初中英语牛津九年级上册课本06

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 CHAPTER SIX   READING   Pages 80 and 81
[00:08.20]MEMORY
[00:10.84]Joyce wanted to have a feature about memory.
[00:16.30]She and her editors all agreed to write short articles on this topic.
[00:25.26]I read in a book that we have a short-term memory and long-term memory.
[00:33.12]When people get older,their short-term memory becomes worse,
[00:39.97]but we can still remember things that happened a long time ago.
[00:46.21]My Grandad told me a joke about memory.
[00:51.77]He said,'When you get old,three things start to go wrong.
[00:58.62]First,you start to lose your memory.
[01:03.09]And I can't remember what the other things are!'
[01:07.81]Memory is essential for life.
[01:13.14]I saw a programme on television about a man.
[01:19.62]who had had an accident and injured his brain.
[01:25.79]Afterwards,he could not remember any thing for longer than a few minutes.
[01:33.96]His wife visited him in hospital every day,
[01:39.81]but he forgot her visits a few minutes after she left.
[01:46.58]He was often angry with her because he thought that she never visited him.
[01:53.84]It was very sad.
[01:57.50]One basic way of improving your memory is to use the link method.
[02:04.87]If you want to memorize something, you must make a picture in your mind
[02:11.53]If the picture is silly,strange and colourful,you will remember it better.
[02:18.29]For example,I am trying to remember the word 'smiles'.
[02:24.25]An easy way to do this is to imagine there is a 'mile'
[02:29.89]between the first letter and the last letter.
[02:34.75]This makes it the longest word in the world!
[02:40.31]In the Guinness Book of Records,
[02:44.18]we can find some amazing stories about memory.
[02:49.51]For example,Gong Yangling from Harbin in China
[02:55.86]has memorized more than 15,000  telephone numbers.
[03:02.70]And Dominic O'Brien from Britain remembered the correct order
[03:09.26]of 1,820 playing cards,after seeing them just once.
[03:17.62]Memory is connected with our feelings.
[03:22.89]For example,if someone says 'This is a spider,'
[03:29.95]and then puts a large spider on your hand,
[03:35.28]you will probable remember the word 'spider'!
[03:40.45]When something dramatic happens,we usually remember it well,
[03:47.29]and we also remember where we were and what we were doing .
[03:53.17]For example,98% of older people in the USA
[03:59.93]can remember where they were
[04:04.09]when they heard about the death of President John F Kennedy in 1963.
[04:11.85]LISTENING  Page 83
[04:16.39]Testing your memory
[04:20.15]These exercises will test your memory.
[04:25.22]Listen,but do not take notes.
[04:30.37]Write short answers to the questions.
[04:35.23]The first one is done for you.
[04:39.67]Part A
[04:42.59]1.a dog   a cake
[04:48.97]a lion   a book
[04:53.83]a cat
[04:56.78]Question 1:
[04:59.81]How many animals were in that list?
[05:05.37]2.a telephone
[05:10.23]a fax-machine
[05:13.57]a boat
[05:16.32]a policeman
[05:19.48]a television set
[05:22.95]Question 2:
[05:26.11]What was the first item in that list?
[05:31.68]3.a banana
[05:36.12]a hamburger
[05:39.15]an apple
[05:42.18]a coconut
[05:45.21]a Pisa
[05:48.06]Question 3:
[05:51.22]How many fruits were in that list?
[05:56.28]4.a policeman
[06:00.72]a postman
[06:03.68]a teacher
[06:07.12]a headmaster
[06:10.29]a waitress
[06:13.21]Question 4:
[06:16.45]How many of those words ended in 'man'?
[06:23.61]5.oxygen
[06:28.34]water   carbon
[06:32.99]nitrogen  pollution
[06:37.84]Question 5:
[06:41.01]In that list,what was the word after the word 'water'?
[06:48.87]6.a car    a ferry
[06:55.40]a bicycle   a ship
[06:59.97]an aeroplane
[07:03.21]Question 6:
[07:06.45]How many of these vehicles have wheels?
[07:12.69]7.blue   sky
[07:18.86]bird    rainbow
[07:23.61]building
[07:27.27]Question 7:
[07:30.43]How many of the words in that list begin with the letter B?
[07:38.29]8.bread    rice
[07:44.35]trousers   green
[07:49.21]elephant   blue