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Advice to Freshman

You have been at Furnell University for two weeks now. As usual, you need enough time to sleep and eat. You also want to spend time with your new friends and get some exercise. But, after the first two weeks of classes, you have probably concluded that there isn't enough time to do all these things, because you also have to attend classes, go to labs, do assignments and write papers.

Soon you will be in a situation like this one: You are going to have a quiz in your ten o'clock class. You studied for it until 3 A. m. You also have an eight o'clock class. Should you sleep late and skip the eight o'clock class？

To some extent the answer depends on the professor of the course. Some instructors announce that they require attendance. In that case you really should go to class. Some don't say anything. In that case you have to decide. Once in a while it is better to stay in bed and sleep than to get so tired you cannot think. However, it is not a good idea to skip class more than a few times.

If you have to skip a class, ask another student for the class notes, announcements and the assignment. Also, come to the next class prepared. If you miss class because you are sick, tell the instructor afterward. He or she may let you make up the work. If you have an important appointment, tell the instructor about it before you miss the class.

Here is another common problem. You took the quiz. Even after studying very hard, you could not answer all the questions. In high school you always got every answer right. What went wrong？ Nothing. High school work is easy, so a good student is supposed to get a perfect score. In college the teacher wants to challenge even the best students. Therefore, almost nobody answers every question correctly.

But maybe there were some very basic ideas in that course you did not understand. Go see the teacher during his or her office hours. Most teachers will gladly explain things again. Of course, they will not be pleased to repeat what they said in class to someone who skipped class.

Maybe you really should get up for that eight o'clock class!

According to the article, a good student in college must ______.

A．go to every class, no matter how he/she feels

B．go to class unless there is a good reason not to

C．stay in the dormitory and study

D．make excuses to the teacher

Scientists Develop Ways of Detecting Heart Attack

German researchers have comeup with a new generation of defibrillators(除颤器) and early-warn-ing software aimed at offeringheart patients greater _(51) from sudden death from cardiac ar-rest (心脏停搏).

InGermanyalone, around 100,000people die annually _(52) a result of cardiac arrest and many of these casesare caused by disruption to the heart's thythm. Those most at _(53) are patients who have alreadysuffered a heart attack, and for years the use of defibrillators has proved'useful in _ _(54)life-threatening disruptions to heart thythms and correcting them automaticallyby intervening within seconds. These devices _(55) on a range of functions, such asthat of pacemaker(起搏器).

Heart specialists atFreiburg's University Clinic have now achieved a breakthrough with anim-planted defibrillator (56) of generating a six-channelelectrocardiogram (ECG,心电图 ) with-in the body. This integrated systemallows _ _(57) diagnosis ofsevere blood-flow problems and a pending. (即将发生的) heartattack. It will be implanted in . _(58) for the first time this year.Meanwhile,researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Mathematics inKaiserslautern have developed new computer software that _(59) the evalution ofECG data more precise.

Theoverwhelming majority of patients at risk will not have an implanteddefibrillator and must for this _(60)undergo regular ECGs. "Many of the current programs only take into _ (61) a linear correlation of the data.We are, however, making use of a non-linear process (62) reveals the chaotic patterns ofheart beats as an open and complex system," Hagen Knaf says,"In thisway changes in the heart _(63) over time can be monitored and individualvariations in patients taken into account. " An old study of ECG data,based upon 600 patients who had (64)a subsequent heart attack, enabled the researchers to compare risks and to showthat the new software evaluates the (65) considerably better.

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