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Ancestor of humans not so brainy
A monkey-like animal seen as an ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans was not as brainy(1) as expected, according to scientists who analyzed its nicely preserved 29-million-year-old skull.
The finding indicated that primate(2) brain enlargement evolved later than once thought, the researchers said on Monday.
They analyzed a remarkably well-preserved fossilized(3) skull of the little primate Aegyptopithecus(4) zeuxis, which lived in the trees and ate fruit and leaves about 29 million years ago in warm forests in what is now an Egyptian desert.
A technique called microcomputerized tomography(5) scanning —— a computerized X-ray method also called micro-CT —— allowed them to determine the dimensions of the animal's brain.
"What was astonishing is how small this brain is," Duke University primatologist Elwyn Simons, who led the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said in a telephone interview.
"You can also see it's a pretty darn primitive brain. It would be small for a monkey or an ape," Simons added. "So it's telling us that the speed of achievement of brain enlargement in primates was a little slower than perhaps we had thought."
This skull of a small female was uncovered in a quarry(6) southwest of Cairo in 2004. It was better preserved than another skull of a larger male of...
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Smoking leaves an "archaeological record" of the hundreds of DNA mutations it causes, scientists have discovered.
Having sequenced thousands of tumour genomes, they found a 20-a-day smoker would rack up an average of 150 mutations in every lung cell each year.
The changes are permanent, and persist even if someone gives up smoking.
Researchers say analysing tumour DNA may help explain the underlying causes of other cancers.
Pamela Pugh, 69, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013. She started smoking aged 17 and quit in her early 50s.
But she said: "Even though I gave up many years ago, the effects of smoking caught up with me.
"Had I known as a teenager that smoking caused mutations which would stay with me for life then I would never had started".
The study, in the journal Science, was carried out by an international group, including the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The analysis shows a direct link between the number of cigarettes smoked in a lifetime and the number of mutations in tumour DNA.
The authors found that, on average, smoking a packet of cigarettes a day led to:
150 mutations in each lung cell every year
97 in the larynx or voice box
23 in the mouth
18 in the bla...
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20s are always awesome. You are young and free, with your whole life ahead of you. You have the choice to achieve anything you want, and are free from many of the responsibilities that come with being in your thirties. However, usually only when you’ve turned 30, you realized there’re much you haven’t done yet. And it’s harder to achieve them once you enter another stage of life.
These are the things I wish I did in my 20s. If you’re in your 20s, maybe it’s time to take action right now.
20多岁的时光总是很精彩。有大把的美好时光在前方等着年轻自由的你。你可以选择实现任何想要实现的目标，并且没有30来岁时肩负的责任。然而，通常当你真正步入30岁门槛时，才发现还有那么多没做过的事情。一旦踏入生活的另一个阶段，实现年少时的目标会变得更加困难。
下面的这些事我真希望在20多岁时都做过啊!如果你正处于20多岁，也许现在正是采取行动的时候。
1. Travel to a farther country
In my 20s, when I still have time and freedom, I didn’t travel to many countries that are far far away. Because I didn’t have much money. Now I have some money, but I don’t have enough time. If I can go back, I’d find more ways to earn the money or any ways that can support my traveling.
1. 去比较遥远的国度旅行
在我20多岁时，那时我仍然有时间，也很自由，但是没有去过许多遥远的国家。因为我没有足够的金钱。现在，我有钱了，但是又没有足够的时间。如果我能重回20岁，我会寻找更多挣钱的方法或是用任何手段支持我的旅行费用。
2. Reject people who don’t deserve a position in my life
There’re some people who aren’t meant to stay in your life. At that time I was...
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It's pretty safe to say that we'd all like to come across as well-informed, knowledgeable, and smart. Society values experts and rewards them, so we benefit when we're seen as having a certain level of command in what we do and what we speak about. While it's certainly positive to better ourselves in this regard, it can be a dangerous path to go down if we're focused too much on perceived expertise and intelligence during our interactions with others.
