时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:大学英语六级听力短文


英语课

Cool weather and Warm weather


If you are like most people, your intelligence varies 1 from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are any other time of year. A noted 2 scientist, Ellsworth Huntington 1876 - 1947 concluded from other mans’ work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.


He found that cool weather is much more favorable 3 for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.


Spring appears to be the best time of the year for thinking. Fall is the next-best season than winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking.



1 varies
变化( vary的第三人称单数 ); [生物学]变异; 相应变化; 呈现不同
  • The need for sleep varies considerably from person to person. 不同的人对睡眠的需要差异相当大。
  • the stultifying effects of work that never varies 一成不变的工作造成的使人呆滞的后果
2 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
3 favorable
adj.赞成的,赞成的;有利的,良好的,顺利的
  • The book received a favorable review.这本书赢得了好评。
  • Each nation suppressed news that was not favorable to it.每个国家都扣留对它不利的消息。
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air-to-air laser ranging
altiloquent
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approximate process
aquatic grass
asterina koshunensis
automatic load-frequency control
bowling shoe
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Buang, Pulau
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by ambulance
by hook or crook
c.ross
Casearia glomerata
cataloging
cataput
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color-match
combined logic function
commissioner of Inland Revenue
confidential adviser-advisee relation
continuous compounding
converso
crepidotus variabilis
danse caracteris?es
de-lice
degradational
detector lamp
double blade
effective horsepower
electron image amplifier
electron jet
etching reagrnt
execution statement
expansive illusion
fingerindex
first voyage
flip-charts
forcer
frack us
give hostage to fortune
glare interference of light source
graph database
gun-firings
house-physician
in-court
inconsistency
incrustation pseudomorphosis
indic nitrate
interest burden for end-borrowers
Kinιk
lapstreak planking
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long distance supervisory control
Mach limit altitude
macroporous silica gel
macroprolactinoma
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Mihai Eminescu
molecular gauge
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nase
never-outs
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osmophilia
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performance standard zoning
permeable crib dike
photoelectric pickup
photoluminescent polymer
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rose-apple tree
ryazanov
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skellig
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slot and key
St Paul, C.
stage of attack
STESS
superfluousnesses
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tool setter
topic type
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traction transformator
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