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第二篇Night of the Living AntsWhen an ant dies,other ants move the dead insect out of the nest.This behavior is interesting to scien-tists,who wonder how ants know for sure一and so soon一that another ant is dead.Dong-Hwan Choe,a scientist at the University of California,found that Argentine ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants,"I'm dead一take me away."But there's a twist to Choe's discovery. These ants behave a little bit like zombies（僵尸）.Choe says that the living ants一not just the dead ones一have this death chemicals. In other words,while an ant crawls around,perhaps in a picnic or home,it's telling other ants that it's dead.What keeps ants from hauling away the living dead? Choe found that Argentine ants have two additional chemicals on their bodies,and these tell nearby ants something like,"Wait一I'm not dead yet."So Choe's research turned up two sets of chemical signals in ants:one says,"I'm dead,"the other set says,"I'm not dead yet."Other scientists have tried to figure out how ants know when another ant is dead.If an ant is knockedunconscious,other ants leave it alone until it wakes up.That means ants know that unmoving ants can still be alive.Choe suspects that when an Argentine ant dies,the chemical that says"Wait一I'm not dead yet"quickly goes away. Once that chemical is gone,only the one that says"I'm dead"is left."It's because the dead ant no longer smells like a living ant that it gets carried to the graveyard（墓地）,not because its body releases new,unique chemicals after death,"said Choe.When other ants detect the"dead"chemical without the"not dead yet" chemical,they haul away the body. This was Choe's hypothesis（假设）.To test his hypothesis,Choe and his team put different chemicals on Argentine ant pupae（蛹）.When the scientists used the"I'm dead"chemical,other ants quickly hauled the treated pupae away.When the sci-entists used the"Wait一I'm not dead yet"chemical,other ants left the treated pupae alone.Choe believes this behavior shows that the" not dead yet" chemical overrides（优先于）the" dead" chemical when picked up by adult ants.And that when an ant dies,the"not dead yet"chemical fades away.Other nearby ants then de-tect the remaining"dead"chemical and remove the body from the nest.
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第一篇Women have contributed richly to the achievements of science and engineering in the United States.As pointed out by the National Women's History Project,it is unfortunate that many of these accomplishments have been forgotten,ignored,and even hidden as a result of cultural and social norms.In recent years,there have seen great strides in recognizing the contributions of women in all fields of study.The National Women's History Project,founded in 1980,has been one of the organizations to lead the way.It is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic achievements of inventive women.Each year,the National Women's History Project selects women to honor them. Sometimes these honorees paved the way as pioneers;other times they built on the knowledge and work of those who came before them. They are women who advanced our medical science,thrilled us with literature,inspired us with their courage and leadership,and moved us with their art. Who might become the honorees of the National Women's History Project?
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第三篇Internet Helps Families Stay More in TouchMuch has been said about how anti-social the Internet and mobile phones are.The truth is however,according to new research,communication technology is bringing people closer together. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found family members were keeping in regular contact today more than ever before. And this is all down to e-mail,chat,our cellphones and SMS messaging. It makes sense.Years ago,it took a long time to write a letter,then find an envelope and go to the post office to buy a stamp and post it.Today we write mails while we wait for our change in the convenience store and they're sent in an instant.Having free Internet telephone calls also helps us to stay in touch more often and for longer. Everyone's using it,from five-year-olds to tech-savvy grandparents.According to the Pew survey,technology has a very positive effect on communication within families.Researchers asked 2,252 adults whether new technologies had increased the quality of communication with their family. Fifty-three percent said it increased communication with family members they did not live with,two percent said technology decreased this.Numbers were similar for those living in the same house as their family.The project director Lee Rainey said:"There's a new kind of connectedness being built inside of families with these technologies."Survey co-author Barry Wellman agreed:"It used to be that husbands went off to work,wives went off to a different job or else stayed home…and the kids went off to school…and not until 5:30 or 6 o'clock did they ever connect,"he said. What does the verb"tech-savvy"mean?
