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1、NAATI 真题题库资料 NAATI 真题题库资料 NAATI 5941你通过你通过-Frank(版本号07/07/20) http:/ 1 Scourge of The Aged Until recently there was a belief that disintegration of the mind is an inevitable part of aging. Grouping symptoms of dementia under senility. It is only since researchers noticed physical changes in the brai
2、n tissue of people with dementia that it has been regarded as a disease rather than a natural function of aging. More than 100,000Australians suffer from dementia. Of these, between half and three quarters have Alzheimers a disease for which doctors have no cure and an imperfect understanding of its
3、 cause. Other causes of dementia can be a series of strokes, prolonged alcoholism and serious head injuries. The number of suffers seems certain of soar as the proportion of elderly people in the population rises. While the total population is tipped to rise by 24% between now and 2006, the elderly
4、(over 65) population will grow even more, by 44.4%. This graying of Australia will be accompanied by an increase in the number of people with dementia. The cost of care, when families cannot manage themselves, is rising all the time: this financial year home and community care allowance are estimate
5、d to cost$32.4 million. While the cost of residential care for the elderly is $1.75 billion. But the true cost of the disease is emotional rather than economic. You cannot put a price on the pain of watching the mind of a person slowly unwind or trying to cope as their personality changes. Caring fo
6、r such peoples is more than a full time job. 老年人的灾难 老年人的灾难 直到不久以前， 人们还在认为大脑的衰退是人变老时的一个不可避 免的部分,把痴呆的症状归于“衰老”之类。直到研究人员发现患有痴 呆症的人大脑组织中发生的物理变化,痴呆症才被认为是一种疾病，而 不是上了年纪的一种自然功能衰退。超过10万的澳洲人患痴呆症。这些 人中有二分之一到四分之三的人患有早老性痴呆症,医生对这种病束手 无策,对这种病的成因了解也不完全。老年痴呆症的其它原因可能是一 系列的中风，长期酗酒及严重的头部伤害。 随着老年人数在总人口中比例的上升,患者人数看起来肯定也会增
7、 长.从现在至2006年,总人口看来要增长24%,老年人口(65岁以上)增长 得更多,甚至增长44.4%.随着澳洲人口老年化,患有老年痴呆症的人数 也增长了. 尽管病人的家庭无法自己负担，护理的费用却一直在上涨: 据预计, 本财政年度家庭和社区护理费用预计将达到3240万澳元,而用于老年人 的住宿护理花费将达到17.5亿澳元. 但是,痴呆症的真正花费是精神上的,而不是经济上的.当你看到一 个人的大脑慢慢变得不管用或是当你试图妥善处理老年痴呆症患者得 性格变化,你所感受到的痛苦是无法估量的.护理这样的病人比从事全 职工作更令人劳心劳力. NAATI 真题题库资料 NAATI 真题题库资料 NAA
8、TI 5941你通过你通过-Frank(版本号07/07/20) http:/ 2 Pills to make you smarter There is a theory that there is no such things as intelligence, that IQ tests are weapons of racism and repression, and that the social environment determines all. That theory will be seriously challenged this week when psychologist
9、s and geneticists gather in Sydney for the 23rd annual conference of the BGA, an association which was formed when psychologists began to ask whether similar behavior among family members could be due to genetic rather than social factors. Some of the most exciting research in the field comes from C
10、on Stough from Auckland University, who has managed to reduce the concept of intelligence to a simple matter of nerves, chemicals, lights, buttons, lines and sounds. Stough says the view that intelligence has its basis in biology fits in well with the theory that it is largely genetically determined
11、. Various programs in the US have tried to improve childrens intelligence by improving their environment, but most have been failures. “Most of our intelligence is settled within the first year of life”, he says. However, there are other views. American researchers believe that our genes determine t
12、he potential for intelligence rather than intelligence itself, and, given the right environment, we can fulfill this potential. 使你聪明的药丸 使你聪明的药丸 有一种理论认为， 世界上没有智力这种东西又认为智商测试不过是 种族主义和镇压的武器，决定一切的是社会环境。 本周，心理学和遗传学家们将汇聚在悉尼，参加BGA组织第23届年 会， 该协会在由心理学家提出家庭成员中相似的行为是否是基因而不是 社会因素所造成的这一情况下形成的。届时，上述理论将受到严峻的质 疑。 在这
13、个领域里某个最令人兴奋的研究结果是来自奥克兰大学 （Auckland University）的康.司托夫（Con Stough），他已成功将智 力的概念简化成由神经、化学物质、光线、按钮、线条和声音所组成的 简单事物。 司托夫说， 认为智力有其以生物为基础这一观点与那种认为智力主要 由基因所决定的理论非常吻合。 美国的各种教育计划试图通过改善孩子 们的环境去提高他们的智力，但是大多数都失败了。他说：“我们的智 力的大部分在生命的第一年已经定型了。” 然而，也有其他的观点。美国研究人员认为，是我们的基因决定了 的是智力的潜力而不是决定智力本身，如果有适当的环境，我们可以充 分发挥这种潜力。 和往
14、常一样，本次会议将对啮齿动物进行大量讨论。这使我们回到 现实，意识到当我们想了解人类，那我们还得去观察老鼠。 As usual, the conference will see plenty of talk about rodents. It brings you down to earth to realize that we need to watch rats when we want to understand humans. NAATI 真题题库资料 NAATI 真题题库资料 NAATI 5941你通过你通过-Frank(版本号07/07/20) http:/ 3 Australia
15、n student join national initiative to cut youth road toll Thousands of Australian youths are taking a stand against drink-driving by joining a unique national education initiative. Senior secondary school students will soon learn how to face issues such as peer pressure to drink, dealing with someon
16、e who intends to drive after drinking and discussing drinking and driving with parents and teachers. The initiative, part of the school-based Home Safety program, involves an education kit, which will be used in classrooms to promote debate and encourage young people to explore option to avoid an alcohol related road accident. The Home Safety kit is the first national drink-driving education strategy of its kind to
