READING 4

MEMORY

There is no simple answer to the question, "How can I enhance my memory?" But there are some general points one can make. Firstly, you have to practice. Practice remembering things. Secondly, use your memory. Preferring to make notes all the time rather than rely on one's memory is a terrible mistake. It's certain that you actually risk making your memory worse that way. In order to utilize your memory, you have to be keen to remember-eager to remember. If you really mean to remember things, you can. And thirdly, always make associations when you want to remember anything.

VOCABULARY

DEFINITIONS

To enhance: To develop

To rely on: To trust

To risk: To take the risk of

To utilize: To use

Keen: Willing, enthusiastic, eager

Eager: Ready/ willing, keen

Associations: Links, relations

EXERCISES

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above

1.  Clothes are important - you should wear something which _______________ your own self esteem and creates the right kind of impression

2.  I have always _______________ the kindness of my friends.

3.  We have to find a way to _______________ our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine

4.  Music, obviously, can make a mood, build familiarity and memory, and  _______________ for an happy event.

5.  He has always been _______________ to help the needy.

READING COMPREHENSION

1.  To better one's ability to remember, one should not

A.  make general points

B.  practice everything one learns

C.  force oneself to remember

D.  use one's memory

E.  write down the things one should remember.

2.  Writing down everything ………………

A.  helps a lot to remember

B.  makes a person's memory worse

C.  improves memory

D.  leads to mistakes

E.  is another way of using one's memory.

3.  The writer points out that one ……………….. 

A.  should not be so eager to remember

B.  must try to remember everything

C.  should make small notes when one wants to remember anything

D.  can also connect things in mind to remember them

E.  should sometimes risk making one's memory worse

******