【推荐2】One of the strangest experiences of my life involved taking a memory test while lying inside a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner. It was part of an experiment by University College London, to see whether the brains of memory champions like me were ________ anyone else’s.

When the test ________ were published, the findings were very ________. Expert memorizers didn’t have any physical differences between our ________. Instead, what set us apart was what we did when we were learning—especially the way we used pictures.

Any information can be ________ into pictures—switching on parts of the brain right away that create ________ and impressive memories.

________ it yourself. Here’s a list of words. But don’t just read the words. Picture them, as ________ as you can.

MOUNTAIN, RAINBOW, PEA, SOFA, SHEEP, SNOWMAN, WINDMILL, NEWSPAPER, PIANO, UMBRELLA.

________ your visual memory. Notice the relative sizes of the things on the list. Look out for any similarities or differences in ________ or colors. After a few minutes, cover the page and see how many words you ________. Then, start connecting images with ________ you want to remember: shopping lists, addresses, good ideas. By doing so, you’ll find that you soon become more observant, better with ________, and more confident about recalling the things that ________. So learn from the ________, and use pictures to help you to set some new “personal bests” for your own memory power!

【推荐1】Azure Warrenfeltz, a 4-year-old girl, is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can ____bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese.

In today's globalized world, Azure is one of many young American children whose parents insist her ____include foreign languages.

"It's such a ____environment now, you never know what you might need," says Azure's mother, Julie Warrenfeltz, who started schooling her daughter in foreign languages when she was 6 weeks old. "She couldn't ____a violin, she couldn't stand upright, but I wanted her to do ____."

Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for ____, but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in school. They are more ____to diversity, says François Thibaut, who runs The Language Workshop for Children, which has nine schools around the East Coast.

Language study for children is based on immersion (沉浸), he says. Kids sing songs and play games to help develop language comprehension skills. When children start learning languages at birth, they have the ____ to learn many languages at once without getting ____— because, as the brain develops, so too does the ability to separate one ____from another.

【推荐2】A land free from destruction(毁灭，破坏), plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply- all these were important _______ in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. _______ they were not enough. Something else was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men -_______ individuals who could invent machines, find new _______ of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society. The men who created the machines of the Industrial Revolution _______ from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were _______ inventors than scientists. A man who is a pure scientist is primarily interested in doing his research _______.He is not necessarily working _______ that his findings can be used. An inventor or one interested in applied science is all trying to make something that has a concrete use. He may try to solve a problem by _______ the theories ________ science or by experimenting through trial and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a ________ result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb(灯泡), or one of ________ other objectives. Most of the people who ________ the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Even those who had little or no training in science might not have made their inventions ________ a groundwork had not been laid by scientists’ years ________.

【推荐3】Jake and Max Klein are twin brothers who have a passion for volunteering. Their family have always done community _________. At a very young age, they both chose to _________ family’s gifts at their birthday parties, but asked them to donate money to a charity. When they were seven, Jake and Max were interested in volunteering with a family friend at the local homeless shelter to help cook. _________, he turned them down because they were too young and they had to be fourteen to cook. This led them on an endless _________ to come up with a way to help other kids who were also facing a similar challenge: wanting to help but _________ because of their age.

So, Kids That Do Good was _________ to show ways to kids or adults, at any age, they could join the community and make a _________. The small project has grown into a large website that brings thousands of _________ visitors each year. Jake and Max say that their website brings 35,000 unique viewers, of whom, Kids That Do Good has _________ kids to 16,000 organizations.

Jake and Max are __________ with school and after-class activities and other community service promises. Kids That Do Good also has blog posts that advise kids on building their own charitable event.