American Download C1.C2/p.58-59 [5.1-5.43]

We develop ___________ memories only after we start to talk and understand the meanings of words.

His earliest _________ memory is blowing out the candles on the cake at his fifth birthday party.

I __________ the chef carefully so I could remember how to prepare the meal.

I _____________ my old diary while I was looking for some other papers.

The company was losing money and, ____________, 25% of the workforce had to be laid off.

Laboratory _____________ have shown the terrible injuries that can be sustained in a car accident when passengers do not wear seat belts.

One _____________ of this study is that we can’t trust people’s memories as true ones.

_____________ that my grandmother is 94, so her memory is fading.

After such a wild party, ____________ that you don’t remember much about it.

The initial study was only ____________ successful, so we need to do more tests.

Children under two have an ______________ ability to communicate, since they can only use a few words.

Most parents get their children to ___________ their address and home phone number to memory as a safety precaution in case they get lost.

The neuroscientist __________ the theory that memory is connected to speech.

His grandfather’sability to __________ memories of recent events is weak; the old man remembers very little of what he does nowadays.

An adult’s ____________ of events is very different to the view a child has.