...pproach: They want to treat
distracted driving like drunk driving. An idea from lawmakers in New York is
to give police officers a new device called the Textalyzer. It would work like
this: An officer arriving at the scene of a crash could ask for the phones of
the drivers and use the Textalyzer to ...
...elocation is not a move embraced by most,
and some are unhappy living away from their home, and have returned after
struggling to adapt. On the other hand, relocation will be a great challenge to
the preservation of the identity and culture of the Carteret islanders.The Carteret Islanders’ story i...
... the history of our own times. They will
hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily
accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written
word. Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMS are just some of the bewildering amount of
information they will h...
...use without using
electric equipment. Walls made of adobe take in the heat from the sun on hot
days and give out that heat slowly during cool nights, thus warming the house.
When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold
enough to cool the house during the hot day; at the...
... philosophy: the
digital declutter. This process requires you to step away from optional online
activities for thirty days. At the end of the thirty days, you will then add
back a small number of carefully chosen online activities that you believe will
provide massive benefits to the things you valu...
...ter. My wife and I have taught them all they know. We had a piano
sent out from France, and she has taught them to play and to speak English, and
I have taught them Latin and mathematics, and we read history together. They
can sail a boat. They can swim as well as the natives. There is nothing about...
...e say in this way, each corner could reach the ear, as the same goes smile from ear to ear or wear a big smile. But our guy never smiles. Actually, he doesn’t know how to smile, not to say laugh. His full and very black mustache covers his upper lip. Whenever he wants to start a speech, he bites h...
...nties into ruins. The rescue
work _____ followed was carried out by people from all over the country, and
even abroad.Now, more than10 years on, the people _____ suffered the earthquake
are living a new life. Many live in new towns _____ are earthquake-safe, in local
communities _____ have been beau...
...is hands 与 come away in his hands. 有什么区别。 如果是go away from home 与come away from home ，说话人的角度我能分辨出来。但是这样的情况我觉得没什么区别我的疑问2：in +一段时间 如果中间加如less than ，无论谓语动词是延续性动词还...
...e
wild-orange trees, and now and then Ata would go with two or three women from
the village and return laden with the green, sweet, luscious fruit. Then the
cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins (like all the natives,
Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw do...
...hinese zookeepers
who often come to check on the pandas, which are on loan from China. They also
need to be ready to give ___41___ (interview) in English with international journalists.
This is ___42___ they need an English trainer.So, what are they learning? ___43___ (basic),
how to describe a pand...
... hard outlined against the silver-spangled sky. Broad bars of golden light from the lower windows stretched across the orchard and the moor.从上面的对话中，对 the one thing upon earth which could have disarranged my plans 不懂。 为什么要说成could have disarranged ? 为什么不是c...
...ra, since I have a face made for radio. But that didn’t stop
China Daily from asking me last week to share a personal story for a video
project about the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. Anyway,
grandpa is now an internet star—two minutes of fame! I promise not to let it go
to...
Garfield the cat is a super star around the world. It is from a popular comic book. It is lazy and fat. But people like Garfield because of that. Now the cat is back in the news.A man in the United States changed the gender(性别） of Garfield to "none" on the cat's Wikipedia page. A...
...me.It’s something of
a cliché (陈词滥调) that most people learn not from their successes
but their mistakes. The thing is, it’s true. Whatever the mistake, remember it isn’t a fixed aspect of your
personality. We’re all changing and learning all the time and mistakes
are a positive way ...