AWA The following appeared in a memo to the Saluda town council from the town’s business manager. “Research indicates that those who exercise regularly are hospitalized less than half as often as those who don’t exercise. By providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda’s municipal employees, we should be able to reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage by approximately 50% and thereby achieve a balanced town budget.” 阅读: 1.三叠纪大灭绝: 第一段:过去科学家比较在意恐龙灭绝，但因为三叠纪岩石和化石的发现 使科学家开始对恐龙出现的时代产生兴趣(重点在恐龙是否造成三叠纪的爬虫类和两栖列灭绝) 有科学家认为是恐龙竞争造成三叠纪动物灭绝，但有些化石显示有些物种更早灭绝或更晚，所以可能有其他因素 第二段:有科学家质疑是乾燥的气候变迁导致的，但又有证据显示有些物种在气候变迁後很久才灭绝。且气候变迁的时间点和灭绝的时间点不一致。 第三段:有科学家认为是陨石掉落在加拿大魁北克造成的，虽然时间大致一致，但有化石证据显示有些物种早在陨石坠落前就灭绝，而且有些动物在陨石坠落後仍存活 第四段:作者(有些科学家)认为该灭绝是更复杂的因素造成的，可能恐龙竞争、气候变迁、陨石坠落都有影响(combination)。至於哪个因素的影响权重较大还需要further research. 2.生物类比 一段式文章 科学家长从自然物种的生物特色中找到灵感发明产品。科学家尝试研究slime mould 去解决复杂的问题。像是设计东京的铁路网。 当P. polycephalum(slime mould的一种)觅食(foraging)的时候会用protoplasm来发展运送养分的管道。科学家模拟东京各大城市的位置并在上面设置了flakes(P生物的食物)在各处，让P发展运送管道，结果surprisingly bear a resemblance to 东京铁路网。P发展的运送管道还包含了一些backup的路线，以防突发状况发生(有resilience弹性)。科学家不是说东京铁路应该要设计的和P发展的一样，但此法可运用在一些不用人为干扰的状况(The next thing is to discover and use these rules to enable other networks to self-organise in an “intelligent” fashion without human intervention) 逻辑: 1.Research: the criticim that the link between the sleep during REM(动眼期) and learning ability does not exist is not true. A experiment shows that in the two group of people required to type, the group who have slept during REM type faster and more accurate than the the group who did not do so. Which of the following statement best support the reseach's argument. b dreams, which will provide insight to help solve problem, and seem to help learning ability, occur in REM e. longer sleep enables people to learn well. 只记得这两的选项 我选b 2. 直接观察日蚀(sun eclipse)会导致眼睛伤害(一个r开头的单字)。观察日蚀需要适当的设备。过去U国在有日蚀发生时失明的人数增加。明年因为U国又会有日蚀发生，为了改善观察日蚀造成失明，政府决定提供该设备给民众，已改善该状况。 问怎样该政府的计画无法达到目标? 我选:因为政府提供设备 那些原本没有提供设备就不会看日蚀的人 也开始看日蚀且不用设备 --

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