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英语六级阅读关键句1-20
1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or
serious injury by more than half.
2. But it will be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children
under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some
kind.
3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your
vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special
vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from
wearing it.
4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be
fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing
it.
5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy
farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and
reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed
down.
6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about
measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying
occupations.
7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise
measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which
relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.
8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in
some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and
seventy-year-olds.
9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins
sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are,
however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and
shop assistant.
11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in
your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you,
would be very expensive to you.
12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking
at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of
education happen not to be the same as yours.
13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we
refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of
Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their
education, teach them in all we know , and make men of them.
14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the
earth’s postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would
take over the world from man one day.
15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving
us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives.
We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.
16. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you
had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal
computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has
gone wrong.
17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his
writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
18. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early
intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there
was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask what lay
beneath the surface.
19. The first time that the question “ What is at the bottom of the
oceans?” had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying
of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
20. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for
repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied
contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of
the sea.
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发表于 2018-7-31 22:13:52