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听力文本
A new report says living in a city makes it harder for people to concentrate. The research found that people who live in rural areas can focus better than people in urban areas. The study is from Goldsmiths College, which is part of the University of London. Head researcher Dr Karina Linnell and her team studied how two groups of people did the same "thinking tasks". The team went to a remote part of Namibia, southwest Africa, to study the Himba tribe. Himba people live a very basic life in the desert, doing traditional farming. The team also studied members of the same tribe who had moved to the nearest town. Dr Linnell said the tribe who lived in the desert did much better on the tests than those in the town.
Dr Linnell's research may change the way companies operate. In the future, workers may relocate from cities to live and work in the countryside. Linnell said there are too many things around us in the city that stop us from thinking about one thing for a long time. This means we do not work at our best. She asked: "What if, for example, companies realised certain tasks would be better carried out by employees based outside of the urban environment where their concentration ability is better?" The past century has seen billions of people move from the countryside to big cities. If Dr Linnell's research is true, this century might see many of those people return to the great outdoors.
中文翻译
一项最新报告显示城市居民很难集中注意力
。这项研究发现,农村人口比城市人口更能够集中注意力 。这是伦敦大学金史密斯学院所进行的一项研究 。研究主任卡里娜·林奈尔和她的研究小组就“思维”问题对两组对象进行了研究 。该小组来到了位于非洲西南部的纳米比亚共和国,并对偏远的辛巴部族进行了研究 。辛巴族人生活在沙漠中,他们过着最为原始的生活,并以传统农业为生 。小组还对迁徙到附近城镇中的辛巴族人进行了研究 。林奈尔博士称就测试而言,沙漠族人要好于城镇族人 。林奈尔博士的研究或将改变企业的经营方式
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重点讲解
1.rural area 农村
例句:Abdullah is a goatherd in Ishkamish, a rural area in northern Afghanistan.
阿卜杜拉是个放山羊的羊倌,他住在阿富汗北部一个叫做伊什卡米什的农村.
2.carry out 实行
例句:Police say they believe the attacks were carried out by nationalists.
警方说,他们认为袭击是民族主义分子发动的
。3.move to 转移
例句:They are selling their house to move to a smaller one.
他们正打算卖掉房子,然后搬到一个小一点的住处
。4.stop from 阻止某事发生
例句:The guard stopped him from going through the gate.
警卫不让他通过大门
。听力题目
1.Where can people focus better than cities?
a) the countryside
b) rural
c) Goldsmiths College
d) areas
2.Who is Karina Linnell?
a) a member of the Himba tribe
b) a Namibian
c) a researcher
d) someone who loves rural areas
3.What did two groups of people do?
a) go to Namibia
b) identical thinking exercises
c) live in rural and urban areas
d) research
4.What kind of life do the Himba people live?
a) a comfortable one
b) an exciting one
c) a dangerous one
d) a simple one
5.Which tribe member did best on the tests?
a) the ones who lived in the desert
b) the ones who studied members of the same tribe
c) the ones who moved
d) they did the same
6.What might the research change?
a) cities
b) where the Himba people live
c) research
d) how companies work
7.How many things in the city make it difficult to think?
a) 236 things
b) too many things
c) just a few things
d) everything
8.Where could workers do their tasks better?
a) at home
b) in urban areas
c) in their companies
d) outside cities
9.How many people moved to cities last century?
a) hundreds of thousands
b) millions
c) billions
d) trillions
10.Where might people return to this century?
a) the past century
b) the countryside
c) cities
d) Namibia
听力答案
1.a
2.c
3.b
4.d
5.a
6.d
7.b
8.d
9.c
10.b