“Memorize (记住) these words.” “Learn this spelling rule.” “Don’t forget about the exam tomorrow.” You remember things every day, but how do you do it?

?? When you want to call a store or an office that you don’t call often, you look in the telephone book for the number. You dial the number, and then you forget it! You use your short-term (短暂的) memory to remember the number. Your short-term memory lasts about half a minute. However, you don’t need to look in the telephone book for your best friend’s number because you already know it. This information is in your long-term memory. Your long-term memory has everything that you remember through the years. The major reason for forgetting something is because you do not learn it well at the beginning. For example, you meet some new people, and right away you forget their names. You hear the names but you do not learn them, so you forget them.

1.You remember things every day, but you also forget things easily because you use _______ remember them.

A. your long-term memory???? B. your short-term memory

C. the telephone book??????? D. your notebook

2.How long does the long-term memory last?

A. About half a minute??? B. About 60 minutes?? C. As long as you live?? D.Through many years

3.Your long-term memory includes _________.

A. only your best friend’s telephone number????

B. all information you read on the newspaper

C. almost everything that you remember through the years

D. the names of the new people you meet for the first time

4.What does the underlined word “dial” mean in Chinese?

A. 拨打???? B. 背诵????? C. 抄写???? D. 默写

5.According to the passage, people forget things mainly because _________.

A. they are too lazy to remember them ????????

B. they don’t have a long-term memory

C. they only have a short-term memory????????

D. they don’t learn them well at the beginning

综合填空

Reading newspapers has becoming an important p______1 of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.

Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.

Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are i______ 9 in.

Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.

Many students feel it is difficult to remember new words when they begin to study English. Now I will give you some advice.
Do not waste time in learning the word list. It is not a good way to remember new words. The best way to learn new words is through listening. You can find radio programmes or TV programmes. And listen to them carefully. When you listen to the conversations, you will learn the pronunciation easily. Of course, it is not enough; you have to remember their spellings.
Some people find that they can learn the names of everyday objects such as box, bottle, cup, desk and so on, in the following way. They write the names of things on paper, and then they read the words on the paper. Try this and see if this way works for you. If it does not work, then go on to practise listening to the conversations.
根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
【小题1】To remember new words is not easy for many students.
【小题2】Learning the word list is a good way to remember new words.
【小题3】The best way to learn new words is to listen to radio and TV programmes.
【小题4】Listening to radio and TV is enough.
【小题5】If you write the names of things on paper, it will help you learn new words.

Nancy’s hobby is collecting sharpeners. She spends a lot of time on it after school. She has been collecting more than one hundred sharpeners from different countries. They are all different in color and size.

Nancy likes sharpeners with animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns the names of many animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds from her school library. She learns a lot about them from books.

Sometimes Nancy has many sharpeners of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. Then they give her other different sharpeners in return.

Nancy has many pen pals in many countries. She sends them sharpeners of her country. In return, they send her sharpeners of their countries. Nancy’s father also gives her sharpeners. He brings them home from his friends for her.

Many of Nancy’s friends collect other things. Some collect coins and others collect matchboxes（火柴盒）or stamps. But, all of them say that Nancy’s collection is the most interesting of all.

1.Nancy spends a lot of time on her hobby             .

A．before school      B．in class            C．after school        D．during her holidays

2.          Nancy’s sharpeners are different in color and size.

A．All of             B．Some of           C．Many of           D．Most of

3.Sometimes Nancy has many sharpeners of the same kind. She then           .

A．keeps them        B．throws them away   C．sells them         D．sends them to her friends

4.What don’t Nancy’s friends collect?

A. Sharpeners.   B. Coins.    C. Matchboxes and stamps.  D. Both B and C.

5.How does Nancy collect sharpeners? Which of the following is wrong?

A．Her friends give her some.

B．Her pen pals send her some.

C．Her father buys her some.

D．Her father’s friends give her some.