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Can somebody help me out with the following exercise? I need to think of the word which best fits each space A recently published book claims that the amount of time we spend on the Internet is changing the very structure of our brains. Its thesis is simple enough: not only that the modern world's relentless informational overload is killing our capacity (1)______ reflection, contemplation and patience, but that our online habits are also altering the way our brains are wired. In the book, the author looks (2)______ on such human inventions as the map and the clock and the (3)_____ to which they influenced our essential models of thought. He argues that the Internet's multiplicity of stimuli and mass of information have _(4)_____ rise to hurried and distracted thinking. The author concludes that our ability to learn (5)______ at all worthwhile has become superficial. Surprisingly very (6)_____ research has looked into the Internet's effect on the brain, but further research is (7)_____ hand and is investigating whether deep-thinking processes really are in danger of disappearing.
Apr 23, 2014 8:41 PM
Corrections · 3

A bit confusing, but here are my word choices.

1. for

2. upon (it would read "author looks upon such..." 

3. degree

4. given

5. anything

6. little

7. at

 

Can somebody help me out with the following exercise?

I need to think of the word which best fits each space

A recently published book claims that the amount of time we spend on the Internet is changing the very structure of our brains. Its thesis is simple enough: not only that the modern world's relentless informational overload is killing our capacity (1)______ reflection, contemplation and patience, but that our online habits are also altering the way our brains are wired.
In the book, the author looks (2)______ on such human inventions as the map and the clock and the (3)_____ to which they influenced our essential models of thought. He argues that the Internet's multiplicity of stimuli and mass of information have _(4)_____ rise to hurried and distracted thinking. The author concludes that our ability to learn (5)______ at all worthwhile has become superficial. Surprisingly very (6)_____ research has looked into the Internet's effect on the brain, but further research is (7)_____ hand and is investigating whether deep-thinking processes really are in danger of disappearing.

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