【推荐1】Do you have a mobile phone? Do you often send text messages (短信) to your friends or family? If you keep sending text messages over and over again, there may be something wrong with your fingers.     1     If you don’t, you may get injured one day.

    2     But scientists have found out that texting can give us problems with fingers. Too much texting can make your fingers uncomfortable. When we press small buttons over and over again, we may have a disease called RSI. RSI is short for Repetitive Strain Injury (重复性力损伤).

Harriet Wilson is a doctor. She has many patients with RSI.     3     If we spend more than 10 to 15 minutes every day, we could have such problems in the future.

Mobile phones are getting smaller and smaller.     4     Texting with a smaller phone is worse than using a larger phone with bigger buttons.     5    

If you use a computer keyboard and play video games for long, you may have the same problem. More and more people can find themselves with RSI.

【推荐2】Everything has a name. All people, places, and things have names. Jenny is the name of a student from the UK. The UK is the name of a country. Cities and towns have names, too. Schools also have names. Tomato, potato and carrot are names of vegetables. Apple, orange, and banana are names of fruit.

When we meet a new person, we usually ask, “What’s your name?” Most people have two names. Names are different all over the world. In Jenny’s class, Jenny must know the names of the students from all over the world. This is not easy because the names are different.

In the US, most people have a first name, a middle name and a last name. Parents choose the first and middle names for their babies. The last name is the family name. Usually it is the father’s family name. In a family, the mother, the father and the children usually have the same last name.

Sometimes a person has a nickname, too. A nickname is a special name. It’s not a person’s real name. Abraham Lincoln’s nickname was “Honest Abe”, because he was honest and Abe is short for Abraham. Pele is a nickname of the football player, Edson Arantes do Nascimento. But everyone calls him Pele.

【推荐3】We each have a memory (记忆力). That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Charles Dickens, the famous English writer, 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 surprising memories.

A good memory is of great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. He can grasp a language very quickly, but an adult (成年人) can’t. Adults find it very hard to remember some words.

Can your memory become better and better when you do some practice? The answer is yes. After good practice, a person can remember better. Let’s practice to have a better memory.