Is it"shi"or"si"in the sentence "Thus when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man..."（"故天將降大任于是/斯人也"）？Recently，people had a heated discussion online about this.Most people" （1）

B

B

remember"that it's"si"，while their childhood textbooks say it's"shi".
    It shows how （2）

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D

our memory can be.According to US psychologist（心理學家） Faith Brynie，memories can be blurred（模糊）（3）

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A

imagination，belief and time.Many studies have proven that"feeling certain" about a memory has（4）

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B

to do with the facts.
    Attitudes and beliefs change our memory
    Scientists at Cornell University，US，did a experiment among college students.Students were told a story about a man who walked out （5）

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C

paying a restaurant bill.The first group was told that the man"liked to steal".The second group was told that he（6）

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A

because he got an emergency phone call.
    One week later the first group remembered a higher bill--10 to 25 percent more than the bill （7）

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D

was.The second group remembered a（8）

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C

bill.The study showed that （9）

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A

we expect or believe things to happen can distort（扭曲） our memories.
    Remembering things that never happened
    In another（10）

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C

，people watched a film.Then they were asked，"How fast was the white car going when it passed the（11）

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D

while traveling along the country road？"Actually there was no house in the film. （12）

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B

about 20 percent of the students said they had seen the house.Northwestern University scientist Kenneth Paller said that parts of the brain for actually seeing an object and imagining an object overlap（重疊）.So imagination after getting a hint（暗示） could leave a（an） （13）

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A

in the brain.
    Si or shi
    In the case of"si"or"shi"，some people said that"si"sounds more like（14）

B

B

Chinese while"shi"is widely used in modern Chinese.That's（15）

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D

most people believe"si"is correct in their minds.
    But some people really find the texts with"si"in their old books.So，who is correct？Do all the people get the wrong memory？

（1）	A.hardly	B.clearly	C.luckily	D.specially
（2）	A.unexpected	B.unknown	C.unhappy	D.unbelievable
（3）	A.by	B.to	C.for	D.as
（4）	A.something	B.nothing	C.everything	D.anything
（5）	A.for	B.by	C.without	D.except
（6）	A.left	B.arrived	C.stayed	D.answered
（7）	A.extremely	B.especially	C.probably	D.actually
（8）	A.higher	B.more expensive	C.lower	D.cheaper
（9）	A.how	B.when	C.where	D.whether
（10）	A.exam	B.event	C.research	D.competition
（11）	A.road	B.car	C.film	D.house
（12）	A.So	B.But	C.Because	D.Although
（13）	A.memory	B.feeling	C.imagination	D.house
（14）	A.modern	B.ancient	C.living	D.dying
（15）	A.what	B.how	C.where	D.why