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外刊精选|墨西哥国会展出两具“外星人干尸”,怎么回事?
这几天,一则关于“外星人”的新闻冲上热搜:墨西哥一名记者自称发现了外星人木乃伊,还把它们带到了国家议会。在长达3个多小时的听证会上,这名UFO爱好者向众人展示了他带来的两具“外星人干尸”,不仅让墨西哥人大为震惊,也引发了全球广泛关注。这次发现的外星人到底是真是假?发现者是何许人也?
Mummies From Outer Space? Mexico's Congress Gets a Firsthand Look.
Mexico's Congress is usually meant to be a venue for solemn presentations on budgets and other serious legislation. But this week, lawmakers heard testimony from a self-proclaimed U.F.O. researcher who brought with him some unusual objects: two mummified specimens that he claimed were the bodies of extraterrestrial beings. Really.
The presentation of the mummies on Tuesday by Jaime Maussan, a journalist who has speculated widely on aliens, caused jaws to drop and memes to multiply around the country.
The two specimens, which Mr. Maussan said were found in Peru in 2017, were tiny in stature and chalky in color; each had three-fingered hands and what appeared to be shrunken or desiccated heads.
"These are nonhuman beings who are not part of our terrestrial evolution," Mr. Maussan declared under oath, with a sign-language interpreter at his side.
The specimens, he added, had been buried at a remote site in Peru and were about 1,000 years old, according to carbon testing carried out by researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The researchers, however, distanced themselves from Mr. Maussan's conclusions.
Mr. Maussan lives in Mexico and is well known for making such claims while dabbling in the realm of pseudoscience on television and on YouTube, as well as selling his own line of health supplements. Mr. Maussan did not respond to requests for comment.
【词汇过关】
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.firsthand (adj.) ________________________________________
2.solemn (adj.) ________________________________________
3.self-proclaimed (adj.) ________________________________________
4.pseudoscience (n.) ________________________________________
【词块学习】
请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。
1.________________________________________某人的下巴都掉了(形容非常惊讶)
2.________________________________________在身高上,在体格上
3.________________________________________似乎是
4.________________________________________与某人/某事保持距离
5.________________________________________ 涉足,浅尝辄止
6.________________________________________…的领域,范围
拓展练习阅读理解
My passion for the field of dietetics (营养学) started at a very young age. Ever since I can remember, I have been dreaming of becoming a pastry chef.
I grew up being part of various sports teams. As I grew older, I noticed how food influenced my performance as an athlete. I started reading more about nutrition and signed up for an introductory nutrition course during my first year of college.
However, I noticed when I entered my dietetics classes, that I looked quite different from most students. I was the only ethnically diverse student in my classes.
My mom was born in Austria and my father in Iran. They met in Austria and moved to the U. S. before my brother and I were born. They exposed us to their own traditional cultural foods, and I grew up eating a combination of Iranian and Austrian dishes.
I remember never having a taste for school cafeteria food, so I always requested my mom pack me lunch. She would pack me leftovers from dinner, such as a kuku sabzi, a Persian egg and herb frittata, or schnitzel with dartoffelsalat, a typical Austrian dish of fried breaded chicken. At times, I felt embarrassed about my meals, and would hide these from my peers to avoid the horrible question of, “Ew, what is that?” However, over time, and once I became a qualified RD (注册营养师), I realized my unique background allowed me to connect more deeply with others from different cultures.
I encouraged my clients to share what they grew up eating and what foods were customary to their unique upbringing. I developed nutrition recommendations for my clients that included traditional food from their heritage culture. These experiences and my dual heritage background empowered me to encourage my clients and other RDs to proudly share their unique cultural foods, to stop feeling embarrassed, but instead embrace our differences and increase cultural awareness in the field of dietetics.
37.What made the author take the nutrition course in college?
A.His dream of being a pastry chef as a child.
B.His thirst for dietetics knowledge all his life.
C.His awareness of the effect of food on his sports.
D.His lack of essential nutrition for physical health.
38.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A.The author’s favorite dishes.
B.The author’s mixed identities.
C.The author’s culture tendency.
D.The author’s childhood memory.
39.Why did the author dislike being asked about his meals?
A.They looked very odd.
B.They were not authentic.
C.They had a terrible taste.
D.They involve cultural secret.
40.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A.To criticize people’s cultural prejudice.
B.To share his unique growth experiences.
C.To advertise food from his hometown.
D.To encourage accepting cultural diversity.
