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(认知的) skills didn"t get any smarter.
More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the researchers
to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week. They
were compared to more than 2,700 people who didn"t play any brain games, but spent a similar amount of
time surfing the Internet and answering general knowledge questions. All participants were given a sort of
I.Q test before and after the experiment.
Researchers said the people who did the brain training didn"t do any better on the test after six weeks than
people who had simply been on the Internet. On some sections of the test, the people who surfed the Net
scored higher than those playing the games.
"If you"re (playing these games) because they"re fun, that"s absolutely fine," said Adrian Owen, the study"s
lead author. "But if you"re expecting (these games) to improve your I.Q., our data suggests this isn"t the case,"
he said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
One maker of brain games said the company"s games have been proven to boost brain power. "Their
conclusion would be like saying, "I cannot run a mile in under 4 minutes and therefore it is impossible to do
so," Aldrich said in a statement.
"There is precious little evidence to suggest the skills used in these games transfer to the real world," said
Art Kramer, who was not linked to the study and has no ties to any companies that make brain training games.
Instead of playing brain games, Kramer said people would be better off getting some exercise. He said
physical activity can spark (激发) new connections between nerves and produce new brain cells."Fitness
changes the building blocks of the brain"s structure," he said.
B. unreliable
C. illegal
D. effective
B. Age didn"t affect the result of the research.
C. Every person played online brain games three times a day.
D. People who didn"t play online brain games did better in I.Q test
B. There is a lot of evidence to suggest skills can transfer to the real world.
C. Do physical activity can boost your brain power.
D. Playing online games can spark new brain cells
B. Those playing the games can score higher in the test
C. playing the games can spark new connections between nerves
D. This isn"t the case that these games can improve your I.Q.
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试题【阅读理解。 In a six-week study, experts found people who played online games desi】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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You can change the way you imagine or remember things without changing what you imagine, and it will
change your feelings. For example, if a visual memory makes you sad whenever you think about it, you can
make that mental picture smaller and dimmer, and when you do, the memory won"t make you as sad. Since
you haven"t changed the content of the memory, you haven"t lost any information. You have simply made it
less painful.
When you visually remember a pleasant memory, you can made the picture more colorful and the money
will give you even more intense good feelings. You can make your pictures of the future brighter, wider,
deeper, or you can bring the images closer. Changes like these will make you feel different-even when you
leave the content of the picture the same.
These are general guidelines (指导方针). You"ll need to experiment for yourself to find out what will work
for a particular image. For a few people, making an exciting picture brighter makes the feelings less intense.
And for some kinds of pictures, increasing the brightness would cause the feelings to become less intense-for
example, a romantic memory.
What is true for visual images also applies to the way you talk to yourself.
For example, if you have trouble motivating yourself, try changing the tone of voice you use when you
spread to yourself. Some people order themselves around. The voice they use to talk to themselves is harsh and
commanding. Listening to yourself being bossy can have the same effect as listening to someone else being
bossy: It can make you want to rebel. Change your tone to friendly or seductive, and you might feel more
motivated. When you tell yourself, "I can do it," fill your internal voice with enthusiasm and back it up with
inspiring music. The possibilities are in fact endless.
The important thing to understand is that they way you code your inner world has an impact, and you have
quite a bit of control over that coding. You can change it deliberately. When you do, it will change your feelings,
which change your actions, which will change the world around you.
B. Be Merry
C. You Can Change People"s Attitude towards You
D. Talk to Yourself in a Friendly Way
B. on purpose
C. difficultly
D. wiser
B. sadder
C. calmer
D. wiser
B. Some people order others to follow their instructions.
C. Some people are very hard on themselves.
D. Some people are very strict with themselves.
of the animal world. But last week a report said that there are no more than 30 wild tigers left in south China.
This was the conclusion of a team of scientists from China"s State Forestry Administration and the World
Nature Fund.
The South China tiger, also known as the Chinese tiger, is native to southern China. In the 1950"s, there
were over 4000 tigers found in mountain forests in the country. But due to the destruction of their natural
habitat (栖息地) and uncontrolled hunting, it has been pushed on to the list of the world"s top ten most
endangered species.
Sixty-six of the big cats can be found in the cages of a dozen zoos around China. But they are nothing like
their wild cousins. They have lost their natural skills such as hunting and killing. If they were set free they
could not look after themselves.
"Breeding has damaged the quality of the species", said Pei Enle, deputy director of the Shanghai Zoo.
To reintroduce the species into the wild, the country started a programme to send five to ten young tigers
to South Africa. Four of them have already arrived. Progress has been made as two elder tigers have
recovered some of their instincts(本能) and can hunt wild animals by themselves at the African base.
