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Unit2 Gender Issues

Men turn to jobs women usually do 1.HOUSTON - Over the last decade, American

men of all backgrounds have begun flocking to fields such as teaching, nursing and waiting tables that have long been the province of women.

2."The way I look at it is that anything, basically,

that a woman can do, a guy can do," said Miguel Alquicira, who graduated from high school when construction and manufacturing jobs were scarce and became a dental assistant.

3.The trend began well before the crash,and

appears to be driven by a variety of factors, including financial concerns, quality-of-life issues and a gradual erosion of g ender stereotypes.

4.In interviews, about two dozen men played down

the economic considerations, saying that the stigma associated with choosing such jobs had faded, and that the jobs were appealing not just because they offered stable employment, but because they were more satisfying.

5."I.T. is just killing viruses and clearing paper

jams all day," said Scott Kearney, 43, who tried information technology and other fields before becoming a nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.

6.An analysis of United States census data by The

New York Times shows that from 2000 to 2010, occupations that are more than 70 percent female accounted for almost a third of all job growth for men, double the share of the previous decade. 7.That does not mean that men are displacing

women - those same jobs accounted for almost two-thirds of women's job growth. But in Texas, for example, the number of men who are registered nurses nearly doubled in that time period.

8.The shift includes low-wage jobs as well.

Nationally, two-thirds more men were bank tellers, almost twice as many were receptionists and two-thirds more were waiting tables in 2010 than a decade earlier.

9.Even more striking is the type of men who are

making the shift. From 1970 to 1990, according to a study by Mary Gatta, senior scholar at Wider Opportunities for Women, an organization based in Washington, D.C., and Patricia A. Roos, a sociologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, men who took so-called pink-collar jobs tended to be foreign-born, non-English speakers with low education levels.

10.Now, though, the trend has spread among men of

nearly all races and ages, more than a third of whom have a college degree. In fact, the shift is most pronounced among young, white, college-educated men like Charles Reed, a sixth-grade math teacher at Patrick Henry Middle School in Houston.

11.Mr. Reed, 25, intended to go to law school after a

two-year stint with Teach for America, a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who spend two years helping under-resourced urban and rural public schools. But Mr. Reed fell in love with teaching. He says the recession had little to do with it, though he believes that, by limiting prospects for new law school graduates, it made his father, a lawyer, more accepting.

12.To the extent that the shift to "women's work"

has been accelerated by recession, the change may reverse when the economy recovers. "Are boys today saying, 'I want to grow up and be a nurse?'" asked Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for American Progress.

"Or are they saying, 'I want a job that's stable and recession-proof?'"

13.Daniel Wilden, a 26-year-old Army veteran and

nursing student, said he had gained respect for nursing when he saw a female medic use a Leatherman tool to save the life of his comrade.

"She was a beast," he said admiringly.

14.More than a few men said their new jobs were

far harder than they imagined. But these men can expect success. Men earn more than women even in female-dominated jobs. And white men in particular who enter those fields easily move up to supervisory positions, a phenomenon known as the glass escalator, said Adia Harvey Wingfield, a sociologist at Georgia State University.

15."I hated my job every single day of my life," said

John Cook, 55, who got a modest inheritance that let him drop a $150,000-a-year database consultant's job to enter nursing school. 16.His starting salary will be two thirds lower, but

database consulting does not typically earn hugs like the one Mr. Cook received from a girl after he took care of her premature baby sister. "It's like, people get paid for doing this kind of stuff?"

Mr. Cook said, tears coming to his eyes as he recounted the episode.

17.Several men cited the same reasons for seeking

out pink-collar work that have drawn women to such careers: less stress and more time at home.

At John G. Osborne Elementary School, Adrian Ortiz, 42, joked that he was one of the few Mexicans who made more in his native country, where he was a hard-working lawyer, than he did in the United States as a kindergarten teacher in a bilingual classroom. "Now," he said, "my priorities are family, 100 percent."

18.Betsey Stevenson, a labor economist at the

University of Pennsylvania, said she was not surprised that changing gender roles at home, where studies show men are shouldering more of the domestic burden, are showing up in career choices. "We tend to study these patterns of what's going on in the family and what's going on in the workplace as separate, but they're very much intertwined," she said. "So as attitudes in the family change, attitudes toward the workplace have changed."

19.In a classroom at Houston Community College,

Dexter Rodriguez, 35, said his job in tech support had not been threatened by the tough economy. Nonetheless, he said, his family downsized the house, traded the new cars for used ones and began to live off savings, all so Mr.

Rodriguez could train for a career he regarded as more exciting.

20."I put myself into the recession," he said,

"because I wanted to go to nursing school."

Unit3 E-Commerce

The Post-Cash Economy

1.In London, travelers can buy train tickets with

their phones - and hold up the phones for the conductor to see. And in Starbucks coffee shops in the United States, customers can wave their phones in front of the cash register and pay for their soy chai lattes.

