雅思阅读素材

　　对于素材的积累是每个正在备考雅思的同学都会了解的，那么接下来就和留学群来看看2018年雅思阅读素材：改变生活的9个习惯。

　　阅读素材关于改变生活的9个习惯：

　　How to develop daily habits？ As tempting as it is to try and change more than one habit at a time to reach your goals more quickly， the opposite is true. Doing poorly with one habit will have a domino effect on the habits you’re doing well with. The house of cards will topple over and the level of discouragement you’ll feel will make it that much harder to get back on your feet.

　　如何养成日常习惯？为更快达到目标，一次尝试和改变多种习惯颇具诱惑力，但结果却适得其反。在养成某种习惯的过程中没做好，会产生多米诺骨牌效应，影响其他进展顺利的习惯养成。前功尽弃和挫折感可能让你一蹶不振。

　　Here’s the habit-building process that’s working for me：

　　下面是适用于我的习惯养成过程：

　　Focus on building one habit per month.

　　每月养成一种习惯

　　Don’t give yourself a deadline： Some daily habits will be easier to build than others， and it doesn’t matter how long it takes to build the habit， as long as you build it.

　　不要给自己设定最后期限：与其他日常习惯相比，有些更容易养成，所以只要你能养成某种习惯，花多长时间其实并不重要。

　　Commit fully and don’t back down.

　　倾心尽力，不无功而返

　　Go easy on yourself if you stumble. Instead of getting angry with yourself， use it as a learning experience. Figure out what caused you to stumble， deal with any external influences causing you problems， and try again.

　　如果走了弯路，对自己要宽容。别跟自己叫劲，权当在获取经验。但对错误要追根求源，消除产生问题的外在因素，再次尝试。

　　Each time you hit a milestone—one week， one month， six months， etc.—reward yourself in some way. H...

　　平时对于素材的积累，对于雅思考试来说的帮助是非常大的，那么接下来就和留学群来看看雅思阅读素材：问自己的10个问题。

　　1. How can I live in alignment with my values and beliefs in life today？

　　今天我应该如何遵从我的价值观和信念？

　　Living in alignment with your deepest values and beliefs will ultimately make you happy. Human beings are most happy when they are living their life with how they imagine their life being. Imagine what your life will consist of if you live in alignment with your values and beliefs. Will you be a happier individual？ It’s about taking action with what you believe in and making the commitment every single day of living out your values.

　　在生活中遵从你最深刻的价值观和信念最终会让你快乐。当人类按照自己设想中的方式去生活时，他们大多数时候都是快乐的。想象一下，如果你遵从自己的价值观和信念去生活，你的生活会由什么组成。你会是一个更快乐的人吗？你需要对自己所相信的事物有所行动，要确保每一天都按照自己的价值观去生活。

　　2. What can I do today to fulfill my human needs？

　　今天我该如何满足我的需求？

　　There are 6 human needs that we experience. These 6 human needs consist of certainty， variety， significance， connection & love， growth， and contribution. Take a moment every morning and be clear with what you human needs are. These human needs are what matter to you the most. I know that for me personally， connection & love and contribution are my two highest human needs. I live each and every day in alignment with these two human needs and let me tell you， I am very happy in my life. Reflect and be clear with what your human needs are.

　　我们会经历六种人类需求。这六种需求是由确定性、多样性、重要性、关系与爱、成长以及贡献组成的。每天早上花一些时间，想清楚你的...

　　经常阅读一些雅思阅读素材，有助于培养自己的英语语感。那么下面就和留学群的小编来看看雅思阅读素材：世界上最容易破译的十个密码。

　　Imperva， a data security firm， said it had analysed around 32 million passwords that had been exposed in a recent hack of the RockYou website.

　　Imperva这家数据安全公司说他们分析了在最近被攻击的RockYou网站泄露的大约3200万个密码。

　　In December last year a hacker breached the site＇s company database and gained access to the unencrypted usernames and passwords of all its 32 million users.

　　去年12月，一个黑客攻击了运营这家网站的公司的数据，得到了全部3200万名用户的用户名和密码。

　　After studying the security breach Imperva has come up with a list of the most commonly used passwords which website users should avoid.

　　在研究了安全漏洞之后，Imperva列出了一个最常用的密码列表，这些都是网络用户最应该避免使用的。

　　“Everyone needs to understand what the combination of poor passwords means in today’s world of automated cyber attacks： with only minimal effort， a hacker can gain access to one new account every second—or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes，” said Amichai Shulman， Imperva’s chief technical officer.

