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As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information ,are people remembering 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 rememberand how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know how 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 grroup remembered the information better.People in the first group knew the 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 on the computer. The information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹).Surprisingly, people later remembered the folder location 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 21. The passage begins with two questions to_____.
A. introduce the main topic
B. show the author’s attitude
C. describe how to use the Internet
D. explain how to store information
22.What can we learn about the first experiment?
A. The 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 information
D. The second group did not understand the information.
23. 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
24.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.
