1.New research is trying to find how we learn and make decisions exactly. To the brain, a new thought or idea is like a spider. If it works hard enough, a web of knowledge spins out from it.Photos of the brain taken during learning actually show a kind of nerve cells firing, growing, and forming new connections.This is fascinating in itself, but what's even more fascinating is that failure can cause this to happen.
新的研究正在尝试发现,我们到底是如何学习和做出决定的。对于大脑而言,一个新的思维或是主意就像是一只蜘蛛。如果它工作得足够努力,一张知识的网就会被它织出来。大脑在学习时的造影,真实地展示出一种神经细胞的喷射,生长,并形成的新的联结。这本身是很吸引人的,但更吸引人的是,失败也会引发这一现象。
2.That's right:failure can enhance your brain.
是的:失败能使你的大脑更强。
3.Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has compared the brain waves of people with growth and fixed mind-sets. She finds that, when those with growth mind-sets fail at a task, they would enter a more focused mental state. And as they try again and again, they improve.In effect, they' ve learned, and their brains have"grown."Those with fixed mind-sets, however, never enter this focused state of learning and show little advancement.
斯坦福大学的心理学家Carol Dweck对比了处于成长期与固定思维模式的人的脑电波。她发现,当那些处于成长期思维模式的人,在某一任务中失败,他们会进入一种注意力更加集中的精神状态。而当他们一次次去尝试时,他们会改善自己的思维。实际上,他们有所学习,并且他们的大脑已经“成长了”。然而,那些有固定思维模式的人,从未进入这种在学习方面集中精神的状态,并且没展示出什么提升。
4.Antoine Bechara, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Southem California, has taken Dweck's work a step further. He recently isolated two equally sized centers in the brain. These areas interact during the decisionmaking process. Although more research is needed, these centers may turn out to be the physical locations for Dweck's twin mind-sets.
Antoine Bechara,一位南加州大学的心理学与神经学教授,已使Dweck成果更进一步。他————近隔离了大脑中两个相同尺寸的中心。这些区域在做决定的过程中,会互相交流。虽然需要进行更多的研究来证明,但这些中心有可能就是Dweck双重思维模式的物理位置。
5."We always knew people could learn from their mistakes, but now we're finding out exactly how and where this happens,"explains Bechara."In a normally functioning brain, failure is taken as an opportunity for learning and strengthening the species."
“我们一直知道人们能够从错误中学习,但是现在我们发现了这一现象到底是如何和在哪里发生的。”Bechara解释道。“在功能正常的大脑中,失败被认为是学习与巩固.”
48.Carol Dweck's work has something to do with ______.
A.how to take photos of the brain
B.how failure helps the brain"grow"
C.when the areas in the brain interact with each other
D.when nerve cells fire, grow, and form new connections
题干的中文翻译为:Carol Dweck的成果与______有关.
A选项:如何给大脑造影
B选项:失败如何帮助大脑“成长”
C选项:大脑中的区域何时互相交流
D选项:神经细胞何时喷射,生长,并形成新的联结
第三段的内容,与“In effect, they' ve learned, and their brains have"grown."”都表明,Carol Dweck的研究成果涉及到,失败对大脑的帮助,和在这一过程中,大脑的“成长”。这一含义与B选项相符,所以正确答案就是B。