2019年中考英語備考名師精品資料――閱讀理解
why do you forget things sometimes? there are several reasons. an important reason for forgetting something is that you didn’t learn it well in the beginning. for example, you meet some new people, and soon you forget their names. you hear the names but you don’t learn them, so you forget them.
you can help yourself remember better. move information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. you can do this if you practise the new information for more times.
1. why do you forget the telephone number that you don’t call often?
a. because the telephone number is too long.
b. because the telephone number is very strange.
c. because you look it up in the telephone book.
d. because you use your short-term memory to remember it.
2. which is easier to forget?
a. your best friend’s name. b. something that you understand.
c. the new information that you have practised a lot.
d. something that you didn’t learn well in the beginning.
3. how long does a person’s short-term memory last?
a. about half a second. b. about half a minute.
c. about half an hour. d. about half a day.
4. what’s helpful for you to remember better?
a. learn something well in the end.
b. look something up often.
c. use your short-term memory to learn things.
d. move information from your short-term memory to your long-term memory.
5. the writer mainly wants to tell us some ideas on how to _______.
a. keep something in mind long b. learn a foreign language well
c. make a telephone call d. remember a person’s name
(4)
when charles stratton was five, he stopped growing. his mother took him to see the famous showman, p.t. barnum. mr. barnum thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show. he hired charles’ parents along with him, and they traveled the world together.
he gave the two-foot tall charles a new name, general tom thumb. he taught tom how to sing, dance, act, and tell jokes. when he felt tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads. to stir up great interest, he said that tom was eleven years old and had come from england.