1、成才之路 英语路漫漫其修远兮 吾将上下而求索人教版 选修8Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Meeting your ancestorsUnit 5成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 Music话 题 引 入成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 Music(2015安徽)As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information，are peop
2、le 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成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 MusicIn a recent study，Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted someexperime
3、ntsShe and her research team wanted to know how theInternet is changing memoryIn the first experiment，they gavepeople 40 unimportant facts to type into a computerThe firstgroup of people understood that the computer would save theinformationThe second group understood that the computerwould not save
4、 itLater，the second group remembered theinformation betterPeople in the first group knew they could findthe information again，so they did not try to remember it成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 MusicIn another experiment，the researchers gave people facts toremember，and told them where to find the
5、 information on thecomputerThe information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹)Surprisingly，people later remembered the folder location(位置)better than the factsWhen people use the Internet，theydo not remember the informationRather，they remember how tofind itThis is called“transactive memory(交互记忆)”
6、成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 MusicAccording to Sparrow，we are not becoming people with poormemories as a result of the InternetInstead，computer users aredeveloping stronger transactive memories;that is，people arelearning how to organize huge quantities of information so that theyare able to
7、access it at a later dateThis doesnt mean we arebecoming either more or less intelligent，but there is no doubt thatthe way we use memory is changing文章大意：文章主要讲的是互联网给人类的记忆带来的影响。互联网使用者越来越依赖互联网来储存信息，人们这样做是否会丧失记忆事物的能力呢？专家怀疑互联网可能正在改变人们的记忆内容和方式。成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 Music1The passage begins
8、with two questions to _Aintroduce the main topic Bshow the authors attitudeCdescribe how to use the InternetDexplain how to store information答 案：A 写 作 意 图 题。根 据 第 一 段“Experts arewondering if the Internet is changing what we remember andhow”可知，作者使用两个问句是为了引出要讨论的话题。成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5
9、Music2What can we learn about the first experiment?A The Sparrows team typed the information into acomputerBThe two groups remembered the information equallywellCThe first group did not try to remember the informationDThe second group did not understand the information答案：C 细节理解题。根据第二段“People in the
10、firstgroup knew they could find the information again，so they did nottry to remember it”可知答案。成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 Music3In transactive memory，people _Akeep the information in mindBchange the quantity of informationCorganize information like a computerDremember how to find the informa
11、tion答案：D 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“Rather，theyremember how to find itThis is calledtransactive memory(交互记忆)”可知，在交互记忆里，人们记得怎样找到信息。成才之路 高中新课程 学习指导 人教版 英语 选修8 课标版Unit 5 Music4What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrowsresearch?AWe are using memory differentlyBWe are becoming more intelligentCWe have poorer memories than beforeDWe need a better way to access information答案：A 细节理解题。根据最后一段“but there is nodoubt that the way we use memory is changing”可知，互联网对人们的记忆产生的影响是它改变了我们使用记忆力的方式。