外刊精选答案
【词汇过关】
请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。
1.firsthand (adj.) 形容词,第一手的,直接的
2.solemn (adj.) 形容词,庄严的,严肃的
3.self-proclaimed (adj.) 形容词,自称的
4.pseudoscience (n.) 名词,伪科学
【词块学习】
请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。
1.someone's jaw drops 某人的下巴都掉了(形容非常惊讶)
2.in stature 在身高上,在体格上
3.what appears to be 似乎是
4.distance oneself from someone / something 与某人/某事保持距离
5.dabble in something 涉足,浅尝辄止
6.the realm of ……的领域,范围
【全文翻译】
来自外太空的木乃伊?墨西哥国会先睹为快
墨西哥国会通常是一个严肃讨论预算和其他重大立法事项的场所。但本周,国会议员们听取的证词却来自一名自封的“UFO研究员”。他声称,他带来的物品不同寻常,是两个木乃伊化的外星人尸体样本。真有这事儿,没开玩笑。
这两具木乃伊在周二示于人前,展示者海梅·毛桑(Jaime Maussan)是一名记者,他提出过各种关于外星人的假说。周二的展示让墨西哥民众惊掉下巴,同时也催生了许多网络梗图。
他声称这两个样本是他于2017年在秘鲁发现的。它们的体型娇小,颜色苍白。每个木乃伊的手都只有三根手指,头部看起来是萎缩或脱水的状态。
毛桑在手语翻译的陪同下宣誓称:“这些是非人类生物,不是地球进化的一部分。”
他补充说,根据墨西哥国立自治大学的研究人员进行的碳测试结果,这些样本曾被埋在秘鲁的一个偏远地点,大约有1000年的历史。然而,研究人员表示并不认同毛桑的结论。
毛桑居住在墨西哥,就是凭借这种言论或者在伪科学方面的涉猎,在电视以及YouTube上出名,同时他也出售自己的一系列保健品。毛桑没有回应置评请求。
拓展练习阅读理解
37.C 38.B 39.A 40.D
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者独特的家庭文化背景成就了他自小的梦想——注册营养师。作者希望通过他的成长经历,激励人们拥抱多元文化,在营养学领域增强文化融合的意识。
37.细节理解题。根据第二段“I grew up being part of various sports teams. As I grew older, I noticed how food influenced my performance as an athlete. I started reading more about nutrition and signed up for an introductory nutrition course during my first year of college.(我从小就是各种运动队的一员。随着年龄的增长,我注意到食物是如何影响我作为运动员的表现的。我开始阅读更多关于营养学的书籍,并在大学一年级时报名参加了营养学入门课程)”可知,对食物对健康影响的认识促使作者在大学里选修了营养学课程。故选C项。
38.主旨大意题。根据第四段“My mom was born in Austria and my father in Iran. They met in Austria and moved to the U. S. before my brother and I were born. They exposed us to their own traditional cultural foods, and I grew up eating a combination of Iranian and Austrian dishes.(我妈妈出生在奥地利,爸爸出生在伊朗。他们在奥地利相遇,并在我哥哥和我出生之前搬到了美国。他们让我们接触他们自己的传统文化食物,我从小就吃着伊朗和奥地利菜肴长大)”可知,第四段主要讲的是作者的复杂身份。故选B项。
39.推理判断题。根据第五段“She would pack me leftovers from dinner, such as a kuku sabzi, a Persian egg and herb frittata, or schnitzel with dartoffelsalat, a typical Austrian dish of fried breaded chicken. At times, I felt embarrassed about my meals, and would hide these from my peers to avoid the horrible question of, “Ew, what is that?”(她会给我打包晚饭的剩菜,比如库库萨布齐(一种波斯鸡蛋和香草煎蛋饼),或者带炸面包屑鸡肉配土豆沙拉的奥地利经典菜肴。有时,我会为我的饭菜感到尴尬,会把它们藏起来,以免被同学问到那个可怕的问题:“呃,那是什么?”)”可知,作者在求学期间,总是在家自带午餐到校,受家庭文化背景的影响,作者的午餐有着浓浓的异域特色,这与学校的食物相比,看起来奇特怪异,因此作者害怕同学们询问午餐的事,因为在同学们的眼里,作者是“另类”。可推知,作者害怕被问及他的饮食因为他的饭菜看起来和学校的很不一样。故选A项。
40.推理判断题。根据最后一段“These experiences and my dual heritage background empowered me to encourage my clients and other RDs to proudly share their unique cultural foods, to stop feeling embarrassed, but instead embrace our differences and increase cultural awareness in the field of dietetics.(这些经历和我的双重文化背景使我能够鼓励我的客户和其他注册营养师自豪地分享他们独特的文化食物,不要感到尴尬,而是拥抱我们的差异,提高营养领域的文化意识)”结合文章主要讲述了作者独特的家庭文化背景成就了他自小的梦想——注册营养师。作者希望通过他的成长经历,激励人们接受多元文化,在营养学领域增强文化融合的意识。故作者写这篇文章的目的是鼓励接受文化多样性。故选D项。
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