The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. —Thomas Macaulay
Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neil gave an arithmetic (36) to our class. When the papers were (37) she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.
There is really nothing new about (38) in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill (39) even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to (40) after class. I was one of the twelve. Mrs. O’Neill asked (41) questions, and she didn’t (42) us either. She wrote on the blackboard the (43) words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to (44) these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don’t (45) about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most
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It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases (1) the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be (2) in our past experiences, which are brought into the present (3) memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep (4) available for later use. It includes not only " (5) " things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also any (6) in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is (7) when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something (8) in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child (9) to swing a baseball bat.
Memory (10) not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain (11) for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-stor
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