’ sales pitch is invariably the same follow our routines to shape and sculpt your brain or mind, just as you might tone and train your body
答案：NO
原文定位：And on its website, Mind Gym trades on a quote from Susan Greenfield, one of Britain’s best known neuroscientists: “It’s a bit like going to the gym, if you exercise your brain it will grow
答案：NO
原文定位：It’s easy to poke fun. Yet similar mental workouts are happening in corporate seminar rooms around the globe. The Mind Gym alone offers some 70 different sessions;Other outfits draw more directly on the exercise analogy, offering “neurobics” courses
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：And, of course, they nearly all claim that their mental workouts draw on serious scientific research and thinking into how the brain works;And on its website, Mind Gym trades on a quote from Susan Greenfield, one of Britain’s best known neuroscientists: “It’s a bit like going to the gym, if you exercise your brain it will grow
答案：Lawrence Katz
原文定位：Katz, a neurobiologist at Duke University Medical School in North Carolina, argues that just as many of us fail to get enough physical exercise, so we also lack sufficient mental stimulation to keep our brain in trim
答案：Susan Greenfield
原文定位：And on its website, Mind Gym trades on a quote from Susan Greenfield, one of Britain’s best known neuroscientists: “It’s a bit like going to the gym, if you exercise your brain it will grow
答案：Lawrence Katz
原文定位：What I’m really talking about is brain maintenance rather than bulking up your IQ," Katz adds. Neurobics, in other words, is about letting your brain fulfill its potential. It cannot create super-brains
答案：Guy Claxton
原文定位：Claxton for one believes there is no reason why schools and universities shouldn’t spend more time teaching basic thinking skills, rather than trying to stuff heads with facts and hoping that effective thought habits are somehow absorbed by osmosis