2.Money is not what it used to be, thanks to the

Internet. And the pocketbook may soon be destined for the dustbin of history - at least if some technology companies get their way.

3.The cellphone increasingly contains the

essentials of what we need to make transactions.

"Identification, payment and personal items," as Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, pointed out in a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. "All this will easily fit in your mobile device and will inevitably do so."

4.The phone holds and records plenty more vital

information: It keeps track of where you are, what you like and who your peers are. That data can all be leveraged to sell you things you never knew you needed.

5.The survey, released last month by the Pew

Research Center's Internet and American Life Project along with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center in North Carolina, asked just

over 1,000 technologists and social scientists to opine on the future of the wallet in 2020. Nearly two-thirds agreed that "cash and credit cards will have mostly disappeared" and been replaced with "smart" devices able to carry out a transaction.

But a third of the survey respondents countered that consumers would fear for the security of transactions over a mobile device and worry about surrendering so much data about their purchasing habits.

6.Sometimes, those with fewer options are the

ones to embrace change the fastest. In Kenya, a service called M-Pesa (pesa is money in Swahili) acts like a banking system for those who may not have a bank account. With a rudimentary cellphone, M-Pesa users can send and receive money through a network of money agents, including cellphone shops. And in India, several phone carriers allow their customers to pay utility bills and transfer small amounts of money over their cellphones.

7.Several technology companies, big and small,

are busy trying to make it easier for us to buy and sell all kinds of things without our wallets. A start-up,WePay, describes itself as a service that allows the smallest merchant - say, a dog walker - to get paid; the company verifies the reputations of payers and sellers by analyzing, among other things, their Facebook accounts. 8. A British start-up, called Blockchain, offers a

free iPhone application allowing customers to use a crypto-currency called bitcoins, which users can mint on their computers.

9. A company called Square began by offering a

small accessory to enable food cart vendors and other small merchants to accept credit cards on phones and iPads. Square's latest invention allows customers to register an account with Square merchants and pay simply by saying their names. The customer's picture pops up on the merchant's iPad.

10.Google Wallet has been designed to sit in your

phone, be linked to your credit card, and let you pay by tapping your phone on a reader, using what is known as near field technology.But Google Wallet works on only four kinds of phones, and not many merchants are equipped for near field technology.

11.Meanwhile, PayPal, which allows people to

make payments over the Internet, has quietly begun to persuade its users to turn to their cellphones. PayPal posted about $118 billion in total transactions last year and became the fastest-growing segment of eBay, its parent company.

12."The physical wallet, which had no innovation

in the last 50 years, will become an artifact,"

John J. Donahoe, the chief executive of eBay, told me recently. The wallet would move into the cloud, and ideally, from his perspective, into PayPal. No more would the consumer worry about losing a wallet. Everything, he declared, would be contained within PayPal. It would also enable the company to collect vast amounts of data about customer habits, purchases and budgets.13.Mr. Donahoe said he wanted his company to

become "a mall in your pocket."

14.I recently described PayPal's plans to Alessandro

Acquisti, an economist who studies digital privacy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Mr. Acquisti smiled. If today all you need to do is enter your phone number and PIN when you visit a store, perhaps tomorrow, he said, that store will be able to detect your phone by its unique identifier. Perhaps, you won't have to shop at all. Your shopping data would be instead collected, analyzed and used to tell you exactly what you need: a motorcycle from Ducati or purple rain boots in the next size for your growing child. Money will be seamlessly taken from your account. A delivery will arrive at your doorstep. "In the future, maybe you won't have to pay," Mr. Acquisti offered, only half in jest.

"The transaction will be made for you."

Unit4Cultural Exchange

Asia’s Endangered Species: the Expat

1.Forget expats. Western companies doing

business in Asia are now looking to locals to fill the most important jobs in the region.

2.Behind the switch, experts say, are several

factors, including a leveled playing field in which Western companies must approach newly empowered Asian companies and consumers as equals and clients—not just manufacturing partners.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2216449449.html,panies now want executives who can secure

deals with local businesses and governments without the aid of a translator, and who understand that sitting through a three-hour dinner banquet is often a key part of the negotiating process in Asia, experts say.

4.In fact, three out of four senior executives hired

in Asia by multinationals were Asian natives already living in the region, according to a Spencer Stuart analysis of 1,500 placements made from 2005 to 2010. Just 6% were noncitizens from outside of Asia.

5."It's a strategic necessity to be integrated in the

culture. Otherwise, the time to learn all of it takes forever," said Arie Y. Lewin, a professor of strategy and international business at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He adds that locals may better navigate a business culture where copycats and competitors often play by

different rules.

6.What's more, a failed expatriate hire can be a

costly mistake and slow a firm's progress in the region, said Phil Johnston, a managing director at recruiter Spencer Stuart.

