江苏 高二上学期 英语 2018--2019 10月 月考分类汇编---任务型阅读（含答案）

江苏 高二上学期 英语 2018--2019 10月 月考分类汇编---任务型阅读（含答案） 江阴南菁中学 You can relax if remembering everything is not your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength—in fact, selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence. Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers Paul Frankland and Blake Richards of the University of Toronto found that the neurobiology（神经生物学） of forgetting can be just as important to our decision­making as what our minds choose to remember. “The goal of memory is not the transmission of information through time. Rather, the goal of memory is to help improve decision­making. As such, transience(转瞬即逝) is as important as persistence in memory systems，” their study in Neuron states. Making intelligent decisions does not mean you need to have all the information at hand, it just means you need to hold onto the most valuable informa