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1、橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 4（5.13）Consumers（消费者）say theyre not in despair（绝望）because,despite the dreadful（令人害怕的）headlines,their own fortunes（资产）still feel pretty good.Home prices（房价）are holding steady（保持稳定）in most regions（区域）.In Manhattan,“theres a newgold rush（淘金热）happening in the$4 million to$10 millio

2、n range,predominantly（=mainly）fed（喂养；资助）by Wall Street bonuses,”says broker Barbara Corcoran.In San Francisco,prices are still rising even as frenzied（疯狂的）overbidding（过高出价）quiets.“Instead of20 to 30 offers(=overbidding),now maybe you only get two or three,”says John Tealdi,a BayArea real-estate brok

3、er（经理人）.And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about theirability to find and keep a job.尽管：although/despite/in spite of.都不是句间逻辑标志词，是句内逻辑标志词！.Although.,.【词汇】despair绝望dreadful令人害怕的region区域predominantly主要地frenzied疯狂的overbid过高出价broker经理人【句间逻辑关系】1（具体化）2（具体化）3（并列）4（具体化）5（并列）6【译文】消费者说，尽管有令人惊骇的头版头条新闻

4、，但他们并不感到绝望，因为他们对自己的财产状况仍然感觉良好。大部分地区房价保持稳定。在曼哈顿，“在 400 万至 1000 万美元的房价区间，出现了新一轮的淘金热。这笔资金主要是由华尔街股票红利注入。”经纪人芭芭拉可考恩说。在旧金山，高价抢购现象虽然已经平息，房价却依旧看涨。“以前你能拿到 20 至30 个报价，而现在也许只能得到两个或三个，”海湾地区房地产经纪人约翰梯尔迪说道。再有，大多数人仍然颇为满足的是，他们有能力找到并且保住一份工作。橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 5：5.16If you are part of the group,which you are addres

5、sing,you will be in a position to know theexperiences and problems which are common to all of you and itll be appropriate for you to makea passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairmans notorious bad taste in ties.With other audiences you mustnt attempt to cut in with humor as they

6、will resent an outsidermaking disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman.You will be on safer ground ifyou stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.（2002text1)【词汇】appropriatepassing remarkinediblecanteenresentdisparagingscapegoatstick to橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 6：

7、5.17Since the dawn of human ingenuity,people have devised ever more cunning tools to copewith work that is dangerous,boring,burdensome,or just plain nasty.That compulsion has resultedin robotics-the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines.And if scientistshave yet to create the

8、mechanical version of science fiction,they have begun to come close.（2002text2）【词汇】dawningenuitydevisecunningburdensomenastycompulsionconferhave yet to dofiction橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 7：5.18But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility,they will have to operate withless human super

9、vision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves-goals thatpose a real challenge.“While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,”says DaveLavery,manager of a robotics program at NASA,“we cant yet give a robot enough commonsenseto reliably interact with a dynamic worl

10、d.”（2002text2）【词汇】utilitysupervisionreliablydynamic橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 9：5.19Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results.Despite aspell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits andmicroprocessors might be able to cop

11、y the action of the human brain by the year 2010,researcherslately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.（2002text2）【词汇】questartificial intelligencespelloptimismtransistor circuitsmicroprocessorA if not B橙啦，年轻人的学习成长平台改变就橙啦超精读 10：5.20What they found,in attempting to model tho

12、ught,is that the human brains roughly onehundred billion nerve cells are much more talented-and human perception far more complicated-than previously imagined.They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machinepanel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment.But t

13、he human mind canglimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant,instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the singlesuspicious face in a big crowd.The most advanced computer systems on Earth cant approach thatkind of ability,and neuroscientists still dont know quite how we do it.（2002text2）【词汇】perceptioncomplicatedpanelfractionglimpsedisregardwindingsuspicious