2016年职称英语综合类新增文章
2016 职称英语教材重点文章深度解析
2016 职称英语教材重点文章深度解析理工B 共共24 篇请主要关注出题概率为“高”和“中”的文章出题概率为“低”的文章做简单了解即可请主要关注出题概率为“高”和“中”的文章出题概率为“低”的文章做简单了解即可相关说明：1、本产品内容是针对2016 年全国职称英语等级考试考前复习的经典资料。
2、从2016 年教材中精选了24 篇文章进行深入分析。
所选文章在考试中出题的概率较大（正常情况下会有2-4 篇原文，但题型会变）。
3、每篇文章均按段落以中文形式给出了考点分析。
用途：本资料旨在帮助考生快速掌握文章的大意和核心考点，考试时，如果考到原文，可以凭借对文章和考点分析的印象快速作答题目，即便更换了题型也可以更容易应对。
其实，职称英语考试所选文章如果翻译成中文，其难度大多只相当于小学水平。
因此，掌握了文章大意和考点，考试时只需要看懂题目和选项，拿到分数并不难。
第2 页/共52 页理工B 文章出处：阅读判断第六篇本文出题可能性：中Microchip Research Center Created 微芯片研究中心成立A research center has been set upin this Far Eastern country to develop advanced microchip productiontechnology.The center, which will start out with about US $14 million, will help the country develop itschip industry without alwaysdepending on imported technology.为了开发先进的微芯片生产技术，这个远东国家建立了一个研究中心，该中心启动资金为一千四百万美元，可以帮助该国开发自己的芯片工业，不必总是依赖于进口技术。
【深度考点分析】这段内容主要是在说一个远东国家耗资多少建立研究微芯片的研究中心，考点如下：1、这个远东国家耗资多少建立研究中心：一千四百万美元。
2016职称英语新增文章
新增文章-1 ：补全短文第二篇Common Questions about Dreams出题版Common Questions about DreamsDoes everyone dream?Yes. Research shows that we all dream. We have our most vivid dreams during a type of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep, the brain is very active. The eyes move quickly back and forth under the lids, and the large muscles of the body are relaxed. REM sleep occurs every 90-100 minutes, three to four times a night, and it lasts longer as the night goes on. ___1___ We dream at other times during the night, too, but those dreams are less vivid.Do people remember their dreams?A few people remember their dreams. However, most people forget nearly everything that happened during the night — dreams, thoughts, and the short periods of time when they were awake. ___2___ It seems that the memory of the dream is not totally lost, but for some reason it is very hard to bring it back. If you want to remember your dream，the best thing to do is to write it down as soon as you wake up.Are dreams in color?Most dreams are in color. However, people may not be aware of it for two reasons ：They don’t usually remember the details of their dreams, or they don’t notice the color because it is such a natural part of our lives. ___3___Do dreams have meaning?Scientists continue to debate this issue. ___4___ Some people use dreams to help them learn more about their feelings, thoughts, behavior, motives, and values. Others find that dreams can help them solve problems. It’s also true that artists, writers, and scientists often get creative ideas from dreams.How can I learn to understand my dreams?The most important thing to remember is that your dreams are personal. The people, actions, and situations in your dreams reflect your experience, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some dream experts believe that there are certain types of dreams that many people have，even if they come from different cultures or time periods. Usually, however, the same dream will have different meanings fordifferent people. For example, an elephant in a dream may mean one thing to a zookeeper and something very different to a child whose favorite toy is a stuffed elephant. ___5___ Then look for links between your dreams and what is happening in your daily life. If you think hard and you are patient, perhaps the meaning of your dreams will become clearer to you.完整版Common Questions about DreamsDoes everyone dream?Yes. Research shows that we all dream. We have our most vivid dreams during a type of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep, the brain is very active. The eyes move quickly back and forth under the lids, and the large muscles of the body are relaxed. REM sleep occurs every 90-100 minutes, three to four times a night, and it lasts longer as the night goes on. （1）The final REM period may last as long as 45 minutes. We dream at other times during the night, too, but those dreams are less vivid.Do people remember their dreams?A few people remember their dreams. However, most people forget nearly everything that happened during the night — dreams, thoughts, and the short periods of time when they were awake. （2）Sometimes, though, people suddenly remember a dream later in the day or on another day.It seems that the memory of the dream is not totally lost, but for some reason it is very hard to bring it back. If you want to remember your dream，the best thing to do is to write it down as soon as you wake up.Are dreams in color?Most dreams are in color. However, people may not be aware of it for two reasons ：They don’t usually remember the details of their dreams, or they don’t notice the color because it is such a natural part of our lives. （3）People who are very aware of color when they are awake probably notice color more often in their dreams.Do dreams have meaning?Scientists continue to debate this issue.（4）However, people who spend time thinking about their dreams believe that they are meaningful and useful. Some people use dreams to help them learn more about their feelings, thoughts,behavior, motives, and values. Others find that dreams can help them solve problems. It’s also true that artists, writers, and scientists often get creative ideas from dreams.How can I learn to understand my dreams?The most important thing to remember is that your dreams are personal. The people, actions, and situations in your dreams reflect your experience, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some dream experts believe that there are certain types of dreams that many people have，even if they come from different cultures or time periods. Usually, however, the same dream will have different meanings for different people. For example, an elephant in a dream may mean one thing to a zookeeper and something very different to a child whose favorite toy is a stuffed elephant. （5）To learn to understand your dreams, think about what each part of the dream means to you or reminds you of. Then look for links between your dreams and what is happening in your daily life. If you think hard and you are patient, perhaps the meaning of your dreams will become clearer to you.参考译文关于梦的常见问题每个人都会做梦吗？是的。
2016年职称英语等级考试教材综合类WORD版(综合B)
文档2015年职称英语等级考试（综合类）----- word 版考试专用 涂红颜色部分为2016年教材新增文章（与2015年综合教材对比） 涂绿颜色部分为2015年教材新增文章（与2014年综合教材对比） 目录说明： 本书目录中未加符号标的文章难度相当于C 级考试水平，供报考C 级考试的学员阅读；标有“*”的文章相当于B 级考试水平；标有“+”的文章，相当于A 级考试水平。
我们希望，报考B 级的学员同时阅读未加标注的文章，报考A 级的学员同时阅读标有“*”的文章。
第一部分 词汇选项 词汇学习1-10 第二部分 阅读判断 *第五篇 Plants and Mankind *第六篇 Brands *第七篇 Moderate Earthquake Strikes England *第八篇 Easy Learning *第九篇 WhatIs a Dream? *第十篇 The Workers' Role in Management 第三部分 概括大意与完成句子 *第六篇 How We Form First Impression *第七篇 How to Argue with Your Boss *第八篇 Screen Test *第九篇 Transport and Trade *第十篇 Washoe Learned American Sign Language 第四部分 阅读理解 *第十七篇 Eiffel Is an Eyeful 引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔 *第十八篇 Goal of American Education 美国教育的目标 *第十九篇 The Family 家庭 *第二十篇 Tales of the Terrible Past 讲述可怕的过去 *第二十一篇 Spacing in Animals 动物的空间距离 *第二十二篇 Some Things We Know about Language 我们知道的关于语言的一些事情 *第二十三篇 The Only Way Is Up 只好向上 *第二十四篇 The Romance of Arthur （2015年新增） *第二十五篇 Income 收入*第二十六篇 Seeing the World CenturiesAgo 看许久以前的世界*第二十七篇 Importance of Services 服务业的重要性*第二十八篇 The National Park Service 国家公园的服务机构 *第二十九篇 I'll Be Bach 我是巴赫 *第三十篇 "Lucky" Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead “幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活 *第三十一篇 Pool Watch 泳池监护 *第三十二篇 The Cherokee Nation 柴罗基部落 *第三十三篇 Oseola McCarty 老妇人 第五部分 补全短文 *第六篇 Mobile Phones *第七篇The Apgar Test （2016年新增）*第八篇Ice Cream Taster Has Sweet Job （2016年新增） *第九篇 Style, Not Fashion （2015年新增） *第十篇 Ants as a Barometer of Ecological Change第六部分 完形填空 *6第六篇 Teaching and Learning *7.