目 录 PART 1 选词填空 01 A Cube That Can Walk 一个可以行走的方块 .................................................................................................................. 2 02 Memory Appears Susceptible to Eradication of Fear Responses记忆似乎易受根除恐惧反应的影响 .......................... 5 03 Online Privacy: How to Disappear 网络隐私:如何抹去上网痕迹 ............................................................................... 9 04 China’s Disposable Chopstick Addiction Is Destroying Its Forests中国人一次性筷子消费成瘾致森林遭受毁坏 ..... 14 05 Solar Power Could Serve All of the World’s Energy Needs太阳能可以满足全球能源需求 ........................................ 17 06 It’s No Better to Put Your Child Into a Gifted Program把孩子放入资优班并不见得好 ............................................... 21 07 Labor Markets: Glad to Be Grey 劳动力市场:乐于变老 ............................................................................................. 25 08 How to Live Longer: Find Your Purpose in Life怎样生活得更长寿:寻找生活中的目标 ......................................... 29 09 Security Group Plans for a Future Without Passwords安全团体计划打造没有密码的未来世界 ................................ 32 10 Poverty Will Never Die in American Society? 贫穷永远无法在美国消亡? ............................................................... 36 11 Various Recreation Tastes 多种多样的休闲品味 ............................................................................................................ 41 12 Eating in Antarctica“食”在南极 ....................................................................................................................................... 45 13 Health Leaders Concerned by Resistance to Anti-malaria Drugs卫生组织官员担忧抗疟疾药耐药性 ........................ 49 14 Does Creative Intelligence Matter? 创造力重要吗? ..................................................................................................... 53 15 Physicians Integrate Yoga Into Medical Practice 医生将瑜伽纳入医疗实践 ................................................................ 57 16 A New Study Shows Benefit of Playing Video Games for Kids一项新研究表明玩电子游戏对孩子有益 ................... 61 17 Texting Makes You Stupid 发短信会使人变蠢 ............................................................................................................... 64 18 Smoking: Weight Watchers 抽烟=减肥? ........................................................................................................................ 68 19 Big in Norway: Slow TV 挪威大热——“慢电视” ........................................................................................................... 72 20 Replacing Food: An Engineer’s Approach to Body Fuel替代食品:工程师补充身体能量的方法 .............................. 75 PART 2 长篇阅读 01 The Amazon Mystery 亚马逊谜团 .................................................................................................................................... 82 02 Too Much Healthcare 过度的医疗护理 ............................................................................................................................ 90 03 The Health Risks of Small Apartments 小型公寓的健康风险 ......................................................................................... 98 04 Should Medical School Be Shortened to Three Years? 医学院的课程应该缩短到三年吗? ....................................... 106 05 Raising the Minimum Wage Reduces Poverty 提高*低工资可减少贫困...................................................................... 114 06 Why Do You Go to College? 你为什么上大学? ........................................................................................................... 122 07 Sardines Will Abandon You 沙丁鱼将离你而去 ............................................................................................................. 130 08 What America Won in the “War on Poverty”?“向贫困宣战”,美国赢得了什么? .................................................. 138 09 The Nuke That Might Have Been 核电本可以是这样的 ................................................................................................ 145 10 My Father Was a Wartime Spy 我父亲曾是战时间谍 .................................................................................................... 153 11 Don’t Worry, Be Happy 保持开朗,不要忧郁 ............................................................................................................... 161 12 Future Service Robots 未来的服务型机器人 ................................................................................................................. 169 13 The Morality Test 道德测试 ............................................................................................................................................ 177 14 Eating Our Young“剥削”年轻人 .................................................................................................................................. 186 15 The Drugs Don’t Work 失效的药物 ................................................................................................................................ 194 16 Save the Post Office From Extinction 拯救处境危难的美国邮局 ................................................................................. 203 17 What Dreams Are Made of? 是什么构成了梦境? ........................................................................................................ 211 18 Global Markets Hit by Fears of Growth Slowdown经济增长放缓之忧重创全球股市 ................................................. 219 19 Flexible Study for the Future Universities 未来大学的灵活性学习方法 ...................................................................... 227 20 What Do the Humanities Teach Us? 人文学科教会我们什么? .................................................................................... 235 PART 3 仔细阅读 01 Delivery by Drone? 用无人机送货? ............................................................................................................................ 244 02 Why You Have the Illusion That Your Phone Is Vibrating? 为什么会有手机震动的幻觉? ....................................... 248 03 Youth Unemployment 年轻人失业 ................................................................................................................................. 252 04 Tobacco Control Has Saved 8 Million Lives 控烟工作拯救了800万生命 .................................................................. 256 05 The Art Market: Fairly Popular 艺术品市场:备受欢迎 ............................................................................................... 260 06 Millennials Dream About Travel and Self-employment千禧一代梦想旅行和自主创业 .............................................. 264 07 Know Yourself: How Mindfulness Can Improve Self-knowledge认识自我——专注力如何提升自我认知 .............. 268 08 Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa Ever Fall? 比萨斜塔会倒塌吗? ................................................................................. 272 09 More Time Is Needed to Pay Off the Mortgage 还清房贷需要更长时间 ...................................................................... 275 10 Sorry, Marriage Is a “Luxury Good” 抱歉,婚姻可是奢侈品 ....................................................................................... 279 11 Weak Hurricane Season: A Surprise and a Puzzle弱势飓风季:是惊喜,也是困惑 .................................................... 282 12 The Myth of Blind Conformity 人性盲从之谜 ............................................................................................................... 286 13 America’s Clash of Generations Is Inevitable 美国人代际之争不可避免 ..................................................................... 291 14 You Have Never Actually Used a Styrofoam Product其实你从未使用过泡沫塑料制品 .............................................. 295 15 It’s Better to Be Right Than Happy 正确比快乐更重要 ................................................................................................. 299 16 Form Good Habits Instead of Enhancing Self-control Ability培养好习惯而不是提高自控能力 ................................. 303 17 Are People Really Staring at You? 别人真的在盯着你看吗? ...................................................................................... 307 18 What If There Were No Gravity on Earth? 如果地球没有引力将会怎样? .................................................................. 311 19 Big Banks and High-cost Lenders 大银行与高成本借贷机构 ....................................................................................... 315 20 Is an Expensive Watch Any Better at Telling Time? 昂贵的手表报时更准吗? ........................................................... 319 21 The Brains of Men and Women Really Are Different男性的大脑和女性的大脑真的不同 .......................................... 323 22 Walt Disney 华特迪士尼 ................................................................................................................................................ 327 23 AIDS in India: The Cost of Living 艾滋病在印度:生存的成本 .................................................................................. 331 24 GM Maize and Health 转基因玉米与健康 ..................................................................................................................... 335 25 Intelligence 智力 .............................................................................................................................................................. 339 26 Bigger Weddings Lead to Happier Marriages 婚礼越盛大,婚姻越幸福 ..................................................................... 343 27 A Decline of the Traditional Work-moral Values传统工作道德价值观日趋下降 ......................................................... 348 28 Conceptions of the World Is Relative to the Language One Learns? 世界观与所学语言相关吗? .............................. 352 29 The Spice of Language 语言的调味料 ...........................................................................................
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