英语四级 2025年6月·第3套 Part III Section A 完形填空（选词填空）试卷排版
英语四级2025年6月·第3套 Part III Section A 完形填空（选词填空）：共 10 题、占整卷 5%（710 分制折算约 36 分）、卷面选文共 247 个英文单词。本页按真题原卷版式还原该模块卷面（不含解析）；逐题解析在「题目解析」页，全文逐句精读在「原文精读」页；本模块真题可免费下载 PDF/Word，入口见上方本题行。
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真题卷第3套(2025-06) • 英语四级
Part III Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The human brain has the ability to constantly form new networks and connections between brain cells. This means the brain has an almost magical ability to change. This characteristic is 26 apparent in a new study, focusing on people who underwent a hemispherectomy, a surgical procedure in which half of the brain is removed to treat illness.
The findings showed that, despite missing half of this critical 27 , participants could function well. This was because the 28 half of their brain strengthened. In fact, researchers found that connections and thus communication—between parts of different brain networks are actually stronger in people who had hemispherectomies than in people with intact brains. This 29 that the brain is able to compensate for loss of certain brain structure.
There are many other cases in the medical 30 that document the brain's amazing ability to 31 For example, a young boy had a significant portion of his brain removed for medical reasons, which included the part of the brain 32 for sight. But a few years after his surgery, scientists found that he could 33 see. They determined that this was because other parts of his brain took over the missing part's 34 tasks. Another study involved people who could smell, despite missing the region in the brain that processes information about smells. Though they are not sure how these individuals 35 the ability to smell, scientists believe it is possible that another part of the brain took on that task.
A)adapt
B)hardly
C)indicates
D)insist
E)literature
F)organ
G)particularly
H)remaining
I)responsible
J)retained
K)still
L)strategy
M)transformed
N)underlines
O)visual
选文出处：本文节选自2019年11月22日发表于Live Science上的一篇题为"How the Brain Still Works When Half of It Is Missing"的文章。