Lesson 72
A car called bluebird
First listen and then answer the question.
What mistake was made?
The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour. He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Bluebird, t...
I
have said already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti I should
doubtless never have written this book. It is thither that after many
wanderings Charles Strickland came, and it is there that he painted the
pictures on which his fame most securely rests. I suppose no artist achieves
compl...
Many of the animals were in prime condition andhad more body fat than is customary for animals arriving from the wild.请问is customary for在此处是什么用法？感觉可以直接去掉？
People
become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what
cannot be eaten. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would
consider octopus a great delicacy. You would not be able to understand why some
people find it repulsive. On the other hand, your stomach would...
In
as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, every thing was
settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the
house, he earnestly entreated her to name the day that was to make him the
happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waved for the pr...
He concluded that the world could be redeemed only by a new religion, whose function it should be to nourish and strengthen the feeble altruism of human.it在句子里是什么成分？it怎么解释？
...个选项中，选出最佳选项。APRACTITIONERSJacqueline Felice de Almania (c.1322)
highlights the suspicion that women practicing medicine faced. Born to a Jewish
family in Florence, she moved to Paris where she worked as a physician and
performed surgery. In 1322 she was tried for practicing u...
1.Scholars imagined that children looked at rock art pictures to learn to track - just because theythemselves had learnt skills from pictures;2. many researchers now believe t...
In my early thirties, I decided to climb Mount Kilimanjaro,
the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895 meters above sea level.After months of preparation, I started my great adventure. At the base of the mountain,
I met Mik, a local porter, who warmly greeted
me. Mik’s job was to carry my equipment u...
1. Pizza known to Italians and New Yorkers (where pizza was first introduced into the United States by the many Italian Americans living there) is a round, thin-crusted baked dish covered with tomato sauce and cheese.2. Families enjoy the convenience of carrying home a whole meal from the many vendo...
He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he tuned his initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed...