Teenagers who talk on the cell phone a lot, and hold their phones up to their right ears, score worse on one type of memory test. That’s the finding of a new study. That memory impairment might be one side effect of the radiation (放射线) that phones use to keep us connected while we’re on the go.
Nearly 700 Swiss teens took part in a test of figural memory. This type helps us remember abstract (抽象的) symbols and shapes, explains Milena Foerster. The teens took memory tests twice, one year apart. Each time, they had one minute to remember 13 pairs of abstract shapes. Then they were shown one item from each pair and asked to match it with one of the five choices. The study volunteers also took a test of verbal memory. That’s the ability to remember words. The two memory tests are part of an intelligence test. The researchers also surveyed the teens on how they use cell phones. And they got call records from phone companies. The researchers used those records to figure out how long the teens were using their phones. This allowed the researchers to work out how big a radiation exposure (接触) each person could have got while talking.
A phone user’s exposure to the radiation can differ widely. Some teens talk on their phones more than others. People also hold their phones differently. If the phone is close to the ear, more radiation may enter the body, Foerster notes. Even the type of network signal that a phone uses can matter. Much of Switzerland was using an older “second-generation” type of cell phone networks, the study reports. Many phone carriers (通讯公司) have moved away from such networks. And more companies plan to update their networks within the next few years.
The teens’ scores in the figural memory tests were roughly the same from one year to the next. But those who normally held their phones near the right ears, and who were also exposed to higher levels of radiation, scored a little bit worse after a year. No group of teens showed big changes on the verbal memory test. Why might one type of memory be linked to cell phone use, but not another? Foerster thinks it could have to do with where different memory centers sit in the brain. The site that deals with the ability to remember shapes is near the right ear.
1. According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is TRUE?| A．The teens took two types of memory tests four times in total. |
| B．The teens needed to report the average time spent on their phones. |
| C．Researchers paid little attention to the teens’ habits of using phones. |
| D．The teens’ ability of remembering words is shown in figural memory test. |
| A．How people hold their phones has no effect on their bodies. |
| B．Phone users can make more money with new networks. |
| C．The cell phone network type has little to do the cell phone use. |
| D．Radiation levels are affected by the cell phone network types. |
| A．matching numbers | B．reading signals |
| C．remembering shapes | D．learning words |
| A．Cell phone use and safety warnings |
| B．Facts about cell phone use at school |
| C．Dangerous levels of cell phone use among teens |
| D．Teen’s cell phone use linked to memory problems |
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【推荐1】If your cellphone suddenly stops working, don't blame the service provider. The malfunction(故障) might have been caused by something bigger—a solar storm. Experts expect that the earth will see more solar activities in the near future. The malfunction of electronic devices is just one of the effects.
Sunspots(太阳黑子) serve as an indicator(标志) of the sun’s activity. For the past two years, sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the longest in nearly 100 years, has taken even sun watchers by surprise.
When the number of sunspots drops at the end of each 11-year cycle, solar storms die down and all become much calmer. This "solar minimum" doesn’t' t last long. Within a year, sunspots and solar storms begin to build toward a new crescendo—the next solar maximum.
What's special about this latest cycle is that the sun is having trouble starting the next solar cycle. The sun began to calm down in late 2007, so no one expected many sunspots in 2008. They should return in 2010. Scientists have predicted that the next solar cycle could be the most active on record: more sunspots and more solar storms. However, sunspots are mostly missing now
Since the earth is in close contact with the sun, strong solar activities can bring trouble to our life. People of the 21st century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Air travel and radio communications can be affected by strong solar activities. A big solar storm could cause 20 times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.
What the sun will do next is beyond our ability to predict. Most astronomers think that the solar cycle will go on but at low level. However, there is also evidence that the sun is losing its ability to produce sunspots. By 2015, they could be gone altogether.
