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阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息, 每空一词。

Five Tricks to Make Your Memory Better

Remembering things, like names, dates, and other fine details is just like playing basketball. It's also a skill that can be practiced. The five memory tricks below can help train your memory.

Imagine what you want to take before you get it

There's something about walking into another room or passing through a doorway that changes our short-term memory and makes us forget what we went there for. Think about your purpose before you leave the present room, you'll increase your chances of remembering what you want.

Learn the chunking technique(组块技术)

We can only store a limited number of things in our short-term memory-about four to seven different items. The chunking technique is helpful for us to get past this limitation: Group several items into a larger whole.

Make good use of the power of music

We forget names and numbers so easily, except our favorite songs or nursery rhymes from childhood. Music helps us memorize things well. If you want to learn a foreign language, try training with music videos with words of this language. Generally speaking, singing can help improve our brain.

Create mnemonic pegs(助记符) to remember long lists

Even without the music background, you can use rhyme and rhythm to remember things like shopping lists or lists oral the US capitals. You can build a connection between the items and the things that rhyme. For example. l is a gun(imagine le fist tem being fired from a gun), 2 is a shoe (imagine the second item inside a shoe) and so on.

Take care of your health and learn new skills

Sadly, our memory falls as we get older. Taking care of our basic health, though, can help your brain work in a proper way. That means reducing the stress in your life, exercising and staving and keeping your brain healthy too by learning new skills.

Follow one trick that works for you and keep using it, and you can make your memory better and better!

1. to improve your memory
Introduction	Remembering things is a 2.that can be trained.
Main body	Imagine what you want before 3. it	●We often forget 4. we went into a room while walking through a doorway. ●If we think about our purpose, we can remember what we want.
Learn the chunking technique	●The chunking technique can 5. us to remember a larger number of things.
Make good use of the6.of music	● Music helps us memorize things well. ● In 7., singing helps improve our brain.
Create mnemonic pegs to remember long lists	● To remember things like shopping list, we can use rhyme and rhythm to 8.the items with the thing.
Take care of your health and learn new skills	● When we get older, we will get forgetful. ● To make our brain work 9., we can learn some new skills.
Conclusion	Try one of these ricks 10., and you can make your memory better.

Answer

1.How/Ways/Tricks

2.skill

3.getting

4.why

5.help

6.power

7.general

8.connect

9.properly

10.above

【解析】

文章主要讲了如何改善记忆力的5个技巧。

1.

根据标题“Five Tricks to Make Your Memory Better”，可知是指5个使记忆力变好的技巧，所以此处可填Tricks，也可填Ways表示“使记忆力变好的方法”或How表示“怎样使记忆力变好”，故填How/Ways/Tricks。

2.

根据第一段“Remembering things, like names, dates, and other fine details is just like playing basketball. It's also a skill that can be practiced.”，可知记住一些事情是一种可以练习的技能，“技能”为skill，故填skill。

3.

根据第一个小标题“Imagine what you want to take before you get it”，可知是指“想象一下在你得到之前你想要什么”，所以此处应填“得到”get，又因为before后要用动名词形式，故填getting。

4.

根据第二段“There's something about walking into another room or passing through a doorway that changes our short-term memory and makes us forget what we went there for. 走进另一个房间或者穿过一个门口，会改变我们的短期记忆，让我们忘记去那里的目的。”，可知这里是指“我们常常忘记为什么我们在穿过门口时走进一个房间。”，“为什么”为why，故填why。

5.

根据第三段“The chunking technique is helpful for us to get past this limitation: Group several items into a larger whole. 组块技术有助于我们克服这个限制：将几个项目组合成一个更大的整体。”，可知组块技术可以帮助我们记住更多的东西，“帮助”help，情态动词后跟动词原形，故填help。

6.

根据第三个小标题“Make good use of the power of music”，可知要充分利用音乐的力量，“力量”为power，故填power。

7.

根据第四段“Generally speaking, singing can help improve our brain.”，可知一般来说，唱歌有助于改善我们的大脑，generally speaking等于in general，故填general。

8.

根据倒数第三段“Even without the music background, you can use rhyme and rhythm to remember things like shopping lists or lists oral the US capitals. You can build a connection between the items and the things that rhyme.”，可知为了记住购物清单之类的东西，我们可以使用押韵和节奏来将物品与物品联系起来，“把……与……联系起来”为connect…with…，故填connect。

9.

根据倒数第二段“Taking care of our basic health, though, can help your brain work in a proper way. That means reducing the stress in your life, exercising and staving and keeping your brain healthy too by learning new skills”，可知为了使我们的大脑正常工作，我们可以学习一些新技能，“正常的”为proper，这里修饰动词，所以用副词properly，故填properly。

10.

根据最后一段“Follow one trick that works for you and keep using it. and you can make your memory better and better!”，可知是指试试上面的一种方法，你的记忆力会更好，“上面的”为above，故填above。