and says, "Thanks so much for watching my car while I'm away. But please do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car." But you do not listen. You want to show off and pretend the car is yours. So, you drive it around town. As bad luck would have it, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. The damage is serious. When your friend returns, you must tell her what you have done and "face the music". That could mean losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her sports car or both. Whatever the music is, you must face it.

There are other American expressions that mean the same as "face the music".

To "take your medicine" means to accept the results from something bad you have done. And if someone says, "You made your bed. Now lie in it." He means you created a bad situation and now you will experience the results, or as we say in American spoken English, you must deal with it!

"Pay the piper" also means the same as "face the music". But, that expression has its own very interesting beginning. We will talk about that on another Words and Their Stories.

28. What does "face the music" mean?

A. Going to a musical performance. B. Apologizing to the person you have hurt.

C. Dealing with the situation you have caused. D. Accepting the unpleasant results of an action.

29. Which of the following expressions doesn't have the same meaning with the others?

A. Face the music. B. Make your bed.

C. Take your medicine. D. Pay the piper.

30. Which action belongs to a "take your medicine"？

A. You caught a cold and took some medicine.

B. You worked hard but failed in the exam.

C. You broke the traffic rules and caused an accident.

D. You moved to a new city and lost touch with your old friends.

31. What may be talked about in the next programme?

A. Other words and their stories. B. The beginning of "pay the piper".

C. The wider use of "face the music". D. An example of "take your medicine".

　　As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remembering less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.

　　In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.

In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to