职称英语在线答题

每日一练：职称英语综合类每日一练(2015-3-12)
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Memory test

1 “I am going to giveyou five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you need to knowat school，”promised lecturer Ian Robinson to a hundredschoolchildren. He slapped his hand down on the table. “When I‘ve finished in two hours’ time ，your work will be far more effectiveand productive. Anyone not interested，leave now.” The entire room sat still.

2 Robinson calls himself the Mind Magician（魔术师）.He specializes in doing magic tricks that look totally impossible，and then he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious thangood old-fashioned trickery（骗术）.“I have always been interested in tricks involving memory-being ableto reel off（一口气说出）the order of cards in a pack，that sort of thing，”he explains.

3 Robinson was already lecturing to schools onhis magic techniques when it struck him that students might find memorytechniques even more valuable. “It wasn't a difficultarea to move into，as the stuff's all there in books.” So he summarized everything to make a two-hour lecture about fivetechniques.

4 “You want to learn alist of a hundred things？A thousand ？No problem，”says Robinson. The scandal isthat every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of theirschool life. The schoolchildren who were watching him thought it was brilliant. “I wish I'd been told this earlier，”commented Mark，after Robinson had shown themto construct “mental journeys”.

5 Essentially，youvisualize（想象）a walk down a street ，or a trip round a room，and pick the pointswhere you will put the things you want to remember——thelamppost，the fruit bowl. Then in each location you puta visual representation of your list——phrasal verbs，historical dates，whatever——making them as strange as possible. It is that simple ，and it works.

6 The reaction of schools has been uniformlyenthusiastic.“The pupils benefited enormously fromIan's presentation，”says Dr Johnston，head of the school where Robinson was speaking，“Ideally we should run a regular class in memory techniques so pupilscan pick it up gradually.”

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26. Paragraph5_______

A. Good resultts

B. An ancient skill

C. Gaining attention

D. Memory tricks

E. A lecture on memory techniques

F. Ways to improve memory

27. The memory techniques used are no morecomplex than the old_____.

28. Robinson taught children to use “mental journeys” to improve_____.

29. Robinson told the pupils that all thememory techniques could be found in_____.

30. The schoolchildren got a lot from themagician's_____.

A. books

B. lecture

C. tricks

D. facts

E. memory

F. list