If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice: Wear red. Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or red body armor. "Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A. Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their findings are in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.
Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance. Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa’s largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait. It’s the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.
Similarly, the color’s effect also may subconscio
A. encourages athletes to win
B. is a signal of vigor
C. is superior to the color blue
D. delivers messages of mental advantage
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Karim Nasser Miran lives on a bench in the Charles de Gaulle Airport on the outskirts of Paris. He has been living there for 11 years. Amazingly, this little seat by a basement shopping mall, between a pizzeria and a fastfood stand has been the only place he has been allowed to stay for all that time.
His possessions are crammed into an airport trolleys, which is always beside him. He has a sports bag which holds his few clothes, a shopping bag with his washing soap and other bathroom goods, and books and his diaries which he keeps in cardboard boxes.
For years, the 54 - year - old Miran has been trying to leave Charles de Gaulle Airport but authorities will not let him out of the air port. This strange set of circumstances has continued for 11 years.
Miran was born in Iran, but is stateless] because he has no documents to prove his citizenry. They have been lost. For this reason he cannot get a passport. Miran says that his mother is
A. The airport workers treated him friendly at first, but became indifferent later.
B. The officials finally found the lost document which could prove Miran' s state of refugee.
C. Miran tried hard to release himself from the airport but there was no possibility to leave.
D. Miran was allowed to leave the airport in 1999 and he started a new life since then.
Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the era of (1) oil is over. What we all do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and (2) .
Demand is soaring like (3) before. As populations grow and economies (4) , millions in the developing world are enjoying the benefits of a lifestyle that (5) increasing amounts of energy. In fact, some say that in 20 years the world will (6) 40% more oil than it does today. At the same time, many of the world’s oil and gas fields are (7) . And new energy discoveries are mainly occurring in places where resources are difficult to (8) , physically, economically and even politically. When growing demand meets (9) supplies, the result is more (10) for the same resources.
We can wait until a crisis forces us to do something. (11) we can (12) to working together,
A. consume
B. restrain
C. resume
D. comprise
家庭接入Internet可以通过光缆入户，即 (1) 方式，也可以通过传统的线缆接入。当使用电话线接入时，有多种模式，对称模式的技术有 (2) 。ADSL接入铜线的传输距离可达 (3) km，通过多路复用技术，在这个线路上可同时存在 (4) 个信道，当使用HFC方式时，用户端需要Cable Modem，它提供的连接是 (5) 。
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