Nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập những kiến thức cơ bản, kỹ năng giải các bài tập nhanh nhất và chuẩn bị cho kì thi sắp tới được tốt hơn. Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 107 - Unmasking Skin để có thêm tài liệu ôn tập. | UNMASKING SKIN A If you took off your skin and laid it flat it would cover an area of about twenty-one square feet making it by far the body s largest organ. Draped in place over our bodies skin forms the barrier between what s inside us and what s outside. It protects us from a multitude of external forces. It serves as an avenue to our most intimate physical and psychological selves. B This impervious yet permeable barrier less than a millimetre thick in places is composed of three layers. The outermost layer is the bloodless epidermis. The dermis includes collagen elastin and nerve endings. The innermost layer subcutaneous fat contains tissue that acts as an energy source cushion and insulator for the body. C From these familiar characteristics of skin emerge the profound mysteries of touch arguably our most essential source of sensory stimulation. We can live without seeing or hearing in fact without any of our other senses. But babies born without effective nerve connections between skin and brain can fail to thrive and may even die. D Laboratory experiments decades ago now considered unethical and inhumane kept baby monkeys from being touched by their mothers. It made no difference that the babies could see hear and smell their mothers without touching the babies became apathetic and failed to progress. E For humans insufficient touching in early years can have lifelong results. quot In touching cultures adult aggression is low whereas in cultures where touch is limited adult aggression is high quot writes Tiffany Field director of the Touch Research Institutes at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Studies of a variety of cultures show a 4 correspondence between high rates of physical affection in childhood and low rates of adult physical violence. ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi F While the effects of touching are easy to understand the mechanics of it are less so. quot Your skin has millions of nerve
