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Questionsarebasedonthefollowingpassage: Itisdifficulttoimaginewhathfewouldbelikewithoutmemory.Themeaningsofthousandsofeverydayperceptions,thebasesforthedecisionswemake,andtherootsofourhabitsandskillsaretobefoundinourpastexperiences,whicharebroughtintothepresentbymemory.
Memorycanbedefinedasthecapacitytokeepinformationavailableforlateruse.Itincludesnotonly"remembering"thingslikearithmeticorhistoricalfacts,butalsoinvolvinganychangeinthewayananimaltypicallybehaves.Memoryisinvolvedwhenaratgivesupeatinggrainbecausehehassniffedsomethingsuspiciousinthegrainpile.Memoryisalsoinvolvedwhenasix-year-oldchildlearnstoswingabaseballbat.
Memoryexistsnotonlyinhumansandanimalsbutalsoinsomephysicalobjectsandmachines.
Computers,forexample,containdevicesforstoringdataforlateruse.Itisinterestingtocomparethememory-storagecapacityofacomputerwiththatofahumanbeing.Theinstant-accessmemoryofalargecomputermayholdupto100,000"words"wreadyforinstantuse.AnaverageU.S.
teenagerprobablyrecognizesthemeaningofabout100,000wordsofEnglish.However,thisisbutafractionofthetotalamountofinformationwhichtheteenagerhasstored.Consider,forexample,thenumberoffacesandplacesthattheteenagercanrecognizeonsight.
Theuseofwordsisthebasisoftheadvancedproblem-solvingintelligenceofhumanbeings.Alargepartofaperson'smemoryisintermsofwordsandcombinationsofwords.
Accordingtothepassage,memoryisconsideredtobe_________. A.thebasisfordecisionmakingandproblemsolving
B.anabilitytostoreexperiencesforfutureuse
C.anintelligencetypicallypossessedbyhumanbeings
D.thedatamainlyconsistingofwordsandcombinationsofwords
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