Memories If your experience is that of most students, you will probably find that dra

Memories

If your experience is that of most students, you will probably find that drawing the plan and thinking about your early home brought back events you have not thought of in years. Students in my classes remember exactly what it felt like to fall out of bed and break an arm, what the blue tile in the bathroom looked like smeared with lipstick, and the way the kitchen smelled after the furnace explodeD．They find that their memories contain many more details than they expected.

Most of the memories stimulated by this exercise take two forms: recounting events and supplying details. This combination of events and details comprises narrative, because making experience conscious requires the ability both to tell what happened, and happens, and fill in details that make the events come alive. This excursion into memory also illustrates the close connection between narration and learning because memory provides one way for us to know or bring to consciousness something about experience in this world．Not every writing task you face will carry the same emotional freight as does the one based on your house plan, but the care in recounting and attending to detail evoked here provides a model for writing narrative. By learning to draw on the resources of your memory, you can increase the detail in your writing. One way to reach these resources is to make connections with concrete objects. Visualizing your childhood home probably helped you think of details that would have otherwise remained buried in your mind, Perhaps you have had the experience of being able to recall information during an exam by remembering where it was written on the page of your notes or by focusing on the place where you learned it.

Another way to draw on the resources of your memory is to recreate a memory chain that begins with some physical object and lead you 10 recall various experiences.

第 36 题 The passage is mainly about

A．the role of exercise in acquiring a good memory

B．the use of memory in learning writing

C．the role of memory in college learning

D．the use of past experience in learning