第1个回答 2006-10-18
文摘类的，内容不会太多，办手抄报1，2篇就够了
The Other Great Wall
Since the end of imperial rule, Chinese leaders have shared a colossal(巨大的, 庞大的) engineering ambition: to dam the mighty Yangtze River. In May, 87 years after Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese Nationalist leader, first proposed locating a dam downstream of the scenic Three Gorges, workers added the last blocks of concrete to raise the Three Gorges Dam to its full 610-foot height and 1.4-mile girth.
The dam demands superlatives(最高的): it is the world’s largest concrete structure and the largest dam in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation. It is five times as wide as the Hoover Dam, and the reservoir(水库, 蓄水池) it has created stretches for about 400 miles, longer than Lake Superior. When it becomes fully functional in 2009, the dam’s 26 turbines(涡轮) should produce 84.68 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, meeting nearly one-tenth of China’s needs.
If it works as planned, the dam will also contain the summer rains that regularly flood settlements along the lower Yangtze, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives. Yet the costs are also enormous, even beyond the $25 billion price tag. The dam has changed the geographic(地理学的, 地理的) face of China, its reservoir forming a giant man-made lake amid stunning and once splendidly remote cliffs. Scores of cities and towns, some of them with artifacts(史前古器物) that date back 2,000 years, have disappeared. And at least 1.3 million people have been relocated.
Whatever the pros and cons, the dam is fast becoming a beacon(烟火, 灯塔) for tourists, a Great Wall across the Yangtze. The Chinese expect it to attract more than a million visitors this year. They come to see an engineering marvel, a hulking(笨重的, 粗陋的) edifice(大厦, 大建筑物) that consumes the river and then spits it out in a pressurized spray(加压喷雾) that arcs hundreds of feet into the sky. The “placid(平静的) lake” once promised in a poem by Mao Zedong has indeed replaced the muddy rapids. And the Three Gorges, though diminished in stature, have acquired a new kind of tranquillity.
How To Improve My English And Pronunciation Quickly And Easily?
Point 1 Be clear about why you want to learn English. Do you want it for your job, to help you get a job, to talk to English speakers, to help you study?
Point 2 Be clear about how good you want your English to be. How good do you want to be at speaking English, listening, reading, writing?
Point 3 Have a clear image of yourself when you have achieved the proficiency that you want. What will you see, what will you hear, how will you feel?
Point 4 If possible, enrol on a language course. If you can't, put yourself in situations where you can use English which leads on to ......
Point 5 Look for opportunities to learn and use English. Speak English whenever you can. Listen to the radio and CDs in English, read and write in English. If you look for opportunities, you will find them.
Point 6 Write down new words and phrases in a notebook. Keep the notebook with you so you can look at it when you have a spare moment.
Point 7 Practise, practise, practise. There's an expression in English. If you don't want to lose it, use it. This is very true when it comes to learning foreign languages.
Point 8 Find a learning buddy or colleague. Find someone you can learn English with. Speak with each other. Send each other messages in English.
Point 9 Learn little and often. Make it a habit to learn English ten minutes each day. This is much better than learning for longer once a week.
And the final point At the beginning of a learning period, ask yourself, "What do I want to learn today?" At the end of a period, ask yourself, "What have I learnt today?"
There's a story about a teacher who told his students? You know you're making progress in English when you speak in English, think in English, and dream in English.
One day a student came into the class very excited and said, "Teacher, Teacher, last night I dreamt in English." The teacher said, "That's wonderful. What did you dream about?" And the student said, "I don't know, it was in English."
I don’t know. I don’t think there are easy ways to learn languages – I don’t think people who promise sudden ‘quick fix’ methods are to be believed. We learn slowly, and we learn by working hard.
As far as pronunciation is concerned, the most important thing is listening! I think, often we try and pronounce things correctly before we can really hear what the differences are. How do we check out whether we’re doing that?
Record ourselves I think we need to record ourselves and we need to record what it is we’re repeating and listening to. So, the most useful thing perhaps is to listen to the radio with a tape recorder, to record a little bit of the radio, and then to say it ourselves, and to compare how we’ve said it, with the way it was said on the radio, in the language we’re learning.
It’s a slow process. We need to spend a lot of time rehearsing. I remember when I was learning, for instance, for hours and hours as I was walking or cycling, or whatever – I was trying to produce those sounds, difficult sounds that I was learning.
