閱讀理解復習方法:幾乎所有的英語考試都會有閱讀理解這一道題目。據輔導老師說,MBA聯考的英語考試中閱讀理解的難度介于大學英語四、六級考試之間,可見難度并不高,但要拿高分并不容易。做閱讀理解最需要的是耐心和細心。有時候,題目很容易,可是出題人往往會繞一個彎給題目,稍不留意就被“套”了。至于答題技巧,可以采用“倒推法”。先看題目和選項,然后看文章,這樣可以有針對性地閱讀,閱讀的同時把關鍵的地方用筆勾出來,再看題目的時候,便能夠很準確地找到問題的答案了。在做閱讀理解時,有一點尤其值得注意:所有問題的答案都要依據原文,千萬不能隨心所欲、想當然,這才是真正的“閱讀理解”。
在MBA聯考的閱讀理解試題里,有一個筆答題。放心,該題是為不懂英語的人設計的,只要有起碼的閱讀能力,就能把這道題目做好。
1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
2. But it will be the driver's responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.
3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.
4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.
5. 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 ageing could he slowed down.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
10. 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.
11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.
12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.
13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.
14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth's postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.
15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.
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16. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
18. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.
19. The first time that the question What is at the bottom of the oceans? had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
20. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
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1、系好安全帶能夠挽救性命,它能將喪生和重傷的概率減少一半以上。
2、但是司機有責任確保14歲以下的孩子不要坐在前排,除非他們系好了安全帶。
3、當然,如果有以下情況你可以不系安全帶:你在倒車時,或者你用一種特殊交通工具進行當地的貨物運送、收集時,或者你有合法的醫學證明你不能系安全帶時。
4、注意你如果不這么做(系安全帶)的話,你有可能被告上法庭,而且你有可能被處以罰款除非你能證明你有不帶安全帶的理由。
5、Taiju Matsuzawa教授想找出為什么日本北部的健康農民在相對年輕的年齡就顯得開始失去思考與推理的能力的原因以及怎樣才能延緩老化過程。
6、在東京國立大學的同事們的幫助下,他開始對一千來自不同職業的人群進行了大腦體積的測量。
7、計算機技術幫助研究人員獲得人腦前部和側部的準確體積,這是與人的智能和情緒有關的部分,而且也決定人的性格特點。
8、有的人(大腦)前部和側部的收縮――隨著細胞的