Note-taking in Lectures For listeners, note-taking is an essential way to achieve betterunderstanding of a lecture. It involves many separate skills, fourof which will be analyzed here.Ⅰ. Understand what (1) says. (1) ______ 1. severe strain: 2 reasons —word (2) in speech. (2) ______ —new words 2. solution: concentrate on what are most importantⅡ. Sort out the main points. 1. focus on the title: write down the title (3) and completely. (3) ______ 2. be aware of signals of what is important or unimportant. signals indicating importance: — (4) (4) ______ —speak slowly or loudly —use a greater range of intonation —employ a combination of the devices signals (5) (5) ______ —deliver sentences quickly, softly —use a narrow range of intonation —use (6) pauses (6) ______Ⅲ. Write down (7) quickly and clearly. (7) ______ 1. use abbreviation 2. select words that give (8) (nouns, verbs, adjectives) (8) ______ 3. write one point on each line 4. find time to write (9) (9) ______Ⅳ. Show the connections between the various points the listeners has noted. 1. use spacing, underlining, (10) (10) ______ 2. number points
人们常说:“开卷有益”,就一般情况而言是对的。其实,开卷未必有益,问题是开什么卷,好书如“圣水”;坏书如“魔鬼”,可以使人产生邪念,诱使读者沿坡下滑,甚至会堕入阴暗之深渊。因此,在茫茫书海中,我们要学会提纯拨萃,去芜存精的本领,做到“博学之、审问之、慎思之、明辩之、笃行之。”这段话直接支持了这样一种观点,即( )。
A. 读书要善于思考
B. 读书要善于提问
C. 读书要善于学以致用
D. 读书要善于选择
Jonas Frisen had his eureka moment in 1997. Back then, scientists suspected that there was a special type of cell in the brain that had the power to give rise to new brain cells. If they could harness these so-called neural stem cells to regenerate damaged brain tissue, they might someday find a cure for such brain diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But first they had to figure out where neural stem cells were and what they looked like. Frisen, then a freshly minted Ph. D. at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, was peering through his microscope at some tissue taken from a rat’s injured spinal cord when he saw cells that appeared to have been enervated by the injury, as though they were busy making repairs. Frisen thought these might be the neural stem cells scientists had been looking for. It took him six years of painstaking research to make sure. Frisen is quick to emphasize that his research is basic and that treatments are years off. But the findings so far hint at extraordinary potential. Two years ago he identified neural stem cells in the adult human brain, And he’s now researching the mechanisms by which these cells grow into different types of brain cells. Rather than growing brain tissue in a petri-dish and implanting it in, say, the forebrain of a Parkinson’s patient, doctors might someday stimulate the spontaneous growth of new neural cells merely by administering a drug. "It sounds like science fiction," Frisen says, "but we can already do it in mice." In 2007 he will publish the results of his recent experiments. He’s isolated a protein in the mouse brain that inhibits the generation of nerve cells. Using other chemicals, he’s been able to block the action of this inhibitor, which in turn leads to the production of new brain cells. Frisen honed his analytical mind at the dinner table in Goteborg, in southwest Sweden. His mother was a mathematics professor and his father was an ophthalmologist. Frisen went to medical school intending to be a brain surgeon or perhaps a psychiatrist, but ended up spending all his free time in the lab. In 1998 he got seed money from a Swedish venture capitalist to set up his own company, NeuroNova, to commercialize his work. A private foundation tried to lure him to Texas, but Swedish businessman Marcus Storch persuaded him to stay by funding a 15-year professorship at Karolinska, covering his salary and the running costs of his 15-person lab. "Jonas Frisen stood out from all candidates by far," says Storch, whose Tobias Foundation sponsors stem-cell research. "He is something of a king in Sweden." Two years ago two more venture capitalists helped the company expand by hiring a CEO and setting up a separate lab. Since most researchers are interested in stem cells taken from embryos, the practice has attracted considerable controversy in the past few years. Frisen has benefited indirectly from research restrictions in the United States, which have driven funds and brain-power to Singapore, the United Kingdom and Sweden. The Bush Administration currently forbids U. S. -funded work on all but 78 approved stem-cell cultures, many of which are located outside the country. In just one sign of the times, the U. S.-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation recently announced grants totaling $20 million for stem-cell research—the largest award yet given to the field by a medical charity—to research institutes in Sweden and elsewhere, but not in the United States. Since Frisen doesn’t work with embryonic stem cells, he’s unwittingly become a champion of the radical right, which argues that scientists ought to concentrate solely on adult stem cells. He happens to disagree. "It would be overoptimistic or outright stupid," he says. "To really understand adult cells, we need to master how embryonic stem cells work." But what really gets Frisen going is when people ask him when they can expect a drug for Parkinson’s and other diseases. "I say, five decades, just to get the number thing out of the way," he quips. "I’m not going to oversell this." When pressed, he admits that clinical trials might begin in five years. That would be a eureka moment worth waiting for. On which of the following aspects does Frisen disagree with some radicals
A. Whether research should be done on embryonic stem cells.
B. Whether research should be done on adult stem cells.
C. When should people expect a drug for Parkinson’s.
D. When should clinical trials of stem-cells research begin.
科学家发现大洋底部的裂陷扩展从来没有停止过。这个发现可能会解答一个曾引起人们关注的问题。地球每天的时间都比前一天延长了1/700秒,即每过一年,一天要延长0.5秒,据此推测,再过2亿年,一年将只有250天了。对“一个曾经引起人们关注的问题”的解答,最准确的是( )。
A. 大洋底部裂陷扩展,地球运行时间延长
B. 大洋底部裂陷扩展,地球运行时间缩短
C. 大洋底部裂陷扩展,地球自转速度减慢
D. 大洋底部裂陷扩展,地球自转速度加快