时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第四册


英语课

   Lesson29 Alcohol Damage to the Young Brain

Few teens seem to worry about what alcohol does to their bodies. Cirrhosis of the liver is unlikely to catch up with them for decades, and heart disease must seem as remote as retirement 1, but recent research indicates that the younger the brain, the more it may be at risk. Because their brains are still developing, teens who drink excessively may be destroying some of their mental capacity - affecting their ability to learn.

Nearly 7 million youths between the ages of 12 and 20 binge drink at least once a month, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. That means downing five or more drinks in a row.

Teen drinkers appear to be most susceptible 2 to damage in two developing parts of the brain, the hippocampus, a structure responsible for learning and memory, and the prefrontal cortex, the chief decision-maker and voice of reason.

In a study of how alcohol affects the hippocampus, scholars dosed adolescent and adult rats with alcohol and ran them through mazes 3. Compared with the adults, the adolescents failed miserably 4. To see whether similar results held true for humans, some scholars split a small group of volunteers into two groups: ages 21 to 24, and 25 to 29.

After drinking enough to achieve a blood-alcohol level slightly below 0.08 percent, the younger group's learning was significantly more impaired 6 than the older group's.

cirrhosis [医]硬化

susceptible 易受影响的

hippocampus 海马状突起

prefrontal [解]额叶前部的

cortex 脑皮层

impair 5 削弱

酒精对青少年大脑的伤害

青少年似乎并不担心酒精对他们身体的伤害。几十年内他们不大可能会得肝硬化,心脏病对他们来讲如同退休一样遥远。但是最近的研究表明大脑越年轻,越容易受到伤害。因为青少年的大脑还在发育,过度饮酒可能会损害他们的智力&&影响他们的学习能力。

美国管制药品滥用及精神卫生管理局的数据表明,将近700万12到20岁之间的青少年每个月至少有一次过量饮酒,也就是连续喝酒五杯或五杯以上。

青少年饮酒者的大脑的两个正在发育的部分最容易受到伤害,它们是负责学习和记忆的海马状突起和主要的决策和理性中心&&前额皮质。

在一个研究酒精对海马状突起的影响的实验中,研究者给幼年的和成年的老鼠服用了酒精后把它们放到了迷宫里。与成年老鼠相比,幼年的老鼠惨败。为了验证在人类身上是否也会有相似的结果,一些研究者把一小群志愿者分成了两组,21至24年龄组和25至29年龄组。

给他们饮酒使他们血液内的酒精含量达到略低于0.08%的水平后,年龄稍小的那一组的学习能力受到的损害明显大于年龄大的那一组。



1 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
2 susceptible
adj.过敏的,敏感的;易动感情的,易受感动的
  • Children are more susceptible than adults.孩子比成人易受感动。
  • We are all susceptible to advertising.我们都易受广告的影响。
3 mazes
迷宫( maze的名词复数 ); 纷繁复杂的规则; 复杂难懂的细节; 迷宫图
  • The mazes of the dance were ecstatic. 跳舞那种错综曲折,叫人快乐得如登九天。
  • For two hours did this singlehearted and simpleminded girl toil through the mazes of the forest. 这位心地单纯的傻姑娘在林间曲径中艰难地走了两个来小时。
4 miserably
adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地
  • The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
  • It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨,天气又冷又湿,令人难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 impair
v.损害,损伤;削弱,减少
  • Loud noise can impair your hearing.巨大的噪音有损听觉。
  • It can not impair the intellectual vigor of the young.这不能磨灭青年人思想活力。
6 impaired
adj.受损的;出毛病的;有(身体或智力)缺陷的v.损害,削弱( impair的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Much reading has impaired his vision. 大量读书损害了他的视力。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • His hearing is somewhat impaired. 他的听觉已受到一定程度的损害。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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Adhere to the four cardinal principles
aluminum
amixis (burnett 1956)
anatabine
announcing removal
antilifer
antimoniate
approximate sight
arithmetic predicate
Arsenopolybasite
autophoretic
bartlet
basidiomycotas
black-american
business type budget
cessation of payment of premiums
childfuckers
communication network architecture
compact shelving
conditions of a loan
congenital fistulas of lower lip
coshe
coulston
criss cross
Cyrtoniodus
d.c.generator
Dafla
detunes
directive factor
dirty carrier
DPS (data path switch)
ear mange
eulogise
excessive overhang of tool
exhaust pipe combination
exogeneous ore deposit
Ferula Tourn. ex L.
fluid passageway
flying fuck
FRCPI
glossogobius circumspectus
Halabro
have no sting in it
hydronation
i-smite
instruct to
Jog Falls
kroller-muller
length of warranty
libbie
line element
line switching
love catcher
mainchain
make an evil reputation for oneself
method of attributes
minority carrier emitter
Mondoro
motor-engine
Mount Cook lily
multi-purpose magnetic analytical meter
nonmasturbatory
Nunihāt
o'driscoll
ODSW
our-quar
overagitates
papesses
peak working reverse voltage
plant aetiology
primary distribution of
prittwitz
Pseudobilharziella
pyorrhocide
resident real income
rheolaveur system
rockley
Ryzelan
Saussurea aster
saw-tooth impulse
Saxifraga signatella
semimicro-analytical balance
serapes
shelter-wood cutting
ski-shoes
sliding scale wages
spacecraft separation
spoliation
state-sets
steel wire gauze
stereoscopic X-ray photograph
subzone
tangent cone method
unduly burdensome
unsurpassed
vectorlike
VF presentation
viscosity-yield curve
weiskopfs
white liquor
wood-ray parenchyma