Question

   Do you love taking photos with a camera? People who always take photos may actually be harming their memory,because they’re not concentrating on the event itself.

   “People so often take out their cameras almost mindlessly (不费心思地) to catch a moment,and they are missing what is happening right in front of them ,” said Linda Henkel,from the university. Henkel and her team decided to perform an experiment. They wanted to find out whether taking photos in a museum weakened a visitor's memory of what they had seen. So they simply told a group to look around the museum,and either take photos of the items on display,or try to remember them. The next day,the group was tested.

   People who took photos in the museum were less likely to remember what they had seen. In addition,the amount of detail they remembered was worse than those who didn't take photos. “These results show how the mind's eye and the camera's eye are not the same,” said Henkel.

   But don't put your camera down just yet. Other studies have found that looking back at old photos helps us remember an event,compared to just taking a photo and forgetting about it. So next time you’re thinking of taking a photo,just think： is it better to look at the beauty around you with your own eyes,or behind the eye of the camera?

1. When we take photos,we .

   A. fail to focus on the event itself

   B. can't record the details

   C. remember what we have seen

   D. are likely to have a poor memory

2. The underlined word “weakened” in the passage probably means “”.

   A. 支持   B. 抚养

   C. 增强   D. 减弱

3. Which of the following is TRUE about the experiment?

   A. It aimed to learn what people were interested in at the museum.

   B. They asked a group to take photos of everything in the museum.

   C. People who didn't take photos did better in the experiment.

   D. People who took photos in the museum could remember more details.

4. Where can we probably read this passage?

   A. The entrance of a museum.

   B. A scientific report.

   C. An instruction of how to use a camera.

   D. A guidebook on how to take good pictures.

Answer 1

1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B

很多人都喜欢拍照作纪念。而一项新的研究却发现，拍 照会损害人们充分记住这些事物的能力。

1. A细节理解题。由第一段的“…because they’re not concentrating on the event itself. ”可知，当我们拍照时， 我们不能集中全部精力在眼前正在发生的事情上，故 选A项。

2. D 词义猜测题。由下文的 who took photos in the museum were less likely to remember可推断，研究人员做实验 是想弄清楚拍照是否能使一个人的记忆力减弱；由构 词法也可猜测该词的意思：weak的意思是“弱的”，后 缀-en接在形容词后面构成动词，有“使，成为”等含 义。由此可猜测weaken意为“使变弱”，故选D项。

3. C细节理解题。由第三段的detail they remembered was worse than those who didn't take photos 可知，在实验中 拍照的人能够记起的细节不如没有拍照的人，故选C项。

4. B推理判断题。文章提到研究人员通过做实验得出这样一个结论:拍照会损害人们充分记住这件事的能力。 由此可推断我们有可能在科学报告上读到这篇文章。