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 楼主| 发表于 2011-12-31 16:08:48 | 只看该作者

Soceity 、Health、Habits、Economic、Job

In China, Finding A New Way To Eat In Times Of Plenty

Eliza Barclay/NPRAnna Hu at the Ao Hua Farmers Market in Shanghai. After years of working long hours and eating only in restaurants, Hu has learned how to cook vegetables and eat more healthfully.


As people's incomes rise in a developing nation, so doesthe amount of food they eat. That's what has been happening in China for the past 30 years.But many people, especially in the middle class, are discovering that you don't have to eat and eat just because there's plenty of food available.

Still, fast food has become a habit for a lot of people. KFC first opened its doors in Beijing back in 1987 and now operates more than 3,000 stores in China.McDonald's has about half that many, and there are dozens of Chinese chains, too. It's no surprise, then, that Chinese people are getting fat.
But fast food is only part of the problem. People are also just eating more.
"More, more, more of everything — larger portions, with more ingredients, more salt, more sugar, more oil, more fats," says Paul French, a market analyst in Shanghai who has written a book called Fat China. "Breakfast and lunch and dinner and supper and grazing with snacks during the day. And drinking fizzy drinks汽水 rather than tea."很好的论据素材

Public-health experts in China say obesity has become a serious problem: Twenty-five percent of adults are overweight or obese, according to a 2008 study published in Health Affairs. But Cai Meqin, a nutritionist at Shanghai Jiaotong University, says all the overeating is partly a reaction to the food shortages under Chairman Mao a generation ago.
"At that time, Chinese people [did] not have much food to eat, so they [were] very slim, but right now we have much, much more food, so they eat more [and are] overweight," says Cai.这边都是在说觉得是因为以前吃不够,所以现在有东西吃了就一直吃啊吃啊
I visited the members of the Lu family at their apartment in Shanghai one evening while they were cooking dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Lu share three modest rooms in a concrete high-rise高楼 with their 25-year-old daughter, Junting, and a spoiled cat(加上这个spoid cat又进一步说明了国民的富裕水平,以前养活自己都不够,现在不仅有钱养猫,还把猫养的很肥)再者讲到具体的事例的时候,要把人名列出来再编的有细节点,会更有可信度.
Mr. Lu moved to Shanghai from a remote town in the north before Junting was born. He says that the food rations of his youth shaped the way he ate decades later.
"Before, our living standard was not good, so when there was a chance to eat meat, we usually ate a lot," he says.
用真实人物的经历和语言再次证明自己的观点

Eliza Barclay/NPRThere is an astounding array of vegetables at the Ao Hua Farmers Market in Shanghai — far more than previous generations of Chinese every had to choose from.


When his income rose in the 1990s, he could, for the first time, eat as much meat as he wanted. And for a while, he did. But now he has realized it's not so healthful.
"Nowadays because we are living a better life, usually we don't eat much meat. I pay special attention to this issue so you can see I am very slim," he says.
Today, the Lus had what they call a "heavy lunch" with meat. So for dinner, Mrs. Lu is preparing congee粥, the traditional boiled rice soup. She says that by keeping some of the old ways of eating, their diet stays balanced and they don't eat too much.
Junting Lu, the daughter, is a translator for a Dutch newspaper. She's slender with long dark hair. 从人物描写上又重申了观点现在大多人知道怎么吃了不会过度。She grew up eating mostly fast food. But now, like many people of her generation, she's eager to learn more about the food of the past.
"More and more people — I think they now realize that maybe going back to the traditional way of eating is better," she says.
But analyst French points out that a lot of traditional food — like yotiao, a double deep-fried dough stick油条,举反例为了说明过去的饮食也不总是好的,要知道选择 that people love to eat for breakfast — isn't that healthful. He says what people really need is to learn how to make good choices.
And fortunately, there is plenty of nutritious food available.
Anna Hu is working to help people discover it. She has created a website with lots of information about healthful eating.
One day, she brought me to the Ao Hua Farmers Market in Shanghai. There is an astounding variety of vegetables there — far more than previous generations of Chinese ever had.
Until recently Anna worked crazy, long hours selling software. During that time, she ate out for every meal and never cooked her own food. She says as she was eating all the oily and salty food in the restaurants, she felt like the city was swallowing her.超级赞的例子,swallow用的很好
So she read modern books about nutrition and forced herself to try strange new vegetables. Now she cooks them at home. She also features recipes on her website with ingredients like the broccoli at the market.对比下说明eat at home的情况很有必要,说服力大增
In many ways, figuring out how to stay slim and healthy in modern China is a bit like the struggle Chinese face in other parts of life. It's how to decide what to keep from the past, and what to take from all the new choices a growing economy offers.

(可以辅助T经济类作文命题)(也可以用于choice好不好,change好不好之类的题目)
这篇就可以大扯change当然很好了 你看现在中国大家有钱吃东西了 国民的标准收入高了 到处都在开KFC啊麦当劳啊快藏连锁店啊饭馆啊 由于以前没东西吃 现在看啥吃啥都不挑的 但是这其实对健康很不好 我们应该change这个习惯 为了我们的健康啊 我们要保留过去的好的饮食习惯啊然后也学学现在是怎么养生的啊 就可以举例了说XX city某某女士工作的很累啊 没空煮饭天天在外面吃啊 那个油啊盐啊太可怕了 她觉得要被这个城市swollow了,然后她受不了了就开始网上查啊magazine上找啊怎么煮好吃的健康的啊 然后就自己在家煮了啊 这个后面一定要说自己煮了以后精神状态好了不少啊 因为很注意哪些nutritions的吸收啊 面色红润啦感觉自己就要把这个城市hundle了把顾客全部handle了~~~
板凳
发表于 2012-1-1 06:09:37 | 只看该作者
谢谢,期待楼主每天更新!
地板
 楼主| 发表于 2012-1-1 18:52:48 | 只看该作者

Society、Life、Habits、Communication

'A Twitter Year' In Review: 365 Days, 140 Characters

2011 was a year of big news, beginning with the Arizona shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords and ending with the sudden death of Kim Jong Il.
这真心是个非常好非常好的句子!我在NPR的好几篇新闻上都看到这句子!

Now, you could flip on the nightly news to find out what's going on in the world. Or, you could do what author Kate Bussmann does:Bootup Twitter.同样是个作文里的金句吧~ 说到现在科技发达啦或者关心什么国家大事啊电脑好不好呀都可以把这个用进去,词很地道!

Bussmann is the author of a new book, A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters, what she describes as the first-ever "social media almanac." She tellsweekends on All Things Considered guest host Rebecca Sheir that Twitter gives her a unique perspective on the news电脑对你生活产生了毛影响呢!你可以上Twitter啊关心自己喜欢的明星啊自己的身边的人啊!最重要的是!这个影响到了你自身!为毛呢!give you a unique perspective!!!很meaningful啊!!!.

"There are so many incredible writers out there on Twitter and so many really compelling firsthand accounts of the big news stories this year that it makes for a really interesting way to recap some of those big events," Bussmann says.
借他人之口!!!说之!现在其实很多有才的都在民间啊有木有!他们翻新重述一些big events,让我们觉得很有趣有木有!可以举例说哇我平时都不爱看新闻的啊!!自从有了Twitter!看到一些很有才的网民阐述这些Big events from a interesting way,让你觉得新闻不再枯燥无聊了有木有!!!

The big
players, she says, are those who are experts at breaking news and increase their influence that way, or satirical accounts like one for Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort. Bussmann says that instead of turning on her television, she goes to Twitter for breaking news.Twitter at some degrees改变了我们的生活方式有木有!我们不再开着电视看啦!(电视好还是电脑好)我们可以开Twitter啊!!!电视只播报新闻有木有!Twitter上可以看到很多人的观点啊!!!知道大家都肿么想的!!!自己也可以参与讨论啊!!!饭后谈资啊生活很快乐啊!!!

