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。
学英语单词
acclaimable
acetaldehyde monoperacetate
atavistic inheritance
back issues
bacteriogical laboratory
benci
board for
Caenolestidae
certificate of authorization
Cezary
chemically polished crystal
chikvaidze
chiral lagrangian
closing on
coagulable protein
consistency of nonlinear grammar
copy-papers
daphniphyllum oblongum chien
defference
desafuration
devil's bit
devil's urn
dry melter
Exanthalite
Eyrarbakki
fast neutron embrittlement
Filtabyte
floor vent
foaming effect
four-colour page
gastrodelphyid
gonoforceps
hard rocker
head lock
howghe
ink rest
interstitial space
iron-headed
John Cleese
kill devil
Krugers
lose all reason
lower respiratory tract
management by objectives
Mazdeist
musa laterita cheesm.
naphthenic solvent
noelia
nonobjectifiable
nonvictims
occassions
orated
Osage County
oscillating valve
osunsami
Parati
patent green
philosophunculist
phlebology
phosphatesaluminium
Phrygian stone
polcarb
predominances
preinput
proton vector magnetometer
pullucid
Qathafi
quality analysis map of product
radiation content meter
range selector
remote batch station
renormalise
resonator
Ropressor
russulas
sharing of structures
side-swipe
spectral width
square-wave form
stay of lathe
stock fulling mill
suffultus
taxes
tetrachloromethiazide
to take advantage of
toe protection
train control territory
traumatic alopecias
truck carrier
Ulu Perak
universitets
unmailed
unsentimentality
ustolls
videofluorimeter
Villarrica
vinylacetylene
W Virginis stars
wagglers
wheel detachable side ring
whiteleg
wide-angled