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课时达标作业(十一)
Section Ⅲ Discovering Useful Structures & Listening and Talking
Ⅰ. 选词(组)填空
in shape;press;keep track of;make a comment about; button
1. After the professor made a comment about the report, the media focused on it.
2. She pressed her face against the window to see what was happening in the house.
3. The machine starts as soon as you press the button .
4. Plenty of exercise will help you keep in shape.
5. With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all.
Ⅱ. 单句语法填空
1. The flowers have been watered (water) and you can go home now.
2. His watch was lost two days ago and has not been found (find) yet.
3. How many cars have been made (make) in the factory since 1990?
4. It's the first time that the old computer has been checked (check) since I bought it.
5. The students are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure (press).
6. The sofa also functions as a bed.
7. They were selling everything at a discount.
8. I'm still waiting for confirmation (confirm) of the test results.
9. The following reasons can account for this phenomenon.
10. The boss ordered us to keep him informed (inform) of the fresh developments.
Ⅲ. 阅读理解
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As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, do 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 r