Passage Three
It began as just another research project, in this case to examine the effects of various drugs on patients with a severe mood disorder. Using an advanced brain scanning technology--the clumsily named echo-planar magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (磁共振光谱成像 ) procedure, or EP-MRSI--researchers at Boston’s McLean Hospital scanned the medicated and un-medicated brains of 30 people with bipolar disorder in order to detect possible new treatments for the more than 2 million American adults who suffer from the disease.
But something unexpected happened. A patient who had been so depressed that she could barely speak became ebullient after the 45-minute brain scan. Then a second patient, who seemed incapable of even a smile, emerged actually telling jokes. Then another and another. Was this some coincidence Aimee Parow, the technician who made these observations didn’t think so. She mentioned the pa
A. who has bipolar disorder
B. what improves people’s moods
C. whether magnetic scanning is a treatment
D. how some patients respond to some drugs
Passage Three
It began as just another research project, in this case to examine the effects of various drugs on patients with a severe mood disorder. Using an advanced brain scanning technology--the clumsily named echo-planar magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (磁共振光谱成像 ) procedure, or EP-MRSI--researchers at Boston’s McLean Hospital scanned the medicated and un-medicated brains of 30 people with bipolar disorder in order to detect possible new treatments for the more than 2 million American adults who suffer from the disease.
But something unexpected happened. A patient who had been so depressed that she could barely speak became ebullient after the 45-minute brain scan. Then a second patient, who seemed incapable of even a smile, emerged actually telling jokes. Then another and another. Was this some coincidence Aimee Parow, the technician who made these observations didn’t think so. She mentioned the pa
A. It mainly affects males.
B. It may cause drug addiction.
C. It is a mental problem.
D. It is hard to detect.
W: Prof Schneider, you and three colleagues just published new research in the Proceedings of the National (US) Academy of Sciences. Could you explain what this tells us
M: Many current investigations into climate change rely on statistical or physical models--and all models rely on assumptions.
We thought why not ask plants and animals directly if they have felt any climate changes lately We wanted to find out if nature had more credible answers than models alone the animals and plants in nature can give us independent evidence of human induced global warming.
So we looked at more than 130 different plant and bird species in the northern hemisphere--mainly in Northern America and Europe--to see how flowering and migration times have changed. And we compared our findings with a state-of-the-art climate model driven by natural forces like volcanic eruptions, human pressures like greenhouse gas emissions and the combination.
Normally, such model-driv
A. Establishing physical models
B. Establishing statistical models.
C. Making assumptions about climate change.
D. Finding evidence in animal and plant species.
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| It looked just like another aircraft
from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.
But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who
boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives. Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear. For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducte A. It had no seats. B. It was painted white. C. It had no windows. D. The outside was misleading. [单项选择]Divorced from his wife just three months ago, he has made quite a （ ） of himself by gallivanting about with his new girlfriend, a former supermodel.
A. improvidence B. revelation C. extravagance D. spectacle [填空题]It may look like just another playgroup, and a unique (1)
educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies something to talk about. "It’s a school to teach languages to babies and young children by games, songs-some of the classes also have (2) arts and crafts," said Francois Thibaut, the founder of the Language Workshop for Children, a place babies become bilingual. (3) Children as young as few months are exposed to French and Spanish after many of them can even speak English. Educators use (4) special songs and visual aids to ensure that when a child is ready to talking, the languages will not be so foreign. "Children have a unique (5) capacity to learn many languages at the same time, " said Thibaut. "Already at nine months, a child can say th 我来回答: 提交
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