(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
A high school in England has initiated a new policy to allow students to sleep longer in the mornings. The private, $25,000-a-year Hampton Court House school is introducing a 1.30 to 7pm timetable in September. It will become the only school in Britain that starts lessons in the afternoon. Head teacher Guy Holloway said the altered hours should help students get higher grades. He said research on neuroscience shows student productivity increases if they can sleep longer in the mornings. Mr Holloway said: "We want to get students into an environment where they can get quality sleep and their bodies are functioning well." He added: "It's about what works in our community."
The afternoon start is based on research by Oxford University. Researcher Dr Paul Kelley said: "You can't train your system to get up at a practical time." He said we are not in control of choosing the best time to work because it's biological, just like we have no control over our heartbeat and liver function. Dr Kelley added: "Anything you do to change the rhythmic systems of your body means your organs become desynchronised with each other and this is where people get ill….There is no fixing it by giving someone an alarm clock." A student at the school, Gabriel Purcell-Davis, 15, is in favour of the idea. He said students are tired all day, "but as soon as 10 o'clock hits, that's when we…do all our work".
中文翻译
英格兰的一所高中开始实行一项新政策,可以让学生在早上多睡一会儿
。汉普顿宫学校是一所私立学校,每年学费25,000美元,在9月份将开始使用新的上课时间表,上课时间调整为下午1点半到晚上7点 。它将成为英国唯一一所在下午开始上课的学校 。Guy Holloway校长说,改变上课时间可以帮助学生取得更好的成绩 。他说,神经科学研究表明,如果学生能够在早上多睡一会儿,他们的学习效率就会提高 。Holloway先生说,我们想让学生进入一种环境,在那里他们可以得到高质量的睡眠,并使身体机能获得良好运转 。他补充道,这与我们生物机能的运转有关 。下午开始上课是基于牛津大学的研究结果
。研究员保罗凯利说,训练自己的生物系统在某一特定的时间醒过来是不可能的 。他说,我们不能控制选择最好的时间来工作,因为那是由生物钟决定的 。就像我们无法控制我们的心跳和肝功能 。凯利博士补充说,任何改变身体有节奏的系统的做法,都会让你的器官失去共时性,这样会很容易生病 。即使是定闹钟也很难弥补身体器官的共时性 。学校的一名学生,15岁的Gabriel Purcell-Davis, 很赞成这个主意 。他说学生们整天都很累,但是当10点的闹钟响起之后,我们就要开始学习了 。译文属可可原创,仅供学习交流使用,未经许可请勿转载
重点讲解
1.head teacher(英国)校长
In 1955, Meg took up a post as an English teacher at the French convent school and rose to become acting head teacher, despite her Protestant background.
父亲在那里的赫尔大学担任教育学院图书馆馆长
。 1955年,母亲在法国修道院学校任英语教师,尽管她信奉新教,不久还是被升为代理校长 。2.have control over能控制…
You do not have to manage or control the underlying infrastructure, but you do have control over the deployed applications and, to some degree over application hosting environment configurations.
用户不必管理或控制底层基础架构,而是控制部署的应用程序并在一定程度上控制应用程序驻留环境的配置
。3.in control of 控制;管理,掌握
To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of their environment.
为了使人民感到快乐幸福,你就必须让他们觉得是自己在控制自己的环境
。4.each other 彼此,互相
All things are interrelated and interact on each other.
一切事物都互相联系并相互作用
。5.be based on 根据,以…为基础;建立在…基础上
On an individual patient basis, initial treatment decisions should be based on clinical assessment and knowledge about the presence of the virus in the community.
以病人个案为基础,最初的治疗决定应当根据临床评估以及社区内是否存在这一病毒的掌握情况做出
。听力试题
1.How much does it cost to send a child to the school?
a) $25,000 a semester
b) $20,000 a year
c) $25,000 a year
d) $20,000 a semester
2.When will students finish under the new system?
a) 7pm
b) 7.30pm
c) 8.30pm
d) 8pm
3.What does the head teacher hope the students will get?
a) higher grades
b) a degree
c) quality
d) time
4.What area of research did the head teacher look at?
a) neurosis
b) neuroscience
c) neuropsychiatry
d) neurosurgery
5.What kind of sleep did the head teacher say he wanted students to get?
a) power naps
b) deep sleep
c) uninterrupted sleep
d) quality sleep
6.Where did the research take place?
a) Stanford University
b) Oxford University
c) Harvard University
d) Cambridge University
7.What two things did the researcher say we cannot control?
a) heartbeat and liver function
b) heart rate and brain function
c) health and body functions
d) heart condition and lung condition
8.What happens when your organs become desynchronised?
a) they stop
b) they go crazy
c) we get ill
d) they get stronger
9.What cannot fix desynchronised organs?
a) lasers
b) surgery
c) time
d) an alarm clock
10.When did a student say other students do their work?
a) 10pm
b) 9pm
c) 8pm
d) 7pm
听力答案
1.c
2.a
3.a
4.b
5.d
6.b
7.a
8.c
9.d
10.a