QUIZ 1 挑战难句
1. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers says that there are more than 2,000 publishers worldwide specializing in the subjects. They publish more than 1.2 million articles each year in some 16,000 journals. (08-Text 2)
2. The Internet — and pressure from funding agencies, who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government-funded rearch by restricting access to it — is making access to scientific results a reality. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just issued a report describing the far-reaching conquences of this. (08-Text2)
3. Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choo to focus on the ones that feel bad. (06-Text 4)
4. In veral of the studies, when stresd-out female rats had their ovaries (the female reproductive organs) removed, their chemical respons became equal to tho of the males. (08-Text 1)
5. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only suggests that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. (08-完形)
6. Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year — from organizations as diver as Time Warner, the American defen contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley — have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems and business process in arch of potential vulnerabilities. (07-Text 4)
7. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M& A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers’ demands. (01-Passage 4)
8. In his article “How Intelligent is Intelligence Testing?” Sternberg notes that traditional tests best asss analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. (07-Text 2)
9. Creating a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which
go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old Continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice — that of producing programs in Europe for Europe. (05-翻译)
10. Finally, becau the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health rearch community should actively recruit to its cau not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal rearch, but all who receive medical treatment. (03-Text 2)
