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is when two American astronomers reported on their study of all the light in the universe. They said that the
universe would appear to the human eyes to be a light greenish color.
Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, reported their finding
in January. They presented the research at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. They said that
finding the color of the universe was not part of their more serious scientific research. They did it for fun.
However, earlier this month, the scientists admitted making a mistake. They said their finding was much
more colorful than it should have been. They now say the light from our universe is closer to white. It is more
like a milky or creamy white color.
Their study attempted to show what people might see if they could observe the universe from far away.
The scientists found the average color by combining light from about two-hundred-thousand star systems.
Their information came from an observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The scientists gave a number
value to the colors of the different star systems. Then they added the numbers together and found the average
measurement. The scientists used this average to identify the color of the universe. They said it was a very
pretty light green. Many newspapers and television stations reported their finding.
Other scientists and color engineers attempted to reproduce the result. Mark Fairchild of the Rochester
Institute discovered a mistake in the computer software program used by the Johns Hopkins scientists.
When the mistake was corrected, the results changed. The new color of the universe is much less colorful.
It is very close to white.
B. black
C. blue
D. light greenish
B. observing at an observatory in India
C .making long-term scientific research
D. using computer software programs
B. Ivan Baldry.
C. Mark Fairchild
D. Johns Hopkins.
B. the light from our universe is a light greenish color
C. the new color of the universe is much more colorful
D. the finding of the color of the universe is difficult
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试题【阅读理解。 What is the color of the universe? Astronomers had not answered this q】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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a preference-or even the result of late-night studying or instant messaging-but is rooted in their biological
rhythms(节律). All of this would be little more than an interesting observation except that most high schools
start so early, and so many teenagers are having a hard time staying awake.
A recent article in The Times cited a National Sleep Foundation survey in which more than a quarter of
the students reported that they fell asleep in class at least once a week. Researchers say this is true because
youngsters - beginning around age 12 until they reach their mid-20s-only start producing melatonin, the
sleep-inducing hormone(荷尔蒙), around 11:00 pm and that production lasts until about 7:00 am. In adults,
melatonin lasts to around 4:00 am. Trying to wake up a teenager before 7:00 am is like trying to awake an
adult before 4:00 am.
The obvious remedy(补救)would be for high schools to start later-well, after 8:00 am. A handful of
schools that have switched have reported beneficial results. School officials in Minneapolis say that
attendance improved and students" grades rose slightly after they changed to start at 8:40 am several years
ago. In Wilton, Conn., where the high school start time was pushed back to 8:20 am from 7:35 am, teachers
and parents reported better student behavior and greater alertness. Surveys of students in both districts
indicated that they did not use the later starts as an excuse to go to bed later.
Numerous districts have considered the idea of later high school hours, only to drop it because of fierce
adult opposition. Coaches complain that the later classroom hours in the afternoon would take time from
their training programs and teams" success. School bus companies would be forced to change their
schedules. And many parents complained that they would have to adjust their own schedules.
Many schools officials say more research is needed. We"re all for that and for remembering that the goal
is to educate youngsters-and for that they need to be awake.
B. they waste too much rest time sending instant messages
C. they prefer to stay in bed rather than get up early
D. their biological systems make them do so
B. adults sleepy after 4:00 am
C. youngsters sleepy before 7:00 am
D. adults awake after 4:00 am
B. later high school start time made students go to bed late
C. students don"t go to bed late even though they have later high school hours
D. later high school start time is a very effective measure
① School team coaches.
② Many parents.
③ School teachers.
④ School bus companies.
B. ①②④
C. ①③④
D. ②③④
B. negative
C. indifferent
D. unclear
to show your friends that you"re happy to see them. But what happens if your face and body send mixed
messages? Scientists have recently deal with these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your
face, he or she might not believe what he or she sees if your body language doesn"t match the feeling that your
face shows.
Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists. Previously, they had found that the tone of a
person"s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to
believe a person who says in a flat voice,"I"m so excited."
When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected
that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston
showed people a number of pictures of isolated faces and isolated bodies (with faces blurred out) that showed
anger or fear. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared
bodies.
An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrows and a slightly open
mouth. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight. A scared body had arms
forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.
Using the pictures, the researchers asked people to quickly press a button that matched the correct facial
emotion: anger or fear. When people looked only at faces, they chose the right emotion about 81 percent of
the time. But when people looked at a mismatched picture-a scared face with an angry body, for example-they
correctly guessed the emotion on the face only 64 percent of the time.
These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention
to the face, body language subtly influences which emotion they read.
So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel. And if you want to be understood, it
helps to avoid sending mixed messages.
