номер 4, страница 38 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс учебник Wetz, Styring

4 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY

Complete the sentences with the words or phrases in blue in the text.

1 Can you ____ what the homework is tonight?

2 I ____ ten English irregular verbs every night.

3 The girl said the poem ____

4 My mum's almost got a ____ She sees something and remembers it.

5 I've got a terrible ____ I forget everything.

6 My friend once ____ the alphabet from Z to A.

Meet the

MEMORY

MASTERS

Some people call Stephen Wiltshire 'the human camera.' Stephen was in a helicopter for twenty minutes, above London, and then he drew pictures of the city from memory. Stephen wasn't born in London and he doesn't know the city, but in twenty minutes he memorized hundreds of buildings. His pictures weren't perfect, but they were very detailed.

Most people haven't got a photographic memory like Stephen. In fact, the maximum number of things people can usually remember from a list is about six or seven. But it is possible to train your brain.

For example, Mahavir Jain, from India, memorized 18,000 words and definitions from an English dictionary. His English exams were easy after that and now he owns three English schools.

People also try to memorize pi. For most people at school, 💿3.142 is enough, but Akira Haraguchi, from Japan, once recited 100,000 digits of pi in sixteen hours. He started at 💿9.30 a.m. on a Tuesday and finished at 💿1.28 a.m. the next day. It was a record.

There are also memory superstars. Dominic O'Brien was first interested in memory after he left school and he started to train his memory. In 1991 he won the World Memory Championships. He was World Memory Champion seven more times between 1992 and 2001. In 2002 Dominic memorized the order of cards in fifty-four packs of playing cards. That's 2,808 cards! The world record was 2,704 cards. When he repeated the cards, Dominic was wrong only eight times!

Дополните предложения словами или фразами, выделенными синим цветом в тексте.

Ответ:

1 Can you remember what the homework is tonight? / Ты можешь вспомнить, какое сегодня домашнее задание?

2 I memorize ten English irregular verbs every night. / Я заучиваю десять английских неправильных глаголов каждый вечер.

3 The girl said the poem from memory. / Девочка рассказала стихотворение по памяти.

4 My mum's almost got a photographic memory. She sees something and remembers it. / У моей мамы почти фотографическая память. Она видит что-то и запоминает это.

5 I've got a terrible memory. I forget everything. / У меня ужасная память. Я все забываю.

6 My friend once recited the alphabet from Z to A. / Мой друг однажды произнес алфавит от Я до А.