英语二
生词抒累■i2010年
"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days,
but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal
meaning. Having endured a painful period of
unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that
sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through
everyday action and choice.
Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s
selling insurance. He'd been through the dot-com boom
and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a
Boulder agency.
It didn't go well. "It was a really bad move because that's
not my passion," says Ning, whose dilemma about the job
translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. "I was
miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in
the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no
money and needed the job. Everyone said,'Just wait, you'll
tum the comer, give it some time."'
.， :2011年
Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry
produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do—roughly 2 percent of all CO2
emissions?
Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the
environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and
7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are
needed to get the "right" answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data
centres around the world, packed with powerful
computers.
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While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well
air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.
However, Google and other big tech providers monitor
their efficiency closely and make improvements.
Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, but there is much more to be done, and not just by big
companies.
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.:2012年
When people in developing countries worry about
migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of
their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to
hospitals and universities in the developed world. These
are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates.
Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. A big survey of Indian households in 2004 found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age 25.
This "brain drain" has long bothered policymakers in poor countries. They fear that it hurts their economies,deprivin them of much-needed skilled workers who could have
taught at their universities, worked in their hospitals and
come up with clever new products for their factories to
make.
•:2013年
I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly
where I was, what happened in the news and even the day of the week. I've been able to do this since I was four.
I never feel overwhelmed with the amount of information
my brain absorbs. My mind seems to be able to cope and the information is stored away neatly. When I think of a
sad memory, I do what everybody does -try to put it to
one side. I don't think it's harder for me just because my
memory is clearer. Powerful memory doesn't make my
emotions any more acute or vivid. I can recall the day my grandfather died and the sadness I felt when we went to
the hospital the day before. I also remember that the
musical play Hair opened on Broadway on the same day— they both just pop into my mind in the same way.
.， :2014年
Most people would define optimism as being endlessly
happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's
exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive
psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism
means being in touch with reality," says Tai Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor. According to Ben-Shahar, realistic
optimists are those who make the best of things that
happen, but not those who believe everything happens fo the best.
Ben-Shahar uses three optimistic exercises. When he feels down—say, after giving a bad lecture—he grants himself ncrrniccinn tn he h11rn'.::ln 1--10 rcrninrlc hirncclf th'.::lt nnt
permission to be human. He reminds himself that not
every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less
effective than others.
Next is reconstruction. He analyzes the weak lecture,
learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn't. Finally, there is perspective, which involves
acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one
lecture really doesn't matter.
.， :2015年
Think about driving a route that's very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home.
Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the
back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it's easy to lose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive tha the trip has taken less time than it actually has.
This is the well-travelled road effect: People tend to
underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.

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