Passage 1
Storing information is remembering, and remembering is closely linked to learning. Psychologists have tried to explain how people remember and why they forget many of the things they learn. No one has yet found all the answers. It is believed, according to one theory, that when a person learns something, a physical change of some kind takes place. A trace of memory or pattern is left in the brain. And it is believed that memories, or traces of memory in the brain, simply fade away in the course of time. The way you feel about a particular experience may also determine whether you remember or forget it. In general, people are apt to forget things that are unpleasant or upsetting and remember things that are pleasant. Brain can learn different tasks. Better - developed brains can learn more complicated tasks. In the simplest brains, learning is very crude. Humans show the greatest learning abilities.
Word - meanings :
- trace - निशान
- pattern - प्रतिरूप
- determine - निश्चित करना
- apt - सम्भावना होना
- crude - अपरिष्कृत
Questions :
1. What is remembering ?
2. What change takes place in the body when learning takes place ?
3. Why should we have better - developed brains ?
4. Who has the greatest learning abilities ?
5. Find from the passage words which mean the opposite of :
- refined
- easy
1. Remembering means storing information in the brain.
2. A physical change of some kind takes place.
3. We should have better - developed brains because then we can learn complicated tasks.
4. Humans have the greatest learning abilities.
5. Opposite of :
- refined - crude
- easy - complicated