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2016년 9월 23
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In 2000, the government in Glasgow, Scotland, appeared to stumble on a remarkable crime prevention strategy. Officials hired a team to beautify the city by installing a series of blue lights in various noticeable locations. In theory, blue lights are more attractive and calming than the yellow and white lights that illuminate much of the city at night, and indeed the blue lights seemed to cast a soothing glow. Months pass ed and the city's crime statisticians noticed a striking trend: The locations that were newly bathed in blue experienced a dramatic decline in criminal activity. The blue lights in Glasgow, which mimicked the lights atop police cars, seemed to imply that the police were always watching. The lights were never designed to reduce crime, but that's exactly what they appeared to be doing. 

2014년 9월 22
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It's true that before puberty, kids don't gain the same muscle from lifting weights that a teen or adult would, but Dr. Avery Faigenbaum, a noted youth exercise specialist, points to studies in which children as young as six have benefited from strength training and says that, on average, kids show a 30 to 40 percent strength gain when they start lifting for the first time. Muscles aren't the only goal, of course; various studies have also shown that kids who weight—train have healthier bone density, body composition, and even resistance to injury. The risk of injury is, of course, one reason parents worry about kids and weights, but as long as the little bodybuilders are properly supervised to prevent overtraining and possible injury, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the President's Council on Fitness say the rewards outweigh the risks. 

2015년 3월 28
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One cool thing about my Uncle Arthur was CD that he could always pick the best places to camp. One time, we went to Garrison Rock. Uncle Arthur said that the Indians stayed there. On trips like this, he would always have a good story ©to tell. His stories were always aimed at helping us children use our brains to get out of trouble. For example, one story was about a guy being chased by a big dog. They ran into a field. We kids were thinking that the dog would catch him. But the guy saw a bathtub in the field. He ran to the bathtub and pulled it over himself. The dog just barked and barked until it went away. Then the guy came out of the bathtub, and went home. 

2017년 11월 29
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Everyone knows a young person who is impressively "street smart" but does poorly in school. We think it is a waste that one who is so intelligent about so many things in life seems unable to apply that intelligence to academic work. What we don't realize is that schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the opportunity to draw such street smarts and guide them toward good academic work. Nor do we consider one of the major reasons why schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectual concerns. We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly with subjects and texts that we consider inherently weighty and academic.

2017년 6월 31
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If we lived on a planet where nothing ever changed, there would be little to do. There would be nothing to figure out and there would be no reason for science. And if we lived in an unpredictable world, where things changed in random or very complex ways, we would not be able to figure things out. Again, there would be no such thing as science. But we live in an in-between universe, where things change, but according to rules. If I throw a stick up in the air, it always falls down. If the sun sets in the west, it always rises again the next morning in the east. And so it becomes possible to figure things out. We can do science, and with it we can improve our lives.

2018년 6월 33
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There is good evidence that in organic development, perception starts with recognizing outstanding structural features. For example, when two-year-old children and chimpanzees had learned that, of two boxes presented to them, the one with a triangle of a particular size and shape always contained attractive food, they had no difficulty applying their training to triangles of very different appearance. The triangles were made smaller or larger or turned upside down. A black triangle on a white background was replaced by a white triangle on a black background, or an outlined triangle by a solid one. These changes seemed not to interfere with recognition. Similar results were obtained with rats. Karl Lashley, a psychologist, has asserted that simple transpositions of this type are universal in all animals including humans.

2015년 11월 40
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Do animals have a sense of fairness? Researchers decided to test this by paying dogs for "giving their paw." Dogs were asked repeatedly to give their paw if they were not rewarded. Once this baseline level of paw giving was established, the researchers had two dogs sit next to each other and asked each dog in turn to give a paw. Then one of the dogs was given a better reward than the other. In response, the dog that was being "paid" less for the same work began giving its paw more reluctantly and stopped giving its paw sooner. This finding raises the very interesting possibility that dogs may have a basic sense of fairness, or at least a hatred of inequality.

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With thousands of websites, television channels, television channels, text messages, and phone calls, it is easy to become drowned in a flood of media. We often try to absorb too much in too many ways, to enjoy music while at the same time e-mailing someone on our laptops and being interrupted by constant messages on our mobile phones. Is there anyone thing I have learned to help me survive? Yes. Try to stick to one type of media at a time. To a large extent we have a very limited ability to focus. If we try to absorb too many things at once, they often conflict. Just the action of talking takes up much of our working memory. Trying to talk about complex subjects and drive well at the same time pushes our abilities to their limits. This is one of the reasons why people still go to cinemas for good films; it is a ______________ experience because all mobile phones are switched off. Many forms of communication are only really enjoyed one at a time.

