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高考阅读理解训练资讯专题（一） 1、Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he came to analyse their embarrassing errors，he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups. One of the women，for instance，on leaving her house for work one morning threw her pet dog her ear-rings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer，”explains the professor. “People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her ear-rings. But somehow the action got reversed（颠倒）in the programme. ”About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were there“programme assembly failures. ” Twenty percent of all errors were“test failures”——primarily due to not verifying the progress of what the body was doing. A man about to get his car out of the garage passed through the back yard where his garden jacket and boots were kept，put them on——much to his surprise. A woman victim reported：“I got into the bath with my socks on. ” The commonest problem was information“storage failures”. People forgot the names of people whose faces they knew，went into a room and forgot why they were there，mislaid something，or smoked a cigarette without realizing it. | 
