如果在试卷中你看到的是下面的文章让你完成。题目要求是“根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。”你可以试一下，能不能将合适的句子填写进去。

你的大脑总是对你撒谎。我们很抱歉地告诉你，但这是真的。即使你的大脑在做重要而困难的事情，你也意识不到大部分正在发生的事情。

36  大多数情况下，它做得很好，努力帮助你在一个复杂的世界中生存，实现你的目标。因为你经常必须对紧急情况和机会做出快速反应，你的大脑通常努力快速得出一个简单的答案，而不是一个需要花时间才能得出的完美答案。但由于世界并不简单，这意味着你的大脑必须走捷径，并做出许多假设。37

当大脑通过感官从世界上获取信息时，问题就开始了。即使你安静地坐在房间里，你的大脑接收到的信息也远远超出了它能承受的范围，也超出了你决定如何行动所需要的信息。你可能会注意到地毯上色彩的精细图案、墙上的照片和外面鸟鸣的声音。38  通常这些事情并不重要，所以我们通常不会注意到我们丢失了多少信息。

当人们看复杂的图片时，如果图片是静止的，他们就能识别出不同之处。但如果图像移动得很快，它们就会遇到很多麻烦。39   为了验证这一点，心理学家尝试了一些更有趣的方法来让人们忽视一些事情。在我们最喜欢的一个例子中，一个研究人员在街上走近一个人，向他问路。人回答的时候，工人们抬着一扇大门挡在他们中间，挡住了他们的视线。在门的掩护后面，问路的人被另一名研究人员代替，若无其事地继续谈话。即使第二个人看起来和第一个人很不一样，给人指路的人也只有大约50%的机会注意到变化。40  

A.大脑的谎言在大多数时候是你最感兴趣的，但它们也会导致可预见的错误。

B.这是因为我们想象自己记住的细节比我们实际记得的要多。

C.这些实验说明，你只感知到世界上正在发生的事情的一小部分。

D.你的大脑有选择地处理你需要注意的重要细节。

E.你的大脑最初会感知场景的许多其他方面，但很快就会忘记它们。

F.这是因为我们的视觉记忆不是很好。

G.当然，你的大脑并没想要对你撒谎。

其实上面的英语原文是下面这样的：

Your brain lies to you a lot. We’re sorry to have to tell you this but it’s true. Even when your brain is doing important and difficult stuff, you’re not aware of most of what’s going on.

      36      For the most part, it’s doing a great job, working hard to help you survive and achieve your goals in a complicated world. Because you often have to react quickly to emergencies and opportunities, your brain usually tries to get a simple answer in a hurry rather than a perfect answer that takes time to work out. But as the world is not simple, this means that your brain has to take shortcuts and make a lot of assumptions.      37      

The problem starts when the brain takes in information from the world through the senses. Even if you are sitting quietly in a room, your brain receives far more information than it can hold on to or than you need to decide how to act. You may be aware of the detailed pattern of colors in the rug, the photographs on the wall and the sounds of birds outside.    38       Usually these things aren’t important so we don’t often notice how much information we lose.

When people look at complicated pictures, they can identify differences if the images remain still. But if the image moves quickly, then they have a lot more trouble.     39      To test this, psychologists have tried more interesting ways of getting people to fail to notice things. In one of our favorites, a researcher approaches someone on the street and asks for directions. While the person is replying, workmen carry a large door between the two people, blocking their view of each other. Behind the cover of the door, the person who asked for directions is replaced by another researcher who carries on the conversation as if nothing had happened. Even when the second person looks very different from the first, the person giving the directions has only about a fifty percent chance of noticing the change.    40  

A. Your brain’s lies are in your best interest—most of the time—but they also lead to predictable mistakes.

B. This is because we imagine that we remember more details than we really can.

C. The experiments illustrate that you perceive only a little bit of what’s going on in the world.

D. Your brain selectively processes details that are important for you to notice.

E. Your brain perceives many other aspects of the scene initially but quickly forgets them.

F. This happens because our visual memory isn’t very good.

G. Your brain doesn’t intend to lie to you, of course.       继续试着做一下，题目要求同上。你感觉汉语题目难度和英语题目那个难度大呢？汉语考试中好像没有类似的题目，或许也是因为语言习惯的不同，将这样一篇英语七选五翻译成上面的汉语文章时，题目难度并没有因为文章是我们更为熟悉的汉语文章而让人感觉难度降低，相反我们可能还会感觉文章难度变大了，原因是原来英语文中有一些通过代词、连词等体现上下文关系的暗示性语言没有了。当然如果你感觉到的是汉语文章明显比英语文章简单很多，那么就请你从扩大自己的词汇量、提高阅读能力开始吧！