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   As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.

In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.

In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information an the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location (位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory (交互记忆)”

According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

【小题1】The passage begins with two questions to ________.
A.introduce the main topicB.show the author’s altitude
C.describe how to use the InterneD.explain how to store information
【小题2】What can we learn about the first experiment?
A.Sparrow’s team typed the information into a computer.
B.The two groups remembered the information equally well.
C.The first group did not try to remember the formation.
D.The second group did not understand the information.
【小题3】In transactive memory, people ________.
A.keep the information in mind
B.change the quantity of information
C.organize information like a computer
D.remember how to find the information
【小题4】What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow's research?
A.We are using memory differently.
B.We are becoming more intelligent.
C.We have poorer memories than before.
D.We need a better way to access information.
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同类题2

   I was a paperboy — well actually, the first papergirl in Seattle. When I was 12, I took my way into a job delivering (投递) The Seattle Times. I remember the boss looking this _______ girl over and telling me I had a week to _______ I could do it.

So after school, I would _______ over to the hut down the street, pick up my bundles, lift them onto the back of my _______ and ride my route. Sunday morning papers were too _______ for me to carry. I tried, and it took me three hours to _______ them as I had to keep coming back to reload. So, my mother volunteered to get up at 5:30 am and drive me around. She _______ herself to my employment.

What I learned as a _______ was to find out where each of my customers wanted their papers. I didn’t just throw them on their lawn (草评)._______ they wanted papers on their porch, or mailbox or inside the gate, that was where they got them. When a ________ went out of town, he would tell me and I would make sure that the papers didn’t ________ up to attract thieves. In return, I got big ________.

Somewhere the paperboys are ________ by modern services. We put our orders into online forms that then tell a service that ________ a guy in a truck to throw the papers onto the lawn.

The people that run and own newspapers have the ________ to deliver news to us in a large number of forms, and we should be able to get it any way we want. We should be able to ________ for the form we want it ________, including how it is distributed. I would ________ pay to have a papergirl or paperboy deliver the ________ on the right day in the right way, and I would tip for that privilege.

Let’s bring back the paperboy and with it ________ employment for our children.

【小题1】
A.strongB.nervousC.dynamicD.thin
【小题2】
A.proveB.suggestC.informD.admit
【小题3】
A.watchB.headC.takeD.turn
【小题4】
A.carB.cartC.bikeD.truck
【小题5】
A.heavyB.dirtyC.tidyD.rough
【小题6】
A.readB.copyC.packD.deliver
【小题7】
A.enjoyedB.devotedC.forcedD.limited
【小题8】
A.studentB.daughterC.papergirlD.reader
【小题9】
A.IfB.WhileC.UnlessD.As
【小题10】
A.friendB.familyC.bossD.customer
【小题11】
A.takeB.pileC.giveD.break
【小题12】
A.smilesB.candiesC.tipsD.praise
【小题13】
A.replacedB.controlledC.guidedD.defeated
【小题14】
A.makesB.pullsC.threatensD.sends
【小题15】
A.rightB.opportunityC.dutyD.method
【小题16】
A.lookB.desireC.payD.hope
【小题17】
A.atB.withC.onD.in
【小题18】
A.gladlyB.slightlyC.particularlyD.totally
【小题19】
A.breadB.paperC.milkD.speech
【小题20】
A.fortunateB.positiveC.uselessD.meaningful

同类题3

   Government intelligence agencies have a plan to build computers that store information inside DNA and other organic molecules(分子).

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity(IARPA)announced plans to develop tabletop-sized machines that can store and retrieve(取回)data from large batches of polymers — a term that refers to a wide variety of long,string-like molecules. Polymers can store data in individual atoms or groups of atoms.

The project is an attempt to solve a basic problem of the modern era:the vast and growing costs of data storage. Datacenters around the world sucked up 416. 2 terawatt hours of electricity in 2016. That's about 3 percent of the global supply,and it accounts for 2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

A 2016 paper found that DNA,in particular,could store computer information more densely,require less energy,and survive higher and lower temperatures than conventional hard drives. The authors of that paper reported on the successes of prototype(雏形)DNA computers that used the genetic molecules for both long-term storage and random access memory(RAM).

But no one has yet figured out how to handle DNA data storage on large scales.

IARPA officials said the new effort, called Molecular Information Storage, will be broken up into three periods:a two-year program to figure out how to store data in DNA or other molecules at high speed,a two-year program to figure out how to retrieve that data at high speed, and a two-year effort to develop an operating system that can run on that DNA.

Many of the technologies IARPA wants to develop are untested at these scales, so it's unclear how far away that proposed tabletop device really is.

【小题1】What would be the best title for the text?
A.Store Data on DNA Computers
B.Develop Computers of Future
C.Polymers Used to Store Data
D.Information Stored in DNA
【小题2】Which of the following best explains“sucked up”underlined in Paragraph 3?
A.Consumed.B.Stored.
C.Delivered.D.Produced.
【小题3】What can Molecular Information Storage do compared to traditional hard drives?
A.Produce and save less energy.
B.Store more information faster.
C.Be better for the environment.
D.Control temperatures more easily.
【小题4】Where can you find the course of the test about Molecular Information Storage?
A.In Paragraph 3.B.In Paragraph 4.
C.In Paragraph6.D.In Paragraph 7.