If someone tells you to remember a phone number or address, it feels like an easy task at first. You repeat the numbers to yourself, either aloud or in your mind. But after just a few seconds you might find yourself starting to doubt your own memory. Thus, it will try to throw away information that seems old or irrelevant. There are ways of helping our minds retain (记住) information, however, and in this activity you will explore ways that we lose and keep memories.
Short-term or working memory, is a way of describing most people's abilities to store a small amount of information for a brief period of time in a readily accessible form. People don't have to stop and think to remember something in short-term memory.
Such techniques include visualizing (使形象化) the information in a surprising way and linking pieces of information together so that one reminds you of the other. In the case of visualizing information, this could be as simple as remembering you parked your car on the fifth floor in the D section by picturing five dogs sitting in your car! If you need to purchase cereal (谷物), milk, fruit, cheese and eggs, you could imagine the cereal in a bowl, with milk pouring over it and pieces of fruit on top. Then imagine cracking an egg over everything, and it's full of melted cheese! These may seem simple or even silly. In this activity you'll test the recall of a few friends or family members, and learn a few tricks for improving memory!
A.There are many techniques for improving memory.
B.Our brain is always seeking new and useful information.
C.Short-term memory has the short duration but is quickly and easily accessed.
D.In addition, linking information could help you remember your grocery list.
E.Retaining the information over longer periods of time becomes difficult yet.
F.Your short-term memory has a limited amount of space to store information.
G.However, they are proved to be good ways of improving memory by scientists.
Code-named "Operation Overlord", it was the (large) combined sea, air and land operation in history, the aim being (free) north-west Europe from German occupation. After waiting for the perfect (combine) of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord (set) for 6 June. Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower issued an order to the troops. With these words (ring) in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for what would become known as D-Day. dawn on 6 June, thousands landed by parachute behind enemy lines in northern France. Meanwhile, thousands more were journeying across the English Channel to Normandy, (protect) by fighter planes in the skies above them. Their objective was clear: to reach the Normandy beaches along about 80 kilometres of French coastline. The fiercest fighting was at Omaha Beach. The enemy were hiding, ready to attack the Allied soldiers even before they reached land. Boats were hit and men drowned, those who did make it to the beach faced heavy machine gunfire. By mid-morning, hundreds lay dead in the water and amongst the tanks on the beach. But, despite the high cost in human life, the D-Day landings were success and were seen (wide) as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