1. The sun watchers feel surprised at| A．the longest sunspots' absence | B．the largest sunspot number |
| C．the malfunction of electronic devices | D．the serious damage by sunspots |
| A．small number | B．high level |
| C．usual cycle | D．fresh start |
| A．Solar activities do no harm to our daily life |
| B．Hurricane Katrina is also a type of solar storms |
| C．It's difficult to predict sunspots. |
| D．From now on there're no sunspots. |
【推荐2】Brrriiinnng. The alarm clock announces the start of another busy weekday in the morning. You jump out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with hardly a moment to think. A stressful journey to work gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters. In that sort of mood, who can get down to work, particularly some creative, original problem-solving work?
The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly opposite to the conditions that promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused. If you are one of those energetic morning people, your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed. Sleepy people’s lack of focus leads to an increase in creative problem solving. By not giving yourself time to tune into your wandering mind, you’re missing out on the surprising solutions it may offer.
The trip you take to work doesn’t help, either. The stress slows down the speed with which signals travel between neurons (神经细胞), making inspirations less likely to occur. And while we all should read a lot about what’s going on in the world, it would not make you feel good for sure, so put that news website or newspaper aside until after the day’s work is done.
So what would our mornings look like if we wanted to start them with a full capacity for creative problem solving? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead. We’d stand a little longer under the warm water of the shower, stopping thinking about tasks in favor of a few more minutes of relaxation. We’d take some deep breaths on our way to work, instead of complaining about heavy traffic. And once in the office—after we get a cup of coffee—we’d click on links not to the news of the day but to the funniest videos the web has to offer.
1. According to the author, we are more creative when we are ________.| A．busy | B．awake | C．focused | D．relaxed |
| A．switch to the traffic channel | B．stop concentrating on anything |
| C．listen to a beautiful tune | D．wander into the wild |
| A．advocate diverse ways of life | B．establish a routine for the future |
| C．offer practical suggestions | D．summarize past experiences |
【推荐3】Do our musical preferences say something about our personality or how we view relationships? According to a new research, they just may.
In the study, 469 participants listed 7~15 of their favorite songs about something related to relationships. Then, they filled out questionnaires that measured their attachment style in relationships. People with an anxious attachment style fear being abandoned while people with an avoidant attachment style dislike connecting with others. Those with a secure attachment style see themselves as worthy of love and enjoy being close to others.
Research assistants read the lyrics(歌词) of the songs people chose and rated how much those lyrics reflected different attachment styles. According to the analysis, those who were more avoidant preferred songs with avoidant themes, while people who scored high in neuroticism(神经质) preferred songs expressing more anxious themes.
According to the lead author, Ravin Alaei of the University of Toronto, this is the first study that examines how song lyrics play a role in music preferences. “One reason people turn to music is that it can validate what they think, feel, and do in relationships and lyrics matter for that,” he says. “People enjoy having their feelings and thoughts spoken back to them.”
Next, the researchers pulled together 823 popular songs. After rating how much these songs’ lyrics reflected different attachment themes, they compared songs from 1946~1965 to those from 1990~2015. They found more recent popular songs were likelier to have avoidant attachment themes and less secure lyrics than older popular songs.
Alaei believes this could be because people are less connected than they used to be. “We’ve become more individualistic, and we feel lonelier these days than people used to several decades ago. Social media may, ironically, make people feel less connected,” he says.
1. What do those with avoidant attachment style tend to do?| A．Keep close to their friends. | B．Enjoy songs full of anxiety. |
| C．Stay away from the outside. | D．Worry about their future. |
| A．Imagine. | B．Improve. | C．Steal. | D．Prove. |
| A．Older popular songs had more secure lyrics. |
| B．Lyrics hardly affected participants’ attachment. |
| C．Songs with more anxious themes were more popular. |
| D．People fond of recent popular songs got angry easily. |
| A．They contradict with personalities. |
| B．They may reflect our personal lives. |
| C．They can impact life satisfaction. |
| D．They are reliant on social media. |
【推荐1】In recent years, many Americans of both sexes and various ages have become interested in improving their bodies. They have become devoted to physical fitness. The need to exercise has almost become compulsive (禁不住的) with many persons who have a strong desire to be more physically fit.
