Note-taking is a skill that can help you do well in all your schoolwork. It can make you confident(自信的)when you are studying. But unluckily, most1don't know how to take notes.

    Write down key facts. If your teacher writes notes on the blackboard, that's great. You can copy them or write down the most2facts of all in class. Different teachers do things 3. For example, some teachers may 4lots of dates and facts in class, 5 they only write the important ones on the blackboard. Other teachers may not write anything down, but they may say something important again and again.

    Ask. Don't be afraid to ask your teacher to 6what you miss. If your teacher speaks too fast and you can't 7what he is saying, you can ask him after class.

    Compare. Comparing your notes with your classmates' can be good for your learning. It can also help you and your classmates correct some 8.

    Organize. Note-taking also needs organization. Keep notes for each subject in one notebook so that you can find everything 9when a test comes.

    Good note-taking takes time. If you decide to recopy(重写)your notes every evening, you'll surely have less time to watch TV. But you'll 10 time in the coming test.

    Nearly all students want to have a good memory so that they can study well. Yan Jiashuo, a 12-year-old girl, is quite lucky. She has received the honour of" International Master of Memory".

    Less than 300 people have been honoured as

    "International Master of Memory". Yan Jiashuo is the youngest among them.

    Yan Jiashuo always has a good memory. And the good memory comes from good training. When she was 4 years old, her parents asked her to recite ancient poems and books. She has practised a lot.

    So when she is at school, it is easy and quick for her to recite texts in class. What's more, she loves reading. When she was in the third grade, she could read one book a day.

    Yan Jiashuo is good at not only Chinese, but also Maths. For her, numbers are not boring at all. She can make up stories with these numbers.

    She compares remembering a lot of numbers to watching a film. Every group of two numbers is imagined to be a picture of the story. And these pictures are made up into a film in her mind. She said everyone could have a good memory by training and there were plenty of ways to train your memory.

—Not really.            we all tried our best, we lost it.