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to the whole body, researchers reported on Monday.
The study,published in the Archives of Dermatology,shows that smoking affects the skin all over
the body-even skin protected from the sun.
"We examined non-facial skin that was protected from the sun,and found that the total number of
packs of cigarettes smoked per day and the total. years a person has smoked were linked with the
amount of skin damage a person experienced," Dr. Yolanda Helfrich of the University of Michigan,who
led the study,said in a statement.
"In participants older than 65 years,smokers had significantly more fine wrinkling than nonsmokers.
Similar findings were seen in participants aged 45 to 65 years. "Helfrich"s team added in their report.
The researchers tested 82 people,smokers and nonsmokers,taking pictures of the inner right atms.
They ranged,in age from 22 to 91 and half were smokers. Independent judges decided how wrinkled
each person"s skin was.
When skin is exposed to sunlight,notably the face,it becomes coarse(粗糙的). Wrinkled and
discolored with a pale yellow tint,Helfrich"s team wrote.
Several previous studies have found that cigarette smoking conduces to premature(过早的)skin
aging as measured by facial wrinkles,the study said,but tittle has been done to measure the aging of skin
not exposed to light.
The report did not discuss die mechanism involved but previous research has found that cigarette
smoke,among other things,causes blood vessels(血管)beneath the skin to constrict (紧缩),reducing
blood supply to the skin.
Smoking can also damage the connective tissue that supports both die skin and the internal organs.
B. coarse
C. rough
D. discolored
B. encourage
C. prevent
D. stop
B. the kind and characteristics of skin
C. how long a person smokes
D. how long skin is under sunlight
B. it can make you feel tired
C. it can make skin come off
D. it can make blood run faster
B. advise people how to protect skin
C. warn people not to smoke again
D. introduce a new way of avoid skin aging
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child psychologist.It is one of several "emotional agents" Borbolla has invented that are being
recognized in Mexico City as capable of gaining access to the inner lives of children.
Dulas, like all of these characters, has big eyes and radio antennas(天线). The characters
collectively go by the name Antenas because they all have antennas and come from a planet called
Antenopolis. Dulas knows nothing about life on earth, not even what a mother or father is. Wearing
rabbit slippers in hospital, he doesn"t like to talk with adults－so children can trust his companionship.
Over the past five years, Borbolla"s characters have been used to assist 2,000 children from 3 to
14 years old, and have been employed in three Mexico City hospitals and a center for disabilities in
another city, Morelia.
Researchers have been using puppets(木偶) to help children express and process their feelings for
decades. But Borbolla, who has been working with children for 30 years, has taken this kind of work
a step further.
The children meet the characters in a room, without adults present; doctors monitor with cameras.
They have to handle the information carefully. One principle of the work is that a doctor must not make
it known that he knows something that was said to an Antenas character privately. This preserves the
trust of the child"s relationship with the character.
Borbolla originally got the idea to use a drawing of a cartoon character to communicate with
children when she was working as a school psychologist in the 1980s. Years later, in private practice,
she worked with a puppet maker to develop a software version.She spent six years improving the tool.
"The psychologists I spoke with said the tool creates an environment of trust and understanding that
enables them to understand children"s issues more quickly than they imagined possible," said Borbolla.
To date, Antenas hasn"t been carefully studied, and Borbolla is working with researchers to examine
its effect. "I see how powerful it is," she told me. "It can be used to get into the souls of children."
B. was developed by a Mexican child
C. likes chatting with doctors and patients
D. is a cartoon character created by a psychologist
B. developed Antenas all on her own
C. spent sixteen years improving Antenas
D. started to create Antenas in the 1990s
B. their doctors have to stay with them
C. the characters will handle the information
D. doctors" involvement should be kept secret from them
B. it is expensive to use Antenas
C. Antenas is helpful to children
D. it is difficult to control Antenas
be minor heats of synchronized swimming （花样游泳） have received an unexpected change to the
men"s 100m final because of an embarrassing ticketing mistake.
The London 2012 Organizing Committee （Locog） confirmed on Wednesday that an error in its
ticket selling had led to four synchronized swimming competitions being oversold by 10, 000 tickets.
Locog and its ticket agent spent the Christmas period contacting ticket holders and offering them
alternatives that included the tickets they had applied for but unsuccessful. The changes need no additional cost. It has also offered to return any discrepancy （差额） if the new tickets cost less than the originals. Locog said the replacement tickets would come from a number of unsold seats across the Olympic
Games and that it was doing all it could to make up the error to the fans who bought tickets.
Locog said the error occurred in the summer, between the first and second round of ticket sales,
when a member of staff made a mistake, entering “20,000” into the computer rather than the correct
figure of 10,000 remaining tickets. The error was discovered when Locog checked the number of tickets
that had been sold against the final seating numbers, and began contacting ticket holders before Christmas.
