【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）

aeiou0315 · 发表于 2011-6-17 01:28:55

1-6和1-7基本能读完啦。恩。字小了好像连在一起的问题也少啦？ 抓抓考试加油咯

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-6-19 01:47:27

计时1 Apple's Lion Is Latest to JoinDownload-Only Trend in Software Apple's new version ofits desktop operating system for Mac computers is called Mac OS X Lion. Applesays this latest OS X upgrade has over two hundred new features. But one bigdifference is how the company will sell it. The release is download-only. Apple says Lion iscoming to its App Store in July. The price is twenty-nine dollars andninety-nine cents. Users without the current version, Snow Leopard, will haveto pay an extra thirty dollars to download the new release. Last year, Apple hadmore than five hundred million dollars in sales of its desktop operatingsystem. Experts saydownload-only software is getting more common. Dave Wolf is VicePresident for Strategy at Cynergy Systems in Washington. His company helpssoftware designers to develop and market products. He says the computer thatmany people use most is their mobile phone.

eople who download appsto smartphones have come to expect quick and easy software updates. Now, DaveWolf says phones are shaping expectations for other computers. DAVE WOLF: "I thinkthis is a case where we’re seeing the same consumer demand, say, in a phonemarket moving to the desktop and the same consumer demand moving into work inthe enterprise." Downloadable programsmean fewer trips to stores to buy software. But that can also mean fewer salesfor stores that depend on physical products, including most video games. Andnot everyone has a high-speed Internet connection to make downloads quick andeasy. But Dave Wolf says thecost savings are a big help to small businesses trying to reach a wide market. DAVE WOLF: "I thinkit’s a boon to small software companies and entrepreneurs who have incredibleideas and want to get them out to market.” (292 words) 计时2 He says the Internetradio service Pandora, for example, can offer free music because it has nocosts of selling discs in stores. This week Pandora began selling shares ofstock to the public. Next to go may besoftware stored on individual computers. Many companies are moving to cloudcomputing. The idea is to save money by storing software on somebody else'sservers in large data centers. This way people caneasily access their music library or other applications from any device. Thisis not the case for users of Apple's iTunes. Now Apple thinks it has a solutionwith a cloud-computing service called iCloud. And Microsoft hasdeveloped Windows Azure. This platform is for businesses and softwaredevelopers to use Internet-based applications. And that's the VOASpecial English Economics Report. You can read and listen to our programs atvoaspecialenglish.com. I’m Mario Ritter. Who Should Be the NextChief of the IMF?The InternationalMonetary Fund will need to find a new leader. Dominique Strauss-Kahn hasresigned as managing director. Mr. Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attackon a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday. He said in a resignationletter released Thursday by the IMF that he denies the charges "with thegreatest possible firmness." His fall has especiallyshocked Europe. The IMF is currently playing a major part in rescue loans toGreece, Ireland and Portugal. European nations have increasingly depended onthe fund to help them in their recent struggles with debt. The IMF and the WorldBank grew out of an international conference held in the United States innineteen forty-four. They were created as ways to support economic cooperationand development. Both are both based inWashington. The World Bank has traditionally been led by an American and theIMF by a European. (304 words) 计时3 But fast-growingeconomies in the developing world say it is time for a change. Officials fromBrazil, China and India say Mr. Strauss-Kahn's replacement should come fromoutside Europe. German Chancellor AngelaMerkel, leader of Europe's biggest economy, disagrees. ANGELA MERKEL: "Inthe present situation, when we have significant problems with the euro and theIMF is very much involved there, there should be a European candidate withsupport from the international community." Themain job of the IMF is to help make sure payments flow smoothly betweennations. Sometimes this means providing loans so governments can meet debtpayments. The money it lends comesmostly from "quotas" -- financial promises made by its members. Onehundred eighty-seven nations belong to the IMF. The lender currently has abouttwo hundred fifty billion dollars in approved loans. Most of these loans havenot yet been used, or drawn down. What effect theresignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have is unclear. He was praised as askillful negotiator in dealing with Europe and the global financial crisis. STEPHANIE RICKARD:"But the actual negotiations of the loan conditions on the ground is doneby technocratic economists, staff members at the IMF, and they’re going tocontinue to do their job." Stephanie Rickard is anexpert on the IMF and World Bank at the London School of Economics. Dominique Strauss-Kahnbecame managing director in two thousand seven. The Frenchman widely known asDSK is a member of France's Socialist party. Before his arrest, he wasconsidered a leading candidate for France's presidential election next year. (261words) 计时4 Shortage of InternetAddresses, but a Slow Move to New SystemLast Wednesday,June eighth, was World IPv6 Day -- the first major deployment of InternetProtocol version 6. Hundreds of Internet service providers and Web companiestested IPv6 on their websites. This new numberingsystem for Internet addresses has been available for years. But very fewcompanies have switched to it. Yet the old system could run out of addressesthis year because of all the growth in online devices. Doug Szajda, a computerscience professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, explains. DOUG SZAJDA: "It’ssort of like the post office of the Internet. It tells you how to getinformation from one computer to another. Currently, and since around nineteeneighty, the addressing system has been IP version 4. But the problem with thatis that we’ve run out of addresses. So it’s almost as if, when a new house isbuilt, you can’t give it an address because you don’t have any more." IPv4 was designed tohandle just over four billion IP addresses. Doug Szajda says that seemed likemore than enough DOUG SZAJDA: "Atthe time that IP version 4 was designed, the designers were anticipatingperhaps thousands of users of the Internet someday, and certainly thinking thatfour billion addresses was many more than we would ever need." Yet now, not justcomputers but smartphones, cars, televisions, game systems and plenty of otherdevices all connect to the Internet. Each uses a different IP address. The basic standards forIPv6 were first published in nineteen ninety-eight. Doug Szajda says its mostimportant feature is the ability to provide what seems like an unlimited numberof IP addresses. Well, there is a limit -- three hundred forty trilliontrillion trillion in fact, or three hundred forty undecillion. That's three hundredforty followed by thirty-six zeros. (301 words) 计时5 Experts say thechallenge now is to get the world to use it. Mr. Szajda says that was the realpurpose of last week’s World IPv6 Day sponsored by the Internet Society. DOUG SZAJDA: "Itwas less a worldwide test than a means of generating some incentive for vendorsto realize we can’t drag our feet anymore. This has to happen.” The process of switchingto IPv6 can be complex and costly. This could explain why so few companies havemade the switch. CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association,recently did an opinion study. The group talked to more than four hundredinformation technology and business leaders in the United States. Onlytwenty-one percent said they have started doing work to upgrade their networksto the new system. And that's the VOASpecial English Technology Report, written by June Simms. For more technologynews, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

