新编四级听力练习 第239期

Test 3
Section C
Memory is our most important possession. Without memory, you wouldn't know who you are. You couldn't think about the past or plan for the future. Memory is (36) ______ for everything we do as human beings. It's (37) ______ that we have this magical time machine in our heads that (38) ______ us to record experiences and then use that information at a later time. (39) ______ how the brain makes and (40) ______ memories has to be one of the most important of all scientific (41) ______ .
People who feel they must (42) ______ for having a bad memory should stop using a poor memory as an excuse for forgetting things. The only people who have a poor memory are those whose memory function has been (43) ______ by disease or damage. (44) _____________________________________________________________ . You must associate it with something. You must exercise it or risk losing its effectiveness. (45) _______________________________________________________________ . Second, cramming for finals is a very bad way to learn something that will last. Information from cramming will come in and go out. (46) ______________________________________________________ .