7.To help companies fill Asia-based executive

roles, at least two search firms—Spencer Stuart and Korn/Ferry International—say they have begun classifying executives in four broad categories: Asia natives steeped in local culture but educated in the U.S. or Europe; the foreigner who has lived or worked in Asia for a long time;

a person of Asian descent who was born or

raised in a Western country but has had little exposure to Asia; and the local Asian executive who has no Western experience.

8.For companies seeking local expertise, both

firms said the first category is by far the most

sought-after. But Mr. Johnston said those candidates are difficult to find and retain, and they can command salaries of $750,000 to $1 million—on par with, and sometimes more than, their expat counterparts.

9.German conglomerate Siemens AG in 2010

hired Mei-Wei Cheng, a China-born Cornell University graduate, to head its Chinese operations—a role previously held by European executives.

10.While Siemens's European executives had made

inroads with Chinese consumers—building sales in the region to nearly one-tenth of global revenue—the firm realized it needed someone who could quickly tap local business partners. 11.After an extensive search, Siemens hired Mr.

Cheng, formerly CEO at the Chinese subsidiaries of Ford Motor Co. and General Electric Co. GE

12.The decision to hire locally seems to have paid

off for Siemens: In his first 18 months on the job, Mr. Cheng forged two wind-power jointventures with Shanghai Electric Group Co.

13.Mr. Cheng communicates easily with local

officials, a major advantage when it comes to selling energy technology to individual cities, says Brigitte Ederer, head of human resources for Siemens and a member of the company's managing board. Many local officials don't speak English.

14.Bob Damon, president of recruiter Korn/Ferry

International's North American operations, said the current talent pool for executive roles is so limited that most top Asian executives simply rotate from one Western company to another, as Mr. Cheng did.

15.Other companies are adding to the demand by

creating new positions in Asia.Campbell Soup Co. CPB last week announced the appointment

of Daniel Saw as its first-ever president of Asia operations, while Canadian conglomerate Bombardier Inc. BBD.B.T hired Albert Li to fill

a new role overseeing its aerospace business in

China. Both executives were born in Asia and have worked as regional managers for Western multinationals.

16.Meanwhile, younger Chinese professionals are

positioning themselves to meet the need for executive talent in the years to come. Nearly four in 10 American M.B.A. programs say China was their fastest-growing source of foreign applicants last year, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the Graduate Management Admission Test.

17.Foreigners with no Asia experience, on the other

hand, need not apply, recruiters said. Spencer Stuart's Mr. Johnston said he occasionally receives inquiries from Western middle managers, proclaiming that they are finally ready to make a career move to the region. He advises them that "there is nothing about their experience that is interesting or relevant to Asia."

18.In hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong, expats

receive as much as $200,000 a year in subsidies for housing, transportation and private schooling, Mr. Johnston said. Payments to offset taxes for these benefits add up to another $100,000.

Altogether, a bad match can cost a company as much as $1 million, after figuring in relocation costs, he said.

19.Monster Worldwide Inc. Chief Executive Sal

Iannuzzi said the company has been hiring locally for several years, in part because he found deploying expatriates cost too much. "It

takes them six months to figure out how to take a ferry, they're there for 12 months, and then they spend the next six months figuring out how to get home," he said.

20.Like some other companies, Monster now tracks

its own workers to ensure a pipeline of talent. 21.The online job-search company's current head of

China operations, Edward Lo, a former fraternity brother of Mr. Iannuzzi, understands the local scene, is well connected in China and knows how to recruit, Mr. Iannuzzi said.Among Mr. Lo's duties: finding his own successor before he retires.

22.Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

based in White Plains, N.Y., also develops its own leaders for Asia, plucking people who have come up through the company ranks. For example, the head of Asia Pacific started in the 1970s on the finance team in Hong Kong, and the head of the Middle East region was a hotel manager who worked his way up.

23.Having grown up in their markets, managers

understand customer needs, said Starwood CEO Frits van Paasschen. Regional heads in China, for instance, know that when dealing with land owners or developers, deals are less "transactional," and more "trust-based," he said.

They also know that Chinese travelers—who now comprise the majority of hotel guests in the region—feel more at home when they're supplied with tea kettles, slippers and chopsticks, he

added.

24.For fast-food company Yum Brands Inc. CEO

David Novak calls his Asia-bred regional head and executive team "our single biggest competitive advantage." China has become the company's biggest earnings driver, comprising more than 40% of operating profit.

25.Thanks to Yum's China leaders, Mr. Novak says,

KFC in China began serving rice porridge and soy milk for breakfast, and Pizza Hut now offers an afternoon tea menu—both of which have been big hits among local customers.

Unit5Auto-World

The Future of the Car :Clean, Safe and it Drives itself

Cars have already changed the way we live. They are likely to do so again

1.SOME inventions, like some species, seem to

make periodic leaps in progress. The car is one of them. Twenty-five years elapsed between Karl Benz beginning small-scale production of his original Motorwagen and the breakthrough, by Henry Ford and his engineers in 1913, that turned the car into the ubiquitous, mass-market item that has defined the modern urban landscape. By putting production of the Model T on moving assembly lines set into the floor of his factory in Detroit, Ford drastically cut the time needed to build it, and hence its cost. Thus began

a revolution in personal mobility. Almost a

billion cars now roll along the world’s highways.

2.Today the car seems poised for another burst of

evolution. One way in which it is changing relates to its emissions. As emerging markets grow richer, legions of new consumers are clamouring for their first set of wheels. For the whole world to catch up with American levels of car ownership, the global fleet would have to quadruple. Even a fraction of that growth would present fearsome challenges, from congestion and the price of fuel to pollution and global warming.

3.Yet, as our special report this week argues,

stricter regulations and smarter technology are making cars cleaner, more fuel-efficient and safer than ever before. China, its cities choked in smog, is following Europe in imposing curbs on emissions of noxious nitrogen oxides and fine soot particles. Regulators in most big car markets

are demanding deep cuts in the carbon dioxide emitted from car exhausts. And carmakers are being remarkably inventive in finding ways to comply.

4.Granted, battery-powered cars have disappointed.

They remain expensive, lack range and are sometimes dirtier than they look—for example, if they run on electricity from coal-fired power stations. But car companies are investing heavily in other clean technologies. Future motorists will have a widening choice of super-efficient petrol and diesel cars, hybrids (which switch between batteries and an internal-combustion engine) and models that run on natural gas or hydrogen. As for the purely electric car, its time will doubtless come.

Towards the driverless, near-crashless car 5.Meanwhile, a variety of ―driver assistance‖

technologies are appearing on new cars, which will not only take a lot of the stress out of driving in traffic but also prevent many accidents. More and more new cars can reverse-park, read traffic signs, maintain a safe distance in steady traffic and brake automatically to avoid crashes. Some carmakers are promising technology that detects pedestrians and cyclists, again overruling the driver and stopping the vehicle before it hits them. A number of firms, including Google, are busy trying to take driver assistance to its logical conclusion by creating cars that drive themselves to a chosen destination without a human at the controls. This is where it gets exciting.

6.Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, predicts

that driverless cars will be ready for sale to

customers within five years. That may be optimistic, but the prototypes that Google already uses to ferry its staff (and a recent visitor from The Economist) along Californian freeways are impressive. Google is seeking to offer the world a driverless car built from scratch, but it is more likely to evolve, and be accepted by drivers, in stages.

7.As sensors and assisted-driving software

demonstrate their ability to cut accidents, regulators will move to make them compulsory for all new cars. Insurers are already pressing motorists to accept black boxes that measure how carefully they drive: these will provide a mass of data which is likely to show that putting the car on autopilot is often safer than driving it.

Computers never drive drunk or while texting. 8.If and when cars go completely driverless—for

those who want this—the benefits will be enormous. Google gave a taste by putting a blind man in a prototype and filming him being driven off to buy takeaway tacos. Huge numbers of elderly and disabled people could regain their personal mobility. The young will not have to pay crippling motor insurance, because their reckless hands and feet will no longer touch the wheel or the accelerator. The colossal toll of deaths and injuries from road accidents—1.2m killed a year worldwide, and 2m hospital visits a year in America alone—should tumble down, along with the costs to health systems and insurers.

9.Driverless cars should also ease congestion and

save fuel. Computers brake faster than humans.

And they can sense when cars ahead of them are braking. So driverless cars will be able to drive much closer to each other than humans safely can. On motorways they could form

fuel-efficient ―road trains‖, gliding along in the slipstream of the vehicle in front. People who commute by car will gain hours each day to work, rest or read a newspaper.

Roadblocks ahead

10.Some carmakers think this vision of the future is

(as Henry Ford once said of history) bunk.

People will be too terrified to hurtle down the motorway in a vehicle they do not control: computers crash, don’t t hey? Carmakers whose self-driving technology is implicated in accidents might face ruinously expensive lawsuits, and be put off continuing to develop it.

11.Yet many people already travel, unwittingly, on

planes and trains that no longer need human drivers. As with those technologies, the shift towards driverless cars is taking place gradually.

The cars’ software will learn the tricks that humans use to avoid hazards: for example, braking when a ball bounces into the road, because a child may be chasing it. G oogle’s self-driving cars have already clocked up over 700,000km, more than many humans ever drive;

and everything they learn will become available to every other car using the software. As for the liability issue, the law should be changed to make sure that when cases arise, the courts take into account the overall safety benefits of self-driving technology.

12.If the notion that the driverless car is round the

corner sounds far-fetched, remember that TV and heavier-than-air flying machines once did, too.

One day people may wonder why earlier generations ever entrusted machines as dangerous as cars to operators as fallible as humans.

Unit6 Romance

The Modern Matchmakers

现代红娘

Internet dating sites claim to have brought scienceto the age-old question of how to pair offsuccessfully. But have they?

互联网相亲网站声称已经将科技运用如何成功配对的问题之上。但事实是不是这样呢?

FOR as long as humans have romanced each other, others have wanted to meddle.

只要人类存在婚恋行为，外人就想加以干涉。

Whether those others were parents, priests, friends or bureaucrats, their motive waslargely the same:

不论这些外人是父母、牧师、朋友或者官员，他们的动机在很大程度上一致：

they thought they knew what it took to pair people off better than those people knewthemselves.

他们自认为比婚恋们自身更了解怎样去更好地配对成功。

Today, though, there is a new matchmaker in the village: the internet.

然而如今在乡村里出现了一种新型的红娘：互联网。

It differs from the old ones in two ways.

它同传统红娘在两方面有所区别。

First, its motive is purely profit.

首先，其完全有利益驱使。

Second, single wannabe lovers are queuing up to use it, rather than resenting its nagging.

其次渴求另一半的单身排队使用它，而不用忍受红娘的絮絮叨叨。

For internet dating sites promise two things that neither traditional matchmakers nor chanceencounters at bars, bus-stops and bar mitzvahs offer.

其原因在于互联网相亲网站承诺了两个传统红娘和在酒吧、车站、成年礼上的偶遇都不能提供的优势。

One is a vastly greater choice of potential partners.

一是：未来伴侣的大量选择机会;

The other is a scientifically proven way of matching suitable people together, enhancing thechance of happily ever after.

二是：用科学有效的方式将合适的人配对，以增加婚后幸福的几率。

The greater choice is unarguable.

拥有大量选择机会的优势是无可争议的。

But does it lead to better outcomes?

但它真能带来更好地婚配结果吗?

And do the scientifically tested algorithms actually work, and deliver the goods in ways thattraditional courtship cannot manage?

所谓的经过科学测试的婚配策略是否真正其作用，能否以传统求爱无法胜任的方式完成婚配?

These are the questions asked by a team of psychologists led by Eli Finkel of NorthwesternUniversity, in Illinois, in a paper released

这些问题正是伊利诺斯州德西北大学的Eli Finkel 所领导的心理学家小组在情人节前几天所发布的论文中提到的，

probably not coincidentally—a few days before St Valentine s day.

也许这并非偶然。

This paper, published in PsychologicalScience in the Public Interest,

这篇发布在公家好处报纸心理学栏目，

reviews studies carried out by many groups of psychologists since the earliest internet datingsite, https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2216449449.html,, opened for business in 1995.

它回顾了在1995年最早的互联网相亲网站开门营业后众多心理学团体的研究。

In it, DrFinkel and his colleagues cast a sceptical eye over the whole multi-billion-dollaronline dating industry, and they are deeply unconvinced.

在这篇论文中，Finkel博士和他的同事对这个年盈利数十亿美元的网上相亲产业表示高度怀疑。

Blueprint for a perfect partner?

另一半的完美模板

The researchers first observation is not so much what the studies they examined haveshown,

研究者们首先注意的不是这些研究能展示的结果，

but what they have been unable to show, namely how any of the much-vauntedpartner-matching algorithms actually work.

二是他们还不能展示的东西，即那些自夸的婚配策略是如何起作用的。

Commercially, that is fair enough.

在商业上来看，这似乎无可厚非。

Many firms preserve their intellectual property as trade secrets, rather than making itpublic by patenting it,

许多公司将其知识产权作为商业机密保护起来，

and there is no reason why internet dating sites should not be among them.

而非通过申请专利使其公开化。

But this makes claims of efficacy impossible to test objectively.

而互联网相亲网站没有理由效仿这些公司。

There is thus no independent scientific evidence that any internet dating site s algorithmfor matching people together。

互联网相亲网站的行为使其声称的婚配效果完全

无法得到客观公正的检验。

actually does enhance the chance of their hitting it off when they meet.

因此也就没有公正的科学证据证明任何互联网相

亲网站确实能使其婚配的恋人能和睦相处。

What papers have been published on the matter have been written by company insiders whodo not reveal how the crucial computer programs do their stuff.

关于这方面的已发表的论文都是有公司内部人员

撰写，然而他们却没有解释核心电脑程序是如何运作的。

It is, though, possible to test the value of a claim often made for these algorithms: that theymatch people with compatible personality traits.

然而，去检测针对这些婚配策略所作出的承诺的价

值是可能的。

No doubt they do, given the number of questions on such matters on the averageapplication form.

看看申请表上关于性格方面问题的数量就知道他

们确实采用此种策略。

What is assumed, but not tested, however, is that this is a good thing—that those withcompatible personalities make more successful couples than those without.

然而大家认为这是一种好的策略-性格相合相对性格不合的恋人更容易拥有幸福美满的婚姻，但是这一点未经证实。

To examine this proposition, DrFinkel draws on a study published in 2010 by PortiaDyrenforth of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, New York.

为了验证这一观点，Finkel博士引用了纽约日内瓦霍巴特与威廉·史密斯学院的Portia Dyrenforth在2010年发表的研究。

DrDyrenforth asked more than 20,000 people about their relationships, and also assessedtheir personalities.

博士Dyrenforth询问了20000多对夫妻的关系，同时也评估了他们的性格。

Members of couples with similar personalities were indeed happier than those whose partnerswere dissimilar.

拥有相同性格的夫妻确实比性格不同的夫妻幸福些。

But the difference was not exactly huge.

但是差别不是很大，

It was 0.5%.

仅仅5%。

As DrFinkel puts it,I wouldn t have a problem with companies claiming that their matching algorithm couldincrease the chances of developing a lasting relationship by a tiny amount;

对于那些声称其婚配策略可以小幅地提升维持长久关系的可能性的公司，我不会给予否定。

I get concerned, though, when companies claim they can find your soul mate for you.

然而，当其声称他们可以帮你找到灵魂伴侣时，

我却不赞同。

Surely, however, the chances of finding that magic other are increased by the second thinginternet dating brings: oodles of choice?

然而可以肯定的是互联网相亲网站提供的第二种

优势能提升找到合适的另一半的可能性。

But here, too, things are not as simple as they might seem.

然而，事情也并非看起来简单。

Some dating-site algorithms do not take the high-handed we know best approach but,rather, 一些相亲网站得婚配策略不是采取那种客观婚配的

策略而是让单身者自身决定他或她寻找什么类型的人，let the punter decide what he or she is looking for and then offer as many matches to thosecriteria as are on the website s books.

然后如同网上售书根据这些标准提供婚配对象。

The crucial assumption here, of course, is that what people think they want is what theyactually need.

当然，这里有一个重要的假设：人们自认为想要的类型是他们实际真正需要的。

That, it is true, is an assumption behind all consumer decisions.

事实上，这个假设是所有消费者都未曾考虑的。

But changing your mind about a book or a washing machine chosen over the internet is not asemotionally fraught as changing your mind about a potential sexual partner.

但是改变的对你网购的一本书或者一台洗衣机的看法并不像改变对一个潜在的性伴侣那样令人担忧。

And here, too, the data suggest people are not good at knowing what they want.

这些数据也暗示人们并非了解他们真正的需要。

One of DrFinkel s own studies,

例如，Finkel博士自己的一个研究显示：

for example, showed that when they are engaged in internet dating s cousin, speed dating,

人们进行同网络交友的类似活动如快速约会，

people s stated preferences at the beginning of the process do not well match the charactersof the individuals they actually like.

人们在一开始申明的标准和他们真正喜欢的人的

性格相符。

Indeed, even the very volume of alternatives may be a problem. Studies on consumerchoice, from boxes of chocolates to restaurant wine lists, have shown that less is more.

事实上，婚配候选人的数量就可能是一个问题。

从巧克力盒子道餐馆酒水一览目录，关于消费者选择的

研究发现并非越多越好。

Half a dozen bonbons, or a dozen bottles, are easier to pick between than 30 or 40. And aninternet dating site may come up with not just a few dozen, 相较于30或者40打，半打夹心糖或者一打瓶子更

容易选择。相亲网站带来的不仅仅是几十个婚配候选人，but thousands of allegedly suitable matches.

而是成百上千的宣称合适的婚配者。

The supermarket of love

爱情超市

Not surprisingly, the difficulty of choosing from abundance seems to apply to choiceofpeople, too.

果然，这种从大量选择的困难看起来也同样适用

于人的选择。

DrFinkel could find no study which addressed the question directly, in the context of internetdating.

在互联网相亲的背景下，Finkel博士没能发现直接解决这一问题的研究。

But speed-dating once again provided an answer.

但是快速约会曾提供了一种答案。

Here, he found studies which showed that when faced with abundant choice,

这里，他发现一些研究显示到：当面临大量的选择时，

people pay less attention to characteristics that require thinking and conversation toevaluate and more to matters physical.

人们很少关注需要思考和谈话才能评估诸如职业阶层和教育水平，而更加关注身体外形方面。

Choice, in other words, dulls the critical faculties.

换句话说，选择埋没了重要的才能。

The upshot of DrFinkel s review is thus that love is as hard to find on the internet aselsewhere.

Finkel博士的观点的要点是如同在其他地方一样，网上的爱情也很难需求。

That is not a reason not to use it.

没有理由不相信这句话。

But you may be just as likely to luck out in the local cafe, or by acting on the impulse tostop and talk to that stranger on the street whose glance you caught, as you are by clickingaway with a mouse and hoping that,

如同在当地咖啡店希望走桃花运或者兴致冲冲地停下来同街道上的瞄着你的陌生人谈话，你还是点击鼠标，

one day, Cupid s arrow will strike.

希望有一天丘比特之箭能射中你。

词语解释

1.priest n.教士;神父;牧师

A priest exorcized the ghost from the house.

教士将鬼从房屋中驱走。

2.bureaucrat n.官僚作风的人;官僚

He is a conservative bureaucrat who can becounted upon to follow a beaten path.

