【正文】 o。 until D. didn’t go。 so B. Although。 but D. Though。 so B. Because。 / D. /。 ? pay attention to the tense of your verbs。 ? give your story a title. 返回 More practice You can do many things to improve your memory. Among them are various memorizing methods as well as taking special care of your health. It is important for you to regularly stimulate your brain to make your memory more efficient. You can do this by changing your daily habits. Learning a new skill helps your brain develop. When trying to memorize something, you should focus your attention and concentrate on the most important things about what you are trying to remember. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind because this will lower your chances of making accurate memories. How to improve your memory An excellent way to help memory is to link information with pictures. These are referred to as mnemonic techniques. Try to see the images in your mind. Taking notes, being anized and keeping a diary are also useful methods. Healthy food and plenty of vitamins are essential for your memory to work properly. Drinking a lot of water also helps maintain your memory. You must allow your brain to have enough sleep and rest. When you are asleep, your brain stores memory. Not enough sleep can, therefore, cause problems with storing information. In addition, being tired will stop you from concentrating. Caffeine in tea and coffee are very good at preventing sleepiness and helping concentration, but they can also cause problems with memory. In order to concentrate well, you must be relaxed. Generally keeping fit and regular health checks are both important as well—not just for improving your memory. A Answer the following questions based on information in the passage. 1 How can you make your memory more efficient? 2 Why should you not allow other thoughts to enter your mind when you are trying to memorize something? 3 What does your brain do while you are asleep? 4 What are the good things about caffeine in tea and coffee? What is the bad thing? B Look at the following pictures for one minute. Then close your book. How many of them can you remember? In groups, discuss your methods for memorizing things. Making notes (2) Sometimes you can read something and show its meaning by drawing a diagram. Read the following passage and then plete the diagram below it with information from the passage. Put one word in each space. (Words with hyphens count as one word.) Here are two of the words you will have to use. held rejected Some scientists believe that there are three kinds of memory —immediate, shortterm and longterm. Immediate memory holds items of information ing into it from the five senses for less than a second. Then it either rejects them or passes them into shortterm memory. Shortterm memory can hold about seven items of information at one time (., telephone numbers). It holds them for about thirty seconds. Then they are rejected (., fotten) or passed into longterm memory. Three types of memory 返回 Longterm memory can hold information for the whole of our lives. Some scientists believe that longterm memory can be divided into two types. One type remembers events, that is things that happen to us. The other remembers knowledge (., the names of countries or the meanings of words).