第七篇 The Difference between Man and Computer *8.第八篇 Look on The Bright Side *9.第九篇 The First Bicycle *10.第十篇 Working Mothers 第二部分 阅读判断第八篇 Easy Learning Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they ’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep. By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake. To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds — one that sounds like “oo ”, another like “ee ” and a third boundaryvowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between1. EEG2 recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showedthat the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups3. One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.4 When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don’t “turn off” their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds — so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.翻译：轻松学习学生应该嫉妒。
2016年职称英语教材重点文章-理工类
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每年预测的命中率，在不同科目上都有所不同，因此切不只看考题预测班中点出的文章，那样存在一定的风险性，而是应该全面复习本次给出的文章，在考前5天左右的最后阶段，再把考题预测班中点出的文章细致的复习一次。
•2016年职称英语等级考试-理工类复习文章范围•文章名称前无任何标记的为C级文章；•文章名称标记了“*”的为B级文章；•文章名称标记了“+”的为A级文章；请根据自己的报考级别，优先掌握本级别，标记为红色的文章篇目；全国职称英语等级考试介绍及解题方法 (1)第一部分词汇选项 (27)词汇学习1 (27)词汇学习2 (27)词汇学习3 (28)词汇学习4 (29)词汇学习5 (30)词汇学习6 (30)词汇学习7 (31)词汇学习8 (32)词汇学习9 (33)词汇学习10 (33)答案与题解 (34)第二部分阅读判断 (51)第一篇Inventor of LED (51)第二篇El Nino (52)第三篇Smoking (54)第四篇Engineering Ethics (55)第五篇Rescue Platform (57)* 第六篇Microchip Research Center Created (58)* 第七篇Moderate Earthquake Strikes England (60)* 第八篇What Is a Dream? (62)* 第九篇Dangers Await Babies with Altitude (64)* 第十篇The Biology of Music (66)+ 第十一篇Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity (67)+ 第十二篇Study Helps Predict Big Mediterranean Quake (69)+ 第十三篇The Northern Lights (71)+ 第十四篇Stage Fright (73)+ 第十五篇Image Martian Dust Panicles (75)第三部分概括大意与完成句子…(77)天道 qq2331136253第一篇More Than 8 Hours Sleep Too Much of a Good Thing (77)第二篇Soot and Snow a Hot Combination (79)第三篇Icy Microbes (80)第四篇Compact Disks (82)第五篇LED Lighting (84)* 第六篇How We Form First Impression (86)* 第七篇Screen Test (87)* 第八篇The Mir Space Station (89)* 第九篇More Rural Research Is Needed (91)* 第十篇Washoe Learned American Sign Language (93)+ 第十一篇The Tiniest Electric Motor in the World (95)+ 第十二篇A Strong Greenhouse Gas (97)+ 第十三篇 Face Masks May Not Protect from Super-Flu (99)+ 第十四篇The Magic Io Personal Digital Pen (101)+ 第十五篇Maglev Trains (103)第四部分阅读理解 (106)第一篇Ford Abandons Electric Vehicles (106)第二篇World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict (108)第三篇Citizen Scientists (110)第四篇Motoring Technology (112)第五篇 Late-Night Drinking (114)第六篇Making Light of Sleep (116)第七篇Sugar Power for Cell Phones (117)第八篇 Eif fel Is an Eyeful (119)第九篇An Essential Scientific Process (122)第十篇Young Female Chimps Outlearn Their Brothers (123)第十一篇When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach (125)第十二篇Florida Hit by Cold Air Mass (127)第十三篇Invisibility Ring... (130)第十四篇Japanese Car Keeps Watch for Drunk Drivers (131)第十五篇Winged Robot Learns to Fly (133)第十六篇Japanese Drilling into Core of Earth (135)* 第十七篇A Sunshade for the Planet (137)* 第十八篇Thirst for Oil (139)* 第十九篇Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience (141)* 第二十篇Explorer of the Extreme Deep (143)* 第二十一篇Plant Gas (145)* 第二十二篇 Real-World Robots (147)* 第二十三篇Powering a City ? It's a Breeze (148)*第二十四篇 Underground Coal Fires -a Loomin g Catastrophe (150)* 第二十五篇Eat to Live (153)* 第二十六篇Male and Female Pilots Cause