他是一个保守的官僚, 他准会循规蹈矩地办事。

3.matchmaker n.媒人;安排比赛的人

The receptionist was a real matchmaker.

接待员真的是一个媒人。

4.encounter n.意外的相见;邂逅;遭遇

Don t be afraid to encounter risks.

不要害怕遭遇危险。

5.potential n.潜力;潜能

She has acting potential, but she needs training.

她有表演潜力，但需要训练。

Unit7Health

How Working the Muscles May Boost Brainpower 1.Upending the cliché of muscleheads, scientists at

the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging recently set out to examine whether changes in muscles prompted by exercise might subsequently affect and improve the brain’s ability to think.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2216449449.html,b animals and people generally perform better

on tests of cognition after several weeks of exercise training, and studies have shown that over time, running and other types of endurance exercise increase the number of neurons in portions of the brain devoted to memory and learning. But the mechanisms that underlie this process remain fairly mysterious. Do they start within the brain itself? Or do messages arrive from elsewhere in the body to jump-start the process?

3.The researchers were especially interested in the

possibility that the action starts outside the brain –and specifically in the muscles. ―We wondered whether peripheral triggers might be activating the cellular and molecular cascades in the brain that led to improvements in cognition,‖ says Henriette van Praag, the investigator at the National Institute on Aging who led the study. 4.Muscles are, of course, greatly influenced by

exercise. Muscle cells respond to exercise by pumping out a variety of substances that result in larger, stronger muscles. Some of those compounds might be entering the bloodstream and traveling to the brain, Dr. van Praag says. 5.The problem is that exercise is such a

complicated physiological stimulus that it’s very difficult to isolate which compounds are involved and what their effects might be. So she and her colleagues decided to study ―fake‖ exercise instead, using two specialized drugs that had been tested several years ago by scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego. The drugs had been shown to induce the same kinds of changes in sedentary animals’ muscles that exercise would cause, so that even though the mice didn’t exercise, they physiologically responded as if they had.

6.One of the drugs that they used, known as Aicar,

increases the muscles’ output of AMPK, an enzyme that affects cellular energy and metabolism. Regular endurance exercise, like running or cycling, increases the muscles’ production of this enzyme. In the Salk experiments, Aicar enabled untrained mice to run

44 percent farther during treadmill tests than

other, sedentary animals that hadn’t received the drug.

7.The second compound, GW1516, a cholesterol

drug, also stimulates biochemical changes in muscle cells like those caused by endurance exercise. But in the Salk studies, it had amplified endurance primarily in animals that also ran, allowing them to run farther than another set of running mice that didn’t get the drug. But it hadn’t done much muscle-wise for animals that remained sedentary.

8.By using these drugs in unexercised animals

under well-controlled conditions, the scientists

from the National Institute on Aging sought to determine whether changes in muscles then initiated changes in the brain.

9.And as it turned out, muscles did affect the mind.

After a week of receiving either of the two drugs (and not exercising), the mice performed significantly better on tests of memory and learning than control animals that had simply remained quiet in their cages. The effects were especially pronounced for the animals taking Aicar.

10.The results, published in the journal Learning

and Memory, showed that the drugged animals’ brains also contained far more new neurons in brain areas central to learning and memory than the brains of the control mice, an effect found by microscopic examination.

11.Because the two drugs ―don’t cross the

blood-brain barrier much, if at all,‖ Dr. van Praag says, ―we could be fairly confident that the changes we were seeing were related to an exercise-type reaction in the muscles‖ and not to brain responses to the drugs.

12.The message of this finding, she continues, is

that ―improvements in cognition‖ that follow exercise ―would seem to involve changes throughout the body and not just in t he brain.‖13.Although the exact process isn’t clear, Dr. van

Praag speculates that some of the AMPK enzyme created during exercise enters the bloodstream and travels to the brain, setting off a series of new reactions there.

14.The implication, she continues, is that exercise

may need to be aerobic if it’s going to substantially affect the brain. ―You probably need to increase blood flow, which mostly occurs during endurance training,‖ she says. Also, in animal studies, AMPK production has been found to increase principally after running. Of course, ―it’s very hard for us to study weight lifting in mice,‖ Dr. van Praag says, so it’s possible that other types of exercise might improve AMPK production and cognition too, she says.

15.Interestingly, when the scientists continued

injecting mice with Aicar for an additional week, the animals’ brains stopped responding. They actually began losing their augmented ability to learn, compared with the control animals, a finding that suggests, Dr. van Praag says, that drugs may be an unsatisfactory —and potentially detrimental —way to emulate the effects of exercise.

16.Exercise, on the other hand, is generally safe.

―And the scientific evidence, including ours,‖ she says, ―is strong and growing that it is very good for the muscles —and for the brain.‖

Unit8Cyber Security

Anonymous No More

Experts say deleted online information never actually goes away

1.The Ashley Madison hack is a big reminder to all

Web users: If you submit private data online, chances are it will never fully be deleted.

