共用题干 Memory Test

1 "I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you
need to know at school,"promised lecturer Ian Robinson to a hundred schoolchildren.He
slapped his hand down on the table."When I"ve finished in two hours" time,your work will
be far more effective and 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
than good old-fashioned trickery（骗术）."I have always been interested in tricks involving
memory-being able to 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 on his magic techniques when it struck him
that students might find memory techniques even more valuable."It wasn"t a difficult area to
move into,as the stuff"s all there in books."So he summarized everything to make a two-
hour lecture about five techniques.
4 "You want to learn a list of a hundred things?A thousand?No problem,"says
Robinson.The scandal is that every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of
their school 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 them how to
construct"mental journeys".
5 Essentially, you visualize（想象）a walk down a street, or a trip round a room,and pick
the points where you will put the things you want to remember一the lamppost,the fruit bowl.
Then in each location you put a visual representation of your list一phrasal verbs,historical
dates,whatever一making them as strange as possible.It is that simple,and it works.
6 The reaction of schools has been uniformly enthusiastic."The pupils benefited enormously
from lan"s presentation,"says Dr Johnston,head of the school where Robinson was
speaking."Ideally we should run a regular class in memory techniques so pupils can pick it
up gradually." The memory techniques used are no more complex than the old_______.