Who would win in as a competition to remember numbers, a chimp (猩猩) or a teenager? In fact, scientists agreed that the chimp did better than the teenager in this competition.
Do you still remember last year's summer holiday? When you think back on it, you might think of the night you spent watching the concert of Langlang. But how do you store these things in your mind? By using your memory(记忆). Memory is our ability（能力） to learn something, save it and recall it when needed. When something happens, our brains （大脑） save the important information and put it in our memory.
Scientists say that there are different kinds of memory — short-term memory and long-term memory. Your short-term memory saves information for a few seconds or a few minutes. Long-term memory means the meaningful information you try hard to keep in your mind. People start to forget things just after they learn them. They learn about something one day, but have forgotten half of it the next day. A week later, they remember just a third of what they learnt. So remember to go over your lesson after you learn it.
Scientists agree that people remember things in different ways. Some remember things better with the help of pictures. Others remember better when they take in the information by hearing it. But one thing is for sure, if you remember things with different ways together, you can get a better result. So try imaging pictures with English words, and at the same time listening to tapes of the same words. Maybe studying English won't be a difficult thing.
