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1、PART V READING COMPREHENSION25 MINIn this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two. TEXT AInundated by more information
2、 than we can possibly hold in our heads, were increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever youre looking at. But new research shows that outsourc
3、ing our memory and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available is changing our cognitive habits.Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in th
4、e Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we dont know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we d
5、ont remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers final observation: the expectation that well be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where well be able to find it.But this handoff come
6、s with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts cant be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of chi
7、ldren, factual knowledge must precede skill, says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents arent over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored kn
8、owledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You cant Google context.Last, theres the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines will fail us. As Sparrow puts it, The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losin
9、g a friend. If youre going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure its fully charged.81. Googles eyeglasses are supposed toA. improve our memoryB. function like memoryC. help us see faces betterD. work like smart phones82. According to the passage, cognitive habits refers toA. how
10、we deal with informationB. functions of human memoryC. the amount of informationD. the availability of information83. Which of the following statements about Sparrows research is CORRECT?A. We remember people and things as much as before.B. We remember more Internet connections than before.C. We pay
11、 equal attention to location and content of information.D. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.84. What does the author mean by context ?A. It refers to long-term memory.B. It refers to a new situation.C. It refers to a store of knowledge.D. It refers to the search engine.85.
12、What is the implied message of the author?A. Web connections aid our memory.B. People differ in what to remember.C. People need to exercise their memory.D. People keep memory on smart phones.TEXTBI was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby ho
13、spital. My universitys philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea, but it overlooked one detail: second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.Assigned to my team that day was an attending a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patient
14、s feel they werent in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didnt have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, atleast to a rookie like myself). In addition, the
15、re were two interns (住院实现医生). These guys were just as green as I was, but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.I began the day at 6:30am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to
16、the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five piece of cake.But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams, he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting(喘着). Hed just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital
