大学英语四六级晨读经典365 冬日沉思篇（第4版）
作者： 江涛
出版社：石油工业出版社 2018年07月
简介：
《大学英语四六级晨读经典365（第4版）：冬日沉思篇》共分为4个单元：
时代报道：本单元主要关注社会生活，涉及政治、家庭、人口、环保等热点新闻话题，带你了解时代变幻。
文教生活：本单元主要侧重于文化教育，涉及文学、风俗、文化、教育体制等方面的理念和新发展，带你领略各国文教生活。
经济学人：本单元选取的是有关经济发展、经济制度、企业管理、经济学理论等方面的新文章，带你走进经济生活。
科学探索：本单元带你了解科学发现、科技进步、网络发展、医疗卫生等方面的新动态。
文章内部设置分为文化嘹望、晨读精选、词汇注释和唯美译文4大板块：
文化瞭望：主要介绍与所选文章有关的背景知识，目的是为了拓展读者的知识面。
晨读精选：即我们精心为读者挑选的阅读文章，或优美，或煽情，或深沉，或引人深思。
词汇注释：注解晨读精选文章中出现的生词、难词，为轻松阅读扫清障碍。
唯美译文：给出晨读精选文章的优美译文，中英文对照，便于读者理解精选美文。
积跬步以至千里，积小流以成江河。每天15分钟，让英文阅读读成为您的习惯。
【目录】
Unit 1 时代报道
Day 276 "Dramatic Decline" Warning for Plants and Animals
警告：动植物"急剧减少
Day 277 UN Urges People to Eat Insects to Fight World Hunger
联合国呼吁：吃昆虫对抗世界饥饿
Day 278 Traffic Safety at the Heart of Walks， Rallies around the World
世界各地步行活动和集会的核心问题——交通安全
Day 279 Venice Imposes Short Grand Canal Boat Ban
威尼斯实施短期大运河船禁令
Day 280 People Born in Autumn Live Longer
秋季出生的人长寿
Day 281 Those Boys Really Will Shorten Mothers' Life Span
生男孩真的会缩短母亲的寿命
Day 282 The Profound Effect of Abuse on Children
虐待对孩子有深远影响
Day 283 High-quality Marriages Are the Best Stress Busters forWomen
幸福婚姻有助于缓解女性压力
Day 284 Depression
抑郁症
Day 285 Study Links Biodiversity and Language Loss
研究表明生物多样性与语言消失之间存在联系
Day 286 Fallacies About Food
关于饮食的错误观点
Day 287 Picking Healthy Restaurant Foods Is Not So Easy
在餐厅寻找健康食物并不容易
Day 288 Lookism Between Men and Women
男女之间不同的容貌歧视
Day 289 Dads， Not Mums， Responsible for Fat Kids
小孩肥胖，责任在于父亲，而不是母亲
Day 290 Some US Nurses Struggle to Find Work
一些美国护士就业难
Day 291 Foreign-born Seniors Find More Centers That Speak Their Language
外裔老人找到更多说母语的活动中心
Day 292 Busy to Read a Book， People Jump Online
人们忙于上网，无暇读书
Day 293 Rockefeller Foundation Plan to Make Cities More Resilient
洛克菲勒基金计划让城市更具活力
Day 294 Give Immigrant Children Healthcare
让移民儿童享有医疗保健
Day 295 Spell-check Can Make Writing Worse
拼写软件帮倒忙
Day 296 Japanese Inns Take You Back in Time
日式客栈让你重温昔日生活
Day 297 Maryland Limits Female Crab Catch
马里兰州限制雌螃蟹捕捉
Day 298 Sleep and Personality
睡觉姿势和人物性格
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Unit 2 文教生活
Unit 3 经济学人
Unit 4 科学探索
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《大学英语四六级晨读经典365（第4版）：冬日沉思篇》：
The decline of linguistic and cultural diversity is linked to the loss of biodiversity, a study has suggested.
The authors said that 70% of the world's languages were found within the planet's biodiversity hotspots.
Data showed that as these important environmental areas were degraded over time, cultures and languages in the area were also being lost.
The results of the study have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences （PNAS）.
"Biologists estimate annual loss of species at 1,000 times or more greater than historic rates, and linguists predict that 50-90% of the world's languages will disappear by the end of the century," the researchers wrote.
Lead author Larry Gorenflo from Penn State University, in the US, said previous studies had identified a geographical connection between the two, but did not offer the level of detail required.
Dr Gorenflo told BBC News that the limitation to the data was that either the languages were listed by country or there was a dot on the map to indicate the location.
"But what you did not know was if the area extended two kilometres or 200 kilometres, so you really did not get a sense of the extent of the language," he explained.
"We used improved language data to really get a more solid sense of how languages and biodiversity co-occurred and an understanding of how geographically extensive the language was."
He said the study achieved this by also looking at smaller areas with high biodiversity, such as national parks or other protected habitats.
"When we did that, not only did we get a sense of cooccurrence at a regional scale, but we also got a sense that cooccurrence was found at a much finer scale:' he said.
"We are not quite sure yet why this happens, but in a lot of cases it may well be that biodiversity evolved as part-and-parcel of cultural diversity, and vice versa."
In their paper, the researchers pointed out that, out of the 6,900 or more languages spoken on Earth, more than 4,800 occurred in regions containing high biodiversity.
Dr Gorenflo described these locations as "very important landscapes" which were "getting fewer and fewer" but added that the study's data could help provide long-term security.
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