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Language students often think they have memory problems. They worry because they can’t remember words. In fact, the problem usually isn’t with their memory. The problem is with how they study.

To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. When you see, hear, or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory. Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books. And like a library, it’s organized （有条理的）. When you put away a book—or memory—you can’t just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find it again.

How can you do this with vocabulary? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can do this by writing new sentences that include it. Even better, you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word. For example, if the word is height, you can think of the tallest person you know and try to guess his or her height. All of these activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.

Chinese buyers used to prize foreign brands, thinking that products made by American or European companies are of higher quality (质量) than Chinese ones. Increasingly, that’s no longer the case.

Chinese people born before 1985 generally think that foreign brands are better than Chinese ones, the billionaire William Li told Business Insider during a recent interview on CCTV 9. But for those who were born after 1985, it is a different picture.

“When I first went to the United Kingdom in 1997, I thought that the difference between China and Europe was quite big,” Li said. “But for those born in the 1990s, when they visit Europe or the US, they do not think there is a big difference.”

The change in thinking among Chinese buyers is showing up in many markets in China where western companies used to control. A study by Credit Suisse published in March found that young Chinese buyers are increasingly showing a “home brand bias”.

More than 90% of young Chinese buyers would prefer to buy home appliance brands, according to the study. Meanwhile, home companies producing food, drinks, or personal care products increased their share of the market by 3. 3% over the last ten years to nearly 70%.

“Chinese buyers, especially the younger ones, don’t just believe that foreign brands are better.

Right now, Chinese buyers think China is good and‘Made in China’is not bad at all,” Charlie Chen, head of China buyer research at Credit Suisse, told South China Morning Post in March.

The Chinese smartphone market is controlled by home companies—Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. Apple is the only foreign brand in the top five, but it has lost large ground to the home brands in recent years. Its market share is believed to be down to 37% from a 2015 high of 54%.

I always tell my son that achieving average scores in the class is fine. He does not have to be one of the top scorers in his class _______ attend after-school classes to help with his study.

I think the most important thing to him in his _______ is to be a child: have _______, exercise and stay healthy and find something he is interested in, so he knows how to communicate with others and _______ difficulties. I was born in the 1980s and had to study hard to make sure I could go to a good university and eventually find a well-paid job. But my son is lucky enough to be born at a time when he does not need to _______ food or clothes.

Unlike some _______ who make busy plans for their children to attend different _______ after school classes, I would rather spend the money taking him _______ and letting him see the world.

For some parents, the reason why they _______ their best to make their children get good grades only is that they were not be top students themselves. They do ________ for their children so that their children could get good grades. In fact, when parents do all the heavy lifting for their children, they will lose the ability to be ________.

I do feel pressure from other parents to send my ________ to after-school classes, but I need to remind myself that when he is buried in endless homework at an early age, he might ________ all interest in learning when he grows up.

Going to a good university is not the ________ goal in life. He needs to form good habits and hobbies so that when he is kind of ________ at university, he will not spend all his spare time playing video games.

In many English homes, people have four meals(餐) a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea(茶) and dinner.

People have breakfast from 7:00 to 9: 00 in the morning. They eat eggs or(或者) bread. English people drink tea or milk for breakfast, too. Lunch comes at about 13:00. Afternoon tea is from 16:00 to 17:00, and dinner is about 19:30. They often have soup(汤), and they have some chicken or fish with vegetables. Then they eat some bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people have meals like that. Some of them don’t have their dinners in the evening(晚上).