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辽宁省铁岭市铁岭县莲花第一初级中学2024年中考学业水平考试英语模拟试卷
You may have heard about the Ig Nobel Prize(搞笑诺贝尔奖). It is given to scientists who do interesting and sometimes silly studies. China has a similar prize called the Pineapple Science Awards. Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum in Hangzhou started the award in 2012. "Our understand science out of curiosity(好奇心) and bring out their love and respect for science," Xu Rui, from Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum, told Xinhua.
On Nov 11, 10 fun studies from around the world got the Pineapple Science Awards 2023.
Let's look at two of them.
Medical prize:
Why does plucking(拔) white hair lead to more white hair? Sun Qi and her team at New York University. New hair grows from follicles( 毛囊). In follicles,there lives a special kind of cell. These cells give color to our hair. They move around inside the follicles. To create colors like black and brown, they need to be at the bottom of hair follicles. After that, they go up to the top of the follicles and start moving toward the bottom to create color again as more hair grows. However, if we pluck our hair too often, the cells may get stuck at the top of the follicles. So they stop making colors, leading to more white hairs.
Mathematics prize: tossing a coin
Heads or tails? Tossing(抛) a coin is not as fair as you might think. A research team from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands held a coin-tossing marathon. During the marathon, 48 teachers and students used 46 different currencies(货币), including Chinese coins. They spent 8 hours a day for 81 days tossing the coins. After 350,757 tosses, the team found that the side facing up when tossed is more likely to land facing up, at a ratio(比例) of about 51:49,
There are a lot of museums in the world. A museum has many important objects related to (有关联) science, culture, or history.
The Palace Museum is also famous as the Forbidden City. It is located in the center of Beijing. It was built from 1406 to 1420. |
The Louvre Museum (卢浮宫) in Paris is one of the world's largest museums. It has more than 380,000 objects. It opened on August 10, 1793. |
The Uffizi Gallery (乌菲齐美术馆) is an art museum in Italy. It is located in Florence. And it is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of Europe and the world. It is also one of the first modern museums. |
The British Museum is a museum of human culture and history. It is located in London. And it was set up in 1753. It first opened to the public on January 15, 1759. |
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