Unit 2 Remembering and Forgetting
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[1] Arriving at the airport, I discovered that my brother's flight had been delayed for an hour. Usually when I wait around the airport to meet a flight, I pass the time by watching planes land and take off, but that evening I had a bad headache. I thought the noi of jet engines might make it wor, so I decided to walk around inside the airport for a while.
[2] As I was walking by the shops, I happened to e a display of flight bags, which reminded me of my briefca. I realized that I was not carrying it now. Quickly I tried to remember where I might have left it. Knowing that I had not stopped anywhere since I left the airline ticket counter, I concluded I must have put it down there. I hurried back to get it, but my briefca was nowhere in sight. At first I was sure that somebody had just walked off with it, but then I realized there was a chance that whoever found it might have turned it in at the counter, I waited in line for my turn at the counter and then I described the briefca and asked if by any chance it had been turned in. The agent shook his head. Then I glance
d over his shoulder at the conveyor belt that was moving baggage from the check-in counter down to the loading area and I shouted, "There it is!" But just as the agent turned to look, the briefca reached the end of the conveyor belt and vanished from view .
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[3] "Did you e your briefca?" the agent asked.
[4] "Yes!" I exclaimed. "It just went through that opening over there. How can I get it back now?"
[5] "That's no problem," replied the agent. "Just give me your baggage claim check and I think we can catch it before it's loaded on a flight."
[6] "But I don't have a claim check!" I replied. "I didn't check it! I'm not going anywhere. I'm just here to meet a flight." Calming mylf down a bit, I explained what had happened and suggested that the bag had probably been turned in at the counter where one of the agents had checked it with other baggage and placed it on the conveyor belt.
[7] The agent told me that the only way he could find it would be to have a claim form with
a description of what the briefca looked like. By the time I filled out the form and the agent called down to the baggage area, the briefca had already been loaded on one of the flights, but they didn't know which one. The agent took my phone number and promid they would call as soon as they found the briefca. Even though I lived in Sioux City, which was an hour-and-a-half drive away, they would deliver it to my address as soon as they got it back.
[8] My brother's flight arrived and, after getting his suitcas, we headed for my car in the parking lot. During the drive home I told him all about the briefca. When we got home and were unloading the car, I could hardly believe my eyes when my brother took a briefca out of the car. The briefca I thought I had lost had never been taken into the airport! It had been on the floor in the back at. I realized that at that moment the airline people were checking each piece of baggage on their Denver, St. Louis and Chicago flights, looking for my briefca. The thought of having to call and tell them I had found it in my car was painful.
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[9] As we walked in the hou the telephone was ringing. Answering it, I was shocked when an airline worker said, "We have good news for you! We found your briefca in Denver. It should be here by eleven o'clock and will be delivered to you shortly after midnight."
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1 到了机场才发现我兄弟达成的班机延误了一小时。通常我在机场等候接人时，会把时间消磨在观看 飞机起降上。可那天晚上我头疼的厉害。我想喷气发动机所发出的噪音会使头痛的更厉害，于是决定在 机场内逛一会儿。
擦亮你的眼睛2 当我走过那些店铺时，碰巧看到陈列在那儿的航空箱包，这是我想起了自己的公文包。我这才意识 到没有提着它。我马上努力回忆：会把它遗忘在哪儿呢。自从离开航空公司票务柜台后，我没有在其他 任何地方停留过，所以我推想，我一定是把包放下后留在那里了。我急忙回去取，可是公文包已无影无 踪。起先我确信一定有人顺手把它提走了，但随后想，也有可能看到包的人已把它交给了柜台，便在票 务柜台排队等候。轮到我是，我描述了包的特征，并询问会不会有人把它交到了柜台，那位航空公司代 理摇了摇头。这是我
朝他身后的行李输送带瞥了一眼，输送带正把行李从办理登记手续处往下面的装货 区传送。我大声叫道： “我的包就在那儿！ ”然而，当代理回头看时，公文包已传送到输送带的尽头，突 然消失看不见了。
3 “你看到自己的包了？”代理问我。 母亲节是
4 “是的！ ”我大声地说。 “它刚穿过那边那个口子。这下我怎么才能把它取回来呢？”
5 “这不难， ”代理回答说： “把你的行李领取凭证给我，我想我们能够在装机前截住它。 ” 玷污清白
6 “可我没有行李凭证！ ”我答道。 “我没办托运！我哪儿都不去，我是来接人的。 ”我平静了一下情绪， 解释了事情的经过，并指出很可能有人把包交到了柜台，而某位代理把它和其他行李一起办了托运并放 到了传送带上。
7 代理告诉我，能找回包的唯一办法是，填写一张认领单，在上面写清公文包的外观特征。等我填完 表格，代理打电话到下面的行李区查询时， （得知）包已被装上了一架班机，但不知是哪一架。代理抄下 了我的电话号码，并保证他们一找到包就给我打电话。尽管我住在苏城，离机场有一个半小时的车程， 他们还是会一找到包就把它送到我家来。
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8 我兄弟的航班到了。我们领了他的箱子后便走向停车场找我的车。回家的路上，我把公文包的是告 诉了她。到了家，我们把行李从车上卸下来。当我兄弟从车里拿出一只公文包时，我真不敢相信自己的 眼睛。原以为已丢失的公文包其实根本就没有被带进机场！它一直躺在后座的地上。我意识到，此时此 刻航空公司的人正在开往丹佛、圣路易斯和芝加哥的航班上逐一检查行李，寻找我的公文包。我还得打 电话告诉他们，已经在自己的车里找到了包，一想到要打这个电话，心里真叫痛苦。
9 我们走进屋子时电话铃正响着。听电话时，我惊呆了，电话里一位航空公司的工作人员说： “我们有 好消息告诉你！我们在丹佛找到了你的公文包，11 点前应该能到这里。午夜后不久便能送到你家。 ”
Memory and the Human Brain
[1] Is it possible to know exactly how memory works in humans and other intelligent animals? Some people believe that it never will be. But some scientists, who are studying the function of the brain and its relationship to memory, do not share this view.
[2] It is now well known that memory, like other brain functions, is located in specific parts of the brain in humans. The parts may be identified and their location in the brain may be established. They work together in both short-term and long-term memory. Although scientists have not yet fully studied the brain, much progress has been made. One day the mind will be described fully both in biological and mental terms.
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