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2. What question have scientists recently dealt with? ( No more than 15 words)
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3. Please explain the underlined word"confused" in English. ( No more than 5 words)
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4. Why do people tend to look at other"s faces to know their real feelings when their body language
doesn"t match the feelings their faces show? ( No more than 30 words)
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5. What did most scientists suspect according to the passage? ( No more than 10 words)
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eat bamboo will immediately jump into their mind. Scientists from Mississippi State University, however, are
interested in what the bears leave behind; their poop (排泄物). At a recent meeting in Denver, Professor Brown
at the university presented her research showing how panda poop could inspire a new way to obtain energy
from plants, which are a renewable energy source. Usually, plants can be called biomass (有机燃料) when
they are used as an energy source.
Burning biomass is one way to capture its energy, but Brown hopes panda poop can teach scientists
something about breaking down biomass. Pandas - or at least the bacteria in their stomachs - are very good at
getting energy out of bamboo. Unlike cows, which use 4 stomachs to digest large amounts of grass, a panda
has only one stomach. Bamboo comes in, and poop goes out.
Every day for 14 months, Brown and her team on this project, counted the bacteria in the poop of the two
pandas. Ya Ya and Le Le living at the Memphis Zoo. Her studies turned up 12 species of bacteria that break
down biomass, including one that had never been found in pandas. Brown says that because the poop contains
bacteria that break down biomass, it could also be used to break down other types of biomass.
Now the scientists hope to identify the chemicals that help with the process of breaking down biomass and
then figure out how the bacteria work. If those chemicals can be made in the lab, they could be used to turn
biomass - like grass or other plants - into fuel.
Brown says she doesn"t mind handling panda poop."It"s probably the most pleasant material to work with,"
she says,"My colleagues and I have been working with other poop for a long time, and we can assure you it
has a fairly pleasant smell associated with it."
B. to create a renewable energy from plants
C. to learn a lesson of energy from panda poop
D. to figure out how the bacteria work for us mankind
a. Identify the chemicals helpful to break down biomass.
b. Find the bacteria in panda poop which break down bamboo.
c. Reproduce the chemicals in the lab to turn biomass into energy.
d. Analyze how the bacteria in panda poop work in panda"s stomach.
B. a, d, c, b
C. b, d, a, c
D. b, a, d, c
B. Pandas are capable of getting energy using stomachs.
C. Scientists have learn something new from panda poop.
D. Pandas can get energy from bamboo more efficiently.
B. Challenging.
C. Inspiring.
D. Sick.
too. They want to know about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean.
In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3,000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935
August Piccard dived 10,330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35 ,800 feet.
All these early dives were deep. But the divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back
up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below surface.
Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau, a Frenchman, was able to keep down to a depth of 36 feet for one month
and to a depth of 90 feet for a week.
Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment, man can stay below the
surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then,
in 1964,he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea. This was the first undersea station to
operate without help from the surface.
Many countries are now studying undersea living. The former Soviet Union has an undersea laboratory in
the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In
1970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next
came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its
resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral, vegetable, and animal wealth there to provide food for the
entire world.
B. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surface
C. know about the plant and animal life deep in the ocean
D. both A and C
B. August Piccard.
C. Jean Piccard.
D. Cousteau.
B. An American.
C. A Russian.
D. The passage made no mention.
B. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea laboratory.
C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use
of the resources in the ocean.
D. None of the above is true.
B. that scientists try to make use of resources in the ocean
C. about the secret of the plant and animal life in the ocean
D. both A and B
China"s "Cultural Heritage Day" falls on the second Saturday of June every year. Many celebrations are held
and all cultural relic protection sites are 1 to open free to the public on the day.
There is no 2 that various celebrating 3 across the country will arise public 4 of the importance of
cultural heritage protection and 5 the young people to love the fine 6 culture of the motherland.
China faces a heavy task to protect and rescue its cultural 7 . We need to consider seriously the 8 of the
lack of awareness about cultural heritage protection. 9 , Heritage Education is one of our main approaches.
People cannot 10 value cultural heritage if they do not know 11 it is important or how to protect it. Over
the past several years, CHP 12 over a hundred educational 13 to various groups, such as schools,
government offices, 14 the general public. Many people have attended CHP seminars. Typically, each seminar
lasts two or three hours and 15 of an informative presentation, 16 by a longer question-and-answer session
and discussion. Each attender with 17 knowledge of cultural heritage, 18 it to be just the Forbidden City
(紫禁城) and the Great Wall. People often think that the duty only 19 to the government. So "Cultural Heritage Day" will be a welcome 20 to educate a wide public on world heritage conservation.
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