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 local delivery 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 governme

　　11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges，and that the costs of living of our young men，while with you，would be very expensive to you.

　　12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things，and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.

　　13. We are，however，not the less obliged by your kind offer，though we refuse to accept it；and，to show our grateful sense of it，if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons，we will take care of their education teach them in all we know ，and make men of them.

　　14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history，the earth‘s postwar era，there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.

　　15. Already today，less than forty years later，as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.

　　16. Obviously，there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers，but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.

　　17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings，but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.

　　18. For most people the sea was remote，and with the exception of early

　　19. The first time that the question “ What is at the bottom of the oceans？”had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

　　20. At the early attempts，the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths，a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

　　翻译

　　1. 戴安全带可挽救生命。 你会死亡或重伤的一半。

　　2. 但将司机的责任，以14岁儿童不骑在前面，除非穿着某种安全带。

　　3. ，你佩戴安全带的车辆，你是你扭转； 或者你正在收集或交付当地使用特殊工具； 你持有的医疗证明，你穿借口。

　　4. 记住你可以不做，法院，你就要受到处罚，你向法院证明你免于穿。

　　5. 松本Matsuzawa教授想找出为农民健康另有日本北似乎失去了思考能力，在年轻，如何老化的过程，他会放慢。

　　6. 在东京国立大学的同事，他的脑量大约是1000测量不同年龄、不同职业的人。

　　7. 计算机技术使人员能够精确的测量和方量款大脑，用于智力（中文能力）、情绪和人格决定。

　　8. 一边是收缩战线，观察细胞死光光有些科目三，但仍60和76岁。

　　9. 调查结果显示，而言，大脑萎缩，越早开始在该国比城镇。

　　10. 白领平时工作人员在办公室，但是脑萎缩的农场工人、公共汽车司机和店员。

　　11. 知道你看不起那种你教学院学习，的生活费用的年轻人，与你们，你们会很昂贵。

　　12. 但你要知道，不同的有不同的角度来看待事情，你会不会得罪，的教育观念不一样的你。

　　13. ，不欠你的义务，但拒绝； 并表示感谢，感，弗吉尼亚绅士派打的儿子，会照顾的教育，教知道的一切，使男人。

　　14. 现在看来，像计算机历史上的史前时期，地球的战后时代，有的关注，将接管计算机世界男子一天。

　　15. 已40年后，解决电脑越来越多的企业在日常工作和生活的人生。 面临着较严重的问题，而且预期少。

　　16. 显然，意义的投资，你的电脑已检查所答案，但人们也应的内部电脑查询机，当觉得有问题。

　　17. 当然这的理论牛顿在他的作品中，但他不愿下海作品。

　　18. 对大多数人来说是遥远的

　　19. 次到问题"是在大洋深处？" 要回答的结果是21日在与任何商业电讯电缆铺设从欧洲到美国的提议。

　　20. 在早期的尝试，电缆时，因维修，被是涉及生物生长，这藐视当代科学，生活的地方驶去。

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