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Underground Coal FiresCoal burning deep underground in China,India and Indonesia is threatening the environment and human life , scientists have warned.These large-scale______(51)blazes（火焰）cause the ground temperature to heat up and kill surrounding vegetation,produce greenhouse gases and can______(52) ignite（点燃）forest fires , a group of scientists told the annual meeting of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science in Denver.The resulting______(53)of poisonous elements like mercury can also pollute local water sources and soils,they warned."Coal fires are a global disaster,"said Associate Professor Glenn Stracher of East Georgia College inSwainsboro,USA.But______(54)few people know about them.Coal can heat up on its own,and eventually catch fire and bum,if there is a continuous oxygen supply.The heat produced is not caused to______(55)and under the right combinations of sunlight and oxygen,can trigger spontaneous（自发的）catching fire and buming.This can occur underground , in coal stockpiles, abandoned mines or even as coal is transported.______(56)fires in China consume up to 200 million tons of coal per year,delegates were told.In______(57),the U.S.economy consumes about one billion tons of coal annually,said Stracher,______(58)analysis of the likely impact of coal fires has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Coal Ecology.______(59)underway,coal fires can bum for decades,even centuries.In the process,they release large______(60)of greenhouse gases,poisonous fumes and black particles into the atmosphere.The members of the panel discussed the______(61)these fires may be having on global and regional climate change,and agreed that the underground nature of the fires makes them difficult to______(62).Ultimately,the remote sensing and other techniques should allow scientists to______(63)how much carbon dioxide these fires are emitting（释放）.One suggested______(64)of containing the fires was presented by Gary Colaizzi,of the engineering firm Goodson,which has developed a heat-resistant grout（灌浆）,which is designed to be pumped into the coal fire to______(65)the oxygen supply. _________61
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SemcoAt 21,Ricardo Semler became boss of his father's business in Brazil,Semco,which sold parts for ships. Semler Junior worked like a madman,from 7:30 a. m.until midnight every day.One afternoon,while touring a factory in New York,he collapsed.The doctor who treated him said,"There's nothing wrong with you.But if you continue like this,you'll find a new home in our hospital." Semler got the message.He changed the way he worked.In fact,he changed the way his employees worked too.He let his workers take more responsibility so that they would be the ones worrying when things went wrong. He allowed them to set their own salaries,and he cut all the jobs he thought were unnecessary,like re-- ceptionists and secretaries._______________ (46)"Everyone at Semco,even top managers,meets guests in recep- tion,does the photocopying,sends faxes,types letters and dials the phone."He completely reorganized the office:instead of walls,they have plants at Semco,so bosses can't shut themselves away from everyone else._______________ (47)As for uniforms,some people wear suits and others wear T-shirts.Semler says,"We have a sales manager named Rubin Agater who sits there reading the newspaper hour after hour. He doesn't even pretend to be busy.But when a Semco pump on the other side of the world fails and millions of gallons of oil are about to spill into the sea,Rubin springs into action.______________(48) That's when he earns his salary. No one cares if he doesn't look busy the rest of the time."Semco has flexible working hours;the employees decide when they need to arrive at work.The employees also evaluate their bosses twice a year.______________ (49)It sounds perfect,but does it work?The answer is in the numbers:in the last six years,Semco's revenues have gone from$35 million to $212 million.The company has grown from eight hundred employees to
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Learning DisabilitiesLearning disabilities are very common.They affect perhaps 1 0 percent of all children.Four times as many boys as girls have learning disabilities.Since about 1970,new research has helped brain scientists understand these problems better.Scientists now know there are many different kinds of learning disabilities and that they are caused by many different things.There is no longer any question that all learning disabilities result from differences in the way the brain is organized.You cannot look at a child and tell if he or she has a learning disability.There is no outward sign of the disorder.So some researchers began looking at the brain itself to learn what might be wrong.In one study,researchers examined the brain of a learning-disabled person who had died in an accident. They found two unusual things.One involved cells in the left side of the brain,which control language.These cells normally are white.In the learning disabled person,however,these cells were gray.The researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not in a line the way they should have been.The nerve cells were mixed together.The study was carried out under the guidance of Norman Geschwind,an early expert on learning disabilities, Doctor Geschwind proposed that learning disabilities resulted mainly from problems in the left side of the brain. He believed this side of the brain failed to develop normally.Probably,he said,nerve cells there did not connect as they should.So the brain was like an electrical device in which the wires were crossed.Other researchers did not examine brain tissue.Instead,they measured the brain's electrical activity and made a map of the electrical signals.Frank Dully experimented with this technique at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston.Doctor Dully found large differences in the brain activity of normal children and those with reading problems.The differences appeared throughout the brain.Doctor Dully said his research is evidence that disabilities involve damage to a wide area of the brain,not just the left side. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
