A. occasional B. one-dimensional C. path D. intentionally E. portrayed F. counter G. downsides H. representation I. lacked J. similarly K. sophisticated |
Mad Science
Until relatively recently, popular media neglected fact-checking and mostly offered negative, mad scientist-oriented stereotypes. A survey of more than a thousand horror films from 1931 to 1984 found that a third
Onscreen researchers also typically
Factual errors and
That’s the primary reason why researchers work on Hollywood projects: to
Satisfyingly,
2 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. characteristic B.blame C. slave D. accepting E. oriented F. remaining G. properly H. behaviors I. surprise J. resist K. consistently |
An American researcher who studied 600 millionaires found how rich you can get comes down to 6 “wealth factors“. She found that six behaviors are related to net worth potential, regardless of age or income. These were thriftiness, confidence, responsibility, planning, focus and social indifference.
Being thrifty comes as no great
Having confidence is another key
But people can’t invest--or manage their own money--without
And it is these
3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
A. professional B. exclude C. consider D. restlessness E. incredible F. composition G. relatively H. assumption I. distraction J. hindered K. literally |
Do you ever draw? Most of us don’t, and the reason we usually leave drawing to the artists is because we’re not very good at it. Who wants to do something they’re bad at? But maybe we should rethink this
We should
“We have missed the significance of drawing because we see it as a
Here’s an example: You might enjoy eating at a restaurant that boasts an
Sitting (or standing!) with a pad and pencil, drawing something you see or imagine requires focus and a
A. address B. fascination C.governed D. imposing E.offensive F.originally G.overlooking H. rebellion I.reminder J. randomly K.swept |
Palaces are known for their beauty and splendor, but they offer little protection against attacks. It is easy to defend a fortress, but fortresses are not designed with the comfort of a king or queen in mind. When it comes to structures that are both
Castles were
Not limited to military purposes, castles also served as offices from which the lord would administer control over his fiefdom. That is to say, the lord of the land would hold court in his castle. Those that were socially beneath the lord would come to report the affairs of the lands that they
A. acknowledgement B. actually C. commonly D. confirm E. conscious F. crack G. eliminate H. independent I. log J. shortcut K. unimaginative |
Why Your Password May Not Be As Safe As It Seems
Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgimptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most
When ten million passwords were leaked to the internet, they appeared to
While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”, there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to
“Users are becoming slightly more
But
Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to associate their mobile phone with an account, and have a single use password texted to it each time they want to
Although the service is voluntary, Dylan Casey, an executive at Yahoo!, said that it was “the first step to
It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than some people’s improving upon “password” by using “password” or tran5p053d numb3r5f0r13tt3r5.
“We are, for the most part, predictably
A. minerals B. agriculture C. profitable D. available E. shortages F. celebrations G. immigrants H. increased I. population J. fashionable K. opened |
Chinese traders were recorded as making voyages to the north coast of Australia from the 1750s, but were probably visiting Australia long before. Chinese men arrived in Australia in small numbers after the 1788 British settlement as free settlers and criminals. A small population grew rapidly after 1848 under a system of indentured (契约的) labor, after China had
Indentured Chinese
Due to labor
Gold rushes in Victoria in the 1850s and New South Wales in the 1860s significantly
When mining became less
Today there is a culturally diverse Chinese
A. abandoned B. challenge C. colored D. demonstrate E. ensures F. initiatives G. innovation H. pilot I. purchased J. recycled K. tailors |
Lego: One Step Closer to Being Sustainable
The Lego Group is one step closer to reaching its goal of making all its products from sustainable materials by 2030.
The Danish toymaker revealed a prototype (雏形) brick made from
“The biggest
It will be “some time” before bricks made from used materials can be
“Experimentation and failing is an important part of learning and
The move follows last year’s announcement that the company was making a $400 million investment over three years into sustainability
A. lonely B. convey C. touches D. inconvenience E. widely F. accompanying G. composition H. captures I. abandon J. sensory K. wearing |
An Innovative Painter
Alan is a pioneering painter, working with oil paint on canvas in a traditional way. It is only in his use of paint that he differs from the usual practice of using brushes.
Although he does use a brush to draw the main lines of his
Throughout his life Alan has travelled
A. based B. genuinely C. irrelevant D. outsized E. persist F. previously G. profile H. reasoning I. shaped J. similar K. subsequent |
It happens just about every time I go to a restaurant with my daughter. I open the menu and scan the options. Then I glance at the children’s menu. Oftentimes, the menu is pretty
If I think again for a moment, though, the deal isn’t really a deal. After all, I estimated the cost of the pasta
My faulty
According to researchers, anchoring is when people rely on
Studies show that anchoring effects
Anchoring affects all kinds of decisions, even those made by experts who should know better. In particular, a recent study shows that anchoring is far more common in the financial world than
The phenomenon of anchoring shows that while we think of ourselves as rational and logical beings, unrelated details can have a(n)
A. disturbing B. resources C. altered D. effective E. recorded F. permanently G. specially H. machines I. signified J. accurately K. impossible |
When an endangered seabird hits a power line, it makes a sound “very much like the laser sound from Star Wars,” says conservation biologist Marc Travers. He should know, as his team from the Endangered Seabird Recovery Project
His team recorded 600 hours of audio and sent the recordings to Conservation Metrics, a company that assists conservation efforts with AI
In science fiction stories such as The Matrix, AI-powered
By many measures, humans have been poor managers of the planet. Humans have
Fortunately, humans now have AI-based tools that can help. AI can quickly and
In large national parks and wildlife reserves, illegal hunters are a danger for animals both big and small. Some animals are worth a lot of money on the black market. Park rangers are left with a(n)
We still face many challenges to change the loss of wildlife, but AI-powered programs promise to be a powerful conservation tool.