By nature, Americans are enthusiastic (充满热情的) about their hobbies and pastimes. They apply this enthusiasm to jogging/running. As a result, there are running clubs to join and many books and magazines to read about running.
The desire to be physically fit is explained by a “passion” for good health. The high rate of heart attacks in the 1960s caused an increase on the part of the public in improving the human body. Middle-aged men especially suffer from heart attacks. Thus, they are one group more strongly interested in physical exercise. In fact, many doctors encourage their patients to become more physically active, especially those who have sedentary jobs. It is interesting to note that the rate of heart attacks began to decrease in the 1970s and it is still decreasing. Physical fitness currently enjoys a favored role in the United States. It is a new “love” that many Americans have cherished. Will it last long? Only time can tell—or until another “new passion” comes along.
1. In recent years, many Americans have become interested in improving their bodies because _________.| A．they are enthusiastic about their hobbies and pastimes |
| B．they have a strong desire to be more physically fit |
| C．there are many running clubs to join |
| D．there are many books and magazines to read about running |
| A．going in for all kinds of sports | B．joining running clubs |
| C．jogging/running | D．reading books and magazines about running |
| A．are more interested in taking physical exercise |
| B．are compulsive joggers |
| C．are enthusiastic and energetic about hobbies and pastimes |
| D．are encouraged by their doctors to go in for jogging/running |
| A．involving physical work | B．secondary |
| C．energy-consuming | D．needing much sitting |
【推荐2】Plastic waste is choking our planet. People are trying to help fix it by recycling, but their efforts aren’t going far enough. Even when plastic producers are held responsible and attempt to solve the problem, it doesn’t always go smoothly. Such has been the case for the company Torus Pak, which produces novel packaging for frozen meals on a large scale.
Like many other black plastic products, the Torus Pak packages used a carbon-based pigment (颜料). This pigment troubles the sorting technology which is used by many recycling facilities, so black plastic usually ends up being thrown away because the machines can’t identify it. Now the company is midway through the complex process of phasing out that pigment and switching that pigment to one that doesn’t use carbon.
But that doesn’t mean the problem is solved, for the recycling rate at the waste facility itself is not encouraging. Your discarded plastic may end up in a landfill even if you send it to be recycled. Worldwide, only about nine percent of all the plastic waste has been recycled, which amounts to less than 600 million tons out of over 6 billion. While one might assume the proportion of plastic being recycled is on the increase due to improved tech and increased public awareness of environmental protection, it’s actually become even lower in many places in recent years.
“The world wasn’t always flooded with single-use plastic products,” said Lisa Ramsden, senior plastic campaigner for Greenpeace USA. “We know how to live without them. We’ve just got used to a convenience culture that relies so heavily on them.”
The solution is obvious. To get out of this habit, we should stop using so much plastic, starting with many of the items we use just once for a few minutes. Companies need to shift toward using more refillable and reusable containers, and packaging made from materials that are less harmful to the environment. Governments must mandate (强制执行) such changes — a goal we’re now finally inching closer to every day.
1. What is the problem with the Torus Pak packages?| A．They are expensive for customers. |
| B．Their pigment is hardly appealing. |
| C．They are hard to define as “recyclable”. |
| D．Their production process is very complex. |
| A．The reason for recycling plastic waste. |
| B．The outcome of recycling plastic waste. |
| C．The potential of recycling plastic waste. |
| D．The objective of recycling plastic waste. |
| A．Making some stricter laws. |
| B．Reducing the use of plastic products. |
| C．Advancing the technology of recycling. |
| D．Setting some higher environmental goals. |
| A．Recycling fails to solve plastic pollution |
| B．A company contributes a lot to recycling |
| C．Great changes happen in recycling plastic |
| D．Plastic pollution is increasingly worsening |
【推荐3】Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom need a referee and rarely trouble to keep scores. They don't care much about who wins or loses, and it doesn't seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Yet, they like games that depend a lot on luck, so that their personal abilities cannot be directly compared. They also enjoy games that move in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the determining of which side shall start, is almost a game in itself.
