Now, in 1964, Dr. Peter Higgs, accomplished selfpromoter and physicist, he wrote a paper postulating the existence of a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson.

在1964年时 彼得·希格斯博士一个成功自信的物理学家写了假定一种亚原子粒子" 希格斯玻色子" 的存在。

Skim the text to grasp its main idea.

通篇快速浏览，抓住大意。

The article contained a plethora of information.

这篇中包含过多的信息。

One preacher wrote about an African Church that he visited.

一位传教士写了一篇述访问过的非洲教会。

Er, no. It's more to do with academic writing conventions, you know, writing a bibliography and how to refer to sources in your text. That sort thing.

不是，更像是论写作规范，像是如何写参考书目和如何在中引用字之类的。

He is fond of pouncing upon the other's slips of tongue.

就喜欢抓住别人的口误大做。

In a newspaper article, Mr. Johnson who campaigned for Brexit before last year's referendum says it will be a mockery of the results if Britain continues to be part of the EU's single market and customs union.

约翰逊在去年的全民公决之前就为英国脱欧积极，在一篇报纸中说，如果英国继续作为欧盟统一市场和关税同盟的一部分，结果将会非常讽刺。

The fighter takes up arms to protect people. The writers, they write articles and poetry. And we help by painting for our people.

战士拿起武器保护人民。作家拿起笔杆子写和诗歌。而我们通过艺术创作帮助人民。

A commentary in the Shanghai Daily points out that innovation doesn't mean piles of documents.

《上海日报》的一篇评论指出，发明并不简单的是一摞摞的件。

Read the passage and complete the chart below.

阅读，完成下面的表格。

The Times ran an article on it.

《泰晤士报》还为此写了一篇关于它的。

The editor made extensive changes in the article.

编辑对中作了很大的修改。

According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation.

根据们最近在《自然》杂志上发表的，大型食肉的海洋 生物（一种捕杀猎食其它物的生物）的总量在 15 年的时间里已经减少了平均 80%。

Franklin did write an essay suggesting that people could use less candles if they got up early and made better use of daylight.

富兰克林曾写提出建议，让人们早起一个小时从而节省蜡烛的使用。

I remember we were given long articles to read.

我记得我们曾经要读长篇。

These should emphasise your education, research, publications and experience.

这些简历应该强调你的教育，研究，发表和经历等信息。

Just how accurate is this technology that's following the text.

这篇说的技术到底有多精确。

20. What is the purpose of the program mentioned in this passage?

20.中提到的项目目的是什么？

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

然而，在20世纪出版的最重要的艺评论集中，人们读到的大部分评论都是从报纸上收集而来。

Punctuation marks and other things like spaces and indents help the reader understand the structure and organization of writing.

标点符号和其如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解的组织结构。