2.The hackers, who stole the data about a month

ago and then posted it online this week, claimed in a statement that part of the reason for the theft was Ashley Madison’s fraudulent promise to fully delete users’ information if they paid th e company a US$19 fee.

3.The Web site —whose slogan is ―Life is short.

Have an affair‖ — is marketed to people looking for extramarital relationships. It purports to have about 39 million members.

4.The hackers said the company failed to delete the

information, even though it collected the fees.

Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc, Ashley Madison’s parent company, hasn’t commented on the hackers’ accusation. A company spokesman didn’t respond to multiple e-mails seeking comment.

5.It’s virtually impossible to exis t in modern

society without putting at least some personal information online. Many people can’t get through a day without using the Internet to shop, pay a bill or check their credit card balance.

6.People have become accustomed to trusting their

most precious personal information to companies.

But they also need to know that all of that information is being shared more than they would expect, privacy experts say.

7.Before you hit ―submit,‖ stop and think before

giving up your personal information to any kind of Web site, said Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, an industry-funded group that educates consumers about cybersecurity.

SECURING PERSONAL INFORMATION

8.“Personal information is like money, and you

don’t just give away your money,‖ Kaiser says.

―In the environment we’re in right now, you have to value it and think about protecting it everywhere you go on the Internet.‖

9.That means taking a look at a Web site’s business

to get an idea of how much they value information security and even asking them about their data retention practices. Banks, which deal in financial information, and large retailers, who have a vested interest in getting people to shop online, are probably safer bets than a dating site.

10.“Ashley Madison actually charges you to remove

your information when you remove your account,‖ he says. ―That’s a big clue about how they feel about your personal information.‖

11.People also need to sometimes take a pass on

convenience in the name of online security.

12.Many consumers like it when e-commerce sites

have their credit card and other information on file, or when Web browsers automatically fill in forms with their name, address and other details, says Peter Tyrrell, chief operating officer of the data security firm Digital Guardian. Meanwhile, worries about data theft and loss have prompted companies to back up important information in multiple places.

13.But both practices increase the likelihood that

information could be leaked or shared. And it means that even when a person thinks that their information has been permanently deleted, chances are there are still copies floating around somewhere.

14.“Ashley Madison is a company with a service

that’s completely predicated on privacy,‖ Tyrrell says, adding that that characteristic sets it apart from many traditional e-commerce sites such as retailers.

15.“Here the capital, so to speak, isn’t a credit card

or consumer goods. The capital is personal information that if released could be ruinous personally, and financially too.‖

16.Breaches, whether they be at a major retailer

such as Target Corp., a health insurance company such as Anthem Inc., or Ashley Madison, have become so common that people should give some serious thought before putting personal information online, says Caleb Barlow, a vice president at IBM’s security division.

17.And while Social Security numbers weren’t

involved Ashley Madison hack, people should be

especially wary of using them as a backup password to access online information, given the potentially disastrous consequences that could result if they’re intercepted, he says.

18.“Why are we using Social Security Numbers for

both identification and access?‖ he questions.

―Any data that can never be changed can be used for identity, but should never be used for access.‖19.And no matter how legitimate a company or

website may be, people need to be aware that they’re rolling the dice every time they hand over personal information.

20.Scott Vernick, partner and head of the data

security and privacy practice at the law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, says consumers have the right to expect a certain level of online security, depending on the industry standards of the company they’re dealing with.

21.“But those expectations have to be muted by the

knowledge that they’re always taking a risk, wh ether they’re ordering from Amazon Prime or from Ashley Madison,‖ Vernick says.

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Lesson1: Excuse me! Excuse me! Yes? Is this your handbag? Pardon? Is this your handbag? Yes, it is. Thank you very much. Lesson 3:Sorry sir. My coat and my umbrella please. Here is my ticket. Thank you sir. Number five. Here is your umbrella and your coat. This is not my umbrella. Sorry sir. Is this your umbrella? No, it isn't. Is this it? Yes, it is. Thank you very much. Lesson 5: Nice to meet you. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Blake. This is Miss Sophie Dupont. Sophie is a new student. She is a French. Sophie, this is Hans. He is German. Nice to meet you. And this is Naoko.

She’s Japanese. Nice to meet you. And this is Chang-woo. He’s Korean. (朝鲜人) Nice to meet you. And this is Luming. He’s Chinese. Nice to meet you. And this is Xiaohui. She’s Chinese, too. Nice to meet you. Lesson 7: Are you a teacher? I’m a new student. My name’s Robert. Nice to meet you. My name’s Sophie. Are you French? Yes, I’m. Are you French, too? No, I’m not. What nationality are you? I’m Ital ian. Are you a teacher? No, I’m not. What’s your job? I’m a keyboard operator. What’s your job? I’m an engineer. Lesson 9: How are you today? Hello, Helen. Hi, Steven. How are you today?

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