...国卷Ⅰ-阅读理解D Human speech contains more than 2,000 different sounds, from the common “m” and “a” to the rare clicks of some southern African languages. But why are certain sounds more common than others? A ground-breaking, five-year study shows that diet-related changes in human ...
... very well. -- Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively
resolved -- nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the
contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she
urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was...
...re confronted with very serious problems. Transport is a major difficulty: some planners believe in mass transport system;others believe in making it possible for citizens to move 【C1】______ in private cars. There are several ways of 【C2】______a public transport system. Sometimes it is built...
...imals. Animals don't have to be old, young, boys or girls. People care so much about Garfield's gender. And he doesn't like that.It seems like an unnecessary argument. But it is not the only recent argument about gender.Earlier this month, the city of Melbourne in Australia made 10 speci...
...er seriously and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak (11) old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Jones opened the big ...
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【高考真题】
Hundreds of
scientists, writers and academics sounded a warning to humanity in an open
letter published last December: Policymakers and the rest of us must engage
openly with the risk of global collapse. Researchers in many areas have
projected the widespread collapse as ...
...-a-ruby, shepherd's clock, shepherd's
purse, sauce-alone, scarlet runners, sops-in-wine, sweet-william, etc., give us
some ideas, either useful or pleasant. But from the peasantry come many
uncongenial names, as bad as those of the botanist. It is a pity that all fruits
and flowers, and animals too,...
原文:Lesson 54 Sticky fingersFirst listen and then answer the question.What two interruptions did the writer have?After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house ...
Lesson 69 But not murder! Do you think that the writer passed his driving test? Why? I was being tested for a driving licence for the third time. I had been asked to drive in heavy traffic and had done ...
...话的上下文，句中的
phrase，指的是上文的Queen’s
English。So the next morning, the conversation
over, one looked it up. The phrase
came into use some time in the 16th century. "Queen's English" is found in Nashe's "Strange News of the
Intercepting of Certain Letters" in 1593, and in...
... a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that.""Of course it's only an excuse," said Mrs. MacAndrew.Mrs. Strickland pondered deeply for some time. It was quite clear that she could not make head or tail of my announcement. She had ...
...e interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing
Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination,
that she did not consider it entirely hopeless. It was possible, and sometimes
she thought it probable, that his affection might be re-animated, and the
influence...
...ated and then said he had decided not to run.What
was wrong? He had worked so hard for this event!I
quickly searched the crowd for the school’s coach and asked him what had
happened. “I was afraid that kids from other schools would laugh at him,” he explained
uncomfortably. “I gave him the c...
MALE PROFESSOR: OK, but even after that, someone still had to play the music for the sound recordings, the soundtracks...MALE PROFESSOR: Yeah, but, think of all the movie theaters there were, most employing about six to eight musicians. Some even had full orchestras.MALE PROFESSOR: Bu...