Accidents Differently (155)* 第二十七篇Driven to Distraction (157)* 第二十八篇Sleep Lets Brain File Memories (159)* 第二十九篇I’1l Be Bach (161)* 第三十篇Digital Realm (163)* 第三十一篇Hurricane Katrina (165)* 第三十二篇 Mind-reading Machine (167)* 第三十三篇Experts Call for Local and Regional Control of Sites for RadioactiveWaste (169)+ 第三十四篇Batteries Built by Viruses (171)+第三十五篇Putting Plants to Work (173)+ 第三十六篇Listening Device Provides Landslide Early Warning (175)+第三十七篇“Don't Drink Alone” Gets New Meaning (177)+ 第三十八篇“Life Form Found” on Saturn's Titan (179)+ 第三十九篇Clone Farm (181)+ 第四十篇Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety (183)+ 第四十一篇Too Little for Global Warming (185)+ 第四十二篇Renewable Energy Sources (187)+第四十三篇Forecasting Methods (190)+ 第四十四篇Defending the Theory of Evolution Still Seems Needed (192)+第四十五篇Small But Wise…(194)天道 qq2331136253+ 第四十六篇Ants Have Big Impact on Environment as “Ecosystem Engineers” (196)+ 第四十七篇Listening to Birdsong (198)+ 第四十八篇Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright (200)+ 第四十九篇 U.S. Scientists Confirm Water on Mars (202)+ 第五十篇Cell Phones Increase Traffic, Pedestrian Fatalities (204)第五部分补全短文 (207)第一篇Mobile Phones (207)第二篇Baby Talk…(208) 【新增文章】第三篇Common Questions about Dreams…(210) 【新增文章】第四篇The Bilingual Brain (211)第五篇 A Record-Breaking Rover (212)* 第六篇The Apgar Test…(214) 【新增文章】* 第七篇Ice Cream Taster Has Sweet Job…(215) 【新增文章】* 第八篇Watching Micro currents Flow (216)* 第九篇Lightening Strikes (218)* 第十篇How Deafness Makes It Easier to Hear (219)+ 第十一篇Virtual Driver (221)+ 第十二篇Musical Training Can Improve Communication Skills (222)+ 第十三篇Affectionate Androids (224)+ 第十四篇Primer on Smell…(225) 【新增文章】+ 第十五篇A Memory Drug? (227)第六部分完形填空 (229)第一篇Captain Cook Arrow Legend (229)第二篇Avalanche and Its Safety (231)第三篇Giant Structures (232)第四篇Animal’s “Sixth Sense” (235)第五篇Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind (237)* 第六篇Car Thieves Could Be Stopped Remotely (239)* 第七篇An Intelligent Car…(241)天道 qq2331136253* 第八篇Why India Needs Its Dying Vultures (243)* 第九篇Wonder Webs (245)* 第十篇Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness (247)+ 第十一篇Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities (249)+ 第十二篇Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk (252)+ 第十三篇Better Solar Energy Systems: More Heat, More Light (254)+ 第十四篇Sharks Perform a Service for Earth's Waters (256)+ 第十五篇“Liquefaction" Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage (258)。
2016年职称英语等级考试教材综合类WORD版(综合B)
文档2015年职称英语等级考试（综合类）----- word 版考试专用 涂红颜色部分为2016年教材新增文章（与2015年综合教材对比） 涂绿颜色部分为2015年教材新增文章（与2014年综合教材对比） 目录说明： 本书目录中未加符号标的文章难度相当于C 级考试水平，供报考C 级考试的学员阅读；标有“*”的文章相当于B 级考试水平；标有“+”的文章，相当于A 级考试水平。
我们希望，报考B 级的学员同时阅读未加标注的文章，报考A 级的学员同时阅读标有“*”的文章。
第一部分 词汇选项 词汇学习1-10 第二部分 阅读判断 *第五篇 Plants and Mankind *第六篇 Brands *第七篇 Moderate Earthquake Strikes England *第八篇 Easy Learning *第九篇 WhatIs a Dream? *第十篇 The Workers' Role in Management 第三部分 概括大意与完成句子 *第六篇 How We Form First Impression *第七篇 How to Argue with Your Boss *第八篇 Screen Test *第九篇 Transport and Trade *第十篇 Washoe Learned American Sign Language 第四部分 阅读理解 *第十七篇 Eiffel Is an Eyeful 引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔 *第十八篇 Goal of American Education 美国教育的目标 *第十九篇 The Family 家庭 *第二十篇 Tales of the Terrible Past 讲述可怕的过去 *第二十一篇 Spacing in Animals 动物的空间距离 *第二十二篇 Some Things We Know about Language 我们知道的关于语言的一些事情 *第二十三篇 The Only Way Is Up 只好向上 *第二十四篇 The Romance of Arthur （2015年新增） *第二十五篇 Income 收入*第二十六篇 Seeing the World CenturiesAgo 看许久以前的世界*第二十七篇 Importance of Services 服务业的重要性*第二十八篇 The National Park Service 国家公园的服务机构 *第二十九篇 I'll Be Bach 我是巴赫 *第三十篇 "Lucky" Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead “幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活 *第三十一篇 Pool Watch 泳池监护 *第三十二篇 The Cherokee Nation 柴罗基部落 *第三十三篇 Oseola McCarty 老妇人 第五部分 补全短文 *第六篇 Mobile Phones *第七篇The Apgar Test （2016年新增）*第八篇Ice Cream Taster Has Sweet Job （2016年新增） *第九篇 Style, Not Fashion （2015年新增） *第十篇 Ants as a Barometer of Ecological Change第六部分 完形填空 *6第六篇 Teaching and Learning *7.