Many people regard English learning as a very challenging task, because it is very difficult for them to remember English words. Quite often, after they have memorized some new words, they have forgotten some old words. Research says that people remember the beginnings and ends of words better than the middles. Do you have the same experience? Certain positions in words are more “noticeable”. The result is the so-called “bathtub effect”, according to which speaker will recall with more ease the beginning and the end of words. The bathtub effect is perhaps the most commonly reported finding in the literature on memory for words. People remember the beginnings and ends of words better than the middles, as if the word were a person lying in a bathtub, with the head out of the water at one end and the feet out at the other. And just as in a bathtub, the head is further out of the water and more obvious than the feel, so the beginning of words are, on average, better remember than the ends. The bathtub effect is often reflected in the observation that, when trying to remember a word, a word, a name or a telephone number, people find it easier to recall the beginning and end of a lost item than the middle. For example, there is a writer ' s name I always forget. I can only recall it begins with “Shake” and ends with “ear”. Caught by bathtub effect again. ( ) 1. People find it hard to remember English words, which consists of their difficulty in learning English. ( ) 2. P eople think that recall the beginning and end of a lost item than the middle. ( ) 3. The bathtub effect is the most commonly reported finding in all the literature. ( ) 4. B athtub effect is a phenomenon about the memorization of words, names, numbers, etc. ( ) 5. When you are caught by the bathtub effect, you cannot recall anything.