46. According to the passage, what is amnesia?
(A) A brain cancer.
(B) Loss of memory.
(C) An illness that only old people will suffer.
(D) A person with brain injuries.

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If someone has amnesia, they can’t remember things that happened before. Amnesia can happen when people have an accident and hit their head, or when people get a brain sickness. People with amnesia forget what happened to them and may even forget their names, where they live, or who their friends and family are. Amnesia usually goes away after twenty-four hours or so. After the shock wears off or the sickness passes, people’s memories come back to them. Yet, Clive Wearing’s story is a most unusual one. In 1985, Wearing got a serious brain sickness that wreaked havoc on the part of his brain that holds memories. Because of his sickness, Wearing can’t hold on to new memories for more than a few minutes. He forgets everything as soon as it happens. He spends each day “waking up” every few minutes, because he has already forgotten everything he’s done that day---even waking up. Wearing remembers little of his life before 1985. He knows he has children, but he can’t remember their names. He loves his wife, Deborah. Each time he meets her, he believes he’s seeing her for the first time in many years. He does this even though Deborah may have left the room just minutes before. Having such a bad memory is hard to imagine. Of course, it hasn’t been easy for the Wearings, and Deborah has written a book about her husband’s amnesia called Forever Today, and Clive’s story has been told in a TV show. Because of his memory problem, Wearing can’t work anymore and now lives in a special home for people with brain injuries.

如果某人患有失憶症，他們將不記得以前發生的事情。當人們發生事故並撞到頭部或腦部疾病時，就會發生失憶症。失憶症患者會忘記發生了什麼事，甚至可能會忘記他們的名字，他們的住所或他們的朋友和家人。健忘症通常會在二十四個小時左右消失。清醒或疾病過去後，人們的記憶又回到了他們身上。但是，克萊夫·沃林（Clive Wearing）的故事是最不尋常的。 1985年，Wearing患上了嚴重的腦病，使記憶力減退。由於他的病，Wearing無法保留新的記憶超過幾分鐘。一旦一切發生，他就會忘記。他每天每隔幾分鐘就會“起床”，因為他已經忘記了當天的所有工作-甚至醒來。 Wearing記得1985年之前的生活，他知道自己有孩子，但他不記得他們的名字。他愛他的妻子黛博拉（Deborah）。每次見到她，他都相信自己多年來第一次見到她。即使Deborah可能在幾分鐘前離開了房間，他仍會這樣做。很難想像擁有如此糟糕的記憶。當然，穿衣服並不容易，黛博拉（Deborah）寫了一本關於她丈夫遺忘症的書，叫做《永遠的今天》（Forever Today），而克萊夫的故事已經在電視節目中講述過。由於他的記憶力問題，Wearing無法再工作了，他現在住在腦疾人士專用的家中。