How to Improve Your Memory

  1  Among them are many kinds of useful ways are well as taking special care of your health.

It is important that you make yourself excited to make your memory more active. You can do this by doing some new activities and by changing your daily habits.   2  When trying to remember something, you should pay special attention to the most important things about it. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind because this will reduce your chances of making right memories.

  3  Try to see the pictures in your mind. Taking notes and keeping a diary will also be helpful.

   4  Drinking a lot of water also helps keep your memory. You must allow your brain to have enough sleep and rest. When you are asleep, your brain stores memory.   5 And being tired will also stop you from being able to think clearly and well.

In order to keep your mind on your work, you must be free from worry. Generally, keeping fit and normal health checks are both important as well-not just for improving your memory.

A. An excellent way to help memory is to connect information with pictures.

B. Try to remember as much things as possible.

C. There are many things you can do to improve your memory.

D. Not enough sleep can cause problems with storing information.

E. Learning a new skill helps your brain to develop.

F. Memory can be improved by doing sports.

G. Healthy food and plenty of vitamins are necessary for your memory to work well.

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Mr. Smith lived in a village. He had ___36__ farms and about twenty people working for him. He often told them _37_ hard and be honest. (诚实的).

One day he went to a farm and worked with the workers there. Soon it was time __38___ lunch. He put ___39___ nice bread on the table and ___40___. A few minutes later he came back again but he ___41____ find the bread.

‘Who ate ___42__ on the table?’ he shouted.

Some of the workers answered, ‘We ___43___.’

The others said, ‘We saw nothing.’

‘Well,’ said Mr. Smith, ‘__44___ are a lot of mice in the rooms, you know. So I ___45___ some poison in the bread. ___46___ they eat, they must die. Then I can kill them.’

As soon as he finished, four workers began to cry. ‘Oh, dear!’

‘___47___?’ asked Mr. Smith.

‘We ate the bread when you were out. We are going to die.’ One of them cried.

‘___48___,’ Mr. Smith said _49___ a smile, ‘I only ____50_____ you. Use your head.’

The most positive(乐观的) person I have ever seen is may dad! He is so positive that I do not  46  hearing a single word from him which is related(相关的) to hopelessness!

Unlike most mums and dads, my dad never says things that make me feel   47 . He is always there to give me encouragement and help.   48  I do wrong things, he always tells me what’s right in a positive way. For example, if I am in   49  , he often tells me to open the books he bought me. Then he asks me to read the   50  that can help me with the problems I’m facing. After that, we have a    51  together.

Even though I’m not always a good kid, my dad   52  shouts or gets angry with me. I know that he’s   53  a day—a day when I grow up and understand things in my life.

I can see the reason that he is so positive is because he believes in 54 . And he believes that whatever  55 , it is under control. So we have nothing to worry about. Be positive!

1.                A．mind           B．keep           C．like  D．remember

2.                A．good           B．bad            C．rich  D．poor

3.                A．When          B．Until           C．Before   D．Since

4.                A．fear           B．trouble         C．surprise  D．danger

5.                A．titles           B．orders          C．stories   D．questions

6.                A．discussion       B．practice        C．meeting  D．review

7.                A．usually         B．ever           C．sometimes D．never

8.                A．looking for      B．worrying about   C．waiting for D．thinking about

9.                A．itself           B．myself          C．himself   D．yourself

10.               A．moves         B．happens        C．appears   D．develops

Peter is a sixth-grader at Woodland Primary School. He is only 12 years old but has been smoking for three years. John, 15, is a Junior 2 student at Woodland Secondary School. He began smoking four years ago. “Smoking is part of my life,” John said. Peter and John are not those boys’ real names. But their problem, smoking, is a very real problem. In many countries, smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people. Most smokers start in their teens or earlier.

A study of 8,000 London students shows that smoking is a problem for many British kids. More than 21% of middle school students and 6 % of primary school pupils said they smoked. “If young people start smoking early, it will be very hard for them to give up later on,” said a professor.

Every year, about four million people die because of smoking. And if people keep smoking,  that number will go up to about ten million a year by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. So we have to learn and tell others about the dangers of smoking.

1.The sentence “Smoking is part of my life” probably means “__________”

A．I don’t smoke very often.

B．Smoking is very important to me.

C．I don’t smoke at all.

D．I’m going to give up smoking.

2.What will probably happen if a person starts smoking early?

A．He will surely die early.

B．He cannot stop smoking.

C．It will be difficult for him to give up smoking.

D．He will become lazy soon.

3.The study in the passage shows that __________.

A．smoking is a serious problem among British students

B．there are more and more smokers in England

C．some student smokers are having fun smoking

D．most of smokers are young students

4.The main idea of this passage is that__________.

A．smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people

B．more and more people die because of smoking every year

C．WHO asks young people to give up smoking

D．we needn’t worry about the student smokers

5.As middle school students, what should we do from now on?

A．We should start smoking after middle school.

B．We should ask others to smoke outside.

C．We should laugh at smokers.

D．We should say no to smoking.

根据首字母或汉语提示完成单词。

1.All the students laugh at me because my clothes are out of s_________.

2.“Don’t worry, my dear young man; there’s nothing s_______.” the doctor said to me.

3.Everyone went to play football e_____ Tom and me because we don’t like it.

4.Look,our English teacher is __________(组织) his students.

5.To my _______(吃惊),he can do everything that I can’t do.