The more we do that, the more we pick up when we hear them. And of course the other thing about pronunciation is, as we improve our pronunciation, that also improves our comprehension. As we learn to make these distinction between similar sounds, we start hearing them – and that makes understanding easier.
Spelling is a problem One of the biggest problems in English is that the spelling gets in the way because there are so many ways of spelling the same sound. Also because letters may be written and not pronounced and because letters may be written and pronounced in a very unexpected way. When we learn to read, that can interfere with our pronunciation, and can cause problems in itself.
Is there a difference between pronunciation and fluency?
They’re quite different. Pronunciation is getting the sounds right, and of course it’s also getting the intonation and the rhythm right – it’s not just individual sounds, it’s pushing them all together.
Fluency perhaps overlaps there a little bit. Fluency is saying things easily. Being fluent is more a question of being confident in the vocabulary, and how to put the words together in the grammar – being confident in that - …and just being confident in your ability to express yourself and having a go.
It’s those psychological factors much more than whether you can get your tongue around the individual sounds. In fact people whose pronunciation is poor, but who speak fluently and put it together and get it out reasonably quickly, are usually easier to understand than people who’re taking a lot of trouble over their pronunciation and therefore are slowing themselves down, and speaking one word at a time.
One piece of advice When you’re speaking, don’t think about the individual sounds and getting those right. Think about groups of words, and think about meaningful groups of words, and getting those out as quickly and as smoothly as you can.
回答者：wttttt - 探花 十一级 10-18 18:19
给你几个:
Green Tea
For some time, experts have been reading tealeaves, green tea leaves. Over the years science has looked into whether green tea helps prevent heart disease, even cancer. Many of these studies have been served tepid, full of caveats. And the tea has often been tested on small animals. Well now from Japan comes this news: Drinking green tea may lower the risk of death, especially from heart disease and that is in people, not in hamsters. NPR’s Patricia Neighmond reports on study in this week’s journal of the American Medical Association.
The study took place in northeastern from Japan where 80% of the population drinks the green tea. Researchers looked at over 40,000 adults, comparing those who drank less than one cup of tea a day to those who drank three to five cups of a day. Over eleven years, those who drank more tea were less likely to die of heart disease. Epidemiologist Shinici Kuriyama from Tohoki University School of medicine headed the study.
Our findings might explain differences in mortality profile between Japan and the US, now Japanese has the longest longevity in the world.
In the study, women saw a greater decrease in heart disease than men, for women who drink five or more cups of green tea daily there was a 31% lower risk of death from heart disease. For men, the risk was reduced by 22%. For both men and women, the biggest decrease was in death due to stroke. Dr Kuriyama:
We don’t know the mechanism of the green tea in those studies. But the recent evidence shows that hypertension, or cholesterol, or arteriosclerosis itself could be improved by drinking green tea.
Also Kuriyama’s study did not specifically look at hypertension, cholesterol or arteriosclerosis, Kuriyama speculates that certain antioxidants in green tea help to keep arteries healthy. Green tea is made by a more simple process than black tea. With green tea, leaves are steamed immediately after picking them. With the black tea, moistures are removed, tealeaves are fermented in a humidity -controlled room and then dried, a longer process that may remove some antioxidants.
Joe Winson is a biochemist at the university of Scranton in Pennsylvania who studies antioxidants in food. Winson says the results of the study are important, but not at all conclusive.
To me, it’s not cause and effect, it’s…it’s a hint that green tea is good for the heart.
To solidly establish cause and effect, Vinson says a rigorous long-term clinical trial would be needed. And in any case Vinson says all tea both black and green, may help arterial health by increasing the body’s natural production of nitric oxide, which makes arteries more flexible.
It makes your arteries be able to constrict and open up again more easily, with less changes in your blood pressure, less stress on your heart.
So bottom line, it can’t hurt, says Vinson, to drink more tea, both black and green, both hot and cold. Americans traditionally are not tea drinkers, although that is changing somewhat with the increase cold bottled green tea beverages. And interestingly Japanese researcher Kuriyama recommends cold tea because he says some studies have implicated hot beverages in esophageal cancer. In his study, Kuriyama found no link between drinking green tea and reduced death due to cancer as other studies have suggested.
