Memory test
1 “I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you need to know at school,” promised lecturer Ian Robinson to a hundred schoolchildren. He slapped his hand down on the table. “When I’ve finished in two hours’ time , your work will be far more effective and productive. Anyone not interested, leave now.” The entire room sat still.
2 Robinson calls himself the Mind Magician(魔术师). He specializes in doing magic tricks that look totally impossible, and then he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery(骗术). "I have always been interested in tricks involving memory-being able to reel off(一口气说出) the order of cards in a pack, that sort of thing,"he explains.
3 Robinson was already lecturing to schools on his magic techniques when it struck him that students might find memory techniques even more valuable. "It wasn't a difficult area to move into, as the stuff's all there in books." So he summarized everything to make a two-hour lecture about five techniques.
4 "You want to learn a list of a hundred things? A thousand ? No problem,"says Robinson. The scandal is that every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of their school life. The schoolchildren who were watching him thought it was brilliant. "I wish I'd been told this earlier,"commented Mark, after Robinson had shown them to construct "mental journeys".
5 Essentially, you visualize(想象) a walk down a street ,or a trip round a room, and pick the points where you will put the things you want to remember--the lamppost,the fruit bowl. Then in each location you put a visual representation of your list--phrasal verbs,historical dates,whatever--making them as strange as possible. It is that simple ,and it works.
6 The reaction of schools has been uniformly enthusiastic."The pupils benefited enormously from Ian's presentation," says Dr Johnston, head of the school where Robinson was speaking,"Ideally we should run a regular class in memory techniques so pupils can pick it up gradually."
23 Paragraph2_______
24 Paragraph3_______
25 Paragraph4_______
26 Paragraph5_______
A Good resultts
B An ancient skill
C Gaining attention
D Memory tricks
E A lecture on memory techniques
F Ways to improve memory
27 The memory techniques used are no more complex than the old_____.
28 Robinson taught children to use "mental journeys" to improve_____.
29 Robinson told the pupils that all the memory techniques could be found in_____.
30 The schoolchildren got a lot from the magician's_____.
A books
B lecture
C tricks
D facts
E memory
F list
参考答案：D E A F C E A B
答案解析：
23 D 文章第二段主要介绍罗宾逊其人其事。他称自己为魔术师，擅长表演大家看起来一点都不可能的魔术，他觉得魔术就跟旧时的骗术一样神奇，他可以一口气说出一沓扑克牌的顺序。因此这段的标题应该是memory tricks。
24 E 第三段提到，但罗宾逊感觉记忆诀窍对学生很重要时他去给学生做了有关他的魔术的技巧的讲座。他感觉魔术并非难事，并总结了五个技巧，做为两小时的讲座。所以这段的标题应该是a lecture on memory techniques。
25 A 第四段主要讲了罗宾逊教授讲座的结果：观看他表演的学生都觉得非常精彩，Mark 还说真希望自己早点被告知进行心智旅行mental journey 的方法。所以这段的标题应给是good results。
26 F 第五段详细描述了心智旅行的过程：想象自己走上大街，或者绕着房间走，挑选地方以后把自己想要记住的东西放在那里，比如街灯柱，水果钵等。然后在每个地方放一个自己所列词汇的形象表达——短语动词，历史日期等——越奇怪越好。这个方法非常简单，但是非常有用。这样看来，本段描述心智旅行是为了帮助学生提高记忆力，因此最好的标题是ways to improve memory。
27 C 本题答案可以在第二段第二句话找到：???they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery。题目中complex与这句话中的mysterious同义，原句中trickery是骗术的意思，选项C的tricks即有欺骗，魔术的意思。
28 E 本题答案比较明确，通过对26题的分析可以得知罗宾逊交给孩子们心智旅行的方法是为了帮助他们提高记忆力。
29 A 第三段讲述罗宾逊为小学生作讲座的事情。罗宾逊提到：记忆诀窍并非难事，所有的素材都在书本里面，所以本题答案为books。
30 B 本题答案显而易见，小学生门从魔术师的讲座学到很多东西。
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