2015년 3월 19
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Some people need money more than we do. For example, some people have lost their homes due to natural disasters or war, while others don't have enough food or clothing. So this year, for our birthdays, let's tell our friends and family to donate money to a charity instead of buying us presents. I know that some kids- might not want to give up their birthday presents, and 1 understand. However, remember that we can live without new toys or games more easily than someone can live without food, clothing, or shelter. So, we should tell our friends and family that, for our birthdays this year, we want to give to others. 

2016년 6월 21
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An interesting study about facial expressions was recently published by the American Psychological Association. Fifteen Chinese people and fifteen Scottish people took part in the study. They viewed emotion- neutral faces that were randomly changed on a computer screen and then categorized the facial expressions as happy, sad, surprised, fearful, or angry. The responses allowed researchers to identify the expressive facial features that participants associated with each emotion. The study found that the Chinese participants relied more on the eyes to tell facial expressions, while the Scottish participants relied on the eyebrows and mouth. People from different cultures perceive happy, sad, or angry facial expressions in different ways. That is, facial expressions are not the "universal language of emotions." 

2019년 수능 29
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“Monumental” is a word that comes very close to expressing the basic characteristic of Egyptian art. Never before and never since has the quality of monumentality been achieved as fully as it ② did in Egypt. The reason for this is not the external size and massiveness of their works, although the Egyptians admittedly achieved some amazing things in this respect. Many modern structures exceed ③ those of Egypt in terms of purely physical size. But massiveness has nothing to do with monumentality. An Egyptian sculpture no bigger than a person’s hand is more monumental than that gigantic pile of stones that constitutes the war memorial in Leipzig, for instance. Monumentality is not a matter of external weight, but of “inner weight.” This inner weight is the quality which Egyptian art possesses to such a degree that everything in it seems to be made of primeval stone, like a mountain range, even if it is only a few inches across or carved in wood.

2015년 11월 29
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Suppose we wish to create a yellow by mixing red and green paints. If we mixed the paints together, we would fail in getting the intended result, probably getting a reddish color instead. This is because the paints were mixed together so that their effects on light interfered with each other. But suppose the red were painted as many small dots of paint. From a distance, it would look like a solid red. Similarly, the green could be painted as many small dots on the same paper, never overlapping the red dots. From up close the many small red and green dots would be seen. From a distance, far enough back so that the individual dots could be invisible, the eye would receive a mixture of red and green light. The light would look yellow. 

2018년 6월 31
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One outcome of motivation is behavior that takes considerable effort. For example, if you are motivated to buy a good car, you will research vehicles online, look at ads, visit dealerships, and so on. Likewise, if you are motivated to lose weight, you will buy low- fat foods, eat smaller portions, and exercise. Motivation not only drives the final behaviors that bring a goal closer but also creates willingness to expend time and energy on preparatory behaviors. Thus, someone motivated to buy a new smartphone may earn extra money for it, drive through a storm to reach the store, and then wait in line to buy it.


2017년 11월 39
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Although humans have been drinking coffee for centuries, it is not clear just where coffee originated or who first discovered it. However, the predominant legend has it that a goatherd discovered coffee in the Ethiopian highlands. Various dates for this legend include 900 BC, 300 AD, and 800 AD. Regardless of the actual date, it is said that Kaldi, the goatherd, noticed that his goats did not sleep at night after eating berries from what would later be known as a coffee tree. When Kaldi reported his observation to the local monastery, the abbot became the first person to brew a pot of coffee and note its flavor and alerting effect when he drank it. Word of the awakening effects and the pleasant taste of this new beverage soon spread beyond the monastery. The story of Kaldi might be more fable than fact, but at least some historical evidence indicates that coffee did originate in the Ethiopian highlands.

2014년 9월 35
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35. When the Muslims invaded southern Europe in the eighth century, they passed a law forbidding the sale of pork. This was done because the founder of the Muslim religion had declared pork to be unclean. This law, of course, didn't change the Europeans' love of pork, and there soon developed a black market for the meat. In secret transactions, usually conducted at night, farmers would sell to city dwellers pigs concealed in large bags. Occasionally, a dishonest farmer would trick a buyer by selling a bag containing not a pig but a cat. If something went wrong and the bag came open during the transaction, this literally "let the cat out of the bag" and this is why revealing a secret is said to be "letting the cat out of the bag."