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- 2020-07-15 发布于江苏
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1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or
serious injury by more than half.
2. But it will be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children
under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of
some kind.
3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing
your vehicle; or you are making a localdelivery or collection using a
special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which
excuses you from wearing it.
4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may
be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused
from wearing it.
5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise
healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability
to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of
ageing could he slowed down.
6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set
about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages
and varying occupations.
7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise
measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the
brain, which relate to intellect (智能)and emotion, and determine the
human character.
8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in
some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty
and seventy-year-olds.
9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain
begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are,
however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus
driver and shop assistant.
11. We know that you have
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