1.what surprised me?
-It was surprising that a young boy can find a information as quickly and easily as the head librarian at Cambridge University.
2.what did you already know?
- I knew that informations are ubiquitous and we can get it easily and quickly.
- I also knew that using story is better than just memorizing.
3.Brand new words
retrieve - recover
peril: exposure to injury
adrift - feeling alone without a direction or an aim in life
flounder - to struggle to know what to say or how to continue with something
abyss - a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom
lurk - to hide or wait secretly
imbue - to fill something / with strong feelings
factoid - an insignificant or trivial fact
felicitous - well-suited for the occasion
encapsulate - to place in or as if in a capsule
elusive - hard to express or define
irascible - easily provoked to anger; very irritable
glimpse - glance
4. what changes are you going to make?
- ......not sure.... I will try to use stories when I have to memorize something.
5.Further questions?
- "When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one bocomes less valuable"(101). It is true, and we can not stop it. what should we do to make us more valuable?
-Is it good for us that facts become so widely available and instantly accessible?
6.what connection in real life?
-when I do my homework, I rarely read the textbook. Instead, I search on the internent. It is much faster and easier.
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