Seven sentences have been taken out of the text below. Insert one of the sentences A-I in its corresponding gap 1-7 in the article. There is one sentence that you do not need to use. 0 is an example.
Sales of ebooks are growing at a rapid pace, rising by 20 per cent last year and prompting some concerns (0) … .
But according to a new study, the increasing popularity of ebooks may have an impact on the way we absorb and remember what we read. The study, conducted in Norway, claims (1) … than if they'd chosen to read the same text on paper.
Researchers gave 50 people a 28-page short story by Elizabeth George to read. Half of the participants read the story on a Kindle, and half in paperback form. They were then tested (2) … .
Those who had read the story as an ebook found it much harder to remember its events in the right order than those who had read it in paperback.
Anne Mangen, one of the researchers behind the study at Stavanger University, said: "The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, (3) … ." One explanation, the researchers have suggested, could be that "the haptic and tactile feedback of a Kindle does not provide (4) … as a print pocket book does".
"When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, (5) … ," said Mangen. "Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, (6) … , and hence the story."
Mangen hopes that her research into the impact of digitisation on reading, and evidence that reading in general is becoming more "intermittent and fragmented", will eventually be used to recommend (7) … .
A - and shrinking on the right
B - on what they remembered
C - people struggle to remember what they've read on e-readers
D - providing more fixity and solidity to the reader's sense of unfolding and progress of the text
E - that fans of ebooks may find they have fewer memories of their reading
F -
G - the same support for mental reconstruction of a story
H - when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order
I - which texts are best read digitally and which offer more benefits when read on printed paper
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Key:
1E 2B 3H 4G 5A 6D 7I
