Some people have very good memories and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌）by heart. Some people have  51  memories and can only  52  things that they have said again and again.

The  53  English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  54   street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  55  sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  56 language by remembering what he hears  57  he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign countries and they seem  58  two languages as  59  as one. In school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  60  students have little time  61   it and they are busy with other subjects as well.

A man's mind is quite like a camera but it  62  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo  63  a camera there is much work  64  before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  65  the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.

1. A. wonderful     B. better           C. poor         D. badly

2.A. speak          B. study            C. know         D. remember

3.A. nice           B. beautiful        C. famous       D. kind

4.A. any            B. some         C. many         D. the

5.A. every          B. each         C. both         D. all

6.A. her            B. his          C. one’s        D. their

7.A. when           B. since            C. if               D. as soon as

8.A. to keep        B. to get           C. to learn     D. to take

9. A. badly         B. hard         C. easily           D. happily

10.A. because       B. why          C. what         D. when

11.A. like          B. for          C. to           D. in

12.A. leaves            B. takes            C. gets         D. receives

13. A. in               B. by           C. with         D. through

14. A. to do            B. to have      C. to start         D. to stay

15.A. In                B. On           C. With         D. As

 

阅读理解

　　Some people have very good memories (记忆力), and can easily learn quite long poems (诗) by hearts. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.

　　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.

　　A good memory is a good help in learning a language. Everybody knows 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. In schools, it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well.

　　The human mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo graph 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 for ever in the mind.

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

1．________ have good memories.

[　　]

A．Some great people

B．Only great people

C．The children who live in foreign countries with their parents

D．The pupils who study a second language in schools

2．It is said in the passage that Charles Dickens could remember things by ________.

[　　]

A．looking at them over and over

B．saying them over and over

C．looking at them over

D．saying them loudly once

3．Everybody learns his own language by ________.

[　　]

A．taking photographs with a camera and remaining them in the mind

B．being taught when he is a small child

C．remembering what he hears when he is a small child

D．going to other countries

4．According to the passage, it is ________ to learn a second language in their own countries than in foreign countries.

[　　]

5．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．Memory is very important in learning a foreign language.

B．A person learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is born.

C．An adult can pick up a language more easily than a child.

D．Our memory is just like a camera.

阅读理解

　　Some people have very good memories (记忆力), and can easily learn quite long poems (诗) by hearts. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.

　　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.

　　A good memory is a good help in learning a language. Everybody knows 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. In schools, it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well.

　　The human mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo graph 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 for ever in the mind.

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

(1) ________ have good memories.

[　　]

A．Some great people

B．Only great people

C．The children who live in foreign countries with their parents

D．The pupils who study a second language in schools

(2) It is said in the passage that Charles Dickens could remember things by ________.

[　　]

A．looking at them over and over

B．saying them over and over

C．looking at them over

D．saying them loudly once

(3) Everybody learns his own language by ________.

[　　]

A．taking photographs with a camera and remaining them in the mind

B．being taught when he is a small child

C．remembering what he hears when he is a small child

D．going to other countries

(4) According to the passage, it is ________ to learn a second language in their own countries than in foreign countries.

[　　]

A．slower

B．easier

C．quicker

D．more difficult

(5) Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．Memory is very important in learning a foreign language.

B．A person learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is born.

C．An adult can pick up a language more easily than a child.

D．Our memory is just like a camera.