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Memory Class
Stan Field knos hat age can do to a person's memory, and he's not taking any chances ith his. He chooses his food carefully and gets plenty of exercise. He also avoids stress, coca cola and cigarette smoke. hat's more, at breakfast each morning, the 69-year-old chemical engineer sallos a plateful of pills in the hope of boosting his brain poer.
Michelle Arnove is less than half Field's age, but no less concerned about her
memory. hile orking round the clock to finish a degree in film studies, the 33-year-old Ne Yorker had the alarming sensation that she had stopped retaining anything. "I couldn't even remember names," she says. "1 thought, 'Oh no, I'm over 30. It's all donhill from here'." Besides loading up on supplements, Arnove signed up for a memory-enhancing course at Ne York's Mount Siani Medical Center. And hen she got there, she found herself surrounded by people ho ere just as orried as she as.
For millions of Americans, and especially for baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), the demands of the Information Age conflict ith a sense of declining physical poer. "hen boomers ere in their 30s and 40s, they launched the fitness boom," says Cynthia Green, the psychologist ho teaches Mount Sinai's memory class. "No e have the mental-fitness boom. Memory is the boomers' ne life-crisis issue." And of course a major marketing opportunity. The demand for books and seminars has never been greater, says Jack Lannom, a Iongtime memory trainer hose eekly TV sho,醫(yī),學.全,在.線quanxiangyun.cn
"Mind Unlimited," goes out to 33 million homes on the Christian Netork. Anxious consumers are rushing to buy do-it-yourself programs and supplement makers are trying to sell everything but sadust (木屑) as a brain booster.
But before you get out your checkbook, a fe questions are in order. Does everyday forgetfulness signal declining brain function? Is "megamemory" (超強記憶) a realistic goal for normal people? And if you could have a perfect memory, ould you really ant it? Until recently, no one could address those issues ith much authority, but our knoledge of memory is exploding. Ne techniques are revealing ho different parts of the brain interact to preserve meaningful experiences. Biologists are trying to understand the underlying (潛在的) chemical processes and neuroscientists (神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學家) are discovering ho age, stress ,and other factors can disrupt them. No one is close to finding the secret to perfect recall, but as you'll see, that may be just as ell.
6 hat does Stan Field take at breakfast?
A Food only.
B Food and pills.
C Nothing.
D A plateful of pills only.
7 hat is the meaning of "orking round the clock"?
A Repairing clocks.
B Making clocks.
C orking ith a clock nearby.
D orking day and night.
8 Many baby-boomers living in the Information Age feel that
A their financial status is declining.
B their political influence is declining.
C their physical poer is declining.
D their ill poer is declining.
9 hich of the folloing does NOT indicate people's enhanced aareness of the importance of memory?
A More demand for books on memory.
B More demand for seminars on memory.
C More demand for memory-enhancing supplements.
D More demand for coca cola and cigarettes.
10 According to the riter， the secret to perfect memory
A has been found.醫(yī),學.全,在.線quanxiangyun.cn
B ill never be found.
C as found a long time ago.
D is not in sight yet.
