记忆
乔伊斯想在学校的报纸上写一篇关于记忆的文章。她和她的编辑都同意以此为主题写篇短文。
阿瑟
我知道，我们有一个短期记忆和长期记忆。当我们老了，我们的短期记忆变得更糟，但我们还记得，从很久以前的事情。
我的爷爷告诉我一个笑话。他说，'当你变老，三件事开始出错。首先，你失去你的记忆...我不记得什么其他的两件事情！
乔伊斯
我看到电视上一个节目介绍一个脑部受伤的男子。他不记得超任何过几分钟的事。
他的妻子每天都去医院看他，她离开后几分钟他就忘了她的来访。他经常对她很生气，因为他认为她从未访问过他。这是很可悲的。
PANSY
如果你想记住东西，你应该在你的心目描绘出它的图片。如果图片很愚蠢，奇怪并且多彩，你会记得更好。例如，我要记住这个词'微笑'。一个简单的方法就是想像有一'英里’在第一个字母和最后一个字母之间。这使它成为世界上最长的单词！
托尼
在吉尼斯世界纪录中，有一些惊人的记忆故事。例如，中国哈尔滨的苟杨凌可以记忆15,000个电话号码。来自英国的Dominic 奥布莱恩在看了一次后还记得1820扑克牌正确的顺序。
米莉
记忆连接到我们的感情。如果有人叫道'蜘蛛！并在你手上放个大蜘蛛，你也许会记得这个词'蜘蛛'。如果有什么戏剧性的事情发生，我们通常会记得很清楚。例如，在美国最老的人能记住当他们听说美国总统约翰肯尼迪于1963年死亡的事情时他们在哪。
Joyce wanted to include a
feature about memory in the
school newspaper. She and her
editors all agreed to write short
articles on the topic.
ARTHUR
I know hat we have a
short-term memory and a
long-term memory.When we
get old, our short-term memory
becomes worse,but we can still
remember things from a long
time ago.
My grandpa told me a joke.He
said,‘When you get old,three
things start to go wrong.First,
you lose your memory...and
i can't remrmber what the other
two things are!'
JOYCE
I saw a programme on television
about a man with an injured
brain.He couid not remember
anything for longer than a few
minutes.
His wife visited him in hospital
every day,but he forgot her
visits a few minutes after she
left.He was often angry with
her because he thought that she
never visited him. it was very
sad.
PANSY
If you want to remember something,you
should make a picture of it in your mind.If
the picture is silly,strange and colourful, you
wil remember it better.
For example,I am trying to remember the
word‘smiles'.An easy way to do this is to
imagine there is a‘mile'between the first
letter and the last letter.This makes it the
longest word in the world!
TONY
In the Guinness Book of Records,there
are some amazing stories about memory.
For example,Gou Yanling from Harbin in
china has memorized 15,000 telephone
numbers.And Dominic O'Brien from the
UK remembered the correct order of 1,820
playing cards,after seeing them just once.
MILLIE
Memory is connected to our
feelings.If someone shouts
‘Spider!'and puts a large
spider on your hand,you
will probably remember the
word ‘spider'.If something
dramatic happens,we
usually remember it well. For
example,most old people in
the USA can remember where
they were when they heard
about the death of President
John F Kennedy in 1963.