这是我自己的东西哦...^^都是关于健康的.第一篇是自己听写稿,第二篇是翻译稿.送你好了,第二篇翻译你要也可以弄去. ---Jennifer
Living with pain: new relief for neuropathic pain
Earlier this month, at an international pain conference held in Istanbul, doctors announced that two drugs combined to deal with this kind of pain are better than either one alone. Magdi Hanna of King's College Hospital in London treated over 300 patients with gabapentin, an antiseizure drug that's often used for chronic pain. For half the group, the researchers added oxycodone, an opioid painkiller. The combo knocked patients' feelings of pain down by 33 percent. Gabapentin slows down nerve signals, and opioids dull the brain's perception of discomfort. The two working better together than alone, Hanna says, underscores the fact that chronic pain has complex causes and should be treated by more than one type of therapy.
The same week as the pain meeting, another drug that slows down nerve activity, called pregabalin, got the green light from the European Commission to be used for neuropathic pain. A clinical trial of 137 patients with spinal cord pain showed that 40 percent of them lowered their pain scores by more than 30 percent after using it. The drug, sold as Lyrica, is already approved in the United States to treat nerve pain in diabetic patients and also for pain after shingles. Basali says the approval will likely prod doctors on both sides of the Atlantic to expand the drug's uses and extend its nerve-calming effects.
这个月前,一项关于疼痛病的国际研讨会在伊斯坦布尔召开,医生们宣称混合两种药物治疗神经痛比单独使用任意一种药物的效果更好.伦敦皇家医学会的Magdi 汉纳已经用加巴喷丁(一种抗癫痫药物,常用于治疗慢性痛)治疗了超过300多名患者.
For half the group,研究人员还附加了羟二氢可待因酮,一种阿片类止痛药.这种混合类药物使患者的疼痛减轻了百分之三十.加巴喷丁减慢了神经信号,同时阿片使大脑对不适的感触更加迟钝."两种药物混用比一种药物更好",汉纳说,"事实上,慢性痛起因复杂而且必须使用不止一种治疗方式."
在同周的疼痛病会议,普瑞巴林,另一种可减缓神经痛的药物,被欧委会批准用于治疗神经痛.一项137名脊髓痛患者参与的临床实验表明,40%的患者服用此药后疼痛至少减缓了30%. 类似Lyrica(第二代加巴喷丁类药物),已被美国批准用于治疗糖尿病患者的神经痛与带状疱疹痛. Basali称,药物批准很可能促使大西洋两岸的医生推广药物作用并且加大镇定效果.
第2个回答 2006-10-18
给你几个:
Green Tea
For some time, experts have been reading tealeaves, green tea leaves. Over the years science has looked into whether green tea helps prevent heart disease, even cancer. Many of these studies have been served tepid, full of caveats. And the tea has often been tested on small animals. Well now from Japan comes this news: Drinking green tea may lower the risk of death, especially from heart disease and that is in people, not in hamsters. NPR’s Patricia Neighmond reports on study in this week’s journal of the American Medical Association.
The study took place in northeastern from Japan where 80% of the population drinks the green tea. Researchers looked at over 40,000 adults, comparing those who drank less than one cup of tea a day to those who drank three to five cups of a day. Over eleven years, those who drank more tea were less likely to die of heart disease. Epidemiologist Shinici Kuriyama from Tohoki University School of medicine headed the study.
Our findings might explain differences in mortality profile between Japan and the US, now Japanese has the longest longevity in the world.
In the study, women saw a greater decrease in heart disease than men, for women who drink five or more cups of green tea daily there was a 31% lower risk of death from heart disease. For men, the risk was reduced by 22%. For both men and women, the biggest decrease was in death due to stroke. Dr Kuriyama:
We don’t know the mechanism of the green tea in those studies. But the recent evidence shows that hypertension, or cholesterol, or arteriosclerosis itself could be improved by drinking green tea.
Also Kuriyama’s study did not specifically look at hypertension, cholesterol or arteriosclerosis, Kuriyama speculates that certain antioxidants in green tea help to keep arteries healthy. Green tea is made by a more simple process than black tea. With green tea, leaves are steamed immediately after picking them. With the black tea, moistures are removed, tealeaves are fermented in a humidity -controlled room and then dried, a longer process that may remove some antioxidants.
Joe Winson is a biochemist at the university of Scranton in Pennsylvania who studies antioxidants in food. Winson says the results of the study are important, but not at all conclusive.
To me, it’s not cause and effect, it’s…it’s a hint that green tea is good for the heart.
To solidly establish cause and effect, Vinson says a rigorous long-term clinical trial would be needed. And in any case Vinson says all tea both black and green, may help arterial health by increasing the body’s natural production of nitric oxide, which makes arteries more flexible.
