在2016考研英语的辅导中，都教授一直秉持着这样一个观点，那就是真题闪光词汇+实战演习=高分英语，的确，真题是考生备考的一大法宝，其中的句子、题型，是最接近考生当年实战真题的，值得考生仔细深入研究，将真题中的闪光词汇牢固掌握，同时积极进行实战演习，是获取考研英语高分的一个有效训练方法。下面都教授带各位考生来一起学习一下。

　　PART 1

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

　　【闪光词汇】

　　往往活得更短命：tend to live shorter lives

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

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

　　高代价的选择：a high-priced option

　　【实战演练】

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

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

　　PART 2

　　It turns out that peculiar way of conducting the experiments may be have led to misleading interpretation of what happened . For example , lighting was always changed on a Sunday . When work started again on Monday , output duly rose compared with the previous Saturday and continued to rise for the next couple of days . However , a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Monday. Workers tended to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case , before hitting a plateau and then slackening off. This suggests that the alleged “Hawthorne effect ”is hard to pin down .

　　【闪光词汇】

　　证明是：It turns out that ...

　　达到稳定后开始逐渐放松：hit a plateau and then slacken off

　　难以下定论：be hard to pin down

　　产量适时地上升：output duly rose

　　所谓的X效应：the alleged “X effect”

　　【实战演练】

　　However , a comparison with data for weeks (when there was no experimentation)showed that output always went up on Monday.

　　然而，把几周以来得出的数据与同期没有实验期间的数据相比，结果表明，产量一到星期一就上升。

　　通过都教授今天带来的高分英语学习方法，希望各位考生都能有效掌握这些闪光词组，并在实战演习中不断获得提高。知己知彼，方能百战百胜，希望各位考生能将今天的词组应用到位。预祝各位考生金榜题名，取得理想佳绩!

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