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Our Memory

　　

　　Some people have very good memories (记忆力), and can easily learn quite long poems (诗) by hearts. 1

　　Charles Dickens, the famous English author, said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. Many great men of the world have had wonderful memories.

　　 2 Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children,like boys and girls who live in foreign countries with their parents,seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. 3 and they are busy with other subjects as well.

　　 4 but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photograph (照片) with a camera, there is much to do before the photograph is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can make a picture remain forever in the mind.

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A．A good memory is a great help in learning a language.

B．There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.

C．Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

D．In schools it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it.

E．The human mind is rather like a camera.

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　　Some people have sailed the world in quite small boats. It is not an easy thing 1 . Sometimes the weather 2 bad. That can be the 3 of everyone in it. Accidents can happen 4 .

　　One family once had an accident 5 some big fish. The fish swam 6 their boat and 7 holes in it. Sea water 8 , of course, and the boat soon 9 . However, these people had 10 small boat: a life-boat and they all got into that. They lived and 11 many days. They ate and slept, and they always hoped… At last a ship 12 them.

　　 13 can people live in a very small lifeboat？ Perhaps for weeks or months？ They must be strong 14 every way. They must have hope they must want to live. But you cannot eat and drink 15 .

　　You cannot drink sea water. If you drink a lot of 16 , you will quickly die. Sailors can drink rain water. They must 17 rain water in their boat. They must also catch fish and birds 18 . Lifeboats do not often carry a cooker, so the sailors cannot cook their food. Raw fish and bird meat is not very nice, but there is 19 choice in a lifeboat！ The sailors must eat raw food, or they will die.

　　 20 people think about in a lifeboat？ They think about land, a warm bed, dry clothes, fresh water and food, food, food.

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