課外英語閱讀知識

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　　英語課外閱讀1

　　In collaboration with reporters from 18 newsoutlets all over the world, a German newspaperexamined 175,000 scientific articles published by fiveof the world's most prominent pseudo-scientificpublishing platforms.

　　德國一家報紙聯合全世界18個新聞機構的記者，調查了發表在五家世界最著名的虛假學術刊載平臺上的17.5萬篇科研文章。

　　The result? The collaboration found that some 400,000 researchers worldwide have been publishedin these journals since 2013.

　　結果呢?調查顯示，自2013年以來，全球約40萬名研究人員曾在這些虛假學術期刊上發表文章。

　　The publishers target individual scientists by email, charge high fees in exchange forpublication, and forego international peer-review standards to publish quickly and frequently.

　　這些出版商寫郵件給世界各地的科學家，收取高額費用為其發表文章，為了更快更多地發表文章，還放棄了國際同行評審的標準。

　　Some of these pseudo-scientific journals also publish work from employees of pharmaceuticalcompanies.

　　在這些虛假學術期刊上，有一些還刊登了製藥公司員工的論文。

　　Some members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ reported that "In addition to failing to perform peer or editorial committee reviews of articles, thecompanies charge to publish articles, accept papers by employees of pharmaceutical and othercompanies as well as by climate-change skeptics promoting questionable theories."

　　國際調查記者同盟的一些成員報告稱：“除了沒有對文章進行同行評議或編委會審查外，這些公司還通過收費釋出文章，接受制藥和其他公司員工以及氣候變化懷疑論者的論文。”

　　Stefan Hell, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014, told ICIJ that the pseudo-sciencecultivated through predatory publishing is an issue that demands action.

　　2014年諾貝爾化學獎得主斯特凡·黑爾向國際調查記者同盟透露，通過假期刊培養偽科學是一個亟待採取行動處理的問題。

　　"If there is a system behind it," Hall said, "and there are people who aren't just duped by it butwho take advantage of it, then it has to be shut down."

　　黑爾說：“如果這背後有一個系統，並且有些人不只是被欺騙了，而且在利用這種系統，那麼這種系統必須被關閉。”

　　英語課外閱讀2

　　The number of foreign study tours by Chinesestudents is likely to hit 1 million this year, involving 30 billion yuan in expenditure, China's biggestonline travel agency, Ctrip, reports.

　　國內最大線上旅行社攜程稱，2018年我國進行海外遊學的學生數量或將達到100萬人次，花銷達300億元。

　　And domestic study tours are expected to hit 9 million.

　　國內遊學人次預計將達900萬。

　　The travel agency's study tour business has grownimpressively in recent years.

　　近年來，攜程的遊學業務增速驚人。

　　Those choosing tours abroad grew by 50% during the 2017 summer and the 2018 wintervacations year-on-year. The tours on average cost about 29,000 yuan each.

　　2017年暑假及2018年寒假期間，選擇進行海外遊學的人數同比增長50%，人均遊學費用約為2.9萬元。

　　Those opting for domestic study tours grew by 120%, with costs pegged at about 4,200 yuan.

　　選擇國內遊學的人數增長120%，人均費用約為4200元。

　　The UK, the US, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia andFrance are among the most popular destinations among Ctrip users.

　　英國、美國、澳大利亞、紐西蘭、加拿大、日本、泰國、印度尼西亞和法國是最受攜程客戶歡迎的目的地。

　　Domestically, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shanghai, Beijing, Yunnan, Sichuanprovince's Chengdu, Guangdong province's Guangzhou and Shenzhen are the most appealingin China.

　　國內方面，寧夏、內蒙古、貴州、青海、上海、北京、雲南、四川成都、廣東廣州和深圳最具吸引力。

　　Study travelers are also getting younger. The average age of travelers who took their first studytours overseas stood at 12.1 years old, while the age for first domestic study tourists was 8.8 years old.

　　遊學參團者的年齡也呈低齡化，其初次進行海外遊學的平均年齡為12.1歲，初次進行國內遊學的平均年齡為8.8歲。