...ence standard to weigh risks and rewards. Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brains work. The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans. Risk-takers were better at hunting, figh...
"I
would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I
think.""I
know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be
honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is
common enough; -- one meets it every where. But to b...
... every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” Remembering that I’ ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choice in life.
...ly options. I was
so___62___ (excite) when he wrote back to me. He said he would make sure that
the company cut its use of plastic straws in half.I kept going. Whenever I heard of businesses using plastic, I’d
send an email. One of the biggest companies I wrote to ___63___ (be) Alaska
Airlines. A ...
...ammered ominously under the car. We felt sure that
sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the
engine. Because
of this, we kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.1)
这里的leave是静态动词，动态动词，还是短暂...
...athered together his feeble strength
and he had done what he said he never would; he had taken the kitchen knife and
gone out and killed his own beast. When he did it, even in his despair, he
groaned, for it was as though he killed
his own brother. To him it was the last sacrifice.（出自赛珍珠...
...ment on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning.Which of the following statements can be inferred from Paragraph 2？A. The recommendation should be expressed narrowly to avoid the cloning of human DNA....
...r the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped
it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. 2)
Lesson 2-78Anyway,
as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking.
He himself has done it lots of times! 3)
Lesson 3-4Such
is human na...
...oing it the right way. “Figuring out a way to accelerate that transition would make sense for them,” he said, “but if you discontinue it, you’re going have your most loyal customers really upset with you.”翻译为：Peretti说，《纽约时报》不应该把时间浪费在取消纸质版...
... such influence. I suppose it is the bitterest wound to
human pride. But I would not let him see that I was put out."Is
it possible for any man to disregard others entirely?" I said, though more
to myself than to him. "You're dependent on others for everything in
existence. It's a preposterous attem...
...ecoming
white-collar workers. 2）新概念3-27：There
are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives,
yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this
service. The
conditions of society are such that skills
have to be paid for in the s...
...lable,
seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness. It would not
surprise you if, as you came near seeking for an opening in the reef, it
vanished suddenly from your view, and nothing met your gaze but the blue
loneliness of the Pacific.请教老师：Nor
is it vouchsafed to man ...
I would argue that my success is a result of being allowed the freedom
to make mistakes and find my own way. 老师请问 to make mistakes and find my own way是宾语还是freedom的定语，allow sb to do
sth 与allow sth to do
sth理解一样吗？谢谢老师
...In an experiment at Atlanta zoo, the
researchers looked at how an elephant would pick up a small crispy pancake,
which was only 0.5mm thick. The force required to break the pancake was less
than 1% of the trunk’s weight (about 100kg). The elephant was found to either
use suction at a fixed distanc...