C) She wants to show off her wealth.                    D) She has no time to do it herself.

35. A) The lifestyle depicted in Hollywood movies.           B) The worship of money, beauty and pleasure.

   C) The attention the media focuses on them.              D) The pursuing of perfection in performance.

Section C
      Around 120 years ago, Ebbinghaus began his study of memory. He (36)________on studying how quickly the human mind can remember (37) _______. One result of his research is known as the total time hypothesis (假设), which simply means the amount you learn (38) _______on the time you spend trying to learn it. This can be taken as our first rule of learning.

    Although it is usually true that studying for four hours is better than studying for one, there is still the question of how we should use the four hours. For example, is it better to study for four hours (39) ______or to study for one hour a day for four days in a (40)______? The answer, as you may have (41) _____, is that it is better to spread out the study times. This (42) _____, through which we can learn more (43)______by dividing our practice time, is known as the distribution of practice effect. Thus, (44) ______.

      But we are not finished yet. We haven’t considered how we should study over very short periods of time. (45) _____. Should you look at the same word in rapid succession, or look at the word and then have some delay before you look at it again? (46)_____.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

Section A

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

      Every year in the firs