托福阅读背景材料：生活中的趣事
1 Men are 6 times more likely to be struck bylightning than women.
男人被闪电击中的概率比女人高5倍。
2 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killedfrom using products made for right handed people.
每年有超过2500名左撇子在使用为右撇子设计的产品时死亡。
3 Every time you lick a stamp， you‘re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
每次你舔邮票的背面时，你就吃下了1/10个卡路里。
4 Most lipstick 1 contains fish scales.
绝大部分的唇膏里都含有鱼鳞成分。
5 A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.。
人打喷嚏时，嘴里的气流速度超过每小时100英里。
6 More people use blue toothbrushes， than red ones.
用蓝色牙刷的人比用红色的人多。
7 The most used letter in the English alphabet is “E”， and “Q” is the least used.
在英语字母表中，“E”是用得最多的字母，“Q”则是被用得最少的。
8 Every 45 seconds， a house catches on fire in the United States.
在美国，每45秒就有一所房子着火。
9 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
每4个美国人中，就有一个人上过电视。
10 One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
人体内的骨头有1/4集中在双脚上。
11 Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
人的牙齿几乎和石头一样硬。
12 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
世界上最早有条形码标记的商品是箭牌香口胶。
13 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
任何一张干燥的方型纸片都不能被对折超过7次以上。
14 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
古代埃及人的枕头是石头做成的。
15 The average person has over 1，460 dreams a year.
一个普通人每年要做1460个梦。
16 A cockroach 2 can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies from starvation.
蟑螂在被砍头之后还能活几个星期，最后死也是饿死。
17 Dogs and cats， like humans， are either right or left handed.
猫狗和人一样也有左、右撇子之分。
18 The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
大象是唯一一种不会跳的哺乳类动物。
19 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
海豚睡觉睁一眼闭一眼。
20 The placement of a donkey‘s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
驴子眼睛的位置能让它随时看到自己的四条腿。
21 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
鸡的最长飞行纪录是13秒。
22 Cat urine glows under a black-light.
猫尿能在黑光灯下发光。
23 Over 10，000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
每年有超过一万只鸟因为撞到窗户上死亡。
- Taking out her lipstick,she began to paint her lips.她拿出口红，开始往嘴唇上抹。
- Lipstick and hair conditioner are cosmetics.口红和护发素都是化妆品。