Directions:
Read the following Chinese and write an abstract of 80—100 words.
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。
面对频繁的“明星吸毒被抓”,媒体有许多的解读方式。有人说,明星们很空虚,表面很风光,却生活在高处不胜寒的状态下。明星大多是没有自我的,听从公司的安排,如听从口令的机器人,这种状态下,极容易吸毒。有人说,明星的压力巨大,成名之后很快就会过气,所谓“江山代有才人出,各领风骚数百天”,在他们无法承受重压情绪失控时,很容易就想到了毒品。还有人说,这是圈内的时尚,有位资深的娱乐记者曾说,演艺圈内吸毒之所以像流行感冒,一个重要原因正是一些人把丑陋当时尚。别人不吸,我敢吸,叫“特立独行”;别人都吸,我不吸,岂非“不识时务”;一则可彰显身份特殊,胆敢违法犯纪,二则也可借此融入演艺圈,别让他人小瞧了自己。
其实,种种说法,都是圈外人的解读,逻辑上甚至都有问题。说明星没有“自我”,“自我”这个词太深奥,我感觉这个世界上太多人是找不到“自我”的,为何没有“自我”偏偏就非得跟毒品联系上说吸毒是娱乐圈内的时尚,甚至有负面作用,把娱乐圈“妖魔化”,原来娱乐圈这么乱。我相信娱乐圈有“潜规则”,但是,总不至于傻到把吸毒也纳入“潜规则”的行列,大家都去high一下
的确,吸毒总让我们想到堕落、压抑、煎熬、绝望之类的贬义词,但是,在没有确切统计数据的前提下,谁也
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
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
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) (46) Based on accumulated social research, there now can be little doubt that successful and well-adjusted children in modem societies are most likely to come from two-parent families consisting of the biological father and mother. Alternative family forms which are attempted, such as single parent and stepfamilies, have been demonstrated to be inferior in child outcomes. The recent movement away from the two-natural-parent family has led to considerable social malaise among the young, not to mention social decay in general. (47) It can be argued that child well-being would be enhanced if families live among care giving relatives and in supportive communities, but this has become an ever-diminishing situation. Historically, a substantial stripping down has occurred of bo
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