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Easy Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp
Everyone is forgetful, but as we age, we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bit and that can be a very annoying thing.      小题1:     Read on for some techniques worth trying. 
1.      小题2:    .
People who regularly made plans and looked forward to upcoming events had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer’s disease (早老性痴呆症), according to a recent study.      小题3:     . Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. There’s evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do better. In other words, keep your brain looking forward.
2. Go for a walk.
Mildly raised glucose (葡萄糖) levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain.     小题4:      
3. Learn something new.
Take a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A study found that mental stimulation (刺激) limits the weakening effects of aging on memory and the mind. But the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new and are physically active at the same time.        小题5:    or go dancing with your friends.
A.Focus on the future.
B.This can be especially harmful to the aged.
C.It should be something like learning gardening.
D.So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.
E. But don’t worry if your schedule isn’t filled with life-changing events.
F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to avoid those moments.
G. In other words, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain.
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Language follows power. In an increasingly globalized world, some languages become the kings in terms of trade and communication. They jump geographic boundaries, pushing smaller languages toward    小题1: .
According to National Geographic magazine, one language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth are   小题2:  to disappear as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin or Spanish.
This is    小题3:   Google.org is launching a new campaign called the Endangered Languages Project. It aims to digitally record the world’s little-known tongues and the heritages to which they are central.
What kind of languages are disappearing? Languages like Arogonese, which can be found in northern Spain, for example. Spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, this language seems to    小题4:   (disappear) within a few generations. Navajo and Ojibwa, both native to the Americans, are also close to extinction. Koro is the native language of a small population   小题5:  in the mountains of northeast India. It’s spoken by about 4,000 people.
The Endangered Languages website will record roughly 3,500 of the world’s little-spoken tongues. “  小题6:  every language that dies, humans are in danger of losing an enormous cultural heritage”, writes Loek Essers on the website Computerworld.com.
“As each one disappears, an understanding of how humans relate to the world around them, as well as scientific, medical, and botanical(植物的)knowledge, are all lost,    小题7:   is the expression of a community’s humor, love, and life.”
Users of the website can find    小题8:   which can be identified by their location on a map, or reached by means of a list that has been broken down into four categories: at risk, endangered, severely endangered, or unknown.    小题9:   can upload video or audio samples as well as share their knowledge of a language.
“Languages are alive and in constant change, and their extinction is not new,” write the site’s creators. “  小题10:   today we have the tools and technology that could become a game changer.”
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[1] As a distinguished Indian painter and author, Aabid has written around 80 books but no story so shocked him as the truth about water shortage on the planet, “A UN report says by 2025 more than 40 countries are expected to      .That shortage of water will be the end of civilized life,”he said with great worry.
[2] One day back in 2007,he was sitting in a friend’s house and noticed a leaky tap.It bothered him.A few days later, he came across a statistic in the newspaper:a tap that drips(滴落)once every second wastes a thousand litres of water in a month.That triggered an idea.He would take a plumber(水管工)from door to door and fix taps for free every weekend.
[3] He named his Non-governmental Organization ‘Drop Dead’and created a slogan: save every drop…or drop dead.
[4] By the end of the first year,he had visited l,533 homes and fixed around 400 taps.Slowly,the news began to spread.Local newspapers began to write about Drop Dead, which caused a further flood of grateful emails and messages.Conservatively, it could be estimated that he has saved at least 5.5m litres of water till date.
[5] In the summer of 2014,the state where Aabid lives is expecting its worst drought in 40 years. Months in advance,the govemment has prepareddrought-relief packages worth millions of dollars,but Aabid sees his own approach as simple and inexpensive.“Anyone can launch a water conservation project in his or her area.It doesn’t require much funding.And most importantly, it puts the power back in our own hands,”he says.
小题1:Fill in the blank in Paragraph l with proper words.(no more than 5 words) .
小题2:Why did Aabid take a plumber from door to door and fix taps?(no more than 6 words)
小题3:Explain the underlined sentence in aragraph 2 in English.(no more than 6 words)
小题4:What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?(no more than 10 words)
小题5:What does Aabid think of his water conservation approach?(no more than 4 words)
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