What’s the best way to remember our happiest moments, like a birthday or festival? I bet you would answer , “Take lots of photos!” Well, here is a great surprise. People who always take photos may actually be harming(傷害) their memory, because they’re not concentrating on the event itself. That’s according to new research by Fairfield University, Connecticut, in the US. They call this the “photo-taking impairment(損害) affect”.
“People so often take out their cameras almost mindlessly to catch a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in front of them,” Henkel and her team decided to perform an experiment. They wanted to find out whether taking photos in a museum weakened(減弱) 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 what they had seen. In addition(另外), the amount(數(shù)量) of detail(細節(jié)) 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?
小題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．a(chǎn)re likely to have a poor memory
小題2:Which of the following is NOT true about the experiment?
A．People who didn’t take photos did better in the experiment.
B．They asked a group to try to remember what they had seen.
C．The experiment aimed to learn what people were interested in at the museum.
D．People who took photos in the museum could remember less details.
小題3:According to the passage, we’d better _________.
A．never use our cameras
B．remember an event by heart
C．a(chǎn)lways remember an event with the help of a camera
D．see everything only with our own eyes
小題4:What do the results of the experiment show us?
A．The mind’s eye and the camera’s eye are not the same.
B．People remember happiest moments by taking photos.
C．Looking back at old photos helps us remember an event.
D．People don’t like taking photos.
小題5:Where can we probably read this passage?
A．The entrance of a museum.
B．A guidebook on how to take good pictures.
C．An instruction of how to use a camera.
D．A scientific report.

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:A
小題5:D

試題分析：這是一篇科普文章。這篇文章主要想要告訴我們總是拍照片的人實際上是在傷害他們的記憶，因為他們沒有關(guān)注事情本身。因此，我們最好用心去記憶事情。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。People who always take photos may actually be harming(傷害) their memory, because they’re not concentrating on the event itself.句意：總是拍照片的人實際上是在傷害他們的記憶，因為他們沒有關(guān)注事情本身。故選A。
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù)They wanted to find out whether taking photos in a museum weakened(減弱) a visitor’s memory of what they had seen.句意：他們想要找出是否在博物館里拍照片會減弱一個游客對他所看到事物的記憶。由此可知，這次實驗?zāi)康牟皇橇私馊藗儗Σ┪镳^里的什么東西感興趣。故選C。
小題3:推理判斷題。這篇文章主要想要告訴我們總是拍照片的人實際上是在傷害他們的記憶，因為他們沒有關(guān)注事情本身。因此，我們最好用心去記憶事情。故選B。
小題4:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)These results show how the mind’s eye and the camera’s eye are not the same句意：這些結(jié)果表明人的思想、眼睛和相機的鏡頭是不一樣的。故選A。
小題5:推理判斷題。這篇文章是科學調(diào)查�？芍獞�(yīng)選D。
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