试卷第1 页，共9 页 浙江省名校协作体2022-2023 学年高二上学期开学考试英语试题 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、阅读理解 Last week, my wife and I were discussing how we’d chosen our youngest son’s name. I had a vivid memory of us writing out a list of possible names, but stopping after just a few because we’d spotted one we both loved. My wife disagreed. In her memory, we’d had a much longer list, and gone back and chosen one from the middle of the list. So we dug out the piece of paper we’d used and found that we’d actually done something completely different to choose Nate’s name. Memory mistakes happen on a large scale. The “Mandela Effect” is when lots of people have confident recollections that turn out to be wrong. It was named by researchers who were discussing their strong memories of Nelson Mandela’s death in prison — when he actually lived for 23 years after his release. There are plenty of other examples of this phenomenon. If you’re sure that you remember hearing a wicked queen say “Mirror, mirror on the wall,” you’ve experienced it yourself (she says, “Magic mirror on the wall” instead). So what’s going on? Well, for starters, memory often works by association, and similar bits of information can overlap in our brains. We’re also good at “filling in the blanks” with details that are logical but untrue. What’s more, whenever we rehearse a memory, we make it stronger — including any bits that were wrong. But there’s plenty of good news here, too. Everyone misremembers. We shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves when we make mistakes. The mental associations that sometimes lead to errors can also help us to find elusive informa...
