How to Remember What You Read
Reading is important. But the next step is making sure that you remember what you've read! 1.you may have just read the text. But the ideas, concepts and images（形象）may fly right out of your head. Here are a few tricks for remembering what you read.
● 2.
If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, you likely won't be able to remember what you read. It's a bit like reading a foreign language. If you don't understand what you're reading, how would you remember it? But there are a few things you can do... Use a dictionary; look up the difficult words.
● Are you connected?
Does a character remind you of a friend? Does the setting make you want to visit the place? Does the book inspire you, and make you want to read more? With some books, you may feel a connection right away. 3. How willing are you to make the connections happen?
● Read it; hear it; be it!
Read the lines. Then, speak them out loud. And, put some character into the words. When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters. He'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character. 4.
● How often do you read?
If you read frequently, you'll likely have an easier time with remembering what you’re reading and what you've read. 5.As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better. You’ll learn to enjoy literature- as you remember what you read!
A. Are you confused?
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. What's your motivation?
D. Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.
E. Marking helps you remember what you read.
F. But other books require a bit more work on your part.
G. You can do the same thing when you are reading the text!
There are energy savings to be made from all recyclable materials, sometimes huge savings. Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting（提炼）aluminum.
Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources（资源）we are not harvesting. We allow them to be left around because we've been ignorant of their value." To take one example, let's compare the throwaway economy（经济）with a recycling economy as we feed a cat for life.
Say your cat weigh 5kg and eats one can of food each day. Each empty can of its food weights 40g. In a throwaway economy, you would throw away 5,475 cans over the cat's 15-year lifetime. That's 219kg of steel-more than a fifth of a ton and more than 40 times the cat's weight.
In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans. Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we'd have to make an extra 10 cans each year. But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.
Instead of using up 219kg of steel, we've used only 6kg. And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings: in energy use-47% to 74%; in air pollution-85%; in water pollution-35%; in water use-40%.
1.What does Buckminster Fuller say about pollution?
A. It is becoming more serious.
B. It destroys the environment.
C. It benefits the economy.
D. It is the resources yet to be used.
2.How many cans will be used up in a cat's 15-year lifetime in a recycling economy?
A. 50 B. 100
C. 150 D. 250
3.What is the author's purpose in writing the text?
A. To promote the idea of recycling.
B. To introduce an environmentalist.
C. To discuss the causes of pollution.
D. To defend the throwaway economy.
【推理关系】题干What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?☞文章内容In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans
It's surprising how much simple movement of the body can affect the way we think. Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights(领悟).
So if moving the body can have these effects, what about the clothes we wear? We're all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear, but can the clothes actually change cognitive(认知) performance or is it just a feeling?
Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention. The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn thought to have close attention to detail.
What they found was that people wearing white coats performed better than those who weren't. Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the Stroop Test(one way of measuing attention). The reserchrs call the effect "enclothed cognition," suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many differnt ways.
This opens the way for all sorts of clothes-based experiments. Is the writer who wears a fedora more creative? Is the psychologist wearing little round glasses and smoking a cigar more insightful? Does a chef's hat make the restaurant food taste better?
From now on I will only be editing artcles for PsyBlog while wearing a white coat to help keep the typing error count low. Hopefully you will be doing your part by reading PsyBlog in a cap and gown(学位服).
1.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Body movements change the way people think.
B. How people dress has an influencee on their feelings.
C. What people wear can affect their cognitive performance.
D. People doing different jobs should wear different clothes.
2.Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers'______.
A. insights B. movements
C. attention D. appearance
3.How does the author sound in the last paragraph?
A. Academic. B. Humorous.
C. Formal. D. Hopeful.
假如你是王林，你的朋友李华想要加入健身俱乐部。请根据下面一则广告提供的信息给他写一封电子邮件，向他推荐。信的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
注意：行文连贯，涵盖要点，适当发挥。词数100左右。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
Hi Chris
I think going to a gym is a good way to keep health and strong. If your friend wants to be stronger, and he should try to go there more often.
Yes, there have some pills to make you look strong. Therefore, they have side effects, that will damage your health. After your friend taking this kind of pill for some time, his hair might fell out or he might have health problems, some of which may even affect her liver or heart. Some athlete, whose achievements were great, died very young because they take this kind of pill. I don’t think your friend should take the risk .
Tell your friend not take the pills because he may have health problems in the future, when it is too late.
Jeff
There once were a goat and a donkey 1. (live) on a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer 2. (feed) it the most food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food 3. it could eat. This made the goat so jealous4. it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend 5.（get）sick so you can take a day 6.?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏）on its side with its eyes 7.（close）.8. ( immediate ), the farmer called the doctor. After looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special 9. ( medical ) made from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed 10.goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
