You can't remember who sings a certain song from the 90s. You Google it. You're arguing with a friend about who played Mickey in The Goonies. You solve the problem by Googling it. You don't know the way to that new restaurant. You Google Maps it.

We hold the answers to about all of life's questions in our hands today. But that means our brains are feeling free to take some rest. According to the Daily Mail, our growing reliance on(依賴) the Internet for fact checking is making our memories worse.

Scientists at Harvard University found people now regard Google and other search engines as an outside part of their own brains, rather than a tool. Writing in the Journal Scientific American, Harvard psychologists Daniel Wegner and Adrian Ward warn that people who believe their memorable facts that are saved online are much worse at remembering them.

"The Internet is also unlike a human memory partner; it knows more and can produce the information more quickly, You can find almost all information today easily through a quick Internet search. It may be that the Internet is taking the place of people's memory."

In a series of tests, researchers found it was easy for people to remember information well if they believed it would be deleted.

Those who thought it was stored on a computer were more forgetful, even if they were asked to keep the information in mind.

1.When people want to check a fact, probably they will .

A. look up in a book

B. ask friends

C. use the Internet

D. go to teachers for help

2.According to the passage, if we depend on the Internet for fact checking, .

A. our brains will become smaller

B. our brains will become bigger

C. our memories will become worse

D. our memories will become better

3.People are easy to remember things well if they know .

A. they will lose the information

B. they will lose the computer

C. the information is good for them

D. the information is important

4.The writer wants to tell us .

A. not to use Google

B. Google is bad for our memory

C. Google is a good tool for checking facts

D. not to depend on the Internet for checking facts too much

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