Thousands of ticket holders have already struck lucky, changing to tickets for major events including
swimming and athletics finals, and in around 200 cases the hottest of all, the men’s 100m final. Locog said
the decision to award 100m final tickets was made because one of the synchronized swimming
competitions was on the same afternoon as the event, August 5.
B. will not enjoy the synchronized swimming events
C. will have to change their tickets to other games
D. have applied for tickets to the men’s 100m final
B. allowed the holders to apply for another ticket
C. would charge the discrepancy for changing the tickets
D. offered to change the tickets without any extra cost
B. the ticketing mistake
C. the Olympic Games
D. the additional cost
B. 10,000.
C. 20,000.
D. 30,000.
B. Thousands of ticket holders refused to change their tickets.
C. The men’s 100m final will take place on August 5, 2012.
D. The number of tickets for synchronized swimming is 10,000.
her house. She already has one tree up in her living room and a nativity scene. But this holiday season,
she would not dare decorate outside.
" It is very disappointing that we can" t celebrate the Christmas holiday the way that we religiously
choose to," says Buonanno.
Her home only has a holiday wreath on the door, since the Doylestown Station Condominium
Association told her the bylaws do not allow colored Christmas lights. Last year, she was fined $400,
$ 10 for each day her lights were up. But she says she was the only one slapped with a fine.
"One of my neighbors that I spoke to a few days ago, who decorates with multicolored lights, says
he never got a letter of warning or a fine. "
Only white, non-blinking lights are allowed outside. And you can only put up a single white, blue, or
orange light in your windows. Neighbors collected 62 signatures to ask the Association board to allow
colored Christmas lights. In response, the Association sent out a survey.
Out of 38 total responses, 19 voted for white lights, 14 voted for colored non-blinking lights, and 5
voted for colored blinking. The board said the vote was 19-14 against colored lights, interpreting the 5
votes as a separate category.
"As long as it" s tasteful," says neighbor Marc Udell, "let the community do what the community is
going to do. "
No one answered the door at the Association president* s house. Some neighbors say they like the
look of white lights.
"Some colored lights are pretty and they have their place in neighborhoods, but you never really know
how far people are going to go with them," says Jeff Edwards.
It will be a holiday of white lights for Buonanno and her neighborhood. She says for now she will
miss her colored lights and the holiday cheer they brought to her home.
B. sell the colored lights out
C. leave the Christmas tree out
D. change all the attractive lights
B. she was the only resident punished with a fine
C. she was the only resident full of strange ideas
D. she was the only person fooled by neighbors
B. Environment
C. Education
D. News
B. they waste a lot of energy
C. they can trick passers-by
D. they can make neighbors blind
BEIJING-Worldrenowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China __1_ (attract) toprank
postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
Oxford made its first __2__ (appear) at the China Scholarship Council"s annual International
Graduate Scholarship Fair, __3__ opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage
excellent Chinese students to consider __4__ Oxford can offer for 5 academic and professional
careers.
"The students came wellprepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance, "said
Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make __6__ two stops
for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.
The University of Cambridge __7 _ (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that
it would continue to invest to train students to be problemsolvers.
__8 _ Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for __9_ best and brightest,
Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation
__10__ competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.
BEIJING, March 9-The central government will require an additional three years of use for official
vehicles for ministers (部长) and governors (政府官员) to reduce the costs of purchasing new cars,
media have reported.
The new rule has been applied among all Party and government departments nationwide, the Beijing
News reported on Tuesday. The new rule has not yet been made public, said Li, a member of the Chinese
People"s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. Under the old rules, the cars used by
ministerlevel officials could be replaced as often as every five years, Li said. These officials will also
continue to use the same cars when they take new posts, he added.
The new rule also reiterated (重申) that officials ranking below ministeror governorlevels should not be
allocated cars. The cars possessed by their departments should be used on demand.
"It violates the rules for lowerranking-even countylevelofficials to be allocated cars," Li said.
Purchases of vehicles for official use have been heavily investigated, as they account for a large
expenditure of public funds every year.
A survey on the Web news www.ifeng.com found 59 percent of respondents believed the new rule
will be difficult to obey because it is related to officials" interests.
Local government departments had stopped approvals for requests for such vehicles and had started
to limit the number of such cars under the new rules, Li said. "The future reform of official vehicle use will
introduce market systems", Li said.
Premier Wen Jiabao said in the annual government work report on Saturday that expenditures on such
vehicles will not increase in 2011 compared with a year ago.
Beijing"s standing deputy mayor Ji Lin last week said the municipal government will release the number
of vehicles for official use in the capital as early as at the end of this month.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance had published a rule regulating the budgets for such vehicles.