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Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared CitiesA new examination of urban policies has been carried out recently by Patricia Romero Lankao. She is a so- ciologist specializing in climate change and_____________(51) development. She warns that many of the world'5 fast-growing urban areas,especially in developing countries,will likely suffer from the_____________(52)of changing climate. Her work also concludes that most cities are failing to_____________(53)emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. These gases are known to affect the atmosphere."Climate change is a deeply local issue and poses profound_____________ (54) to the growing cities of the world,"says Romero Lankao. "But too few cities are developing effective strategies to protect their residents."Cities are_____________(55)sources of greenhouse gases.And urban populations are likely to be among those most severely affected by future climate change.Lankao's findings highlight ways in which city-resi- dents are particularly vulnerable,and suggest policy interventions that could offer immediate and longer-term ____________ (56).The locations and dense construction patterns of cities often place their populations at greater _____________(57)for natural disasters.Potential threats associated with climate include storm surges and pro- longed hot weather. Storm surges can flood coastal areas and prolonged hot weather can heat_____________(58) paved cities more than surrounding areas. The impacts of such natural events can be more_____________(59)in an urban environment. For example,a prolonged heat wave can increase existing levels of air pollution,causing widespread health problems.Poorer neighborhoods that may_____________(60)basic facilities such as drinking water or a dependable network of roads,are especially vulnerable to natural disasters.Many residents in poorer countries live in substandard housing_____________(61)access to reliable drinking water,roads and basic services.Local governments,therefore,should take measures to_____________(62)their residents."Unfortunately, they tend to move towards rhetoric_____________(63)meaningful responses,"Romero Lankao writes,"They don't impose construction standards that could reduce heating and air conditioning_____________(64).They don't em- phasize mass transit and reduce automobile use.In fact,many local governments are taking a hands-off ap- proach."_____________(65),she urges them to change their idle policies and to take strong steps to prevent the harmful effects of climate change on cities. _________(53)
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第三篇Oil and EconomyCould the bad old days of economic decline be about to return?Since OPEC agreed to supplycuts in March,the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel,up from less than$10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock,when prices quadrupled,and 1979一1980,when they also almost tripled.Both previous shocks resulted in double一digit inflation and global economic decline.So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports.Strengthening economic growth,at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere,could push the price higher still in the short term.Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s.In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.In Europe,taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price,so even quite big changes in the price of crude oil have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were,and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.Energy conservation,a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.Software,consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production.For each dollar of GDP(in constant prices)rich economies now use nearly 50%less oil than in 1973.The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that,if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year,compared with $13 in 1998,this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.S%of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980.On the other hand,oil-importing emerging economies一to which heavy industry has shifted一have become more energy一intensive,and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that,unlike the rises in the 1970s,it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline.The Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%,and in 1979 by almost 30%. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is______.
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Microchip Research Center CreatedA research center has been______(51)in this Far Eastern country to develop advanced microchip production technology.The center,which will start out with about US$14 million,will help the country develop its chip industry without always depending on imported technology.The center will make use of its research skills and______(52)to develop new technology for _______(53)chip plants.The advent of the center will possibly free the country from the_______(54) that it is always buying almost-outdated technologies from other countries,said the country's flagship chipmaker.______(55),chip plants in this country are in a passive situation because many foreign governments don't allow them to______(56)the most advanced technologies,fearing they will be used for______(57) purposes.Moreover,the high licensing fees they have to pay to technology providers are also an important _(58)for their decision of self-reliance.As mainstream chip production technology______(59)from one generation to the next every three to five years,plants with new technology can make more powerful chips at lower costs,while plants with______(60)equipment,which often cost billions of dollars to build,will be______(61)by the maker.More than 10 chip plants are being built,each costing millions of US dollars.The majority of that money goes to overseas equipment______(62)and technology owners-mainly______(63)Japan and Singapore.Should the new center play a major role in improving the situation in the industry,the country admits the US $14 million investment is still rather small.This country is developing______(64)technologies.Most of the investment will be spent on setting_______(65)with technology and intellectual property owners. 58._________
