facilities (floor plans, classic white mugs,a cashier's booth);250 of these items are part of an exhibit in Rhode Island.

　　READ American Diner:Then & Now(John Hopkins University Press)

　　VISIT "Diners:Still Cooking in the 21st Century", currently running at the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island

1.In what way is a diner different from a coffee shop?

A.Its location. B.Its management.

C.From what it is built. D.Where it is constructed.

2.What do we know about Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner"?

A.It warns people not to drink.

B.It was inspired by Tom's Diner Day.

C.Its melody is preferred to its lyrics.

D.Its original title was Tom's Restaurant.

　　I was always that kid in school, the one whose notes were color-coded in shorthand only I could read. In college, everyone said taking notes on a laptop was superior. Recently, Princeton University teamed up with UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) to test this scientifically, and the results were puzzling.

　　Experimenters assigned college students to hear the same lecture, but either in a classroom equipped with notebooks or one with laptops. After 30 minutes of note-taking, students took quizzes on retention (记忆力) of facts (dates, statistics, etc) and concepts (comprehension, making connections).

　　While students using laptops were likely to take more notes and copy exactly what teachers said, they were less likely to retain information. Laptop users memorized about the same number of facts as students who handwrote, but they performed worse when tested on ideas. This held true whether students were tested immediately or given a week to study.

The main benefit of typing notes:It's faster. This could actually be the problem. Students who write their notes by hand are forced to paraphrase (释义) to keep up with professors' speech. Experts say that summarizing forces students to engage with material. They think about lectures more deeply, processing and committing them to memory. But when students can copy down