单项选择题

Did you ever have someone"s name on the tip of your tongue and yet you were unable to recall (记起) it 1 this happens again, don"t try to recall it. Do something 2 for a couple of miracles, and the name may come into your head. The name is there since you have met 3 person and you have heard his name. It 4 has to be dug out. The first effort to recall 5 the mind for operation, but it is the subconscious (下意识) activities that go to work to dig up 6 memory. Forcing yourself to recall 7 never helps because it doesn’t loosen your 8 ; it only tightens it. Students find the preparatory method helpful 9 examinations. They read over the questions 10 trying to answer any of them. Then they answer first the ones 11 which they are most certain. Meanwhile, deeper mental activities in the subconscious mind are taking 12 ; work is being done in the 13 difficult question. By the time the easier questions are answered, answers 14 the more difficult ones will usually begin to 15 into consciousness. It is often iust, a question of waiting for recall to come to the memory.

A.merely
B.almost
C.nearly
D.hardly