" South Africans are very experienced in reintroducing big animals to the wild. The country has very good
natural conditions for the tigers to learn in", said Lu Jun, office director of the National Wildlife Research and
Development Center. "We tried in Fujian Province, but it was not successful as there was not a complete
eco-chain (生物链) and there was a lack of space." The tigers should return to China in 2007 when the
reservations in Fujian are ready.
endangered species?
B. Because there is not a complete eco-chain.
C. Because there is no space for it.
D. Because uncontrolled hunting has destroyed its natural living conditions.
B. Two tigers can already compete with their wild cousins.
C. Some of the tigers are already on the road to recovering their natural skills.
D. The tigers should be able to recover their instincts completely by 2007.
B. they don"t know how to hunt or kill
C. a complete change has resulted in the species because of breeding
D. to reintroduce them into the wild has become an urgent task
B. To provide them with a better environment.
C. To get the tigers to go on a tour.
D. To find a complete eco-chain for them.
B. Because South Africans are skilled at dealing with the tigers.
C. Because there is a complete eco-chain and enough space there.
D. Because the country has good natural conditions for the tigers to learn in.
people, so many students are wondering why they have to learn it.
Our nature includes not just the humans but plants and animals as well. Everything in our environment
is connected in a complex cycle. If you have a better understanding of how animals behave, then you
would value nature better.
Some animals, like sharks and snakes, are often misunderstood by people. They are thought of as
human killers, and this is mainly because we don"t understand why they behave that way. Zoology would
help you learn their natural behavior as well as their habits, so you would understand why they behave in
a defensive manner when they feel threatened.
Studying zoology would help people know the real facts about animals. One of the sad facts is the
decreasing numbers of some species of animals. It makes people realize that there is a need for nature to
be always balanced. We need animals to keep the balance in our environment and for humans to survive.
Zoology helps us learn the needs that animals have and we can respond by thinking of solutions we can
give to the endangered species of animals.
Technological progress is needed for a country to grow in terms of its economy; however, it should
not force us to destroy our rainforests and oceans. People should realize that our modern lives should
include the lives of the animals. Animals should not be contained in zoos but live in their natural habitats.
We will learn that every living creature on the earth has the right to own a habitat and we need to fight for
them to have permanent habitats.
B. work with zoologists better
C. have an appreciation for nature
D. understand the animals" behavior
B. people should communicate with animals
C. animals keep their behavior a myth
D. animals are human killers
B. spread the knowledge of animals
C. satisfy the animals" needs
D. protect endangered animals
B. the importance of studying zoology
C. the basic knowledge of zoology
D. the ways of protecting animals
In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were
eighteen years old.
The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup (民意调查)
Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen
and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about
mental or emotional stress.
Arthur Stone at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress
were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress
levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and
those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their
seventies and eighties.
Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as
people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.
They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or
maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being
single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to
age.
The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However,
women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry
A. only when people get older will they feel happier
B. stress levels among the youngest are the highest
C. older people tend to be grateful
D. older people usually have no worries
B. they are physically weak
C. they have better self-control
D. they are more emotional
B. How to live better.
C. How to keep happier.
D. Why women are less happier.
B. introduce a scientific finding
C. describe how to do research
D. talk about human emotions
built a company around sleep deprivation (睡眠不足).
Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Brown"s business and
engineering schools. They began thinking about ways to sleep better. They discovered they weren"t alone in
burning the midnight oil. Around 20% of Americans get less than six hours of rest a night.
The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time people spend in the most
restorative (有回复作用的) stages of the sleep cycle: REM (rapid eye movement)and deep sleep. What would
it cost to design such a thing? Five years of research, 20 employees, $14 million and a whole lot of doubting
from investors and scientists.
Their company, Zeo, based in Newton, Mass, launched its product in June, 2009. The Zeo device uses a
headband with tiny sensors (传感器) that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states-REM, light, deep and
waking sleep.The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you as you"re not in
REM sleep (which is when you"re least groggy). In the morning you can upload the data to the company"s
Web site, and so track your sleep over time.Most of the feedback comes in the form of Zeo"s ZQ score
showing how well you"ve slept.
"Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep," says Dave Dickinson, a health-care CEO.
Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer, who will also need to make lifestyle
changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 pm.
For now the company is selling Zeo online only. Dickinson also plans to spread it to countries such as
Australia, where sleep deprivation approaches US level
B. People suffering sleeping problems.
C. People having access to the Internet.
D. People having bad lifestyles.
B. To earn enough money for their study.
C. To improve the quality of people"s sleep.
D. To enjoy their life while working at night.
B. were widely supported by scientists
C. worked by themselves all the time
D. attracted many investors .
B. It needs more personal efforts to make Zeo function better.
C. A large quantity of Zeo devices have been sold in Australia.
D. Consumers can go to the Zeo company to purchase Zeo in person
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