It makes your arteries be able to constrict and open up again more easily, with less changes in your blood pressure, less stress on your heart.
So bottom line, it can’t hurt, says Vinson, to drink more tea, both black and green, both hot and cold. Americans traditionally are not tea drinkers, although that is changing somewhat with the increase cold bottled green tea beverages. And interestingly Japanese researcher Kuriyama recommends cold tea because he says some studies have implicated hot beverages in esophageal cancer. In his study, Kuriyama found no link between drinking green tea and reduced death due to cancer as other studies have suggested.
这是我自己的东西哦...^^都是关于健康的.第一篇是自己听写稿,第二篇是翻译稿.送你好了,第二篇翻译你要也可以弄去. ---Jennifer
Living with pain: new relief for neuropathic pain
Earlier this month, at an international pain conference held in Istanbul, doctors announced that two drugs combined to deal with this kind of pain are better than either one alone. Magdi Hanna of King's College Hospital in London treated over 300 patients with gabapentin, an antiseizure drug that's often used for chronic pain. For half the group, the researchers added oxycodone, an opioid painkiller. The combo knocked patients' feelings of pain down by 33 percent. Gabapentin slows down nerve signals, and opioids dull the brain's perception of discomfort. The two working better together than alone, Hanna says, underscores the fact that chronic pain has complex causes and should be treated by more than one type of therapy.
The same week as the pain meeting, another drug that slows down nerve activity, called pregabalin, got the green light from the European Commission to be used for neuropathic pain. A clinical trial of 137 patients with spinal cord pain showed that 40 percent of them lowered their pain scores by more than 30 percent after using it. The drug, sold as Lyrica, is already approved in the United States to treat nerve pain in diabetic patients and also for pain after shingles. Basali says the approval will likely prod doctors on both sides of the Atlantic to expand the drug's uses and extend its nerve-calming effects.
这个月前,一项关于疼痛病的国际研讨会在伊斯坦布尔召开,医生们宣称混合两种药物治疗神经痛比单独使用任意一种药物的效果更好.伦敦皇家医学会的Magdi 汉纳已经用加巴喷丁(一种抗癫痫药物,常用于治疗慢性痛)治疗了超过300多名患者.
For half the group,研究人员还附加了羟二氢可待因酮,一种阿片类止痛药.这种混合类药物使患者的疼痛减轻了百分之三十.加巴喷丁减慢了神经信号,同时阿片使大脑对不适的感触更加迟钝."两种药物混用比一种药物更好",汉纳说,"事实上,慢性痛起因复杂而且必须使用不止一种治疗方式."
在同周的疼痛病会议,普瑞巴林,另一种可减缓神经痛的药物,被欧委会批准用于治疗神经痛.一项137名脊髓痛患者参与的临床实验表明,40%的患者服用此药后疼痛至少减缓了30%. 类似Lyrica(第二代加巴喷丁类药物),已被美国批准用于治疗糖尿病患者的神经痛与带状疱疹痛. Basali称,药物批准很可能促使大西洋两岸的医生推广药物作用并且加大镇定效果.
第3个回答 2006-10-18
The Other Great Wall
Since the end of imperial rule, Chinese leaders have shared a colossal(巨大的, 庞大的) engineering ambition: to dam the mighty Yangtze River. In May, 87 years after Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese Nationalist leader, first proposed locating a dam downstream of the scenic Three Gorges, workers added the last blocks of concrete to raise the Three Gorges Dam to its full 610-foot height and 1.4-mile girth.
The dam demands superlatives(最高的): it is the world’s largest concrete structure and the largest dam in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation. It is five times as wide as the Hoover Dam, and the reservoir(水库, 蓄水池) it has created stretches for about 400 miles, longer than Lake Superior. When it becomes fully functional in 2009, the dam’s 26 turbines(涡轮) should produce 84.68 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year, meeting nearly one-tenth of China’s needs.
If it works as planned, the dam will also contain the summer rains that regularly flood settlements along the lower Yangtze, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives. Yet the costs are also enormous, even beyond the $25 billion price tag. The dam has changed the geographic(地理学的, 地理的) face of China, its reservoir forming a giant man-made lake amid stunning and once splendidly remote cliffs. Scores of cities and towns, some of them with artifacts(史前古器物) that date back 2,000 years, have disappeared. And at least 1.3 million people have been relocated.