　　Imperva 的CTO Amichai Shulman说，“大家需要知道，在这个充满自动网络攻击的当代世界中，一个糟糕的密码组意味着什么：一个黑客只要小花点功夫每秒就能获取一个新的账户和密码，大约17分钟就能获取1000个账户。”

　　“Employees using the same passwords on Facebook that they use in the workplace bring the possibility of compromising enterprise systems with insecure passwords， especially if they are using easy to crack passwords like ‘123456’，” he added.

　　他还说，“一个公司职员如果在Facebook上和公司里都用同样的密码的话，就有用不安全的密码给公司造成危害的可能。尤其如果他们用的是最容易被黑的密码...

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　　Talc Powder

　　A Peter Brigg discovers how talc from Luzenac＇s Trimouns in France find its way into food and agricultural products - from chewing gum to olive oil. High in the French Pyrenees， some 1，700m above sea level， lies Trimouns， a huge deposit of hydrated magnesium silicate - talc to you and me. Talc from Trimouns， and from ten other Luzenac mines across the globe， is used in the manufacture of a vast array of everyday products extending from paper， paint and plaster to cosmetics， plastics and car tyres. And of course there is always talc＇s best known end use： talcum powder for babies1 bottoms. But the true versatility of this remarkable mineral is nowhere better displayed than in its sometimes surprising use in certain niche markets in the food and agriculture industries.

　　B Take， for example， the chewing gum business. Every year， Talc de Luzenac France - which owns and operates the Trimouns mine and is a member of the international Luzenac Group （art of Rio Tinto minerals） supplies about 6，000 tones of talc to chewing gum manufacturers in Europe. ＂We＇ve been selling to this sector of the market since the 1960s，＂ says Laurent Fournier， sales manager in Luzenac＇s Specialties business unit in Toulouse. ＂Admittedly， in terms of our total annual sales of talc， the amount we supply to chewing gum manufacturers is relatively small， but we see it as a valuable niche market...

　　对于每一个准备考雅思的同学来说，阅读一定的原汁原味的英语文章对于提升雅思考试分数是非常有帮助的，那么今天就和留学群的小编一起来看看雅思阅读材料：动物也爱跑步机。

　　For the experiment， the wheels were enclosed so that small animals could come and go but so that larger animals could not knock them over. Dr. Meijer set up motion sensors and automatic video ral years and 12，000 snippets of video later， she and Yuri Robbers， also a Leiden researcher， reported the results. They were released online Tuesday in the Proceedings ofthe Royal Society B.

　　为了进行试验，跑轮被围了起来，这样小动物就能来去自由，大动物则无法把它们撞翻。梅杰安放了运动传感器和自动摄影机。她和同为莱顿研究人员的尤里·罗伯斯（Yuri Robbers）报告称，几年后，他们获得了1.2万个视频片段。周二，这些结果被公布在了《英国皇家学报B》（Proceedingsof the Royal Society B.）的网站上。

　　【经典句式】

　　experiment试验

　　enclose封闭

　　knock… over 撞翻

　　setup 安装；设置

　　motionsensor运动传感器

　　automatic自动的

　　video camera摄影机

　　release发布

　　Gene D. Block， chancellor of the University of California， Los Angeles， was not involved with the paper but knows Dr. Meijer and had seen the wheel set up in hergarden. He said the study made it clear that wheel-running is “some type of rewarding behavior” and“probably not driven bystress or anxiety.”

　　加州大学洛杉矶分校校长吉恩·D·布洛克（Gene D. Block）与这篇论文无关，但是他认识梅杰，而且还见过她在花园里放置的跑轮。他说，研究表明在跑轮上跑步是“一种有益的行为”，“可能不是出于压力或焦虑”。

　　【经典句式】

　　chancellor校长

　　setup安装；设置

　　rewarding有回报的

　　be driven by 出于

　　stress压力

　　anxiety焦虑

　　Mice accounted for 88 percent of thewheel-running events， and spent one minute to 18 ...

　　对于很多准备考雅思的同学来说，不知道准备得怎么样呢？今天就和留学群的小编一起来了解一下雅思阅读素材：Facebook是如何失控的？

　　对于Facebook此次的数据助选丑闻，FT专栏作家John Gapper提出，Facebook的快速发展得益于它把用户的强纽带与弱纽带混在一起，但弱纽带发挥的强大影响也变成该平台的缺陷。

　　雅思双语阅读：

　　In Walt Disney’s Fantasia， the apprentice Mickey Mouse bashfully hands back the sorcerer’s hat after failing to stop a troupe of magic broomsticks from causing a flood. Mark Zuckerberg made his own bow to the US Congress last Tuesday by apologising for the havoc that he has unleashed at Facebook.