"I can get commentary from a lot of very, very interesting people simultaneously," Bussmann says. "And when you're watching live streaming现场直播  news, often it's the very bare news that you're seeing, so on Twitter you have people analyzing every tiny detail."超好!!!我跟作者思路走到一起了!!!这些都原句放到作文里当万金油去了!!!表达地超好!!! 我突然想起来你可以再举例说啊!!!前些日子四川凌晨2点有个小地震啊 !!贴吧啊微博上大家都在说!!!吓得我都不敢睡了!!!因为我担心他们啊!!!我睡在床上还尼玛感觉我床在微震啊!!!这个有在体现Catch the happening news quicky有木有!!!但是我的这个例子的强度可能不够大!!!有看官的话告诉LZ下这个例子该肿么升华下比较有说服力!!!


Bussmann says the popular microblogging service can turn a solitary activity, like watching television, into a lively social event.也是上面的,可以和大家讨论讨论什么的。


"I watch Glee sometimes," she says, but her husband "really does not get it and is not interested. If I watch Glee with Twitter on, when it's being broadcast live, I can follow the hashtag for Glee and see what people are saying."LZ表示没太看懂这话,Maybe谁可以给LZ解释下。是说边看Twitter边看电视然后看大家怎么讨论这集吗?如果是这样的话!!!就可以说啊,电脑真的比电视好超多!!!有时候你一个人没人陪你一起看啊!!!你就开Twitter啊!!!喜欢Glee的朋友这个时候都在疯狂讨论啊看到某处激动就肿么肿么杨啊!!!你就参与到这个social event里面啊!!!就把喜欢电脑的理由又提升了一个高度有木有!!!好吧至少LZ觉得是有啊!!!

According to Bussmann, Twitter has released statistics showing thatits usage in the U.S. goes up fortyfold during a live broadcast of Glee.尼玛太好的论据素材了!!!表达上我们就会说Study has show什么什么的,一看到这个,我们那些表达就弱!!!爆!!!了!!!

Twitter has also been crucial to people struck by 2011's series of natural disasters. Bussmann says that in an emergency, when cellphone service is down, Twitter is often still functioning, enabling people to reach out to each other.
作者超狡猾!!!把Twitter的用处升华到天了!!!这个非常好!!!

During the
Fukushima earthquake, she says, people used Twitter to call for help, both emotional and physical. "They would tweet ... what they were experiencing, and people across the world were writing back to them, saying, 'You'll be all right.'"事例加进来!!!Fukushima要知道怎么写!!!尽量是lastly news我觉得很讨巧!!!

And after the earthquake in
Christchurch, New Zealand, Bussmann says one man in San Francisco put out a call on Twitter for someone to check on his elderly father back home. "A total stranger saw this tweet and went to this man's house, found his father sitting outside in his car, safe, and tweeted back to this man in San Francisco and said, 'Your father's OK.' And it's the example of something that could not have happened without Twitter."不要说我了!!!考官看到这个事例都尼玛觉得太有说服力了!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The Occupy movement was very interesting on Twitter," Bussmann says. "A lot of people used it in very interesting ways. They used it to get supplies sent to the squares where they were camping, and they used it to organize upcoming protests."表示LZ不是很懂这个Interesting在哪。。。

But what about those holdouts who resist the lure of Twitter? "I'm sure that you can live a very fulfilling life without being on Twitter," Bussmann says. "I'm not saying you have to be on there, but there's a lot to be got out of it."很讨巧的说话啊!!写到作文里可以让考官觉得你这个人不是很武断很有思想啊!!!!!!

个人读后感:这整篇都是非常好的写作素材 一不小心每句都快给高亮了!!!!!!!!!看完LZ太感动了!!!Author写的太好了有木有!!!
                     下次去看些science的!我都忘记我是看来提高阅读的了XDDDDDDDD~~
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 楼主| 发表于 2012-1-1 18:53:12 | 只看该作者
谢谢,期待楼主每天更新!
-- by 会员 rslinx (2012/1/1 6:09:37)



我只是一枚阅读连20都上不了的考生~ 一起学习吧~
文章是我自己分析的, 所以应该有很多地方会说的不对
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 楼主| 发表于 2012-1-1 19:04:23 | 只看该作者

Health

Could Obesity Change The Brain?