Whatever the pros and cons, the dam is fast becoming a beacon(烟火, 灯塔) for tourists, a Great Wall across the Yangtze. The Chinese expect it to attract more than a million visitors this year. They come to see an engineering marvel, a hulking(笨重的, 粗陋的) edifice(大厦, 大建筑物) that consumes the river and then spits it out in a pressurized spray(加压喷雾) that arcs hundreds of feet into the sky. The “placid(平静的) lake” once promised in a poem by Mao Zedong has indeed replaced the muddy rapids. And the Three Gorges, though diminished in stature, have acquired a new kind of tranquillity.
How To Improve My English And Pronunciation Quickly And Easily?
Point 1 Be clear about why you want to learn English. Do you want it for your job, to help you get a job, to talk to English speakers, to help you study?
Point 2 Be clear about how good you want your English to be. How good do you want to be at speaking English, listening, reading, writing?
Point 3 Have a clear image of yourself when you have achieved the proficiency that you want. What will you see, what will you hear, how will you feel?
Point 4 If possible, enrol on a language course. If you can't, put yourself in situations where you can use English which leads on to ......
Point 5 Look for opportunities to learn and use English. Speak English whenever you can. Listen to the radio and CDs in English, read and write in English. If you look for opportunities, you will find them.
Point 6 Write down new words and phrases in a notebook. Keep the notebook with you so you can look at it when you have a spare moment.
Point 7 Practise, practise, practise. There's an expression in English. If you don't want to lose it, use it. This is very true when it comes to learning foreign languages.
Point 8 Find a learning buddy or colleague. Find someone you can learn English with. Speak with each other. Send each other messages in English.
Point 9 Learn little and often. Make it a habit to learn English ten minutes each day. This is much better than learning for longer once a week.
And the final point At the beginning of a learning period, ask yourself, "What do I want to learn today?" At the end of a period, ask yourself, "What have I learnt today?"
There's a story about a teacher who told his students? You know you're making progress in English when you speak in English, think in English, and dream in English.
One day a student came into the class very excited and said, "Teacher, Teacher, last night I dreamt in English." The teacher said, "That's wonderful. What did you dream about?" And the student said, "I don't know, it was in English."
I don’t know. I don’t think there are easy ways to learn languages – I don’t think people who promise sudden ‘quick fix’ methods are to be believed. We learn slowly, and we learn by working hard.
As far as pronunciation is concerned, the most important thing is listening! I think, often we try and pronounce things correctly before we can really hear what the differences are. How do we check out whether we’re doing that?
Record ourselves I think we need to record ourselves and we need to record what it is we’re repeating and listening to. So, the most useful thing perhaps is to listen to the radio with a tape recorder, to record a little bit of the radio, and then to say it ourselves, and to compare how we’ve said it, with the way it was said on the radio, in the language we’re learning.
It’s a slow process. We need to spend a lot of time rehearsing. I remember when I was learning, for instance, for hours and hours as I was walking or cycling, or whatever – I was trying to produce those sounds, difficult sounds that I was learning.
The more we do that, the more we pick up when we hear them. And of course the other thing about pronunciation is, as we improve our pronunciation, that also improves our comprehension. As we learn to make these distinction between similar sounds, we start hearing them – and that makes understanding easier.
Spelling is a problem One of the biggest problems in English is that the spelling gets in the way because there are so many ways of spelling the same sound. Also because letters may be written and not pronounced and because letters may be written and pronounced in a very unexpected way. When we learn to read, that can interfere with our pronunciation, and can cause problems in itself.
Is there a difference between pronunciation and fluency?
They’re quite different. Pronunciation is getting the sounds right, and of course it’s also getting the intonation and the rhythm right – it’s not just individual sounds, it’s pushing them all together.
Fluency perhaps overlaps there a little bit. Fluency is saying things easily. Being fluent is more a question of being confident in the vocabulary, and how to put the words together in the grammar – being confident in that - …and just being confident in your ability to express yourself and having a go.
It’s those psychological factors much more than whether you can get your tongue around the individual sounds. In fact people whose pronunciation is poor, but who speak fluently and put it together and get it out reasonably quickly, are usually easier to understand than people who’re taking a lot of trouble over their pronunciation and therefore are slowing themselves down, and speaking one word at a time.
One piece of advice When you’re speaking, don’t think about the individual sounds and getting those right. Think about groups of words, and think about meaningful groups of words, and getting those out as quickly and as smoothly as you can.