阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Have you ever been forgetful ? For example, you left something behind, your 41 , and you have to 42 the entire house before coming back to the 43 place where you started, only to find it in the pencil case.
I am a scatterbrain, who is easy to forget things. I am always 44 my water bottle or other small things. I was feeling rather 45 about it myself until I read a（ n） 46 in a book, called Where Good Ideas Come From. The author, Steven Johnson, said, “ The more disorganized your brain is, the 47 you are.n He thinks that a scatterbrain can be 48 as bits of disorganized information floating around, constantly 49 into each other. But it is also 50 for two unrelated ideas to meet giving rise to 51 Actually, a scatterbrain becomes a 52 of creativity and innovations.
Considering that I had the 53 to be the queen of scatterbrains, I was feeling pretty 54 about myself. But I still wonder how I can 55 not to leave my water bottle behind. Then I thought of Sherlock Holmes, who had one thing I had always 56 , an awesome memory. I did some 57 about him and found out that his memory 58 was quite a commonly used one called the Method of Loci （位置）.It will 59 “mind palacen to remember geographical places in detail.
If this technique can be applied to 60 , I will manage my life pretty well in the future.
Have you ever been forgetful ? For example, you left something behind, your 41 , and you have to 42 the entire house before coming back to the 43 place where you started, only to find it in the pencil case.
I am a scatterbrain, who is easy to forget things. I am always 44 my water bottle or other small things. I was feeling rather 45 about it myself until I read a（ n） 46 in a book, called Where Good Ideas Come From. The author, Steven Johnson, said, “ The more disorganized your brain is, the 47 you are.n He thinks that a scatterbrain can be 48 as bits of disorganized information floating around, constantly 49 into each other. But it is also 50 for two unrelated ideas to meet giving rise to 51 Actually, a scatterbrain becomes a 52 of creativity and innovations.
Considering that I had the 53 to be the queen of scatterbrains, I was feeling pretty 54 about myself. But I still wonder how I can 55 not to leave my water bottle behind. Then I thought of Sherlock Holmes, who had one thing I had always 56 , an awesome memory. I did some 57 about him and found out that his memory 58 was quite a commonly used one called the Method of Loci （位置）.It will 59 “mind palacen to remember geographical places in detail.
If this technique can be applied to 60 , I will manage my life pretty well in the future.
| 41. A. water | B. pencil | C. bottle | D. book |
| 42. A. purchase | B. decorate | C. circle | D. clean |
| 43. A. safe | B. original | C. separated | D. temporary |
| 44. A. losing | B. buying | C. selling | D. decorating |
| 45. A. stubborn | B. clever | C. mean | D. stupid |
| 46. A. notice | B. advertisement | C. article | D. idiom |
| 47. A. smarter | B. prettier | C. easier | D. simpler |
| 48. A. recorded | B. written | C. organized | D. seen |
| 49. A. making | B. moving | C. crashing | D. changing |
| 50. A. same | B. possible | C. necessary | D. similar |
| 51. A. standards | B. creativity | C. delight | D. illnesses |
| 52. A. source | B. result | C. drawback | D. limitation |
| 53. A. courage | B. patience | C. potential | D. ambition |
| 54. A. depressed | B. different | C. curious | D. proud |
| 55. A. remember | B. recall | C. forget | D. continue |
| 56. A. called on | B. longed for | C. compared with | D. looked into |
| 57. A. exercise | B. harm | C. assumption | D. research |
| 58. A. signal | B. effect | C. technique | D. purpose |
| 59. A. use | B. find | C. occupy | D. control |
| 60. A. space | B. memory | C. schedule | D. practice |
