I got out of the train station with my father．A woman came to him and said that her 1 had been stolen．She asked if he could 2 her some money to go back home．My father gave her what she asked for and told her not to 3 paying it back．I was shocked．How could my father be so 4 ? It was clear that she was telling a lie, staying at the station all day long 5 money．
“She was lying!” I shouted．“ 6 did you give her anything? ”
My father looked at me．He was a bit 7 ．“And what would you like me to do?” he said．“Should I tell 8 that I am a college professor and I can see through her scam(诡计)?” I did not understand him at all, and then he told me something that I have 9 forgotten．“First, she would not do this 10 she did not need the money．Second, I made her day, because now she thinks that she is 11 than me．It is more important to her than the money, but I do not 12 this．”
A week later, we were at the same 13 , and the same woman came to my father with the same story．“Not this time,” my father told her．“In your business, you 14 learn to recognize people．Try another story 15 me next week．”
Some scientists believe that there are three kinds of memory－immediate, short-term and long-term．
1 memory holds items of information coming into 2 from the five senses for less than a second．Then it either rejects them 3 passes them into short-term memory．
Short-term memory 4 ．hold about seven items of information 5 one time(e.g., telephone numbers), it holds them for about thirty seconds．Then they are rejected(拒绝)(i.e., forgotten)or 6 into long-term memory．
7 memory can hold information for the whole of our lives．Some scientists believe that long-term memory can 8 into two types． 9 type remembers events, that is things that happen to us． 10 remembers knowledge(e.g., the names of countries or the meanings of words)．
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ge education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years.