第七篇 The Difference between Man and Computer *8.第八篇 Look on The Bright Side *9.第九篇 The First Bicycle *10.第十篇 Working Mothers 第二部分 阅读判断第八篇 Easy Learning Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they ’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep. By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake. To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds — one that sounds like “oo ”, another like “ee ” and a third boundaryvowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between1. EEG2 recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showedthat the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups3. One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.4 When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don’t “turn off” their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds — so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.翻译：轻松学习学生应该嫉妒。
2016职称英语(理工ABC)考试指导书文章原文和翻译word正常版
第一篇Inventor of LEDWhen Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or1 LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.On April 23, 2004, Holonyak received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors. “Any time you get an award, big or little2, it’s always a surprise.”Holonyak said.Holonyak, 75, was a student of John Bardeen, an inventor of the transistor, in the early 1950s. After graduate school3, Holonyak worked at Bell Labs. He later went to General Electric4, where he invented a switch now widely used in house dimmer switches5. Later, Holonyak started looking into how semiconductors could be used to generate light. But while his colleagues were looking at how to generate invisible light, he wanted to generate visible light. The LEDs he invented in 1962 now last about 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, and are more environmentally friendly and cost effective.Holonyak, now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace as they are today, but didn’t realize how many uses they would have.“You don’t know in the beginning. You think you’re doing something important, you think it’s worth doing, but you really can’t tell what the big payoff is going to be, and when, and how. You just don’t know.”he said.The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen, 75, with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on a new generation of “molecular sieves,”that can separate molecules by size. 词汇：semiconductor /第一篇LED的发明者当Nick Holonyak着手用半导体含金创造一种新的可视照明设备的时候，同事们都认为他不现实。
20XX年职称英语《理工类》考试新增文章：第七篇-职称英语考试.doc
2016年职称英语《理工类》考试新增文章：第七篇-职称英语考试2016年职称英语《理工类》考试新增文章汇总第七篇lee Cream Taster Has Sweet JobJohn Harrison has what must be the most wanted job in the United States. He’s the official taster for Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, one of the nation’s best-selling brands. Harrison’s taste buds are insured for $1 million. 1 And when he isn’t doing that, he travels, buying Edy’s in supermarkets all over the country so that he can check for perfect appearance，texture, and flavor.After I interviewed Harrison, I realized that the life of an ice cream taster isn’t all Cookies ’n Cream 一a flavor that* he invented, by the way. No, it’s extremely hard work, which requires discipline and selflessness.For one thing，he doesn’t swallow on the job. Like a coffee taster, Harrison spits. Using a gold spoon to avoid “off’flavors, he takes a small bite and moves it around in his mouth to