Grown-ups can hardly find children's games exciting, and they often feel puzzled at why their kids play such simple games again and again. However, it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinarily afraid. He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be confident, too, in particular games, that it is his place to give orders, to pretend to be dead, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.
It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. Those rules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.
1. What is true about children when they play games?| A．They can stop playing any time they like. |
| B．They can test their personal abilities. |
| C．They want to pick up a better team. |
| D．They don't need rules. |
| A．play well | B．wait for his turn |
| C．be confident in himself | D．be popular among his playmates |
| A．They are not interested in games. |
| B．They find children's games too easy. |
| C．They don't need a reason to play games. |
| D．They don't understand children's games. |
| A．Because he can be someone other than himself. |
| B．Because he can become popular among friends. |
| C．Because he finds he is always lucky in games. |
| D．Because he likes the place where he plays a game. |
【推荐1】Would you like to keep free e-books handy to read on your phone or tablet? Several websites offer e-books you can download without spending any money at all.
Amazon
Amazon is filled with free e-books you can download. Amazon’s Best Seller list is divided into Paid and Free. Check out the free sections in dozens of genres (种类), each listing the Top 100 free e-books so you will have a lot of choices. This list changes constantly, based on how well the books are “selling” and whether they become or remain free.
Over Drive
Over Drive is an e-book service that works with local libraries to lend free e-books to readers. It includes a wide collection of e-books, from new sellers to classics. Sometimes there is a wait for a library e-book, just as there can be for a popular print book.
Project Gutenberg
Started in 1971, Project Gutenberg has over 53,000 free e-books. Project Gutenberg e-books are available to download in the U. S. but may be restricted in other countries if they are still protected by copyright.
Apple i-Books
You can read free e-books on your iPhone and iPad using the i-Books app. Head to the iTunes App Store and click the “Free Books” category. You can see a list of the top best sellers. Click “Get” to download those books to your iPhone or iPad.
Audible
Audible lets you download audio (有声) books. You can get a free audio book when you sign up for a membership. Audible is currently available for listeners in the US, the UK, Canada, India, and Australia.
Finally, when you find a free e-book you want to read, get it right away. Often the offer is open only briefly. If you wait too long, you may discover the book now has a price attached.
1. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?| A．To introduce some new best-selling e-books. |
| B．To encourage readers to buy more e-books online. |
| C．To show the advantages of some e-book services. |
| D．To recommend some websites to download free e-books. |
| A．The e-books on Amazon are always free to read. |
| B．Library print books are available on Over Drive. |
| C．Only in the US can Project Gutenberg e-books be downloaded. |
| D．IPhone users can access Apple i-Books via the i-Books app. |
| A．Profession. | B．Registration. | C．Background. | D．Birthplace. |
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1. What does the hospital specially offer to pets?| A．Pet licenses and timely care. | B．Clinic rooms and pet playmates. |
| C．Good pet doctors and full services. | D．The best medicine and treatment. |
| A．Food and exercise. | B．Nutrition and prevention. |
| C．Technology and equipment. | D．Experience and patience. |
| A．To make an advertisement for a pet hospital. |
| B．To inform pet owners how to treat their pets. |
| C．To introduce a trusted veterinarian to pet owners. |
| D．To tell people to treat their pets better. |
【推荐3】A new pastor(牧师) named John reopened a church that had been abandoned in a suburb. He found it broken, and in need of a lot of repair work. His goal was to have everything done in time for his first service on Christmas Eve.
He worked hard. However, when John went to the church on Dec. 21, his heart sank: a large area of plaster (石膏) had fallen off the front wall due to a terrible storm the night before. John headed home, and on the way he stopped at a market selling items for charity.
One of the items was an exquisite( 精致的)handmade tablecloth. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church. It started to snow. An old woman had missed her bus, and he invited her to wait in the warm church for the next one. As John put up the tablecloth the woman asked him to check the corner for the initials(手写字母). They were her initials: she had made this tablecloth 35 years before. Then the war broke out, and forced her to part with her husband.
