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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.
Raise your hand if this story sounds familiar.
A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all -- milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk.
She buys it.
But, she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night.
Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband's niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills. And don't forget soap for the bathroom.
And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a grocery store.
Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at one time is often called "multi-tasking," a very popular word these days.
Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has confirmed what we have known all along – men and women think differently.
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain images of 949 people aged from eight to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere. In the female brain, they found more activity and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of "reason." The right hemisphere is known as the "creative" side.
Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain.
As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the "understanding" and the "action" parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain, like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.
Dr. Verma warns that the study should not lead anyone to expect some behaviors from women and others from men.
And that's the Health Report, from VOA Learning English. I'm Anna Matteo.
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词汇解释
1.grocery n. 食品杂货店<食品杂货<>
They run a small grocery store.
他们经营一家小食品杂货店 。
2.hemisphere n. 半球
This animal is to be found only in the Southern Hemisphere.
这种动物只有在南半球才能找到 。
3.sensitivity n. 敏感;敏感性;过敏
Hearing sensitivity declines with age.
听觉因年老而衰退 。
内容解析
1.Dr. Verma warns that the study should not lead anyone to expect some behaviors from women and others from men.
lead to 导致;引起;(道路)通向;通往;把…带到(或引到)
Heart failure led to her father's death.
心力衰竭导致她父亲死亡 。
He led us to a museum.
他把我们带到了一个博物馆 。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语卫生报道
。如果你听过这个故事,请举起手
。一名男子到杂货店买牛奶,他拿着牛奶走出杂货店,买的只有牛奶
。这时候,一名女子也进入同一家杂货店买牛奶 。她也买了牛奶
。但她还买了鸡和柠檬来做做晚餐
。然后她想起要给儿子买食物拿到学校吃,她还要买瓶红酒和朋友一起喝,还有给丈夫侄女的生日卡
。然后她买了早餐用的咖啡,甜点用的冰淇淋,还记得买邮寄账单的邮票,她还没忘记买浴室的香皂 。这就是以杂货店为例说明的男女大脑的不同
。一般说来,男人一次只做一件事,而女人可以一次做多件事
。一次做多件事通常叫做“多任务”,这是现在很流行的一个词 。现在有科学研究证实了这种有关男女大脑差异的理论,最近的一项研究表明我们早已知道的男女思考方式的不同
。宾夕法尼亚大学的科学家研究了949名8岁到22岁之间人的大脑图像,发现男性大脑的单个半球内有更多连接
。而在女性大脑中,他们发现左右半脑之间有着更多的活动和联系 。左边的大脑被称作“理性”的一侧,右边的大脑被称作“创造性”的一侧 。里贾纳·维尔马是宾夕法尼亚大学的教授,她是这份报告的联合作者,她说当女性被要求做困难的事时,她们可能会使用大脑的不同部位
。而男性一般只使用大脑的一侧 。因此,男人一般是直接解决问题的
。他们大脑中的“理解”和“行动”之间有着很强的联系,而女性可能会包括大脑的其他部分,比如解决问题时会用到与理性有关的部分和与感性有关的部分 。妇女找到解决方法通常不是那么直接 。维尔马博士警告说,有了这份研究,我们就不要期待妇女做出某些行为,也不要期待男性做出某些行为
。这就是美国之音慢速英语卫生报道,我是安娜·马特奥
。