【第一期阅读小分队（已结束）】【每日阅读练习贴——速度+越障】【一楼汇总】（另附CD首发花儿阅读教材PDF）

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:16:34

What's So Patriotic About Cookouts?

lus, what's with all the hamburgers, frankfurters, and wieners? This is America! By Will OremusPosted Friday, July 1, 2011, at 4:15 PM ET <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2298191/pagenum/all/" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/id/2298191/pagenum/all/</a> 计时1 （247 words） We tend to hold it as a self-evident truth that the proper way to celebrate the country's independence is with a backyard barbecue. The country's leading barbecue trade association reports that the Fourth of July is the nation's <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fourth-of-july-ranks-as-most-popular-holiday-to-cook-out-124775108.html" target="_blank">most popular outdoor cooking holiday</a>, with Memorial Day a distant second. When did throwing hunks of meat onto an open fire become patriotic? In the early 1800s. Colonists in Virginia had been getting together in the summer to smoke large animals over a pit since before the nation's founding in a tradition they apparently imported from the West Indies. (The word "barbecue" comes from the Spanish "barbacoa," which is believed to derive from a word <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bar1.htm" target="_blank">used by the indigenous Taino people</a> of Hispaniola to describe a wooden rack used for smoking meats.) The practice spread in the first half of the 19th century as political leaders began staging rallies to mark Independence Day (which was not yet an official holiday); to draw crowds, they held massive barbecues, often roasting whole pigs or even oxen. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party" target="_blank">Democratic-Republican Party</a>, which enjoyed strong support in the southern states, found Independence Day cookouts particularly congruent with its ethos. Pushing agrarian virtues and states' rights, party operatives used the rallies to extol the Declaration of Independence and celebrate the barbecue as an expression of regional pride. Elsewhere in the fledgling nation, there are reports of Americans commemorating the occasion with less familiar fare, including turtle soup, which enjoyed popularity in Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston. 计时2 (240 words) In the 20th century, as the nation's population shifted from the country to the city and then the suburbs, the Independence Day cookout morphed from a public free-for-all into a family affair. Magazine advertisements of the pre-World War II era encouraged families to stage their own "backyard barbecues" with the aid of the newly popularized charcoal grill. Bonus Explainer: Why do we celebrate America's independence with frankfurters, wieners and hamburgers instead of with meat named after American cities? Because we're a nation of immigrants. And besides, the modern hamburger is far enough removed from its namesake to merit its quintessentially American reputation. According to Josh Ozersky's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300117582/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0300117582" target="_blank">The Hamburger: A History</a>, the original "hamburg steak" served to German sailors at food stands along the New York City harbor in the early 19th century was a semi-cured slab of salted and spiced beef. Today's version was made possible by a pair of American innovations: the meat grinder and the hamburger bun. Still, it took a while for the burger to shed its Teutonic connotations. During World War I, diners rebranded their patties as "Salisbury steak" or even "Liberty steaks" to avoid any association with the enemy. But by World War II, Americans had made the meat their own and seemed to have no qualms about the etymology of its name. As for frankfurters, which bear a closer resemblance to their German forerunners: Those with qualms can simply call them hot dogs. 计时3 (243 words) Scientists Discover Gonorrhea "Superbug"Experts fret that the new strain could spark a global health epidemic.By Stephen Spencer Davis| Posted Monday, Jul. 11, 2011, at 10:53 AM EDT Some scary news on the STD front. Scientists have discovered a “superbug” strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all antibiotics currently used to fight the sexually transmitted disease, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-gonorrhoea-superbug-idUSTRE76A0YO20110711" target="_blank">Reuters</a> reports. Researchers worry that the strain, called H041, could transform the easily treated infection into a global health threat, and say that it has already proven resistant to the only antibiotics that are still effective in treating gonorrhea. One of the researcher’s who discovered the strain called it both “alarming” and "predictable.” "Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it," said the researcher, Magnus Unemo. If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women. Unemo sees the strain’s discovery in Japan as part of a larger pattern. "Japan has historically been the place for the first emergence and subsequent global spread of different types of resistance in gonorrhea," he said. There were indications that gonorrhea could become a superbug last year, when reports emerged from Hong Kong, China, Australia, and other parts of Asia about the disease’s resistance to drugs. The STD is one of the most common in the world and there are about 700,000 cases annually in the United States alone. Unemo is slated to present details of his findings at a conference of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research later Monday. 计时4 (275 words) Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal Could it happen here? By Jeremy Singer-VinePosted Thursday, July 7, 2011, at 6:09 PM ET http://www.slate.com/id/2298670/ Rupert Murdoch's son James announced Thursday that News of the World, Britain's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation#Sunday_newspapers" target="_blank">top-selling Sunday newspaper</a>, will close as a result of an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking" target="_blank">ongoing phone-hacking scandal</a>. As the Guardian revealed Monday, the paper's reporters <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world" target="_blank">illegitimately accessed and deleted messages</a> from a missing girl's voice mail in 2002, one of an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/phone-hacking-victims-thousands-sue-akers" target="_blank">estimated 4,000 targets</a>. Could phone-hacking happen here, too? Yes, though perhaps not quite so easily. "Hacking" is a bit of a misnomer, given how low-tech the infiltrators' methods were: It seems they broke into victims' voice mail inboxes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/europe/07phone.html" target="_blank">using the carrier's default passcode</a>, such as 1111, taking advantage of the fact that many customers hadn't opted to change it. To do so all they needed to know was the victim's phone number, which if not handy could be obtained by bribing or deceiving customer support representatives. But after phone-hacking incidents surfaced, most if not all U.K. carriers stopped allowing new users to retain default passcodes. And while American wireless carriers are reluctant to talk about specific security protocols, they generally require customers to change their voice mail passcodes from the default immediately or within 30 days of activating the service. That's not to say we're invulnerable—far from it. At least one of the four <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_communications_service_providers" target="_blank">largest U.S. wireless carriers</a>, Sprint, says it gives users the option (paired with a <a href="http://support.sprint.com/support/article/Keep_your_voicemail_secure/case-jo272082-20090625-153122" target="_blank">stern warning</a>) to skip their password when accessing voice mail from their own phones, a setting that's potentially vulnerable to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing" target="_blank">caller-ID spoofing</a>. (The others—Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA—declined to comment or did not respond to the Explainer's inquiries.) In fact, <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/paris-hilton-accused-voice-mail-hacking-457" target="_blank">