John wanted to give her the tablecloth. but she asked him to keep it for the church. John insisted on driving her home which he thought was the least he could do.
What a wonderful service he had on Christmas Eve! John noticed one old man staring at the tablecloth on the front wall. The man said it was similar to one that his wife had made many years before.
John brought the old man to the house where he had taken the woman three days earlier. He helped him climb the three flights of stairs to her apartment, and saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever have imagined.
1. According to Paragraph one, we learn that John decided to_______.| A．help people affected by a terrible storm |
| B．buy goods for charity in the neighborhood |
| C．repair the abandoned church before his first service |
| D．do some work for the local people |
| A．The woman’s husband had to leave her because of a war |
| B．Johns service on Christmas Eve was disappointing |
| C．Everyone was surprised by the beauty of the tablecloth. |
| D．John drove the old man home because he was lost. |
| A．he loved its colors | B．he had seen it in a church |
| C．It was like one his wife had made | D．it looked strange hanging on a wall |
| A．A kind pastor who had difficulty repairing an ancient church |
| B．A new pastor who gave his first service with a couples help |
| C．A tablecloth made 35 years ago being discovered by a pastor |
| D．An old couple being reunited on Christmas Eve through a tablecloth |
【推荐1】Russia’s security chief has blamed an act of terror for the Russian A321 airliner crash in Egypt last month which killed 224 people . Whatever happened , the tragedy raises sad memories of horrific airplane crashes that have cost thousands of lives in recent decades .
Some of the worst such incidents—like four crashes in frightening succession into New York’s World Trade Center , the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania on September 11 , 2001 ; the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie , Scotland ; and a 1977 crash involving the apparent hijacking of a Malaysian Airlines jet that left 100 dead—involved terrorist activity . But there are many others that did not , with mechanical problems , pilot error or other reasons blamed for loss of life . Below are some examples of the latter : crashes that left at least 200 people dead in each incident .
March 27 , 1977 : A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 beginning its takeoff crashed into Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 then still on the runway at the Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife in the Canary Islands . A total of 574 people , aboard both planes , died .
July 11 , 1991 : The landing gear of a Nigeria Airways DC-8 catches fire shortly after takeoff Jeddah , Saudi Arabia . It doesn’t make it back to the airport , crashing nose-down less than 10,000 feet short of the runway and killing all 261 people aboard .
April 26 , 1994 : The pilot of a China Airlines’ Flight 140 alerts the control tower at Japan’s Nagoya Airport of his intention not to land and try another approach . But something goes wrong and , a short time later , the Airbus A300 crashes leading to 264 deaths—though a few passengers do survive .
September 2 , 1998 : A Swissair jetliner that had departed New York’s Kennedy airport on its way to Geneva , Switzerland , goes down off the coast of Nova Scotia , Canada ; none of the 229 people aboard Flight 111 make it . Investigators believe that the MD-11 lost all electrical power immediately before the crash .
June 1 , 2009 : Air France Flight 447 is on the way from Rio de Janiero to Paris when it and its 228 passengers and crew go missing somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean . It’s not until five days later that the first bodies are found about 600 miles off the northern coast of Brazil . Two years later , French authorities blame the crash on equipment breakdown .
1. The first paragraph is intended to __________ .| A．memorize those people aboard the Russian A321 airline . |
| B．direct attention to some disastrous air plane crashes . |
| C．show it is the most serious incident in history . |
| D．analyze the cause of the disaster and blame the airline company . |
| A．China Airlines’ Flight 140 |
| B．Air France Flight 447 |
| C．Pan Am Flight 103 |
| D．Swissair Jetliner Flight 111 |
| A．Two planes of the same type hit each other on March 27 , 1977 . |
| B．There were over 264 people aboard China Airlines’ Flight 140 . |
| C．Swissair Jetliner Flight 111 crashed during its landing . |
| D．It took five days to find some bodies of Air France Flight 447 . |
| A．Russian Airlines Plane Crash | B．Air Crash Investigation |
| C．Deadliest Airline Crashes | D．Mysteries of Air crashes |
【推荐2】Intelligence makes for better leaders —from undergraduates to managers to presidents — according to multiple studies. It certainly makes sense that handling a market shift or anything alike requires intelligence. But new research on leadership suggests that, at a certain point, having a higher IQ stops helping and starts hurting.