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Microchip Research Center CreatedA research center has been______(51)in this Far Eastern country to develop advanced microchip production technology.The center,which will start out with about US$14 million,will help the country develop its chip industry without always depending on imported technology.The center will make use of its research skills and______(52)to develop new technology for _______(53)chip plants.The advent of the center will possibly free the country from the_______(54) that it is always buying almost-outdated technologies from other countries,said the country's flagship chipmaker.______(55),chip plants in this country are in a passive situation because many foreign governments don't allow them to______(56)the most advanced technologies,fearing they will be used for______(57) purposes.Moreover,the high licensing fees they have to pay to technology providers are also an important _(58)for their decision of self-reliance.As mainstream chip production technology______(59)from one generation to the next every three to five years,plants with new technology can make more powerful chips at lower costs,while plants with______(60)equipment,which often cost billions of dollars to build,will be______(61)by the maker.More than 10 chip plants are being built,each costing millions of US dollars.The majority of that money goes to overseas equipment______(62)and technology owners-mainly______(63)Japan and Singapore.Should the new center play a major role in improving the situation in the industry,the country admits the US $14 million investment is still rather small.This country is developing______(64)technologies.Most of the investment will be spent on setting_______(65)with technology and intellectual property owners. 60._________
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第二篇The Mir Space StationThe Russian Mir Space Station,which came down in 2001 at last after 15 years of pioneering the concept of long-term human space flight,is remembered for its accomplishments in the human space flight history.It can be credited with many firsts in space.During Mir's lifetime,Russia spent about US $4.2 billion to build and maintain the station.The Soviet Union launched Mir,which was designed to last from three to five years,on February 20, 1986,and housed 104 astronauts over 12 years and seven months,most of whom were not Russian.In fact, it became the first international space station by playing host to 162 people from 1 1 countries.From 1995 through 1998,seven astronauts from the United States took turns living on Mir for up to six months each.They were among the 37 Americans who visited the station during nine stopovers by space shuttles.The more than 400 million the United States provided Russian for the visits not only kept Mir operating,but also gave the Americans and their partners in the international station project valuable experience in long-term flight and multinational operations.A debate continues over Mir's contributions to science.During its existence,Mir was the laboratory for 23,000 experiments and carried scientific equipment,estimated to be worth $80 million,from many nations.Experiments on Mir are credited with a range of findings,from the first solid measurement of the ration of heavy helium（氦）atoms in space to how to grow wheat in space.But for those favouring human space exploration,Mir showed that people could live and work in space long enough for a trip to Mars.The longest single stay in space is the 437.7 days that Russian astronaut Valery Polyakov spent on Mir from 1994 to 1995.And Sergie Avdeyev accumulated 747.6 days in space in three trips to the space station.The longest American stay was that of Shannon Lucid,who spent 188 days aboard Mir in 1996.Despite the many firsts Mir accomplished,1997 was a bad year out of 15 for Mir.In 1997,an oxygen generator caught fire.Later,the main computer system broke down,causing the station to drift several times and there were power failures.Most of these problems were repaired,with American help and suppliers,but Mir's reputation as a space station was ruined.Mir's setbacks are nothing,though,when we compare them with its accomplishments.Mir was a tremendous success,which will be remembered as a milestone in space exploration and the space station that showed long-term human habitation in space was possible.But it's time to move on to the next generation.The International Space Station being built will be better,but it owes a great debt to Mir. We can learn from the passage that the Mir Space Station______.
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I'll Be BachComposer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music.It took Cope 30 years to develop the software.Now most people can't tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J.S.Bach(1685-1750)and the Bach-like compositions from Cope's computer.It all started in 1980 in the United States,when Cope was trying to write an opera.______(46)At first this music was not easy to listen to.What did Cope do?He began to rethink how human beings compose music.He realized that composers'brains work like big databases.First,they take in all the music that they have ever heard.______(47)Finally,they make new music from what is left.According to Cope,only the great composers are able to create the database accurately,remember it,and form new musical patterns from it.Cope built a huge database of existing music.He began with hundreds of works by Bach.The software analyzed the data:it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns.It then combined the pieces into new patterns._______(48)They weren't good,but it was a start.Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write.He continued to improve the software.Soon it could analyze more complex music.He also added many other composers,including his own work,to the database.A few years later,Cope's computer program,called"Emmy",was ready to help him with his opera.______(49)Cope listened to the computer's musical ideas and used the ones that he liked.With Emmy,the opera took only two weeks to finish.It was called Cradle Falling,and it was a great success! ______(50) Since that first opera,Emmy has written thousands of compositions,Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn't like of her music,but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days! ______(50)
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