创新Innovation.pptVIP

Innovation 1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if? a-h? below are true (T) or false (F). a. A blue light can detect if people are going to take their own lives. b.A railway in Japan has put blue lights in all of its stations. c.More people threw themselves under Tokyo trains this year than last. d.The article says late trains cause people to commit suicide in Japan. e.Many scientific reports prove blue light reduces suicidal feelings. f.A railway spokesman said he must try to use blue light to save lives. g.A therapist said blue light does not calm people who feel suicidal. h.Other companies would like to know if the blue light reduces suicides. 2.Listen and fill in the gaps Train companies in Tokyo are taking _________________ the number of people jumping in front of trains. They are fitting blue lights on station platforms _________________ a more calming atmosphere. The East Japan Railway Company has invested almost $170,000 _________________ in all of the 29 stations on the capitals busy Yamanote Line. There has been an alarming rise in the number of people committing suicide at train stations. A total of 68 people threw themselves under trains _________________ March. This compares with 42 suicides in the same period a year earlier. In 2008, Japan had nearly 2,000 suicides by jumping _________________; around six percent of all suicides nationwide. Suicides _________________ the past decade due to poor economic conditions. _________________ blue lights will work. There is no evidence to show that blue light reduces suicidal feelings. Keihan Railway spokesman Osamu Okawa stated: “We _________________ do something to save lives. We know there is no scientific proof that blue lights deter suicides, but if blue has a soothing _________________, we want to try it to save lives.” The Associated Press news agency reports on a Japanese therapist called Mizuki Takahashi. She explained _________________ the blue lights might be a good idea: We associate the colour