Question

    Remembering things, like names, dates, and other fine details is a skill—one that you can develop. Here are four memory improving skills everyone can learn.

1. Play video Games

Believe it or not, Playing video games helps to form better memory as you age. 3D video games seem to work better than 2D ones. Playing games like Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day has been found to increase the brains gray matter (脑灰质). So you’ll have fun while building a bigger brain.

2. Strengthen the Power of Music

We forget names and numbers so easily, but lyrics to our favorite songs or rhymes from childhood? They seem to remain a longer time Music helps us remember things through rhythm. If you want to learn a foreign language, try training with music videos. Generally singing can help increase your brain.

3. Remember People’s Names by Forcing Yourself to Interact with Them Differently

For us, forgetting someone’s name might be the worst. It’s just that our basic working memory isn’t that great. However, if we try to make connections between the strange name and the person, we’ll be more likely to remember the name. It takes a little work: Try asking a person you just met a question to give you time to repeat his or her name in your head, introduce the person to someone else, which means to force you to repeat his name, repeat the person’s name at the end of the conversation.

4. Take Care of Your Health and Learn New skills

Unluckily, our memory gets worse as we get older. Taking care of our basic health, though, can go a long way towards improving our health that means it will reduce the stress in your life if you train and exercise your brain by learning new skills.

Tricks to1. your memory and remember anything

2.	Play video games	● It 3. that playing 3-d video games has a stronger influence on forming better memories than 2-D games. ● You can not 4. have fun but also build a bigger brain.
Strengthen the power of music	● It turned out that people can remember favourite songs 5.. ● In 6., singing can help improve your brain.
Remember people’s names by forcing yourself to interact with them in a 7. way.	● If you try to 8. the strange name with the person, you’ll be more likely to remember the name.
Take care of your health and learn new skills	● The older we are, the 9. our memory will be. ● By learning new skills, we’ll be less 10. and in better health.

Answer

1.improve

2.Ways/ Skills/ Introduction

3.seems

4.only

5.easily/better/longer

6.general

7.different

8.connect

9.worse

10.stressed

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了提高记忆力的四个小技巧：玩电子游戏；使用音乐的力量；重复他人的名字；照顾好自己的健康并学习新技能。

1.句意：关于提高记忆力并记住任何东西的技巧。

根据“Here are four memory improving skills.”可知，此文主要就是讲如何提高记忆力，不定式to后面的动词用原形。故答案为improve。

2.根据第二列表格可知，右边两列讲述的是提高记忆力的方法，技巧，或者说介绍。故答案为Ways/ Skills/ Introduction

3.句意：在形成更好记忆力方面，3D游戏似乎比2D游戏有更大的影响。

根据“3D video games seem to work better than 2D ones”可知，空格里缺少seem，主语是it，第三人称单数，谓语动词加s。故答案为seems。

4.句意：你不仅可以获得乐趣，还可以建造一个更大的大脑。

根据文中“you’ll have fun while building a bigger brain.”可知，玩游戏有两个优点，获得乐趣以及开发大脑，两者并列，在表格中用not only…but only..不仅……而且……，将二者串联。故答案为only。

5.句意：结果证明人们很容易记住最喜欢的歌。

根据“They seem to remain a longer time …”可知，音乐通过节奏来帮助我们记忆事物，这种方法使我们更加容易记住内容，更加持久，记得更好，所以可以填easily、better或者longer来修饰remember。故答案为easily/better/longer。

6.句意：通常，唱歌可以提升大脑。

根据“Generally singing can help increase your brain.”可知，通常情况下，唱歌可以提升大脑，并且generally相当于in general。故答案为general。

7.句意：通过强迫你自己用不同方式与他人沟通，以此来记住别人的名字。

根据第三个技巧“Remember …Differently”，而且differently与in a different way同义。故答案为different。

8.句意：如果你把奇怪的外号和人联系起来，你会更有可能记住这个名字。

根据文中“if we try to make connections …the person”可知，空格处缺少connection的含义，且connection与connect with同义。故答案为connect。

9.句意：越老记忆力越差。

根据文中“Unluckily, our memory gets worse as we get older.”可知，人越老，记忆力越差。故答案为worse。

10.句意：通过学习新技能，我们压力会更小，也更健康。

根据文中“it will reduce the stress … by learning new skills.”，减小压力为reduce the stress，与之同义的是be less stressed。故答案为stressed。