　　在华特迪士尼（Walt Disney）的《幻想曲》（Fantasia）中，魔法师的学徒“米老鼠”（Mickey Mouse）在未能阻止一群被施了魔法的扫把引发洪水后，扭捏地把魔法帽还给了魔法师。上周二，马克•扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）也在美国国会上演了这一幕，为他在Facebook造成的烂摊子道歉。

　　With greater effort and honesty， Facebook can fix the laxity with which it has handled personal data. The Cambridge Analytica scandal showed that it was far too loose in allowing people and organisations to plug into its “social graph” and extract data about millions of users. It has already tightened its data controls and must tighten them more， but the task is achievable.

　　通过采取更多措施和拿出更诚恳的态度，Facebook可以解决它处理个人数据不严谨的问题。剑桥分析（Cambridge Analytica）丑闻表明，Facebook允许个人和机构接入Facebook的“社交图谱”并提取数以百万计用户的个人信息，是极其严重的疏漏。Facebook已经收紧了对数据的控制，它还须加大力度，不过该任务是可以完成的。

　　But other things cannot be fixed because they are beyond Mr Zuckerberg’s control， lost in myriad encounters among Facebook’s 2bn users. The technical term is emergence， the powerful and unpredictable outcome of millions of users interacting free...

　　对于很多同学来说雅思阅读是一个非常困扰的问题，那么多做题是一个解决的办法，今天就和留学群的小编一起来了解一下雅思阅读素材：厄尔尼诺。

　　The research is published online in the journal Nature Geoscience（地球科学）. El Nino is a periodic（周期的）warming in the eastern tropical Pacific that occurs along the coast of South America. Recently， scientists have noticed that El Nino warming is stronger in the Central Pacific rather than the Eastern Pacific， a phenomenon known as El Nino Modoki （Modoki is a Japanese term for ＂similar， but different＂）.

　　Last year， the journal Nature published a paper that found climate change is behind this shift from El Nino to El Nino Modoki. While the findings of that paper are still being debated， this latest paper in Nature Geoscience presents evidence that El Nino Modoki drives a climate pattern known as the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation （NPGO）.

　　＂We＇ve found that El Nino Modoki is responsible for changes in the NPGO，＂said Emanuele Di Lorenzo， associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ＂The reason this is important is because the NPGO has significant effects on fish stocks（鱼类）and ocean nutrient distributions（海洋营养分布）in the Pacific， especially along the west coast of the United States.＂

　　The NPGO， first named two years ago by Di Lorenzo and colleagues in a paper in Geophysical Research Letters， explained for the first time long-term changes in ocean circulation of the North Pacific， which sc...

　　对于很多准备考雅思的同学们来说，雅思阅读是比较难的!那么今天就和留学群的小编一起来看看雅思阅读素材：铁桶人，纸牌屋。

（图片转自百度）

　　IT MUST seem to Donald Trump that reversing globalization is easy-peasy. With a couple of weeks still to go before he is even inaugurated， contrite firms are queuing up to invest in America. Last week Ford cancelled a $1.6 billion new plant for small cars in Mexico and pledged to create 700 new jobs building electric and hybrid cars at Flat Rock in Michigan—while praising Mr Trump for improving the business climate in America. Other manufacturers， such as Carrier， have changed their plans， too. All it has taken is some harsh words， the odd tax handout and a few casual threats.

　　特朗普肯定觉得逆转全球化易如反掌。离他正式就任尚有一两周，一家家幡然悔悟的公司已纷纷开始投资于美国本土。上周，福特取消了在墨西哥投资16亿美元建设小型车新工厂的计划，承诺在密歇根州的福拉特洛克（Flat Rock）创造700个生产电动车及混合动力车的新职位，同时还称赞特朗普改善了美国的商业环境。其他各家生产商，如开利（Carrier），也都已改变了计划。特朗普所做的只是说了几句难听的话，给了些莫名其妙的税收好处，信口威胁了几家企业。

　　Mr Trump has consistently argued that globalization gives America a poor deal. He reportedly wants to impose a tariff of 5% or more on all imports. To help him， he has assembled advisers with experience in the steel industry， which has a rich history of trade battles. Robert Lighthizer， his proposed trade negotiator， has spent much of his career as a lawyer protecting American steelmakers from foreign competition. Wilbur Ross， would-be commerce secretary， bought loss-making American steel mills just before George W. Bu...