1. Head injuries are often fatal, or of sufficient severity to require the hospitalization of victims. But there is a large group of people who sustain head injuries which can go undetected throuoh ordinary medica examination. These are the people who seeminaly recover from their iniuries but stil suffer subtle intelectual and behavioural effects that may seriousl impair their ability to work and interact normallv with other people. Thev are the victims of what experts call a “silent epidemic”. Some never lost conscousness and others never even suffered a direct blow to the head, yet brain damage occurred.
【答案】头部受伤往往会造成死亡或者重伤，需要让病人住院治疗。但是有许多人虽然头部受伤，图完的常规检查却发现不了。这些人受伤以后似乎得到了恢复，但是他们在智力或行为方面仍然有不易察觉的后遗症，这会严重影响他们的工作能力和与他人进行正常交往的能力。专家管这种人患的病叫做”不声不响的流行病”。有的人根本没有失去知觉，有的人甚至头部根本没有受到直接的撞击，然而脑子却受了伤。
2. Drinking too much alcohol can lead to alcohol dependency, accidents, liver damage and so on. Connections have been
made between heavy drinking and cancer of the mouth, strokes, raised blood pressure, increased infertility,A host of other unwelcome conditions have also been reported, which casts a shadow over even light social drinking.And in the United States women have been persuaded that any alcohol consumption during pregnancy “may lead to birth defects”,a message printed on every bottle of wine in commercial circulation.
【答案】饮用太多的酉能导致对酒精的依赖、事故的发生、对肝脏的损害等等。人们已把酒和口腔癌、中风、高血压以及越来越多的不孕症联系在一起。还有报道认为其他一些不良症状也与酒有关，即使是应酬时少重的饮酒都成了问颗。在美国，妇女会收到忠告，说怀孕其旧欧酒”会引起胎儿临形”，每前出售的酒上都印着这条忠告。
3.Americans are used to ordering thinas ranging from French fries to popcorn in sma, medium or supersize.Now those same decision-making skils may become rueful in the bathroom, thanks to an innovative plumbing technology: dual-flush toilets. The new invention is the industry’s latest attempt to help reduce water usage, a movement that hasn’t always gone smoothly. The last big toilet makeover came more than a decade ago, when the U.s. government decreed that new toilets should use just 1.6 gallons of water per flush, down from the 3.5-gallon standard. But consumers complained that it often took two or more flushes to clear the bowl; so many people preferred the old toilets that some plumbers imported them illegally from Canada.
【答案】美国人不管是买炸薯条还是爆米花，都习惯选择要小号的、中号的，还是大号的。现在，由于一项中水技术上的革新，即：两用冲水座便器，这种在卫生间设备方面做决定的技巧可能会令人为难。这一新发明是该行业的一个最新尝试，旨在促进节约用水。而节水运动开展得并不总是十分顺利。上一次关十卫生间的重大变革还是十几年前的事，当时美国政府规定，新的坐便器每欠冲水的标准要从3.5加仑降低到1.6加论。可是消费者却抱怨说，有时候需要冲中两次甚至更多次才能冲干净。所以许多人仍然喜欢老式坐便器。结果一些水管工人便从加拿大非法进口老式座便器。
4. Facebook is, in Silicon Vallese, a “social network”: a website for keeping track of your friends and sending them messages and sharing photos and doing al those other things that a good little Web 2.0 company is supposed to help you do.It was started by Harvard students in 2004 as a tool for meeting-or at least discreetly ogling-other Harvard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow up.
【答案】”脸书”是硅谷的一个社会网络，让你和朋友保持联络、发送信息、分享照片、完成其他任何网络2.0公司能的你做到的事情。”脸书”由一群哈佛学生建立干2004年，起初是为了让哈佛学生之间互相结识，或者至少是谨慎地彼此了解。现在，”脸书”为人所知还因为它是一个为青少年或者是假扮青少年的人聚会的场所。但这其实带有讽刺的意味，因为“脸书”实际上促进着互联网的成长。
5.English food has a bad reputation abroad.This is most probably because foreigners in England are often obliged to eat in the more “popular” type of restaurant Here it is necessary to prepare food rapidly in large quantities, and the taste of the food inevitably suffers, though its quality, from the point of view of nourishment, is quite satisfactory. Still, it is rather dull and not always attractively presented. Moreover, the Englishman eating in a cheap or medium price restaurant is usually in a hurry-at least at lunch-and a meal eaten in a leisurely manner in pleasant surroundings is always far more enjoyable than a meal taken hastily in a business-like atmosphere.In genera ， it is possble to get an adeguate mea at a reasonable price: in fact.such a meal may be less expensive than simiar food abroad.For those with money to spare, there are restaurants that compare favourably with the best in any country
【答案】英国食品在海外的名声不好。这很可能是因为去英国的外国人不得不常在更“大众化”的餐官里用餐的缘故。在那里，必须大量迅速地备餐，因此饭菜的味道必然逊色，尽管在营养方面，饭菜质量还是令人满意的。可是饭菜仍然显得单调，颜色花样也常常不大讲究。此外，在价钱便宜或适中的饭店里用餐的英国人，通常是来去匆匆–至少午餐是如此-一而在舒适的环境中从容就餐要比在生意氛围较液的环境里匆匆忙忙地吃饭更有乐趣。一般来说，花不多的钱吃上一顿饰饭是可能的。事实上，同样的饭菜比国外或许还要便宜些。对于手头有富余的人来说，英国有一些饭店和国外最好的饭店相比还要划算。
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