It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出) something suspicious in the grain pile.Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 "words" — string of alphabetic or numerical characters — ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.1. Which of the following is true about memory?A) It helps us perceive things happening around us every day.B) It affects our decision making.C) It affects our past experiences.D) The past is connected with the present by memory.2.According to the passage, memory is helpful in one's life in the followingaspects EXCEPT that ______.A) it involves the change in one's behaviorB) it keeps information for later useC) it warns people not to do things repeatedlyD) it makes one remember events that happened in the past3.What is the author's view about computers as compared to human beings?A) Computers have better memory than a child does.B) Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is.C) Computers understand as many as 100,000 words.D) Human beings are far superior to computers.4.What is the major characteristic of man's memory capacity according to theauthor?A) It can be expanded by language.B) It can remember all the combined words.C) It may keep all the information in the past.D) It may change what has been stored in it.5.Human beings make themselves different from other animals by ______.A) having the ability to perceive dangerB) having a far greater memory capacityC) having the ability to recognize faces and places on sightD) having the ability to draw on past experiences