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Not long ago a California policeman stopped a driver for failing to stop at a red light. Asked his name, the driver said," Safety First. "Of course, the policeman did not believe the man. He thought the driver had been drinking. But the man was telling the truth. Safety First was his real name. Thousands of babies are given strange names each year,and many women acquire(获得) strange names through marriage. When Miss Nova Warrick married, she became Nova Cain.
There's a Katz Meow in Washington D. C. and a Mr. Ache Payne in Illinois. Mr. Darling Dear resides(居住)in Wisconsin. A New York music teacher is named Love Sweetheart. Fish Hook lives in Illinois. Orange Vanilla Lemon resides in Idaho. But perhaps the strangest name of all is that of a Georgia man-W？5/Sths Smith.
The policeman stopped the driver to ______.
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FULLTIME DRIVERS WANTED
Clean driving licence.
Must be of smart appearance.
Aged over 25. Apply to: Capes Taxis, 17 Palace Road, Roston.
AIR HOSTESSES
Southern Airlines
Require air hostesses for international flights.
Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old, height 1.60m to 1.75m, education to GCSE standard, two languages, must be able to swim. Apply to: Recruitment Officer, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West, HR 37KK.
FEACHERS NEEDED
For private language school.
Teaching experience unnecessary.
Apply to: The Director of Studies. Instant Languages. Ltd. 279 Canal Street, Roston.
The following refers to Jack, an experienced taxi driver. What prevents him working for Capes Taxis？
In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician' s trick. The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat' s fail be slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high - speed photography using equipment now available in any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment.
The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting it- .self. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret: As the cat rotates the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tall twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while no body can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousand fold.
Why arc the photographs mentioned referred to as an "experiment"？
听力原文： [31] Mr. Foster started his publishing business with only one magazine. It was called "World News". Mostly it had summaries of important week events from around the world. But it always included one or two stories about interesting people. Mr. Foster put these in [29] because he believed all people like to read about other people. Several years ago, Mr. Foster started two magazines. One was called "Enterprise". It is for business people. And the other was called [30] "Action", for sports fans. Like World News, they always have two or three stories about interesting people. Five years ago, Mr. Foster got another idea for a magazine. He wanted this one to have even more stories about people than the others and to have more photographs. This one was named "Faces and Places". From the very beginning, it was a big success.
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In order to get your point across in your target language, you have to learn plenty of words. How do you set about it？ Dr. Paul Meara, who lectures in applied linguistics, believes there are lots of different ways of learning words.
"Generally, anything you do with the words which actually makes them yours rather than just abstract things which appear in a book or on a record will almost certainly help you to learn them. So, for example, writing them down is better than reading them. Putting them on bits of paper and sticking them up around your house is better than just looking at them in the page of a book. Saying them out loud is better than reading them quietly. Anything which actually gets you to use them would probably help." Encouragement and nurturing in the students and belief in their ability to learn is one of the central tenets of a relatively new approach. It's called Accelerated Learning and it's an offshoot of an idea that began in Bulgaria. Michael Lawlor runs a language school for business executives, teaching foreign languages to the British, and English to foreigners. He's currently testing this system to see if he can incorporate it into his teaching program at his school. The main principle is to tap the students' emotions as well as their intellects and, to begin with, to get them to visualize themselves as successful communicators in the language they're learning.
"They can actually create a very clear mental picture of themselves say in five year's time, in the country where the language is spoken, interacting with the people. They can also boost their own confidence as learners by recreating past successful learning situation. Many people fail in learning a language because their minds get calmer and they provide their brains with oxyge. We teach them to sit properly so that they don't lose energy and maybe to have some simple physical movements to keep their energy up. All these things are part of the learning process."
'The course work is based on puzzles and games and above all on bilingual dialogues, so there's no fear of not understanding. As the grammar is introduced, the rules are put into rhyming couplets to make them easier to remember. This method is all about reaching into the under-used resources of mind and memory. After a class, the students have a concert session when they hear the dialogue they were working on against a background of baroque music. Michael Lawlor explains why they used baroque music.
"Dr Lazanov in Bulgaria, in his original experiments, found that baroque music produced a state of relaxed awareness, which is now known more generally as the alpha state. If you take the large passages or the adagio passages from largo music, you find that they correspond more or less to the slowed-down speed of the human heart--about 60 beats to the minute. So we're helping people to slow down their body rhythms. The mind then becomes more receptive and open to passive learning, to listening. So that's why music of this kind is important. But it also, of course, touches the emotions. The music will induce a state of pleasurable expectation and if we can link the emotion of pleasure with learning, then we're making a very valuable contribution to the students' affective, or emotional, involvement with the learning process."
The choice of a soft-spoken female voice to present the language in accelerated learning techniques is also deliberate. After all, who was it who taught you to speak your own language all those years ago？
Many people fail in learning a language because ______.
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