Some people have very good memories and can easily learn quite long
poems by heart, other people have _____1______ memories and can only remember
things said again and again. The ______2_____ writer Charles Dickens(查尔斯·狄更斯)said that he could walk down ______3_____ long
street in London, and then told you the name of every _____4______ on both
sides of the street. Many great men of the world have wonderful memories. A
good memory is a great ______5_____ in learning a language(语言). Everybody learns his own language by
remembering what he hears ______6_____ he is a small child. Some children live
with their parents in foreign(外国的)
countries and they can learn two languages as easily as one. In school it is
not so ____7_______ to learn a foreign language because students have so ______8_____
time for it and they are busy with other subjects as well. A man’s mind is
quite like a camera(照相机) and it takes pictures of _____9______
we see, feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real picture _____10______ a
camera there is much work to do before the picture is finished and ready to
show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to do before we can
keep a picture in our memory for a long time.
( ) 1. A. bad B.
good C. poor D.
slow
( ) 2. A. English B.
French C. Chinese D.
Japanese
( ) 3. A. an B.
any C.
the D.
some
( ) 4. A. man B.
home C. tree D.
shop
( ) 5. A. help B.
thing C.
use D.
work
( ) 6. A. before B.
after C.
during D. when
( ) 7. A. difficult B.
necessary C.
easy D.
important
( ) 8. A. little B.
few C.
much D.
long
( ) 9. A. where B.
what C.
which D.
when
( ) 10.A. in B.
on C.
at D.
with