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 阅读理解It's a question that's bothered cultural critics for decades: while we know more than ever, are we getting sillier and dumber as a result of the increasing amount of technology at our disposal?The current debate about intelligence, sparked by Nicholas Carr's recent The Shallows, asks what the Internet is doing to our brains? Like Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason, Mr. Carr addresses the sense of despair among American intellectuals about the country's poor educational performance when compared with other countries. In reading, mathematics and science, American 15-year-olds suffer in the lower half of the rankings for the 30 wealthiest countries. But things are rarely as they seem.  E-books barely existed a decade ago, but have exploded in popularity since Amazon introduced its Kindle a few years back. E-books are now outselling hardcovers. Perhaps we are witnessing not a decline in book reading but a renaissance. The irony is that had computers been invented before books we would now. be anxious about the loss of multi-media, multi-tasking, computer-gaming skills as our children wasted their time burying themselves in single topic paper books. "There is simply no experimental evidence to show that living with new technologies fundamentally changes brain organization in a way that affects one's ability to focus, " says Daniel Simons, a psychologist at Union College, New York. The danger, if there is one, is that the easy, on-demand access to lots of information from the Internet may delude us into mistaking the data we download for genuine wisdom worth acting upon. Only fools would venture into such a forest of information with anything less than their eyes wide open and their brains fully engaged . Fortunately, there are fewer fools around than some of the scaremongers(散布谣言者)like to think.  （1） What makes American scholars upset? A . US kids' weak academic performance. B . The ongoing debate about intelligence. C . The poor education in USA. D . America's wealth ranking. （2） Why are computers mentioned in paragraph 3? A . To contrast with the popularity of Kindle. B . To highlight the benefits of high tech. C . To warn about a decline in reading. D . To stress the importance of books. （3） What does the underlined word "delude" mean in paragraph 5? A . terrify B . argue C . force D . trick （4） What is the main idea of this passage? A . New technology changes our brains. B . Exposure to high tech should be reduced. C . Advanced technology won't make us dumb D . Nicholas Carr released a book on intelligence. 答案： A B D C

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