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浙江省杭州市萧山区戴村片2017届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷(含听力音频)
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Eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a farmer at night. This saying is all about the importance of breakfast. And now scientists can tell us just why it's so important. According to a study carried out at Imperial College London, UK, skipping (忽略)the first meal of the day not only means you eat more at lunch, but also that your brain wants to find more unhealthy foods.
The study suggests that there is a special part of our brain called the orbitofrontal cortex (眶额皮层), which plays an important part in making choices about what we eat. It is used for identifying(识别) the taste of food, especially when skipping breakfast. It is more likely to target high-calorie foods when you're on an empty stomach.
Scientists did an experiment on this. Dr Tony Goldstone from Imperial College London, scanned (扫描) the brains of 21 men and women, around the age of 25. On the first day, these people skipped breakfast before the scans. On the second day, they had cereal (谷物), bread and jam as breakfast. After the scan on both days, they had their lunch.
When the volunteers had skipped breakfast, they ate around 20 percent more at lunch, compared with days when they had eaten breakfast. Their brain scans also showed the orbitofrontal cortex was especially responsive to high-calorie foods. "We believe that it identifies the value of foods – how pleasant, how delicious something is," Goldstone told The Guardian.
① The volunteers skipped breakfast.
② The volunteers had lunch.
③ The volunteers had a brain scan.
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ChaiJing, who worked for China Central Television (CCTV) from 2001 to 2013 as a TV reporter made a documentary(纪录片) named under the Dome (穹顶之下)to educate the public about smog. It is released(发行)online on March 1st, 2015.
In the opening of the documentary, Chai tells the story of her daughter with a begin tumor (良性肿瘤)before her birth. “ I couldn't help worrying while seeing the polluted sky in Beijing,” she says. She only took her daughter outside when the air in Beijing was good. The rest of the time she had to keep her at home like a “prisoner(囚犯)”. And there were175 polluted days in 2014 in Beijing.
In the documentary, Chai had an interview with a six-year-old girl, WangHuiqin, who live in Shanxi Province, a heavily polluted area in China. The girl told Chai that she had never seen stars, blue skies or white clouds in her village.
Chai also went to London and Los Angeles, which had both suffered air pollution in the past, to learn how they had improved their environment.
Chai spent one year making this 103-minute film, which cost her over 1 million yuan. In the documentary, Chai tries to answer three questions. They are “ What is smog”, “ Where does it come from?” and “What should people do?” And she calls on everyone to get into the fight against smog.
The documentary Under the Dome | |
Producer | Chai Jing, who used to be a TV {#blank#}1{#/blank#} |
Release date | On March 1st, 2015 |
Running time | {#blank#}2{#/blank#} minutes |
cost | Over 1 million yuan |
purpose | To educate the public about {#blank#}3{#/blank#} |
contents | What is smog? Where does it come from? What should people do? |
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