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 us 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, they can remember exactly what they have seen, for example, pages of a book, as a complete picture.
Our verbal (言语的) 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 (情感的) 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 better long-term memory than short-term. They may forget what they have done only a few hours ago, but have the clearest remembrance (记忆) of when they were very young.
Psychologists tell us that we only remember 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 (同情).
单选题
Visual memory helps us recall a place we have been to.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 由中心词组help us to recall places来定位，原文首段和第二段都有相关信息，几乎有原话对应，故答案选A。
单选题
Visual memory may be used when we read a story.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 用线索词when we read a story来定位，在第二段里有相关信息，只是story被pictures来指代。因此，题干信息与原文是吻合的，故答案选A。
单选题
Verbal memory helps us read words we have never heard.