【内容提示】

　　记忆（力）与一个人学习的好坏、能力的强弱关系很大。请你写一篇文章，说明记忆（力）的重要性。文章要点如下：

　　①伟人的记忆力比普通人的记忆力好。

　　②好的记忆力对于学习外语很有帮助。

　　③人脑像一架照相机，但又比照相机功能多。

　　④记忆是我们时刻保存的日记。

　　【作文示范】

　　about memory

　　some people have very good memory and can easily learn quite long poems by heart. there are other people who can only remember things when they have repeated them again and again. the famous english writer, charles dickens said that he could walk down any long street in london and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. many of the great men of the world have wonderful memories.

　　a good memory is a help in learning a foreign language. everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he was a small child, and some children----like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents----seem to learn two languages as easily as one. in school it is not so easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are very busy with other subjects as well.

　　a man＇s mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but also what we feel, hear, smell and taste. when we take a real photo with a camera, there is much to do before the photo is finished and is ready for us to show to our friends. in the same way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our minds.

　　memory is the diary we all carry about us. we keep things we have eperienced in this diary.

　　（选自1987年10月27日《上海学生英文报》）

　　【词语解释】

　　charles dickens[＇tm%:lz ＇dik+ns]查尔斯·狄更斯，英国作家

　　【写法指要】

　　本文说明了记忆（力）与学习、工作、成就的关系。前两段用的是事例说明法，虽然没有用衔接词语“for eample，such as”等，但却举出了英国作家狄更斯和在海外随父母居住的小孩等例子。后两段用类推法说明了记忆与人脑和日记的关系，作者把记忆比做照相机和日记。