April 28 April 28 高中进阶版 高中进阶版 P4-P4-55

Please draw an Apple logo on a blank sheet.

Pre-reading

P3

Why can’t some of you correctly draw the logo?

While-reading

P4

2. How can the phenomenon be explained that our brain sometimes bypasses famous symbols?

1. How many students successfully reproduced the Apple logo in the research?

It is probably because our brains have decided that it is not important to remember specific details.

Answer the following questions.

Only one student.

While-reading

P5

4. What did the participants in the research expect before they took the test?

3. Can skilled typists easily describe a standard computer keyboard?

Many of them believed they would be able to draw the logo correctly.

Answer the following questions.

No, they can’t.

While-reading

P6

3. A memory system of high efficiency does not waste time on the details of a corporate logo.

1. Most of the students can successfully tell the Apple logo from the fake ones though few of them can reproduce it.

2. People’s memory is much more powerful than we believe it to be for common objects.

True or false

4. An experienced driver can remember every road sign he or she has seen on the road.

Language study

P7

1. I went back to Birmingham after 20 years and it had changed beyond all ____________.

2. He was one of Australia’s most ____________ artists, renowned for his portraits and landscapes.

3. The agency will make travel arrangements for you. ____________, you can organize your own transport.

4. Her emotional ____________ with the heroine of the play made her sleepless.

Complete each sentence with the proper form of the given words.

recognitionrecognition

alter recognizable identify distinguish

distinguishedistinguishedd

AlternativelyAlternatively

identificationidentification

After-reading

P8

Ask your parents about their experiences of memory fails and share them with your classmates.

Do you agree with Dr. Alan Castel’s opinion? Why?

FURTHER