introduce it to all 9,000 or so taste buds. 2 Then he breathes in gently to bring the aroma up through the back of his nose. Each step helps Harrisonevaluate whether the ice cream has a good balance of dairy, sweetness, and added ingredients 一the three-flavor components of ice cream. Then, even if the ice cream tastes heavenly, he puts it into a trash can. A full stomach makes it, impossible to judge the quality of the flavors.During the workweek, Harrison told me that he has to make other sacrifices, too: no onions, garlic, or spicy food, and no caffeine. Caffeine will block the taste buds, he says, so his breakfast is a cup of herbal tea. 3Harrison’s family has been in the ice cream business in one way or another1 for four generations, so Harrison has spent his entire life with it2. However, he has never lost his love for its cold, creamy sweetness. 4 On these occasions3，he does swallow, and he eats about a quart (0.95 liters) each week. By comparison4, the average person in the United States eats 23.2 quarts (21. 96 liters) of ice cream and other frozen dairy products each year.Edy，s ice cream is available in dozens of flavors. So what flavor does the best-trained ice-cream taster in the country prefer? Vanilla! In fact, vanilla is the best-selling variety in the United States.5 “It，s a very complex flavor，，，Harrison says.词汇：taste bud 味蕾texture Aekstja/a/ n.质地aroma /a'rauma/ n.芳香vanilla /va'mla/ n.香草注释：1. in one way or another：以某种方式，用这样或那样的方式2. has spent his entire life with it：为此他已付出一生。
2016年职称英语新增文章
第二篇 Baby TalkBabies normally start to talk when they are 13 to 15 months old. Ryan Jones is only eight months old, but he is already “talking” with his parents. When lie is hungry, he opens and closes his hand. This means milk. He also knows the signs for his favorite toy and the word more.(环球网校2016年职称英语理工类教材新增文章汇总)Ryan is not deaf, and his parents are not deaf, but his mother and father are teaching him to sign. They say a word and make a sign at the same time. They repeat this again and again. When 1 Ryan’s parents think that he will be a happier baby because he can communicate with them.Ryan s parents are teaching Ryan to sign because of a man named Joseph Garcia. Although Garcia was not from a deaf family, he decided to learn American Sign Language (ASL). First, he took courses in ASL. Then he got a job helping deaf people communicate with hearing people. In his work, he saw many deaf parents sign to their infants. He noticed that these babies were able to communicate much earlier than hearing children. 2 When they were one year old, they could use as many as 50 signs.Garcia decided to try something new. He taught ASL to parents who were not deaf. The families started to teach signs to their infants when they were six or seven months old. 3 More and more parents took Garcia’s ASL classes. Like Ryan’s family, they were excited about signing with their babies. They wanted to give their babies a way to communicate before they could use spoken words.(环球网校2016年职称英语理工类教材新增文章汇总)Some people worry about signing to babies. They are afraid that these babies won’t feel a need to talk. Maybe they will develop spoken language later than other babies. 4 In fact, one study found just the opposite. Signing babies actually learned to speak earlier than other children. As they grow older, these children are more interested in books. They also score higher on intelligence tests1.There is still a big question for parents: Which are the best signs to teach their babies? Some parents make their own signs. Other parents want to teach ASL.5 There，s no clear answer, but we do know this: All signing babies and their families are talking quite a lot!词汇：normally Aid:m(a)li/adv.