Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 【B1】-【B5】, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

My archive, which I keep on the web, and in my computer, mobile phone and iPod, is neither particularly extensive nor interesting: several thousand digital photographs, play-lists of songs, endless dull policy reports, papers and presentations, some internet postings, Facebook friends and connections.【B1】 _________________________, We have become a society of mass archiving.

Then we will have to make quite different judgments about our memories and archives. For my parents’ generation any reminder of the past sparked a precious memory of an important family event.【B2】 _________________________.

Writing history is mainly an exciting act of detective work to piece together the story in scraps of material left behind by earlier generations. 【B3】_________________________.

We, the mass archives, will face the same issues. Now we can keep so much, so easily, the question becomes how to distinguish the significant from the merely everyday. 【B4】 ______________________. When everything and anything could have a Wikipedia entry—my local cheese shop for example—why disallow something from being recorded for posterity?

Yet we have always partly stored our memories outside our heads, in everything from holiday souvenirs to the landscape we inhabit. 【B5】_________________________. The web is not rotting our minds. More people than ever will be able to live for longer with a richer set of memories which they can show to and share with other people, giving them a stronger sense of identity.

Now pass me that USB stick. I’d like to upgrade my memories.  

A. That is why the most contentious issue in the Wikipedia community has been the dispute over what counts as a notable entry.

B. Anything that could be preserved became precious just because it had survived.

C. At first sight it seems obvious that these rapidly expanding digital archives should enrich our individual and collective memory.

D. The range of ways we can support the organization of our failing memories is expanding.

E. Teenagers, however, are archiving their lives as they happen through blog entries and photos taken on camera

phones, much of which they organize collaboratively, in semi-public, on the web.

F. When my parents pass away the meaning of this physical archive of family history will be lost.

G. Historians of this period of history onwards will have the opposite problem: too much material to choose from.