一 words ＆ expressions
1.The resulting memory and navigational skills are short of astonishing, and so London taxi drivers have proved irresistible to psychologists.
resulting:caused by the event or situation which you have just mentioned因而發(fā)生的；作為結(jié)果的
例句：The tape was left near a magnetic source, and the resulting damage was considerable.
造句：He murdered a man, and the resulting expense was in jail.
irresistible:impossible to refuse, oppose or avoid because too pleasant, attractive or strong不可抗拒的，無(wú)法抵擋的
造句：These crests everywhere when combined with the City of London's age and wealth and quasi-independent status make it an irresistible temptation for conspiracy nuts.
2. There is a growing body of evidence that both the structure and the fuction of the brain change in response to various sorts of mental training.
body of :a large amount or mass of something, especially something that has been collected大量的某物 ??
body of knowledge/evidence/opinion etc
造句：There is a growing body of evidence that crime rate is on the rise.
3. unfathomable memory and processing power, can only vaguely approximate.
unfathomable:too strange or mysterious to be understood莫測(cè)高深的，難以理解的
例句：For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen.
造句：It will signal what is left after the hubris of Iraq and unfathomable complexities of Afghanistan.
二 thoughts＆summary＆background information
大腦可塑性的來(lái)源
2007年，法國(guó)醫(yī)生在為一名44歲法國(guó)男子的腦部做CT和核磁共振掃描后驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)，其腦室里充滿了腦脊液，原本正常的腦組織由于受擠壓薄得像一張紙。令人吃驚的是，這位“幾乎沒(méi)有大腦”的患者智商竟有75，不僅像正常人一樣娶妻生子，甚至還干著政府公務(wù)員的差事。7月19日，英國(guó)著名醫(yī)學(xué)權(quán)威雜志《柳葉刀》率先刊登了這起罕見(jiàn)病例之后，國(guó)際醫(yī)學(xué)界為之震驚。
弗利葉醫(yī)生指出：“這個(gè)案例足以說(shuō)明，腦組織可塑性非常大，在適當(dāng)情況下，能夠自動(dòng)適應(yīng)出生前或出生后的腦損傷?！眮?lái)自美國(guó)馬里蘭州“國(guó)家人類基因組研究協(xié)會(huì)”的小兒腦部缺損科醫(yī)生馬克斯·明克表示：“令我感到非常驚訝的是，該患者的腦組織是如何做到與我們一般認(rèn)為不可能相容的事物（腦積水）和諧共處的。也許經(jīng)過(guò)數(shù)十年的緩慢變化，其大腦里的其他部分已經(jīng)替代那些本應(yīng)該存在的腦組織，并正常地發(fā)揮功能。”
第二章通過(guò)倫敦司機(jī)的那個(gè)例子說(shuō)明：大腦的海馬體hippocampus會(huì)隨著你的練習(xí)而增大。
visual cortex視表層的例子也說(shuō)明我們通過(guò)練習(xí)來(lái)改變大腦結(jié)構(gòu)，提高相關(guān)的
