Directions:
Read the following Chinese text and write an abstract of it in 80--100 English words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
益智的药物。到了40岁左右,诚实的人就可能承认已经注意到他们的智力变化了。这是逐渐衰退的开端,我们当中有很多人到头来会变为痴呆。有几种可能产生被称为“认知增强”效果的药物,它们已经出现在市场上,还有二三十种其他药物也即将面世。或许最著名的要算莫达菲尼(modafinil)了。莫达菲尼可以使人保持清醒和机警连续达90小时,不会出现紧张不安和注意力不集中。事实上,失眠的人们在莫达菲尼的帮助下甚至能比他们充分休息而不用药时的表现还要好。
有益于思维的食物。你的大脑是你身体里最贪婪的器官,对饮食有某些相当特殊的要 求。所以你吃的东西会影响你怎样思维,就不足为奇了。
首先,早餐必须具备最高的质量。给大脑持续稳定地供应葡萄糖是对大脑最好的营养方式,许多研究已经表明,不吃早餐会降低人们在学校和工作中的表现。英国厄尔斯特大学的巴巴拉·斯图尔特曾发现,烤面包加豆类是极好的组合。吃烤面包会在各种认知测试中增加儿童们的得分,但是如果测试变得难度更高,则含有高蛋白豆类的早餐效果最好。
对午餐的明智选择是炒鸡蛋和沙拉。鸡蛋富含胆碱,身体用它制造神经传递素乙酰胆碱。乙酰胆碱的低水平也与阿尔茨海默氏病有关,而有些研究表明,增加膳食的摄入量可以延缓与年龄有关的记忆丧失。午后3时左右,不要忘记弄点儿点心吃,以保持你体内的葡萄糖水平。
最后,你最好用草莓和蓝莓结束晚餐。用这些水果饲养的大家鼠已表现出了协调力、注意力和短期记忆力的提高。
莫扎特效应。如今在威斯康星大学奥什科什分校工作的心理学家弗朗西斯·劳谢尔,10年前和她的同事们发现,听莫扎特的音乐可以提高人们的数学和空间推理能力,从而轰动一
Directions:
Read the following Chinese text and write an abstract of it in 80~100 English words
你知道北京有多少辆“公车”吗2011年3月的最后一天,北京市财政局公布了一个数字:62026。这个碰巧在排列上有对称性的数字,也碰巧有了历史性的意义,因为公布此类信息,尚属全国首次。
诚如此次信息公开的申请人北京某律师所助理叶晓静所说,这件事情虽然让人感到高兴,看到政府信息透明的希望,但这一信息过于简单,起不到监督的作用。她申请公开的是“公车”数量和型号,结果只有数字。而且,这个数字前面还添了若干限定语,除了“截至去年底”这个必要的时间点之外,还有“市党政机关、全额拨款事业单位公务用车”。也就是说,这只是街上跑的公车的一部分。据官方媒体估计,算上非直接预算购买,差额拨款事业单位、国有企业等单位购买的公车至少会增加到10万辆。民间的估计远远大于这个数字。
如果你对10万辆“公车”没有概念的话,那么可以查一查全市有多少“公交车”。我只找到一个粗略的统计说,有两万多辆,而且这还是多亏2008年北京奥运会前大幅增加的结果。当然,你可以说,两种车的体积和载人量都不同。不过,10万辆公车所追求的,不就是这些不同吗你仍然可以算一下,这10万辆“公车”服务多少人,而两万辆“公交车”又服务多少人
我为什么把“公车”和“公交车”加上引号呢因为按照我自己生活中的语言习惯,“公车”就是大家都能用的车,也就是“公交车”一一看到广州媒体对“公车”新闻的报道,和北方的媒体并没有区别,我就不敢肯定是不是所有广州人都这样说话了——回
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Part C Directions Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points) Maintaining classroom discipline is a growing problem for many schools. 46) Some children seem incapable of following the rules, perhaps because they feel they are unreasonable or unclear. There can be no such excuse at Bebington High School on the Wirral. When children misbehave at Bebington, the teacher immediately writes their names on the classroom board. They know they are in trouble and they know what the penalty is likely to be. Their classmates know too that the choice to break the rules was their own. 47) The effect, claim the proponents of this American system of discipline, has been to improve behaviour, allowing more time to be spent on teaching. "Assertive discipline" was introduced into Bebington last September and Margaret Hodson, a science teacher [简答题]
Part A Directions: 明星是否可以吸毒 失踪多日的日本著名影星酒井法子,8月8日正式向警方投案自首,承认吸毒,消息传出, 举世皆惊。明星吸毒并不是国外的专利,咱们国内也时不时地曝出此类“举世皆惊”的新闻。这 不,前两天又有一位歌手因吸毒被抓。 [简答题]
Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Write your translation clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Newspaper publishers make money mainly from subscribers and advertisers.
It’s been that way for centuries. But in the last few years an important
new income stream has opened up for newspapers. Among the pioneers is The
Gazette Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which since 1993 has been providing
information to its readers delivered by both paper and, increasingly, the Web.
"If a newspaper views itself as ink on paper, I don’t think it will survive. "
says Steve Hannah, vice president of information technology.
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