aris Hilton was accused</a> in 2006 of doing precisely that to Lindsay Lohan. 计时5 (213 words) Of course, it's also possible for a wily and unethical reporter to guess a non-default passcode. Because they are restricted to the 10 digits on a phone and typically limited to a certain length, voice mail passcodes are generally easier to crack than website passwords, which may contain letters, numbers, and symbols. Customers tend <a href="http://amitay.us/blog/files/most_common_iphone_passcodes.php" target="_blank">to choose similar passcodes</a>, and crooks might be able to guess a numerical sequence from the victim's birth date or home address. After a certain number of incorrect guesses, most voice mail systems will hang up or redirect the caller to customer service. It's unclear, however, just how many incorrect guesses these systems tolerate before freezing an account. The Explainer tried 12 incorrect codes on his Verizon voice mail over the span of four calls to no detriment before giving up. Can you tell if your voice mail has been hacked? Unlikely. Voice mail systems typically allow an infiltrator to re-mark a message as new or delete it without you even knowing. There are, however, potential solutions to the hacking issue. Wireless carriers could, with little technological effort, send you a text message each time someone accesses your voice mail remotely. Or they could use fraud-detection software similar to the systems credit card companies use to stop illegitimate purchases.

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:24:39

晚了20分钟，都是电脑的问题，为什么在这个框里不能cut。。。这次的越障我选了一个简单点的算是换换脑子把。。占个位子，一会来读。

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:26:50

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速度1--6 差3 差8 差2 差2 差1 剩余2min45s 越障1--6 4min5s   我X 我的速度=。= 悲催啊。。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 MarsTOF (2011/7/12 21:13:13)</div> 
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MARS在补之前的哇？其实不一定需要哈~那篇那时候我也木有读。。囧。。哪天把水权那篇一起读了来写回忆~

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:27:33

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晚了20分钟，都是电脑的问题，为什么在这个框里不能cut。。。这次的越障我选了一个简单点的算是换换脑子把。。占个位子，一会来读。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 fox0923 (2011/7/12 23:24:39)</div> 
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 不要紧嘿，敬业的fox~~Mua~

ccmoom · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:32:20

速度1-5 计时1  3行 计时2  4行 计时3  3行 计时4  2行 计时5  6行  看来想读懂的代价就是——慢。 越障2-1  8分钟 天啦。。。我崩溃了…… 今天看得很仔细，感觉大体上句子读得通，单词也不是很大问题，but，我确实不懂文章要说什么…… 晕啊晕。  还是要猛攻阅读。哎

