★C
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案.
A new brain training app developed to help improve the memory of people with schizophrenia could save taxpayers thousands of pounds, a study has claimed.
The computer game has been designed by neuroscientists at Cambridge University to help patients recover their ability to carry out everyday tasks that rely on having a good memory. Its aim is to train the brain in episodic memory, which helps people remember events such as where they parked their car in a multi-storey car park or where they left a set of keys. Researchers found that schizophrenia patients who played the game regularly for a month were four times better at remembering these kinds of things than non-players.
The computer game is called Wizard and is aimed at people who suffer with poor episodic memory - one of the main side effects of schizophrenia drugs.
Researchers assigned 22 participants, who had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, to either the cognitive training group or a control group at random. Participants in the training group played the memory game for a total of eight hours over a four-week period. Those in the control group continued their treatment as usual. Scientists found that the patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors in memory testing.
Professor Barbara Sahakian, of the Department of Psychiatry, said: “This study is important because it demonstrates that the memory game can help where drugs have so far failed. The game is interesting, so even those patients with a general lack of motivation are encouraged to continue the training.”
Professor Peter Jones added: “These are promising results and suggest that there may be the potential to use game apps to not only improve a patient’s episodic memory, but also their functioning in activities of daily living. We will need to carry out further studies to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia reduce the impact of their illness on everyday life.”
1 . What harm do schizophrenia drugs do to the patients?
A . The patients can’t remember where they have parked their cars.
B . The patients can’t remember the events in particular settings.
C . The patients will make a lot of mistakes in memory testing.
D . The patients will be in lack of motivation in life after using the drugs.
2 . We can infer from the passage that ________.
A . researchers believe that the memory game is better than drugs
B . it can be effective if the patients train with game without stop
C . the memory game has attracted more patients than expected
D . it is proved that no medication can treat schizophrenia effectively
3 . What is implied in the explanation given by Professor Peter Jones in the last paragraph?
A . The patients will live a normal life with the help of the memory game.
B . Medication and psychological therapies together can cure the disease.
C . Schizophrenia has brought patients much impact on their daily life.
D . The effect of the memory game has not been confirmed yet.
4 . What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A . Good memory is important for functioning in activities of daily living.
B . People with poor episodic memory often forget where they have left their keys.
C . People with schizophrenia could save thousands of pounds with memory improved.
D . A computer game has been developed to improve memory of schizophrenia patients.
★C1-4 BCAD
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案.
A new brain training app developed to help improve the memory of people with schizophrenia could save taxpayers thousands of pounds, a study has claimed.
The computer game has been designed by neuroscientists at Cambridge University to help patients recover their ability to carry out everyday tasks that rely on having a good memory. Its aim is to train the brain in episodic memory, which helps people remember events such as where they parked their car in a multi-storey car park or where they left a set of keys. Researchers found that schizophrenia patients who played the game regularly for a month were four times better at remembering these kinds of things than non-players.
The computer game is called Wizard and is aimed at people who suffer with poor episodic memory - one of the main side effects of schizophrenia drugs.
Researchers assigned 22 participants, who had been given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, to either the cognitive training group or a control group at random. Participants in the training group played the memory game for a total of eight hours over a four-week period. Those in the control group continued their treatment as usual. Scientists found that the patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors in memory testing.
Professor Barbara Sahakian, of the Department of Psychiatry, said: “This study is important because it demonstrates that the memory game can help where drugs have so far failed. The game is interesting, so even those patients with a general lack of motivation are encouraged to continue the training.”
Professor Peter Jones added: “These are promising results and suggest that there may be the potential to use game apps to not only improve a patient’s episodic memory, but also their functioning in activities of daily living. We will need to carry out further studies to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia reduce the impact of their illness on everyday life.”
1 . What harm do schizophrenia drugs do to the patients?
A . The patients can’t remember where they have parked their cars.
B . The patients can’t remember the events in particular settings.
C . The patients will make a lot of mistakes in memory testing.
D . The patients will be in lack of motivation in life after using the drugs.
2 . We can infer from the passage that ________.
A . researchers believe that the memory game is better than drugs
B . it can be effective if the patients train with game without stop
C . the memory game has attracted more patients than expected
D . it is proved that no medication can treat schizophrenia effectively
3 . What is implied in the explanation given by Professor Peter Jones in the last paragraph?
A . The patients will live a normal life with the help of the memory game.
B . Medication and psychological therapies together can cure the disease.
C . Schizophrenia has brought patients much impact on their daily life.
D . The effect of the memory game has not been confirmed yet.
4 . What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A . Good memory is important for functioning in activities of daily living.
B . People with poor episodic memory often forget where they have left their keys.
C . People with schizophrenia could save thousands of pounds with memory improved.
D . A computer game has been developed to improve memory of schizophrenia patients.
★C1-4 BCAD
