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Is technology changing our brains? A new study adds to a growing body of res

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问题     Is technology changing our brains? A new study adds to a growing body of research that says it is. According to the study, a【C1】______shift in how we gather information and communicate with one another has touched off an era of rapid evolution that may【C2】______change the human brain as we know it.
    The impact of technology on our brain should not come as a【C3】______. Professional musicians have more gray matter in brain regions【C4】______for planning finger movements. And athletes’ brains are bulkier in areas that【C5】______hand-eye coordination. That’s because the more time you devote to a specific activity, the stronger the neural(神经系统的)pathways responsible for executing that activity become. So it makes【C6】______that people who process a constant stream of digital information would have more neurons dedicated to filtering(过滤)that information.
    To see how the Internet might be rewiring us, the brains of 24 adults were【C7】______as they performed a simulated Web search, and again as they read a page of text. During the Web search, those who reported using the Internet【C8】______in their everyday lives showed twice as much signaling in brain regions responsible for decisionmaking and complex reasoning, compared with those who had【C9】______Internet exposure. The findings suggest that Internet use enhances the brain’s【C10】______to be stimulated, and that Internet reading activates more brain regions than printed words.
    A)abundant F)limited K)scarcely
    B)capacity G)monitored L)sense
    C)control H)regularly M)stability
    D)dramatic I)responsible N)surprise
    E)immediately J)restrain O)ultimately [br] 【C5】
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答案 C
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