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:37:16

【越障2-1】  5:54 描述一个国家的状况：desire，democracy。 D/G不理解是什么.. 一、这个国家全民都在发展旅游业，盯着游客的财富。 二、这个国家是欲望构成的。 1. 不能宏观地看这个问题，所有人都被拆解成一部分。    所有部分都是没有关联的。好像人就被理解成一个个器官，每个器官有不同的欲望 2. 所有东西又好像是关联的。 3. 资本恶化，所有事业都是欲望的机器。 三、官僚主义严重。 1. 把人们的欲望聚焦在交换的价值上 2. 又通过政治手段压制人们，使得人们的欲望不能转化为很大的利益。 四、觉醒的人起来反抗、骚乱，争取民主。 ------------------------------------------------------------------- T.T这篇东东恐怖在于它有很多抽象词语。。不懂不懂。有时间要好好精读!!

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-12 23:40:25

fox贴文章很快啊哈~ 我差点忘记了fox和我们日夜颠倒，我已经准备好了越障了明晚准时上早点给fox看~~   速度明晚再补回来 >,,< 继续纠结我的计划去了。。

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-13 00:03:02

越障2-2 汇报：8mins 小总： 1．在一项调查中显示，Carey认为哈佛大学对于其本科教育没有投入太多的精力和资金。 2．哈佛大学每年的接到的捐赠正在逐年递增，但却不见这些资金有为本科教育起到多少帮助。 3．哈佛大学每年的花费的资金设计在很多方面，但是花在本科教育上的却很不足够，现在的本科招生情况仍然和1990年的招生情况基本相同，招生人数并未有所增加。 4．这主要是因为其中很多一部分学生都是低于真正招生资格的而今来的，这里有政客，名人，富人以及享有招生放宽条件资格的人。所以每年的真正招生的人数远远低于真正申请的有能力的学生。 5．如果要提高对本科教育的帮助，学校需要建设更多的校舍和完备教师体系，但实际上这些资金确实也有花在科技方面，学校已经拨款建设了很多校舍，但却没有一间给与本科教育使用的。 6．这里也存在了一些争论。一是学校的教授和学生比例相差很大，二是学校将funding放在实验室的建设上，三是学校给与困难学生的补助。 7．很多其他的大学都已经在为其本科生教育开始投放资金，并以普林斯顿，耶鲁赫斯坦福大学为例。 8. 由于哈佛这样的做法可能会影响到其本科教育程度的下降，所以或许到时会让哈佛的观念有所倾向于本科教育的提高。哈佛大学有必要更好的平衡当今和未来的教育发展趋势，所以是有必要了解其存在的问题。 【速度2-6】 1。1行 2。60s 3。60s 4。4行 5。半行（为什么字那么少，读得还这么慢？）

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-13 00:06:24

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fox贴文章很快啊哈~ 我差点忘记了fox和我们日夜颠倒，我已经准备好了越障了明晚准时上早点给fox看~~   速度明晚再补回来 >,,< 继续纠结我的计划去了。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 daisyの小夢想 (2011/7/12 23:40:25)</div> 
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 谢谢阿，daisy...自从开始了gmat的长途跋涉以后，我就没有时间观念了，我一直怕帖子不能准时上，所以昨晚就准备好了，不过还是因为小电脑（10“）的原因，processor太慢。。

fox0923 · 发表于 2011-7-13 00:08:39

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【越障2-1】  5:54 描述一个国家的状况：desire，democracy。 D/G不理解是什么.. 一、这个国家全民都在发展旅游业，盯着游客的财富。 二、这个国家是欲望构成的。 1. 不能宏观地看这个问题，所有人都被拆解成一部分。    所有部分都是没有关联的。好像人就被理解成一个个器官，每个器官有不同的欲望 2. 所有东西又好像是关联的。 3. 资本恶化，所有事业都是欲望的机器。 三、官僚主义严重。 1. 把人们的欲望聚焦在交换的价值上 2. 又通过政治手段压制人们，使得人们的欲望不能转化为很大的利益。 四、觉醒的人起来反抗、骚乱，争取民主。 ------------------------------------------------------------------- T.T这篇东东恐怖在于它有很多抽象词语。。不懂不懂。有时间要好好精读!!<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 daisyの小夢想 (2011/7/12 23:37:16)</div> 
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 谢谢分析，思路清楚些了。。再看看我翻译的，驴唇不对马嘴。。这还是憋了半小时才写出来的。。

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