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科学家寻找矿物的专属区域

Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two
scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and

an hour's
11 one of the scientists wr
ote in his book, “Look
here for
12 metal.”

Scientists in another airplane, flying over a
mountain region, sent a
13 to other scientists on the ground, “Gold
possible.”

Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported,
“This ground should be searched for metals.”

From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist
sent back by radio one word, “Uranium.”

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None
of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no
14 powers for looking down below the earth's

were
15 putting to use one of the newest methods of
16 minerals in the ground using trees and plants as
17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground
on which the trees and plants are growing.
This newest method of searching for minerals is
18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may
19 the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the
surface.
At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high
in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, a mineral
search group gathered bags of tree
were filled with small branches from the
were dug and put into
bag and box was
20
a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees
were burned to ashes and
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small part was examined to learn whether there were
minerals in it.
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人类大脑智力的决定因素

There are two factors which determine an
individual's
first is the sort of brain he is born
brains differ considerably , some being more capable
than
no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an
individual will have a low order of intelligence unless
he has opportunities to
the second factor is what happens to the
individualthe sort of environment in which he is brought

an individual is handicapped(
不利
) environmentally,
it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he
will never attain the level of intelligence of which he
is capable.
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