S12英语5学生非谓语之 分词.doc

非谓语之 现在分词 过去分词 Review Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. instinctive B. sense C. typically D. exhibited E. save F. popularity G. deep H. connections I. emerged J. extensively A recently published study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a change in the way we read and think. The scholar found that people using the sites 1 “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They 2 read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would move to another site. Sometimes they’d 3 a long article, but there’s no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it. Thanks to the ubiquity (普遍存在) of text on the Internet, not to mention the 4 of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking — perhaps even a new 5 of the self. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of 6 reading that 7 when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose common. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental 8 that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.