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阅读理解
When you do not use your arms or your legs for
some time, they will become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly
become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know
that memory works in the same way.
When someone says that he has a good memory,
he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else
says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough
chances to become strong.
If a friend says that his arms and legs are
weak, we know that it is his own fault(过错).But if he tells us that
he has a poor memory, many of think that his parents may be blamed(责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found
that some people who can't read or write usually have better memories? This is
because they have to remember things which they cannot write down in a small
notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories, so their memory
is being exercised the whole time.
So if you want to have a good memory, learn
from the people: practise remembering things in a way as they do.