英语读书报告300单词.doc

A Very Special DogToday I read an article with the title A Very Special Dog in IELTS with answers 7. This article tells about a very special dog Florence, who is a sleek black labrador(一种纽芬兰猎犬). Florence is a truly new breed as a product of what is perhaps the only project in the world dedicated to breeding dogs solely to detect drugs. Florences work is finding drugs when the cavalcade of luggage passing beneath her all-smelling nose. The Australian Customs have been using dogs to find drugs since 1969. As we all know, it is a very effective and successful method. In 1993, John Vandeloo and some others set up a breeding programme to train more detector dogs. In this article the author states that a good detector dog must have six essential traits. First, a good detector dog must love to be praised because this is the only tool trainers have at their disposal, but the dog must still be able to work without it. Then it needs a strong hunting instinct and stamina to keep sniffing at the taxing rate of around 300 times per minute. Fourth, it is also fearless enough to deal with jam-packed airport crowds and the roaring engine rooms of cargo ships. Finally, a good detector dog must have a capacity of “selective attention” and “sustained attention”(选择性的集中精力和持续性的集中精力). It means that the dog must be capable of focusing on searching for drugs despite the distractions in any airport, which must persevere and keep focusing on it for hours at a time.Apparently，Florence have had the above six essential traits. She is always brave.She has a strong hunting instinct and stamina to keep sniffing. In a word, she is an ideal detector dog. She is making the work of the Australian Customs much easier. 长难句：1、 Florence could help neurobiology to understand both what they call attention processing, the brain mechanisms that determine what a person pays attention to and for how long, and its flip side , problems such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD).Florence(佛罗伦萨)既可以帮助神经生物学来理解他们所称之为的“注意力处理”，即大脑决定一个人关注什么并且关注多久的机制；又可以帮助其理解它的反面，如注意力缺陷/多动症（注意力不集中症）。2、 With the current interest in attentional processing, as well as human conditions that have an attention deficit component, such as ADHD, it is predicted that it is only a matter of time before the super-sniffer dog attract the attention of neurobiologists trying to cure these conditions.随着当前人们的兴趣主要集中在注意力的处理，以及人类本身的注意力不集中的问题，如注意力不集中症，可以预见：神经生物学家治疗超级辑毒犬集中注意力只是一个时间的问题。3、 Vigilance tasks provide signals that are infrequent and unpredictable which is exactly what is expected of the dogs when they are asked to notice just a few o