As we seek to better ourselves in our fields of work, we may notice our vocabulary shifting to defend our newfound status. We don't admit our shortcomings for fear of becoming vulnerable to criticism, and we stop acknowledging others to preserve our own ranking. However, what this behavior turns one into is not an expert but a know-it-all. To avoid becoming the latter, make a conscious effort to continue to implement the following three phrases into your daily interactions. True experts who know their value and don't question their own intelligence use these phrases regularly. It doesn't make them sound unsure or unreliable, it makes them sound smart.
1. "What do you think?" Taking the time to consider multiple ideas—especially those of others—shows you're smart enough to do your research. Know-it-alls resist input from others and put themselves in situations where they make more mistakes (and also turn off everyone around them)...
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The Galleon trial
Rajaratnam guilty as charged
IN A phone call recorded by the government in 2008, Raj Rajaratnam, the boss of Galleon Group, a large hedge fund, called Danielle Chiesi, an executive at another fund, to thank her for sharing a tip. “But it’s a conquest, right?” he asks her. “It’s a conquest,” she responds. “You’re a warrior. I’m a warrior.”
On May 11th Mr Rajaratnam lost the battle he was fighting against government prosecutors. He was convicted on 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy, and faces up to 205 years in prison when he is sentenced in July. A New York jury found that Mr Rajaratnam made nearly $64m from trading based on tips he ferreted out from a network of corporate executives and traders about firms like Goldman Sachs, Google and Intel. He rewarded them generously for confidential information. He paid Anil Kumar, then an executive at McKinsey, $500,000 a year for tips about the firm’s clients, for example.
This is the first insider-trading case in which the government has used wiretaps, and they were pivotal in Mr Rajaratnam’s conviction. The jury heard dozens of conversations that showed him as foul-mouthed, boastful and conniving. In one Mr Rajaratnam and his brother, Rengan, talk about getting another McKinsey executive to leak information. “Everybody is a scumbag,” says Rengan, and they...
本文“雅思阅读练习技巧”由出国留学网雅思栏目整理，希望对考生有所帮助。
1.练习的时候严格按照考试时间，不要拖拉。
2.如果不能在规定的时间里面，可以采用时间渐进法，严格向考试规定时间递进。
3.先提高正确率在提高做题速度。
4.备考雅思阅读的时候不要疯狂做题，因为资源是有限的，应该要做的事情是先去积攒词汇和储备语法必备内容。
2.剑桥真题是最好的雅思阅读备考材料。
6.判断题最难区别的是错和未提到(False和NotGiven)，但是最难判断的是对(True)，因为原文和题目之间经过了复杂的统一转换和句型变化。
雅思阅读十大题型占比分布图
7.养成长句短读的能力，以及总结式归纳，平时勤加练习。
8.简答题和图表题是非常简单的，前者注意特殊疑问词，后者鼠疫利用表格寻找未知信息。
9.段落中问句后面的和举例子的前面将会有主题句需要注意一下。
10.两个选项难以选择，优先选择后面的。
11.小标题题型中的NB是不需要阅读的，要么是废话，要么是谎话。
12.如果问句中出现数字，优先将数字作为标示牌在文章中找出答案的位置。
雅思阅读虽然是中国考生的强项，但是成绩往往却没有那么理想，这就是技巧存在问题，希望今天雅思阅读12大技巧可以帮助大家。
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模拟考试环境
考过雅思的同学都知道， 四科里面时间最紧的当属阅读， 很多人初次去考试都会答不完卷子。如果想在时间上做更好的掌控，计时练习就变得相当有必要了。大家给自己限定一小时时间，之后核对答案，看下最终分数。
另外友情提示下各位，一小时的时间还包括把答案转移到题纸的时间。 转移答案的时候大概会消耗两分钟左右， 如此看来时间就变得更加紧迫了!
