Directions:You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only.Questions 11—13 are based on the passage about ice phrases. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11—13. When somebody told you that you will "cut no ice" with him, what did he mean
A. You will not persuade him.
B. You are getting nowhere with him.
C. You cannot sell your ice to him.
D. You should not waste time cutting ice with him.
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Mark Twain’s letter about the Statue of Liberty ______.
A. represented a serious question as to the need for the statue
B. was a put-on by a journalist
C. raised a great deal of money
D. poked fun at the French
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise—and as a result, we are aging unnecessarily soon.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 aging could be slowed down.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.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. (The rear section of the brain, which controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.)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.Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction normally associated with age—using the head. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. 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. Matsuzawa’s findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need. “The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says, “Think hard and engage in conversation. Don’t rely on pocket calculators.” The team of doctors wanted to find out ().
A. why certain people age sooner than others
B. how to make people live longer
C. the size of certain people’s brains
D. which people are most intelligent
What does "Pay yourself first" refer to
A. Take more education and make yourself promoted quickly.
B. When you get your paycheck, save some portion of it.
C. Lend money from bank when you want to prepare for the future.
D. Accumulate money by all means.
了解什么使种群发生同步波动很重要,因为同步对灭绝风险、食物链稳定性和影响一个生态系统的其他因素都有明显效应。相似的捕食者一猎物循环中所涉及的相邻种群经常发生同步振荡,David Vasseur和Jeremy Fox利用理论及实验室缩微环境发现,当捕食者存在时,猎物种群之间的扩散是造成这种相位锁定(相位同步)的原因。扩散是不同生物(Vasseur和Fox所研究的动物是雪兔和加拿大猞猁)从一个分离的种群向另一个转移的能力。由这项工作所获得的模型对于代表捕食者一猎物和宿主一病原体系统的参数的大范围变化都是可靠的,说明它可能具有普遍适用性。 给本段文字选择一个恰当的标题( )。
A. 生态系统中的同步波动
B. 种群扩散的意义
C. 种群同步波动探秘
D. 生态系统新发现