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牛津深圳版英语课文8b

只要READING部分的，PS：【第一课MEMORY】,要全部的哈，实在没有光第二课【TOM AND JERRT】也行，重点是速度！3.8号结束哟

Answer 1

Memory
Joyce wanted to include a feature about memory in the school newspaper. She and her editors all agreed to write short articles on the topic.
ARTHUR
I know that we have a short-term memory and a long-term memory. When we get old, our short-term memory becomes worse, but we can still remember things from a long time ago.
My grandpa told me a joke. He said, ‘When you get old, three things start to go wrong. First, you lose your memory … and I can’t remember what the other two things are!’
JOYCE
I saw a programme on television about a man with an injured brain. He could not remember anything for longer than a few minutes.
His wife visited him in hospital every day, but he forgot her visits a few minutes after she left. He was often angry with her because he thought that she never visited him. It was very sad.
PANSY
If you want to remember something, you should make a picture of it in your mind. If the picture is silly, strange and colourful, you will remember it better.
For example, I am trying to remember the word ‘smiles’. An easy way to do this is to imagine there is a ‘mile’ between the first letter and the last letter. This makes it the longest word in the world!
TONY
In the Guinness Book of Records, there are some amazing stories about memory. For example, Gou Yanling from Harbin in China has memorized 15,000 telephone numbers. And Dominic O’Brien from the UK remembered the correct order of 1,820 playing cards, after seeing them just once.
MILLIE
Memory is connected to our feelings. If someone shouts ‘Spider!’ and puts a large spider on your hand, you will probably remember the word ‘spider’. If something dramatic happens, we usually remember it well. For example, most old people in the USA can remember where they were when they heard about the death of President John F Kennedy in 1963.

Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry are two of the most popular cartoon characters in the world. The short cartoons are full of fun ---- Tom, the cat, always tries to catch Jerry, the mouse. The cartoons also have a long history.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. their boss, a man called Fred Quimby, told them to make funny cartoons for cinemas. Together they thought of the idea of a cat trying to catch a mouse. They thought it would be funny to make the mouse clever and always get the cat into trouble.
The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940. It was a great success, so their boss told Hanna and Barbera to make more. Over the next seventeen years, Hanna and Barbera made a huge number of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of the cartoons are about seven minutes long.
It is easy to understand the cartoons because there is usually no speaking in them. Instead, the two animals are always running around or fighting each other. Though Tom always thinks he can catch Jerry, he never has any success. The cartoons are very funny. They won a number of awards.
In total, Hanna and Barbera Made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons. In almost every one, Tom is in trouble with his owner, and Jerry laughs at him. The famous cat and mouse are still popular today. The cartoons are still shown on TV all round the world.