The standard advice for losing weight often comes up short for people who are obese.
If they switch to a healthful diet and exercise more, they might lose a bit. But the pounds have a way of creeping back on.
Now some provocative research suggests that a part of the problem might be that obesity could change the area of the brain that helps control appetite and body weight.
And those changes might start within a day of eating a high-fat meal, according to scientists who are trying to figure out why it's so hard to lose weight. They report seeing changes in the brain after just one day on a fatty diet.


"That was quite a shock," says Michael Schwartz, a professor and director of the Diabetes记住糖尿病的说法,作文里可以举例 and Obesity Center of Excellence at the University of Washington. "This might reflect fundamental biological changes in how the brain works that help explain why it's so hard to keep weight off."

He fed rats and mice a high-fat diet, similar to what people in the United States typically eatLZ没有被这话吓到吧。。。应该没有, and found inflammation发炎 in the hypothalamus下丘脑 after just one day, well before the animals gained any weight. They were looking at the hypothalamus because it's the part of the brain that helps regulate body weight and hunger. Earlier studies in obese lab animals have found inflammation there.
Within a week, the animals' brains mounted a defense, activating cells in the brain that repair and protect damaged neurons. The inflammation subsided减弱平息. But after about a month, the inflammation returned, and continued for eight months, when the researchers ended the study. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation earlier this week.


Yes, these are animal brains, and human brains might not respond the same way. But Schwartz's team did look at MRI scans done on the brains of 34 people, and found that the people who were obese had more of that repair activity in the hypothalamus than did people of normal weight.
Still, at this point these are just clues as to what might be going on in the brains of people who are obese, and Schwartz is the first to admit that. He's now studying rodents逮到一个托福词汇好高兴! who are switched to a healthful diet after gaining weight, to see if their brains return to normal.
Should we non-rodents be worried? "I would be concerned about this," Schwartz told Shots. "If we can see these responses occurring rapidly with eating high-fat foods in excess过度的,过量的, maybe we as humans should think that there are potential consequences for indiscriminate不分青红皂白的 eating." 这让我想到我贴上来的第一篇!不该过度饮食!
Not what you want to hear right after a big-eating holiday.
But that spike in inflammation after a pigout could also be a protective response, another scientist says. "My sense is that a lot of it is adaptive," says Rexford Ahima, an endocrinologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. "It may be a good thing."
Ahima co-wrote a commentary on Schwartz's research. He thinks the brain's fast response to fatty food might prove to be normal, like the insulin spike that people get after a big meal. The important brain changes, Ahima speculates, might come when a lab rat has eaten enough to become obese and the brain inflammation is constant.
Whether that also applies to humans who indulge in occasional pigouts一顿大吃,过量的一顿, but also overeat day after day, remains to be seen。

LZ又在偷懒了。。尽挑对自己口味的看。。。 好吧托福阅读不是长这样的!!!去看些相关的学科话题!!!生物啊生态环境啊!!!
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 楼主| 发表于 2012-1-10 21:56:39 | 只看该作者

Internet

What Can You Learn From Your Future Self?

The new novel, “The Future of Us,” takes place in 1996, just as the Internet was taking off and when Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was only a 12-year-old kid. The books asks this question: What can you learn from your future self?When Josh and Emma, the teenage protagonists, get online上网 in 1996, they find their Facebook pages from the present — when they’re 31! Emma’s postings suggest to her that her marriage is not what she would have hoped and Josh is married to, well… let’s just say, he’s surprised, too.
Co-authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler told Here and Now‘s Monica Brady-Myerov that imagining this situation led them to question模板句 whatthey post about themselves on Facebook.
“We were seeing Facebook from our characters’ eyes, from 1996 eyes, and that’s when Carolyn and I both went, Yeah, it is kind of weird how much we share and it made us more aware as we were writing our Facebook statuses,” Asher said.

个别地道的表达。
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