单选题

The Need to Remember

Some people say they have no memory at all: "I just can't remember a thing!" But of course we all have a memory. Our memory tells us who we are. Our memory helps U.S. to make use in the present of what we have learnt in the past.
In fact we have different types of memory. For example, our visual memory helps us recall facts and places. Some people have such a strong visual memory that they can remember exactly what they have seen, for example, pages of a book, as a complete picture.
Our verbal memory helps us remember words and figures we may have heard but not seen or written: items of a shopping list, a chemical formula, dates, or a recipe.
With our emotional memory, we recall situations or places where we had strong feelings, perhaps of happiness or unhappiness. We also have special memories for smell, taste, touch and sound, and for performing physical movements.
We have two ways of storing any of these memories. Our short-term memory stores items for up to thirty seconds-enough to remember a telephone number while we dial. Our long-term memory, on the other hand, may store items for a lifetime. Older people in fact have a much biter long-term memory than short-term. They may forget what they have done only a few hours ago, but have the clearest remembrance of when they were very young.
Psychologists tell us that we only remember a few facts about our past, and that we invent the rest. It is as though we remember only the outline of a story. We then make up the details. We often do this in the way we want to remember them, usually so that we appear as the heroes of our own past, or maybe victims needing sympathy.

单选题 Visual memory helps us recall a place we have been to.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】找到关键词：visual memory，在第二段中找到相关句子的表述：our visual memory(题目中的核心词)helps us recall(回忆)。facts(事实)and places(地点)。通过上述内容的表述，我们知道：人的视觉记忆能够帮助我们回忆起一些事实和地点。

单选题 Visual memory may be used when we read a story.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】这句话仍然是在说视觉记忆，所以还应该在刚才的段落里找相关的句子加以判断，意思是：有些人有如此强大的视觉记忆以至于他们能够准确地记住他们所看见的东西，如：能够将所看过的书形成一幅完整的图画。这就说明当我们阅读书籍时人们的视觉记忆的确很重要，能够被人们加以利用。

单选题 Verbal memory helps us read words we have never heard.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】核心词是：verbal memory.该段文字是说：我们的言语记忆能帮助我们记住我们可能听到的但是没有看见或写过的词和数字，如：一张购物单里所列出的商品，一个化学公式，日期或者一个药方。而题目的内容则是说：语言记忆能帮我们读我们从没听到的词。显然，这与文章的含义是完全不同的。