中学英语单词细节知识点复习regret和relax和remain等
regret  [rɪ'gret]
v.遗憾；抱歉；后悔，‖n. [ C, U]遗憾，惋惜
I didn't regret the choice I had made.我作了这个选择并不后悔。
I regret to tell you that I don't agree with you.我很抱歉的告诉你我与你的意见不一致。
regret to do sth.遗憾将要做某事〕
Tom regretted wasting too much time watching TV.汤姆后悔浪费了许多时间看电视。
[regret doing sth.后悔做了某事]   
短语：1.give/sent one’s regrets
       adj regretful 痛惜的 悔恨的  regretable  另人痛惜的 另人遗憾的
背单词的好方法
随时随地背单词
不知不觉背单词
单词不用记

relation  [rɪ'leɪʃ(ə)n]
n. [C,U]关系；关联  
We seek to improve relations between our two countries.我们寻求改进我们两国间的关系。’。
短语：1.~ between sth and sth  某物与某物之间的关系  
adj. relaxed 有关的，相关联的 
2.~ to sb/sth

relax   [rɪ'læks]
v. （使）轻松；（使）松弛
When I get home from work 1 like to relax with the newspaper.我下班回到家里，喜欢看看报纸，放松一下。[ relax with sth.以某种方式放松I  
知识拓展：relaxing 令人放松的‖relaxed放松的‖ be relaxed about rules

remain  [rɪ'meɪn]
v.○1遗留；留下；○2保持( 通常不用于进行时态) 
Very little of the house remained after the fire.火灾之后，这座房子所剩无几。  
短语：1. remain + adj.   持续某种状态     

Losing an arm means losing the ability to grab, as well as losing the sense of touch. Scientists have been working on mind-controlled prostheses (义肢) and have successfully built a few to help patients regain their ability to grab. But restoring the sense of touch has been quite a challenge – until now.
Seven years ago, a group of Swedish scientists created a new type of prostheses, which has since then been tried out on three patients to see how they perform in people’s daily lives. The study result was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
According to the study, this is the first time that people who have had an arm amputated (截肢) can experience sensations of touch in mind-controlled arm prostheses.
The new product is named “neuromusculoskeletal” prosthesis. As the name indicates, the prosthesis is connected directly to a user’s nerves, muscles and skeleton. The sensation of touch becomes possible by stimulating nerves that used to be connected to the biological hand before the amputation.
When a patient grabs an object, for example, force sensors planted in the prosthetic thumb would measure contact and pressure. The collected information would then be transmitted to the patient’s nerves that lead to the brain. In this way, the patient can “feel” the characteristics of the object being touched and perceive (感知) its pressure against the prosthetic hand, which can be crucial when handling delicate objects – an egg, for example.
“The ability of the patients to discern (觉察) smaller changes in the intensity of sensations has improved,” Max Ortiz Catalan, Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, who is the leader of the study, told Science Daily.
According to Catalan, the new study has demonstrated that their prosthesis is qualified as a “clinically viable replacement for a lost arm”.
“The sensors are not the obstacle for restoring sensation,” Catalan added. “The challenge is creating neural interfaces (接口) that can seamlessly (无缝地) transmit large amounts of artificially collected information to the nervous system, in a way that the user can experience sensations naturally and effortlessly.” And they did it.
With the development of prosthesis technology, people who suffer from limb loss will have a greater chance of getting their normal lives back.
46. Neuromusculoskeletal prosthesis’ unique advantage is helping people with arm amputations to _____ .
A. carry heavy objects again B. regain the ability to grab objects
C. move their prostheses as they wish D. experience the sense of touch again
47. The new prosthesis is connected directly to __________.
① user’s nerves  ② user’s brains  ③ user’s muscles  ④ user’s skeleton
A. ① ② ③ B. ① ③ ④ C. ② ③ ④ D. ① ② ④
48. How do the new prostheses work?
A. They collect information about objects and process it.
B. They stimulate the cut nerves to restore the sense of touch.
C. They measure the size of objects and send the information.
D. They detect the material of objects and send the information.
49. What can patients perceive with the new prosthesis?
A. The intensity of an object. B. The structure of an object.
C. The pressure from an object. D. The changes inside an object.
50. What is the difficulty in developing the new technology?
A. Measuring the pressure of objects. B. Connecting the sensors to nerves.
C. Creating good neural interfaces. D. Building responsive sensors.
51. What’s the author’s attitude towards the prospect of prosthesis technology?
A. Optimistic. B. Neutral.
C. Critical. D. Unconcerned.

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