四級(jí)閱讀長(zhǎng)難句15句

1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.

2. But it will be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.

3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.

4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.

5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.

6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.

8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.

10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.

11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.

12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.

13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know , and make men of them.

14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth’s postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.

15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.

答案：

1、系好安全帶能夠挽救性命，它能將喪生和重傷的概率減少一半以上。

2、但是司機(jī)有責(zé)任確保14歲以下的孩子不要坐在前排，除非他們系好了安全帶。

3、當(dāng)然，如果有以下情況你可以不系安全帶：你在倒車(chē)時(shí)，或者你用一種特殊交通工具進(jìn)行當(dāng)?shù)氐呢浳镞\(yùn)送、收集時(shí)，或者你有合法的醫(yī)學(xué)證明你不能系安全帶時(shí)。

4、注意你如果不這么做(系安全帶)的話(huà)，你有可能被告上法庭，而且你有可能被處以罰款除非你能證明你有不帶安全帶的理由。

5、Taiju Matsuzawa 教授想找出為什么日本北部的健康農(nóng)民在相對(duì)年輕的年齡就顯得開(kāi)始失去思考與推理的能力的原因以及怎樣才能延緩老化過(guò)程。

6、在東京國(guó)立大學(xué)的同事們的幫助下，他開(kāi)始對(duì)一千來(lái)自不同職業(yè)的人群進(jìn)行了大腦體積的測(cè)量。

7、計(jì)算機(jī)技術(shù)幫助研究人員獲得人腦前部和側(cè)部的準(zhǔn)確體積，這是與人的智能和情緒有關(guān)的部分，而且也決定人的性格特點(diǎn)。

8、有的人(大腦)前部和側(cè)部的收縮——隨著細(xì)胞的死亡——在三十多歲時(shí)就能被觀(guān)察到了，但是也有些人直到六七歲依然不明顯。

9、研究結(jié)果表明在農(nóng)村的人大腦收縮基本上比城市里的人要早。

10、在政府部門(mén)從事簡(jiǎn)單重復(fù)工作的白領(lǐng)也像農(nóng)場(chǎng)工人、公共汽車(chē)司機(jī)和商店職員一樣大腦細(xì)胞容易收縮。

11、我們知道你們很看重你們?cè)诖髮W(xué)里面教育的學(xué)習(xí)方法，而且我們的年輕人與你們生活的花費(fèi)即使對(duì)于你們來(lái)說(shuō)也不便宜。

12、但是你們也要明白不同的民族看待事物有不同的方法，所以如果剛好我們的看法與你們的不一樣的話(huà)，你們也不應(yīng)覺(jué)的被冒犯了。

13、當(dāng)然，對(duì)于你們的盛情我們沒(méi)有被逼迫的感覺(jué)，盡管我們拒絕接受。而且，為了表示我們的感謝，如果維吉利亞洲的紳士們?cè)敢馀蓙?lái)一些他們的子弟的話(huà)，我們會(huì)盡全力教育他們，并把他們培養(yǎng)成為真正的男人。

14、在這個(gè)像是計(jì)算機(jī)史前時(shí)代的時(shí)代，地球的戰(zhàn)后時(shí)代，人們普遍擔(dān)憂(yōu)有一天計(jì)算機(jī)會(huì)取代人類(lèi)控制世界。

15、今天或者不到五十年后，計(jì)算機(jī)將越來(lái)越多的減輕人們的工作事務(wù)和日常瑣事。我們也將面對(duì)一個(gè)沒(méi)有什么戲劇性和更不可預(yù)測(cè)的問(wèn)題。