不计时完成三篇文章阅读
此方法为了提高大家的精读能力， 不要为了做题而做题， 而是为了把题目读懂、吃透。 每个词、每个短语、每个句式的功能都分析清楚再去答题。
此方法适合备考时间较长的，同时对阅读期望分值比较高的同学。
20分钟完成一篇文章
此方法适合不喜欢阅读的同学， 最前期适应练习。
初期做阅读练习学生，整个阅读三篇文章一起读下来会有种大脑被掏空的感觉。适度练习起码不会起到逆反心理。
没有时间限制完成一篇文章
依旧还是一篇文章， 如果20分钟的计时导致时间紧迫造成错误率过高， 可采用此种方法。 没有时间限制的阅读也是为了阅读而阅读， 提升总体阅读实力。
一次只做一个题型
题刷多了之后他家会发现， 不同题型他对文章不同部分的考察点是不一样的。比如list of headings考察是段落理解能力，True/ False / Not given考察的是句子理解能力。有针对性的答题往往会总结出适合自己的答题规律。
此方法适合多次刷题， 但毫无题感的同学。
在字典的帮助下答题
此方法可检测出阅读失分的原因， 究竟是因为生词? 句式复杂? 还是逻辑是的问题? 如果有了字典的帮助还是得不到高分，就和生词没有关系了
只读文章不做题
没有压力的阅读， 会让你的阅读分数提升。 其实也是鼓励各位培养良好的阅读习惯。
核对答案后分析答案
如果做题中一味只是为了核对答案而做题， 实际这题方法没有多大意义。很多阅读8分的学生在做题中更多的会思考出题者出题的角度是什么，得出规律。 甚至有些学生在阅读完文章后，都会猜到部分题目考官考什么，或者他会挖什么陷阱。这其实就是我们所强调的，从考官角度思考问题。
整理词汇表格及关键词表格
其实整个雅思的考试就是一套同义替换的体系，阅读听力口语写作皆是如此。 阅读中的同义替换放到写作中当然也适用。毕竟都是学术用语。
如果你已经厌倦了按部就班的做题， 如果你的雅思阅读万年6分得不到改观，不妨试试以上的方法。根据自己实际情况选择部分方法加以练习!
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雅思阅读练习素材之new weapon to fight cancer
new weapon to fight cancer
1. British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new way to fight cancer, which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common cold.
2. If successful, virus therapy could eventually form a third pillar alongside radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the standard arsenal against cancer, while avoiding some of the debilitating side-effects.
3. Leonard Seymour, a professor of gene therapy at Oxford University, who has been working on the virus therapy with colleagues in London and the US, will lead the trials later this year. Cancer Research UK said yesterday that it was excited by the potential of Prof Seymours pioneering techniques.
4. One of the countrys leading geneticists, Prof Seymour has been working with viruses that kill cancer cells directly, while avoiding harm to healthy tissue. In principle, youve got something which could be many times more effective than regular chemotherapy, he said.
5. Cancer-killing viruses exploit the fact that cancer cells suppress the bodys local immune system. If a cancer doesnt do that, the immune system wipes it out. If you can get a virus into a tumour, viruses find them a very good place to be because ther...
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常用的阅读方法有通读和细读两种。通读是为了弄懂大意、精读是为了掌握具体内容。
首先，阅读开头的段落，这部分介绍性的材料将会使我们熟悉作者将要讨论的主题思想。然后阅读下面各段的第一句话。这些句子可以使我们对文章内容有一个总体的概念，再阅读最后一段。这一段帮助我们对所覆盖的材料作一概括。
我们要注意作者用来加以强调的一切：标题、黑体、斜体、图表、图画以及章节后面的问题。这种预读应进行得很快，这样我们可以把注意力集中在段落大意或文章中心思想上。慢速的读者往往把注意力过多地集中在个别生词上，这样必然会影响我们对整个段落或整篇文章中心大意的理解。
在阅读过程中，我们必然会遇到不认识的生词。但在一般情况下，三两个生词是不会影响我们对全篇阅读材料的理解。
其次，要全面地重新细读全篇。第二遍阅读的速度取决于我们从对该材料的预读中所获得的信息和指导。例如，我们往往能够根据段落的第一句话或者主题句来判断该段落的重要性。若该段落看起来是重要的，那就要仔细地阅读;若根据我们第一次的阅读，这个段落似乎不太重要，那么就可以略读，但不要完全跳过它。
此外，我们的阅读方法是否适合作者的写作风格也是很重要的。在有些书里不少部分用黑体把主题标出来，请把这些标题作为理解内容的指南。章节后的问题使我们了解这一章里包含的内容，当阅读时，努力使所读材料与我们已知原有关该标题的内容联系起来。这是新材料吗?它与我们原先想的有关该主题的思想有所不同吗?
