Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
    In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
      To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn't easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
    Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.

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                                                                                               植物也要睡眠吗
         ①人和动物都要睡觉，以补充体力和精力。但是你知道吗，植物也要睡眠。如果你仔细观察，你会发现有的植物的叶子、花儿会昼开夜合，有的夜开昼闭。科学家把植物的这种现象叫“睡眠运动”。
         ②比如公园中常见的合欢树，它的叶子由许多小羽片组合而成，在明媚的阳光下，舒展而又平坦。可一到夜幕降临时时，那无数小羽片就成对地折合关闭，好像被手碰撞过的含羞草叶子，全部合拢起来，这就是植物睡眠的典型现象。花生也是一种爱睡觉的植物，它的叶子从傍晚开始，便开始慢慢向上关闭，表示白天已经过去，它要睡觉了。有的时候，我们在野外还可以看见一种开紫色小花、长三片小叶的红三叶草，它在白天有阳光时，每个叶柄上的三片小叶都舒展在空中，但到了傍晚，三片小叶就闭合在一起，垂下头来准备睡觉。以上仅仅是一些常见的例子，会睡觉的植物还有很多很多，如酢浆草、白屈菜、含羞草、羊角豆等。
         ③植物的花也有睡眠的要求。花儿的睡眠，时间有早有晚，有长有短。太阳花就是一个贪睡的小家伙，它在上午10点钟才刚刚醒来，绽放开五颜六色的花，可是，一过中午，它就闭合起来睡眠了。碰到阴天，它似乎很贪玩，要到傍晚才进入“梦乡”。各种各样的花儿睡眠，姿态也各不相同。蒲公英在入睡时，所有的花瓣都向上竖起来闭合，看上去好像一个黄色的鸡毛帚；胡萝卜的花，垂下头来，则像正在打瞌睡的小老头。
         ④紫茉莉下午5时左右开花，到第二天拂晓时花闭合起来睡眠了，好像怕见太阳似的。月光下含笑开放的花还有月光花、待宵草、夜开花等，都是昼闭夜开的花。还有番红花在早春时候开花，一天之中，时而张开，时而闭合，时而又张开，醒了睡，睡了醒，醒醒睡睡，反复好几次。
         ⑤晚香玉的花，不但在晚上盛开，而且格外芳香，以此来引诱夜间活动的蛾子来替它传授花粉。还有，我们平时当蔬菜吃的瓠子，也是夜间开花，白天睡觉的，所以人们把它俗称为“夜开花”。