eople WithChronic Hepatitis B Often Do Not Know ItToday we answer aquestion. Vu Quang Hien from Vietnam wants to know more about hepatitis B.Hepatitis is the name for a group of viral infections that attack the liver.These are called A, B, C and so on. An estimated two billionpeople are infected with hepatitis B. The rates are highest in China and other partsof Asia. The World Health Organization says most of these infections happenduring childhood. Hepatitis B is spreadthrough contact with infected blood or other body fluids. Mothers can infectbabies at birth. Unsafe injections and sexual contact can also spread thevirus. Experts say it can survive outside the body for at least a week. There are two forms ofhepatitis B -- acute and chronic. Acute cases last for several weeks, althoughrecovery can take months. Chronic cases can lead to death from cirrhosis orscarring of the liver and liver cancer. (313 words) 计时结束 Yet people withlong-term liver infections can live for years and not even know they areinfected. The ones most likely to develop chronic hepatitis B are youngchildren. In the United States,experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urge medicalproviders to test Asian-American patients. DR. JOHN WARD: "Thebottom line -- since most people of Asian heritage came to the US from endemiccountries or were born to parents from these countries, they should be screenedfor chronic hepatitis B." For acute hepatitis B,patients may receive care to replace lost fluids, but there are no treatments.Doctors can treat chronic cases with interferon and antiviral drugs. But thesemedicines cost too much for most of the world's poor. A vaccine to preventhepatitis B has been available for thirty years. The researcher who discoveredthis vaccine -- and hepatitis B itself -- was an American named BaruchBlumberg. Dr. Blumberg also showed that the virus could cause liver cancer. <img src="file:///C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="" /> NASADr. BaruchBlumberg He and anotherresearcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Irving Millman,invented the vaccine in nineteen sixty-nine. But Dr. Blumberg said it took sometime to find a drug company willing to produce it. He first becameinterested in studying infectious disease when he volunteered in Surinam duringhis medical training. His discoveries withhepatitis B saved many lives and earned him a Nobel Prize in medicine. But healso had other interests -- including the search for life in outer space. In the late nineties, hehelped launch the Astrobiology Institute at NASA. He was at a space agencyconference in California in April when he died, apparently of a heart attack.Baruch Blumberg was eighty-five years old.

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-6-19 01:51:04

啊呜~谢谢大家支持哈~~ 琢磨着是不是可以成立一个阅读训练小分队。。这样可以保证每天都有人上传材料。。

rainbowmanutd · 发表于 2011-6-19 02:30:15

问下楼主，og和gwd的阅读是不是短文章3分钟读完，长文章7分钟，然后每个题目都是1分钟做呀？

麦麦咖喱 · 发表于 2011-6-21 15:33:36

今天mark一个。争取每天都来报道。强迫自己一下。 谢谢lz给大家提供了个好方法。 -----------------------6.21更新------------------ 我练习完速度1-1了，然后再次默默的明白为什么一战死那么惨了。每天来报道，看我这个没坚持力的人能坚持多久。 -----------------------6.22更新------------------ 读了速度1-2，平均差5行。。。为神马，为神马么有进步涅。。。现在是上午，下午来读1-3. 越障1-1，花了8:45。。。比lz多了一分多钟啊，还没有100%看懂，悲剧shi鸟。

almond518 · 发表于 2011-6-21 21:10:29

我也来报名！今天第一天！

小甜菜的宝宝 · 发表于 2011-6-22 16:55:01

lz！看见这个帖子我觉得很神奇。。。我想知道你选各种练习的文章标准是什么呢？

小甜菜的宝宝 · 发表于 2011-6-23 22:07:56

啊~~没更啦。。我准备跟着做啦。。

麦麦咖喱 · 发表于 2011-6-24 11:01:32

我也准备跟着做呢。。。没有了就咱俩轮着贴吧。也当是互相督促了。

小甜菜的宝宝 · 发表于 2011-6-24 21:14:30

我还不知道怎么选的文章呢。。。今天是第二天 签到 我按时读完以后就不会返回头再查单词神马的啦 不知道可以不

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【速度1-8】还是要争取每天更新~~！！大家一起加油！！

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