当我们继续阅读时自问这些简单的问题：为何(why)?什么(what)?谁(who)?何时(when)?何地(where)?怎样(how)?这种方法可帮助我们全神贯注于阅读上，因为当我们问这些问题时，我们作为一名读者正起着积极的作用。
一般说来，英语阅读有精读(intensivereading)、泛读(extensivereading)和快读(fastreading)三种形式。
精读的任务在于传授系统的基础语言知识(语音、语法、词汇、篇章结构、语言功能意念等)，训练基本语言技能(听、说、读、写、译)，培养初步运用英语进行交际的能力。
泛读的任务在于着重提高阅读理解能力;培养细致观察语言以及假设、判断、分析、归纳、推理论证等逻辑思维能力;培养速读能力以及阅读的兴趣，扩大词汇量，增强文化背景知识。从用途上看，泛读的实用性最广。在实际生活里80%～90%的阅读都是泛读。只有具有较强的、适应实际需要的泛读能力的人，才可以说具有阅读能力。
快速阅读则要求读者在非常有限的时间内迅速完成读者与作者书面交际的任务。在阅读过程中，略过无关信息，筛选有关信息，利用标题、段落、主题句和关键词语，辨认要点，迅速有效地获取重要信息。提高阅读速度，进行快速阅读也有一些具体方法和技巧问题，如快速泛读、计时阅读、略读和寻读等。
这只是英语阅读方法的介绍，最重要的还是实践。一个人的阅读速度是由各种因素决定的，如知识的多少、语言水平的高低、视域的大小、阅读的习惯、精神集中的程度，等等。但只要下定决心，掌握各种阅读技巧，...
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在阅读方面，进行基础训练，就是说，不做题，看文章，不懂的单词直接查，不用很多的时间去猜，去想，去琢磨，我感觉那样，会把自己引入歧途，对于日后再见到次单词的时候的理解会产生一定的不良影响。所以，基础练习一增加单词量，提高理解复杂句型的能力为主，不考虑做题方法。对全文进行深入透彻的理解。在全面掌握之后，经常“复习”，过一段时间之后再看一遍，如此这般，一段时间之后就把这些单词和句子记下了。
虽然这样做是比较痛苦的，因为需要查太多的单词，需要理解太多的不懂的句子，但是坚持下来是会有效果的，我相信。另外关键的一点就是，看过的东西不要仍掉，要经常的复习，否则时间久了，就比没看过强不了多少。
其实阅读的关键还是基础，还是单词量，另外很重要的还有对句子的理解能力，这些都要考大量的阅读来解决，单纯的看文章，然后做题，对于基础不是很好的人来说是不合适的，就好象是电脑的内存不够，自然系统运做起来就很慢，效率不高，还容易死机。无论处理器多好，内存如果太小，也难以发挥。懂电脑的朋友们都知道这一点。如果处理器是p42.0，而内存只有64M，那么系统运行的速度还是会比较慢的，尤其是再打开和关闭程序的时候。那些能得7、8分的人“内存”最少也得“256M”
好象有点跑题了，不过我的观点不管大家是否赞同，我想一定能明白了，总之，就是说，对于基础不是很好的朋友们来说，最好不要一味的追求做题，应该从基础上来做练习，多看，多记，而不是多做。当然，再考试之前是一定要多做些题目来练习的。
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