正常地;通常地，一般地 infant /'infant / n.婴儿;幼儿;未成年人 communicate /kafmju:nikeit/ 通信;交流;感染 opposite /bpazit/ adj.相反的;n.对立面，反义词注释：1• intelligence test：智力测试练习：A However, research does not show this.B All parents want to teach babies to sign.C Ryan learns a new sign, his family is very excited.D These babies started using signs about two months later.E It can be useful because many people understand it.F They talked with signs by the time they were eight months old.第三篇Common Questions about DreamsDoes everyone dream?Yes. Research shows that we all dream. We have our most vivid dreams during a type of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep, the brain is very active. The eyes move quickly back and forth1 under the lids, and the large muscles of the body are relaxed. REM sleep occurs every 90-100 minutes, three to four times a night, and it lasts longer as the night goes on. 1 We dream at other times during the night, too, but those dreams are less vivid.Do people remember their dreams?A few people remember their dreams. However, most people forget nearly everything that happened during the night 一 dreams, thoughts, and the short periods of time when they were awake.(环球网校2016年职称英语理工类教材新增文章汇总)2 It seems that the memory of the dream is not totally lost，but for some reason it is very hard to bring it back2. If you want to remember your dream, the best thing to do is to write it down as soon as you wake up.Are dreams in color?Most dreams are in color. However, people may not be aware of it for two reasons ： They don，t usually remember the details of their dreams, or they don，t notice the color because it is such a natural part of our lives. 3 Do dreams have meaning?Scientists continue to debate this issue.3 4 Some people use dreams to help them learn more about their feelings, thoughts, behavior, motives, and values. Others find that dreams can help them solve problems. It’s also true that artists, writers, and scientists often get creative ideas from dreams.How can I learn to understand my dreams?The most important thing to remember is that your dreams are personal. The people, actions, and situations in your dreams reflect your experience, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some dream experts believe that there are certain types of dreams that many people have, even if they come from different cultures or time periods. Usually, however, the same dream will have different meanings for different people. For example, an elephant in a dream may mean one thing to a zookeeper and something very different to a child whose favorite toy is a stuffed elephant. 5 Then look for links between your dreams and what is happening in your daily life. If you think hard and you are patient, perhaps the meaning of your dreams will become clearer to you.词汇：vivid /'vivid/ adj.清晰的，生动的，逼真的 lid /lid/ n.眼睑(=eyelid) motive /mautiv/ n.动机 stuffed/stAft/ adj.填充的，塞满了的注释：1. back and forth：来回地，反复地。
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2016年职称英语教材综合类新增文章第二篇Common Questions about DreamsDoes everyone dream?Yes. Research shows that we all dream. We have our most vivid dreams during a type of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep, the brain is very active. The eyes move quickly back and forth1 under the lids, and the large muscles of the body are relaxed. REM sleep occurs every 90-100 minutes, three to four times a night, and it lasts longer as the night goes on. ___1___ We dream at other times during the night, too, but those dreams are less vivid.Do people remember their dreams?A few people remember their dreams. However, most people forget nearly everything that happened during the night — dreams, thoughts, and the short periods of time when they were