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As Internet urs 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 remember and how.
In a recent study，Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her rearch 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. gre考试地点The cond group understood that the computer would not save it. Later，the cond 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 rearchers 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 (位置) better than the facts. When people u 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家眷的意思，we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet .Instead，computer urs 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 u memory is changing.
1. The passage begins with two questions to________.
A．introduce the main topic
B．show the author's attitude
C．describe how to u the Internet
D．explain how to store information
2. 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 cond group did not understand the information.
3.In transactive memory，英语自我介绍范文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
4.What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow's rearch?
A．We are using memory differently.
Bapparent．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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Looking at beautiful art can act as a painkiller
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dry的意思The rearch carried out by the University of Bari in Italy could help clarify hospitals who are charged with wasting money on art and decoration as it suggests a pleasant environ
ment helps patients overcome discomfort and pain. profitable
A team headed by Professor Marina de Tommaso at the Neurophysiopathology Pain Unit asked a group of men and women to pick the 20 paintings they considered most ugly and most beautiful from a lection of 300 works by artists such as Lenoardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli. They were then asked to watch either the beautiful paintings, or the ugly paintings, or a blank panel while the team struck a short lar pul at their hand, creating a nsation as if they had been hurt by a pin. The subjects rated the pain as being a third less inten while they were viewing the beautiful paintings, compared with when considering the ugly paintings or the blank panel.
Electrodes (电极汉普森) measuring the brain’s electrical activity also confirmed a reduced respon to the pain when the subject looked at beautiful paintings. While distractions(娱乐), such as music, are known to reduce pain in hospital, Prof de Tommaso says this is the first result to show that beauty plays a part. The findings, reported in New Scientist, also go a long way to show that beautiful surroundings could aid the healing process.
“Hospitals have been designed to be functional, but we think that their aesthetic(审美能力)
aspects should be taken into account too,” said the neurologist. “Beauty obviously offers a distraction that ugly paintings do not. But at least there is no suggestion that ugly surroundings make the pain wor. I think the results show that more rearch is needed into the how a beautiful environment can reduce suffering.”
Pictures they liked included Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and Botticellis’ Birth of Venus. Pictures they found ugly included works by Pablo Picasso, the Italian 20th century artist Anonino Bueno and Columbian Fernando Botero. “the people were not art experts so some of the pictures they found ugly would be considered masterpieces by the art world,” said Prof de Tommaso.
1. According to the first paragraph, people didn’t approve
A. hospitals spend money on medical equipment.
B. hospitals decorate their rooms with works of art.
C. hospitals make their environment pleasant to patients.
D. hospitals treat patients with works of art.
2. How did the rearchers make the rearch?
A. By asking the subjects to listen to music.
B. By requiring the subjects to draw paintings.
C. By ordering the subjects to choo which picture is beautiful and ugly.
D. By aching the subjects’ hands while they are watching paintings.
3. According to the rearch, when designing a hospital, we should consider its
A. convenient facilities
B. functional operating room
C. pleasing environment
D. bright waiting room
4. The best title for the passage may be
A. Patients Don’t Like Pictures
B. Arts Can Be Ud As a Medicine
