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2007 年 Text 1 原文：If you were to examine the birth certificates of every so er player in 2006 ’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite so er players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the late months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be ever more pronounced. 翻译：如果检查一下2006 年世界杯足球锦标赛所有参赛运动员的出生证明，你 很可能会发现一个值得注意的怪现象：出色的足球运动员往往在一年中的头几个 月出生。如果再关注一下为世界杯和职业球队输送人才的欧洲国家青年队，你会 发现这一现象更加明显。 原文：What might a ount for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior so er skills;b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases so er stamina; c) so er-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of so er mania; d) none of the above. 翻译：对这一奇怪现象该做何解释呢？以下是几种猜想：(a) 某些星座的人更具 有足球天赋。(b) 冬季出生的孩子往往具有较大的氧容量，这增强了他们在足球 运动中的耐力。(c) 对足球狂热的父母容易在春天怀孕，因为那是一年中足球狂 热的高峰期。(d) 以上猜想都不对。 原文：Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above. ”Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,”Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.” 翻译：58 岁的安德斯•埃里克森是佛罗里达州立大学的心理学教授，他坚信以上 推测均不成立。埃里克森成长于瑞典，开始时学习核工程，后来他意识到如果转 学心理学，会获得更多进行专业研究的机会。大约30 年前他进行了第一次试验， 与记忆力相关：训练一个人听一系列任意选择的数字然后让他进行重复。埃里克 森回忆说，“第一个被测试对象在经过了约20 个小时的训练以后，他所记住的 数字从7 个增