awake. ___2___ It seems that the memory of the dream is not totally lost, but for some reason it is very hard to bring it back2. If you want to remember your dream，the best thing to do is to write it down as soon as you wake up.Are dreams in color?Most dreams are in color. However, people may not be aware of it for two reasons ：They don’t usually remember the details of their dreams, or they don’t notice the color because it is such a natural part of our lives. ___3___Do dreams have meaning?Scientists continue to debate this issue.3 ___4___ Some people use dreams to help them learn more about their feelings, thoughts, behavior, motives, and values. Others find that dreams can help them solve problems. It’s also true that artists, writers, and scientists often ge t creative ideas from dreams.How can I learn to understand my dreams?The most important thing to remember is that your dreams are personal. The people, actions, and situations in your dreams reflect your experience, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some dream experts believe that there are certain types of dreams that many people have，even if they come from different cultures or time periods. Usually, however, the same dream will have different meanings for different people. For example, an elephant in a dream may mean one thing to a zookeeper and something very different to a child whose favorite toy is a stuffed elephant. ___5___ Then look for links between your dreams and what is happening in your daily life. If you think hard and you are patient, perhaps the meaning of your dreams will become clearer to you.词汇：vivid /'vivid/ adj. 清晰的，生动的，逼真的lid /lid/ n. 眼睑（=eyelid)motive /məutiv/ n. 动机stuffed /stʌft/ adj. 填充的，塞满了的注释：1. back and forth：来回地，反复地。
2. bring it back：回忆起它来。
bring back：使回忆起来，带回来、拿回来，使恢复。
3. Scientists continue to debate this issue. 科学家们不断地讨论这个问题。
“debate”作动词“争论，辩论，讨论”讲，既可以是不及物动词也可以是及物动词，作不及物动词时常与“about/ on/upon” 搭配。
练习：A However, people who spend time thinking about their dreams believe that they are meaningfuland useful.B The final REM period may last as long as 45 minutes.C People who are very aware of color when they are awake probably notice color more often intheir dreams.D Our most powerful dreams don’t happen during deep sleep.E To learn to understand your dreams, think about what each part of the dream means to you orreminds you of.F Sometimes, though, people suddenly remember a dream later in the day or on another day.答案与题解：1. B 文中第一部分主要介绍快速眼动睡眠期，而且前一句正好提到每晚快速眼动睡眠期的间隔时间、出现频率及其持续时间的情况。
2. F 题目所在的前一句提到大多数人会忘记晚上所发生的几乎所有事情，而后一句中又提到人们对梦的记忆好像没有完全丢失，由此可以推断出中间这一句应该说的是人有时会记起自己的梦。
3. C 文中第三部分提到梦是彩色的，前面主要讲的是人们可能意识不到这个问题以及意识不到的原因，由此可以推断后面应该会提到那些可以意识到这个问题的人。
因此，答案为C。
4. A 文中第四部分讲的是梦的意义，纵观六个选项与部分主题相关的只有选项A，而且后面主要提到人们会利用梦做些什么，这也就意味着人们会思考他们的梦而且相信梦是有意义的。
5. E 由第五部分的标题就可以锁定选项E，而且后一句讲的是要寻找梦与现实的联系，正好与选项E的意思相吻合。
第二篇关于梦的常见问题每个人都会做梦吗？是的。
研究表明我们都会做梦。
在一种叫作快速眼动（REM）的睡眠期里，我们会有最清晰生动的梦。
在这种睡眠期里，大脑非常活跃，眼睛在眼睑下面来来回回地快速移动，而且身体的大肌肉会得到放松。
快速眼动睡眠期每隔90~100分钟会出现一次，一晚会出现3~4次，而且随着入夜渐深，每次持续的时间也会变长。
最后一次快速眼动睡眠期可能会持续长达45分钟。
我们在夜晚的其他时间段也会做梦，但是那些梦没有快速眼动睡眠期里的梦清晰生动。
人们会记得他们的梦吗？一些人会记得他们的梦。
然而，大多数人会忘记晚上所发生的几乎所有的事——梦、思想以及他们醒着时的短暂时光。
但是，有时人们会在当天晚些时候或改天突然想起他们的梦。
他们对梦的记忆好像并没有完全消失，但出于某种原因却很难回忆起来。
如果你想记住自己梦是彩色的吗？大多数梦是彩色的。
然而，人们可能不会意识到这一点。
这是基于两方面的原因：人们通常不会记住梦的细节，或者因为颜色是我们生活中的自然组成部分，所以不会注意到。
那些在醒着的时候意识到颜色的人可能会更经常注意到梦的颜色。
梦有意义吗？科学家们不停地讨论这个问题。
然而，那些花时间思考他们梦的人相信梦是有意义的、有用的。
有些人借助梦更多地了解自己的情感、思想、行为、动机和价值观。
其他人发现梦可以帮助自己解决问题。
艺术家、作家和科学家也确实经常从梦中获得创作的灵感。
我如何学会理解自己的梦？要记得最重要的一点就是梦是个人的。
梦里的人、行为以及情景都能反映你的经历、思想以及情感。
有些梦境专家认为某些类型的梦是很多人都有的，即使他们来自不同的文化或时期。
然而，通常对于不同的人，同一个梦会有不同的意义。
比如，做梦梦到大象对于一个动物园管理员来说意味着一回事，而对于一个最喜欢大象毛绒玩具的小孩来说就意味着截然不同的事。
为了学会理解自己的梦，首先要思考一下梦的每一部分对你意味着什么或者让你想起了什么。
然后寻找梦与日常生活中所发生事情的联系。
如果你认真思考而且有耐心，或许你会更清晰地理解梦的意义。