Although previous research has shown that groups with smarter leaders perform better by objective measures, some studies have suggested that followers might subjectively view leaders with extremely high intellect as less effective. Decades ago, Dean Simonton, a psychologist from the University of California, Davis, proposed that brilliant leaders’ words may simply go over people’s heads, their solutions could be more complicated to carry out and followers might find it harder to relate to them. Now Simonton and two colleagues have finally tested that idea, publishing their results in the July 2017 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The researchers looked at 379 male and female business leaders in 30 countries across fields including banking, retail and technology. The managers took IQ tests and each was rated on leadership style and effectiveness by an average of eight co-workers. IQ positively correlated (和......正相关)with ratings of leader effectiveness, strategy formation, vision and several other characteristics—up to a point. The ratings peaked at an IQ of around 120, which is higher than roughly 80 percent of office workers. Beyond that, the ratings declined(降低).
The researchers suggest the “ideal” IQ could be higher or lower in various fields, to 140 or 100, depending on whether technical or social skills are more valued in a given work culture.
“It’s an interesting and thoughtful paper,” says Paul Sackett, a management professor at University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the research. “To me, the right interpretation of the work would be that it highlights a need to understand what high-IQ leaders do leads to lower understanding by followers,” he says. “The wrong interpretation would be, “Don’t hire high-IQ leaders.”
The study’s lead author, John Antonakis, a psychologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, suggests leaders should use their intelligence to use creative language that will persuade and inspire others—the way former U.S. President Barack Obama did. “I think the only way a smart person can signal their intelligence properly and still connect with the people,” Antonakis says, “is to speak in charming ways.”
1. The reason why those with high IQs are viewed as worse leaders is probably that _______.| A．followers think of their leaders to be less effective |
| B．it is hard for them to get their plans across to followers |
| C．their IQ has a positive correlation with leader effectiveness |
| D．their social skills can’t be recognized in some work culture |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．use inspiring and accessible language | B．interpret the work they are involved in |
| C．take a course in leader effectiveness | D．communicate more with their followers |
| A．Unconcerned. | B．Positive. | C．Doubtful. | D．Unclear. |
| A．A Way to Success for High-IQ Leaders. |
| B．The Latest Research on Intelligence. |
| C．Does a High IQ Advance Your Leadership? |
| D．Choose to be a Leader of Low Intelligence. |
The people who live on the island usually have good teeth, and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.
We can understand why the whistle language continues. It is very useful on the island, and quite easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle language takes the place of telephone. If the sick person is quite far away from the town, people pass the message from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in town. People help one another in the same way when a car breaks down or a cow is lost.
The whistle language is hundreds of years old, and probably it will continue to live on for hundreds of years more. Radio and TV often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on La Gomera you are nobody if you cannot whistle. Perhaps soon after TV arrives on the island, people there will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions.
1. If a person on La Gomera is ill, ______.
| A．the whistle language will help pass the message to the doctor |
| B．people will take him to town by carriage |
| C．his family will take him to the hospital |
| D．others will phone the doctor in town |
| A．we don’t know its complete history |
| B．people have to shout if they want to communicate |
| C．people there have good teeth and ears |
| D．people there use the whistle language to communicate with each other |
| A．The whistle language has been used for hundreds of years on the island, but will not beused any longer. |
| B．The whistle language can only be found on La Gomera. |
| C．It is not easy for a person to live on La Gomera if he cannot whistle. |
| D．The record shows that one best whistler can be heard by others from seven miles away. |
| A．The Secret Language |
| B．Do You Know the Whistle Language? |
| C．The Life of Islanders |
| D．La Gomera－a Mystery |
