...ing achievement in contemporary design, to house the
flora of sub-tropical south-west China at the end of a path retracing the steps
along the Silk Route, from temperate Europe and across mountains, arid lands
and high pastures 64.______ brought the plants from their native habitat in
Asia to come t...
...gton is trim and neat and
English; it reminds you of a seaport town on the South Coast. And for three
days afterwards the sea was stormy. Gray clouds chased one another across the sky.
Then the wind dropped, and the sea was calm and blue. The Pacific is more
desolate than other seas; its spaces seem...
...a or Tahiti. I do not know how he had come upon the
notion of going to the South Seas, though I remember that his imagination had
long been haunted by an island, all green and sunny, encircled by a sea more
blue than is found in Northern latitudes. I suppose that he clung to Captain
Nichols because ...
...airport all morning. They were expecting a valuable parcel of
diamond from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police
that thieves would try to steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of
the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting
on th...
...如下：Meet
the IslandsLocated 86 km north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific, the
Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea are composed of low-lying islands (71) distributing (distribute) in a
horseshoe shape, with a total land area of 0.6 square kilometers and a maximum
elevation of 1.5 meter...
...In
1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South
Pacific, a long way west of Samoa.
The plane wasn't too badly damaged,
but over the years, the crash was
forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed. Then in 1989, twenty-six
years after the crash, the plane was
accide...
... entrepreneurial, research and academic activities.Although Italy’s deep south is not California, incentives provided by the European Union, the Italian government and local organizations, as well as Mr Pistorio’s personal commitment, helped Catania grow into a high-technology centre.Mr Pistorio...
...ts came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles southof London， they were not taken seriously. 第三句话：然而，近来一种新式幽默流行了起来，这种幽默主要来自美国。However， a new type of humour， which stems largely f...
...bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa. The plane wasn't too badly damaged, but over the years, the crash was forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed. Then in...
...ts came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been
spotted forty-five miles southof London, they were not taken seriously.
However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged
to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen
the puma were extra...
... greenhouse-like facility
that treated sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington. He also
designed an eco-machine to clean canal water in Fuzhou, a city in southeast
China.
“Ecological
design” is the name John gives to what he does. “Life on Earth is kind of a box
of spare...
...press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town
of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota. As the parents had five children, life
was a perpetual struggle against poverty. They were expecting their sixth child
and were faced with even more pressing economic problems. If they had only had one more chil...
...孩子喜欢看电视。Judging from [by] his accent, he may be from the south. 听他的口音，他可能是南方人。五、不定式短语作插入语To begin with, I do not like its colour. 首先，我不喜欢它的颜色。To tell the truth, the film was a great disappointment to me. 说实...
...lighted that she was going to dine the next night with a K.C. who lived in South Kensington. She was pleased to be able to tell you that her son was at Cambridge, and it was with a little laugh that she spoke of the rush of dances to which her daughter, just out, was invited. I suppose I said a very...
... grass with a group of young people in Llanelli, an industrial town in the south, outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod, Wales’s annual cultural festival. The disused factory in front of us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh bands.“There was almost a genetic tendency for lack of...