一出门就忘事？揭秘“门口效应”
It's a school day morning. You are dressing yourself in the bedroom. At the same time, you are thinking about taking your schoolbag from the living room. But when you walk through your bedroom door and into the living room, you suddenly forget 1. w you are there and just don't know what to do.
Most people would say this is because they have a poor 2. m. But scientists believe that the act of walking through doorways makes us forget things. They call it the "doorway effect".
Some scientists from a university did an 3. e. They placed several objects into two rooms. Some students had to put an object from Room A into a shoebox and then bring it to Room B through a doorway. In Room B, they exchanged it for another object and brought it back to Room A in the shoebox. Then the students were asked to do the same steps 4. w crossing through a doorway.
During the test, the scientists would ask the students what was in their shoebox at that moment. The scientists found that their answers were slower and less 5. c when they walked through a doorway and into a new room.
A doorway is just like a boundary in the mind. Setting "boundaries" in our minds helps organize our thoughts, but it can also cause forgetfulness. For example, when you walk into the living room, your brain thinks you have already finished the job of getting your schoolbag and it moves on to the next step.
Is there a way to 6. s the doorway effect? Writing down what you need before going into another room might be helpful.
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1. why 这是在描述你走进客厅时所产生的疑惑，表达你忘记了自己在这里的原因，用特殊疑问词why(为什么)引导宾语从句。
2. memory 根据语境可知，这里指“大多数人会说这是因为他们的记性不好。”，所以会忘记要做的事情。
3. experiment 根据下文可知，这是指科学家们进行的实验，下文描述了具体的实验过程。
4. without 上文说了学生在经过门的情况下移动物品的步骤，这里表示在另一种情况——也就是不经过门的情况下完成同样的移动物品的步骤。without doing sth表示“没有做某事(的情况下)”。
5. correct 根据上下文可知，经过门会影响记忆，当科学家询问学生们鞋盒里的物体时，他们的回答速度变慢，而且回答的准确性下降。
6. stop/solve 根据下文给出的建议可以推测，这个问题问是否有办法消除或解决门口效应。

二、新考法 思维导图 根据短文内容，完成思维导图，每空1~2词。
Doorway Effect
• Introduction
Walking through doorways often causes forgetfulness 1. the act itself.
• Test
Process: Students moved objects between two rooms using a 2. .
Comparison: Crossing doorways & not crossing doorways
Finding: It was 3. for students to remember things when they experienced crossing doorways than when they did not.
• Solution
4. things before going into another room can help.

1. because of 根据“But scientists believe that the act of walking through doorways makes us forget things.”可知，走过门的行为本身会经常导致遗忘。设空后是原因，且为名词短语，所以用because of。
2. shoebox 根据“Some students had to put an object from Room A into a shoebox ...”可知，在实验中，学生使用一个鞋盒(shoebox)来运送物品。
3. harder/more difficult/more challenging 根据“... their answers were slower and less correct when they walked through a doorway and into a new room”可知，学生经过门后记忆更模糊，也就是说，如果学生经历了通过门的行为，比没通过时更难记忆/记忆这件事更有挑战性。注意句子有than when they did not，要填比较级形式。
4. Writing down 根据最后“Writing down what you need before going into another room might be helpful.”可知，提前写下需要做的事情可能有帮助。这里动名词短语作句子的主语。