在英语日益重要的今天，考证热也此起彼伏。为帮助同学轻松考专四，特收集以下阅读翻译：
1. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.
2. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.
3. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
4. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
5. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
参考谜底：
1、在东京国立大学的同事们的辅佐下，他起头对一千来自分歧职业的人群进行了大脑体积的测量。
2、计较机手艺辅佐研究人员获得人某堪部和侧部的切确体积，这是与人的智能和情感有关的部门，而且也抉择人的性格特点。
3、有的人(大脑)前部和侧部的缩短——跟着细胞的衰亡——在三十多岁时就能被不雅察看到了，可是也有些人直惠临七岁依然不较着。
4、研究结不美观剖明在农村的人大脑缩短根基上比城市里的人要早。
5、在政府部门从事简单一再工作的白领也像农场工人、公共汽车司机和商铺人员一样大脑细胞轻易缩短。