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UNIT 6 THE ADMIRABLE(二)
1．She studied biology at Mount St.Scholastica College in Kansas ，and then obtained a
master’s degree(获得硕士学位) from the University of Pittsburgh.
2．Women came to the council in part(在某种程度上) to search for solutions(寻找解决方法)
to the environmental problems—deforestation and desertification had caused many of the resources
women relied on for food and clean water to decrease.
3．Fuelled(v.刺激，给……加油) by her knowledge of biology and her passion(n.酷爱；激情)
for helping others，Wangari decided to take action(采取行动)．
4．To achieve her goals，she came up with(提出) a practical(adj.切合实际的) but
impactful(adj.有影响力的) idea：to plant trees.
5．I’ve been working steadily for hours now，but feel as if(似乎，好像) I haven’t even
started.
6．“In 2004，we measured the average attention on a screen to be 2 minutes，” Mark
said.“Some years later，we found attention spans(注意力持续时间) to be about 75 seconds.”
7．Now we find people can only pay attention to one screen for an average of(平均有……) 47
seconds.
average n．平均水平，一般标准；平均数，平均值
an average of平均有……
above/below average 平均水平之上/之下
on average平均起来；一般而言
adj.普通的，平常的；平均的；典型的；正常的
average earnings 平均收入
v.平均为，平均达到
The children in that class average four feet in height.
8.Not only do people(not only置于句首，引起部分倒装) concentrate for less than a minute on
any one screen，Mark said，but when attention is diverted from an active work project，it also
takes about 25 minutes to refocus on that task.
9．“If we look at work in terms of(就……而言；从……角度来看)switching projects，as
opposed to(表对比，意为“而，相对于”) the micro view of switching screens，we find people
spend about 10 minutes in any work project before being interrupted and then switch to(转换
到)another work project，” Mark said.
10．And earlier this year，Abdullah launched(v.发动，发起；上市，发行) a new effort(熟词生义：n.有组织的活动) to build the world’s largest coral nursery in the Red Sea.
11．Above all(最重要的是；尤其是)，it suggests a new year with a new image and expresses the
good wishes of Chinese people to ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year.
