Peak-Harnessing Adaptability 1/2

Accumulations:

1.falter: to become weaker and unable to continue in an effective way

原文：how long you can keep going until your muscles falter due to lactic acid buildup.

造句：Without deliberate training, our ability to solve problem will gradually falter.

2.more to the point:更重要的是

原文：More to the point, prospective taxi drivers must demonstrate that they can get from one point in the city to another as efficiently as possible.

造句：More to the point, the government play an vital role in education system.

3.loose end: part of something that have not been completed or correctly done

原文：That still left one loose end

造句：Unfortunately, there are still some loose ends.

4.nothing more than: 仅仅，只不过

原文：the extensive testing (they went through) was nothing more than a weeding-out process淘汰过程 (that zeroed in on those prospective drivers (who were naturally better equipped to be able to learn their way around the maze that is London)).

little more than: 和。。。差不多

原文：these were thought to be little more than the strengthening of some neural connections and the weakening of others.

5.flat out: in a direct and complete way

原文：most scientists would have flat out denied that something like what Maguire has seen in the brains of London cabbies was even possible.

造句：The professor told me about my performance flat out.

Passage:

We can know the effect of our physical training process by measuring some physical indicators; relevant studies often come from athletes. By contrast, the results of mental training is hard to measure; relevant researches are from taxi drivers.

THE BRAINS OF LONDON CABBIES:

Tell the experiment about the training "bulking up" the posterior hippocampi by studying the brains of London cabbies.

ADAPTABILITY:

The author uses the pull-ups example to illustrate that human body is incredibly adaptable. From Maguire’s work and that of others, the brain has a very similar degree and variety of adaptability. We can feel the mental adaptability from blind people experiment and farsightedness experiment.

My thought:

此时我的内心是激动的！不是因为了解到人的大脑分区训练是可以通过刻意练习而改变，进化的，毕竟这个很早之前就有所耳闻。而是因为我看到了远视眼可以通过刻意练习恢复一部分视力，这岂不是说明我的近视有救了0.0.。。。。hhh最不正经的一篇读后感。

行文布局这一块，受群里刘小咪的启发，今天也特别留意了下，发现作者某些地方的行文逻辑其实和托福写作GRE写作有神通之处。当举出一个中心句子topic sentence时，一般会先简单解释一下这个句子，然后再举例论证。