09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十六)
You hop into your car, but, wait, where are the keys You meet someone new, but her name is gone before the handshake's over. Those are failures of your short-term, or "working," memory--the place you file...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十五)
When Ellen M. Roche, 24, volunteered for the asthma experiment, she didn't expect to benefit from it--except for the $365 she'd be paid. Unlike clinical trials, in which most patients hope that an experimental ther...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十四)
After stepping down this summer as the head of the EPA, the embattled Christine Todd Whitman is once again in the hot seat. This time it's over her role in the downplaying of health hazards for New York City resi...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十三)
Nobody ever went into academia to make a fast buck. Professors, especially those in medical- and technology-related fields, typically earn a fraction of what their colleagues in industry do. But suddenly, big money...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十二)
Bryant Linares has one heck of a secret family recipe: how to make world-class diamonds. Seven years ago his father, Robert, produced a diamond in a high-pressure chamber of carbon gas and dropped it into an acid s...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十一)
If you wanted to question whether global warming is indeed upon us, last week was not the time to do it. Two weeks before the official beginning of summer, a heat wave baked the eastern third of the U.S. and Canada...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(五十)
The once radical notion that birds descended from dinosaurs--or may even be dinosaurs, the only living branch of the family that ruled the earth eons ago--has got stronger and stronger since paleontologists first sta...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十九)
Windsurfers in Hawaii might not seem to have much in common with the geeks who these days tinker with Linux software as part of the open-source movement. But in the late '70s, the surfers freely swapped ideas on ho...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十八)
Scientists have known for more than two decades that cancer is a disease of the genes. Something scrambles the Dna inside a nucleus, and suddenly, instead of dividing in a measured fashion, a cell begins to copy it...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十七)
Say this for the structure of the universe: it does tend to repeat itself. Stars orbit the pivot point at the center of galaxies, planets in turn orbit stars, and moons in turn orbit planets. Last week astronomers...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十六)
Dr. Wise Young has never met the hundreds of thousands of people he has helped in the past 10 years, and most of them have never heard of Wise Young. If they did meet him, however, they'd want to shake his hand--an...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十五)
Five days before the opening move of Kasparov vs. the World, the chess champion sat in a fashionable Manhattan restaurant fighting off symptoms of a nasty head cold. Hunched over a cup of hot lemon juice and pinchi...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十四)
Just over 20 years ago, IBM introduced the PC jr. Derided as awkward and underpowered, the PC jr. never caught on with kids or parents. But then again, IBM didn't have the Mouse behind it.
Backed by a posse o...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十三)
DOTCOMS may be moribund, but inside companies, the Internet is still finding cost-saving new uses. "B2E--business-to-employee--didn't have a crash," says Bipin Patel, in charge of developing the potential...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十二)
In a ditty for the stage, W.S. Gilbert once gave warning that "Things are seldom what they seem/Skim milk masquerades as cream." If appearances were tricky in 1878, they have just become trickier still. B...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十一)
Hauling yourself up by the bootstraps has never been easy. But computers do this every time they are turned on-hence the verb "to boot". Booting a computer takes valuable time, compounded by the rebooting...
09年MBA英语阅读理解试题精选解析(四十)
Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, came out fighting on November 14th. In a conference call with analysts, she announced better-than-expected quarterly results, even though profits were down. Ms Fiorin...