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　　【相关真题1】

　　①Research on animals intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are.②Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer’s piece in the Science Times on Tuesday.③Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.④This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn longer, that there is an advantage in not being too terrifically bright.⑤Intelligence, it turns out, is a high-priced option.

　　【高频考点】

　　1.例如：consider

　　2.往往活得更短命：tend to live shorter lives

　　3.比较暗的灯燃烧的时间更长：dimmer bulbs burn longer

　　4.不特别明亮(聪明)有好处：there is an advantage in not being too terrifically bright

　　5.高代价的选择：a high-priced option

　　【翻译练习】

　　①Research on animals intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are.

　　②Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer’s piece in the Science Times on Tuesday.

　　③Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.

　　④This suggests that dimmer bulbs burn longer, that there is an advantage in not being too terrifically bright.

　　结构提示：两个that从句都是suggest的宾语。

　　⑤Intelligence, it turns out, is a high-priced option.

　　【参考译文】

　　①研究动物的智力总是让我们想知道人类到底有多么聪明。

　　②例如Carl Zimmer周二在《科学时代》杂志中发表的一篇描述果蝇实验的文章。

　　③那些被教得比普通果蝇更聪明的果蝇往往寿命更短。

　　④这可以说明比较暗一些的灯燃烧的时间更长，不特别明亮(聪明)有好处。

　　⑤智力被证明是个高代价的选择。