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大学英语四六级考试及学习方法（三） 2009年6月英语四级阅读第二篇Passage TwoScientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair , a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims . Devised: 想出 ，计划，发明 murder :谋杀Determine:决定，确定 victims:受害人Roughly:粗略的，大体上的 a strand of hair:一缕头发 technique:技术 track:追踪 criminal:犯罪的;可疑的 unidentified:未确认的suspects:猜想The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair. Measure:测量 chemical variations：化学变化Show up:显眼，看的清楚“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah. Recorded:已记录的 geologist：地质学者While U.S diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as raid clouds move.Relatively：相关的 identical：同样的 patterns：方式，形式 Composition：成分 rainfall：降雨量 slightly：轻微的 Raid:突然袭击Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable , but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素) . The heaviest raid falls first .As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.Stable：稳定的 elements：原理，基础 deliver：递送California：加州 Utah：犹他州Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months. Throughout：遍及……地区 proportion：均衡，部分timeline.：线条 corresponds to：相当于Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a mop of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.Tap：龙头 samples：样本 regional：地区的，区域的Accuracy：精确的 barber：理发师They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly correspond