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听力文本
Everybody who flies long distances hates jet lag. Traveling across different time zones upsets your body clock. People can have jet lag for three or four days after getting off the airplane. You can be wide awake at 3.00am and ready for bed after lunch. That might soon be over. Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan are close to making a drug for jet lag. They said the drug can help people change to a new time zone in just 24 hours. Head researcher Yoshiaki Yamaguchi said his team has found the body's "reset button" in the brain. This controls how the body adjusts to changing sleep patterns. New drugs could "press" the reset button to make jet lag less troublesome.
The jet-lag drug could also have other health benefits. People who work different shifts and night workers could take the drug. This means these workers will not be so stressed from working at irregular or unsociable hours. Airline pilots and cabin crew could be among those who most benefit from the new drug. The drug might also be useful for people with insomnia (the inability to sleep). Wikipedia says jet lag usually happens after a change of three time zones or more. Some people get it after just a single time zone difference. It usually takes one day to recover from crossing one time zone. Jet lag is only a few decades old. It happened after people started flying in jet airplanes.
中文翻译
长途飞行乘客都痛恨时差问题
这种时差药物还对身体有益
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重点讲解
1.jet lag 时差感
例句:If you are running a global division, teams will want to see you in the flesh. You can expect to have to live with almost permanent jet lag.
如果你管理的是一个全球部门,各个团队都会想看到活生生的你,所以可以想见,你几乎不得不永远生活在时差里
。2.benefit from 得益于
例句:I benefited from my mother's advice.
我受益于母亲的劝告
。3.time zone 时区
例句:Therefore, we didn't concern ourselves with any adjustments that might be necessary for requesting a forecast from a service running in a different time zone.
所以我们没有考虑这方面的调整,如果从运行在不同时区内的服务中请求天气预报,那么可能必须这样做
。4.ready for 对...有准备
例句:We have the offer ready for you.
我们已经为你准备好报盘了
。听力题目
1.Who does the article say hates jet lag?
a) pilots
b) everyone who flies
c) anyone who travels
d) university researchers
2.How long can jet lag last?
a) 3 or 4 weeks
b) 3 or 4 hours
c) 3 or 4 times
d) 3 or 4 days
3.Who do the researchers work for?
a) Kyoto University
b) Rolex
c) British Airways
d) Yamaguchi Pharmaceuticals
4.What did the researchers find?
a) a new time zone
b) the body clock
c) the body's reset button
d) a sleep-pattern controller
5.What could new drugs do to the "reset button"?
a) make it bigger
b) press it
c) kill it
d) upset it
6.What will no longer stress workers out?
a) regular and unsocial hours
b) irregular and social hours
c) irregular or unsociable hours
d) regular and sociable hours
7.What is the inability to sleep called?
a) ambrosia
b) amnesia
c) ammonia
d) insomnia
8.Who or what said jet lag happens after crossing three time zones?
a) Wikipedia
b) Kyoto University
c) a pilot
d) a frequent flyer
9.How long does it take to recover from crossing one time zone?
a) one day
b) one hour
c) 6-12 hours
d) a week
10.When did jet lag first start?
a) 1968
b) when we started flying in jet airplanes
c) 3 hours and 12 minutes after take-off
d) hundreds of years ago
听力答案
1.b
2.d
3.a
4.c
5.b
6.c
7.d
8.a
9.a
10.b