...runners live three years longer than non-runners. You don’t have to run fast or for long to see the benefit. You may drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of dying early by running. You may drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of dying early by running. While r...
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your languageThe passage below is from a website about the
Amazon rainforest. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and
phrases in the box below. agriculture,
impact, thus, due to, variety, survive, beneath, break down The Amazon rainforest is home to a
great (1)_________...
...pring! Strange, isn’t it? But that’s how nature
is—always leaving us astonished.What comes next is the endless series of steps. You
can’t help wondering how hard it was
for the people then to put all those rocks into place. Though it is the only
unnatural thing on your way up the mountain, s...
She said this not disparagingly, but affectionately rather, as though, by acknowledging the worst about him, she wished to protect him from the aspersions of her friends."He's on the Stock Exchange, and he's a typical broker. I think he'd bore you to death.""Does he bore you?" I asked."You see, I ha...
...The coach lumbered on again, with heavier wreaths of mist closing round it as it began the descent. The guard soon replaced his blunderbuss in his arm-chest, and, having looked to the rest of its contents, and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt, looked to a...
...pa took that friendly and hospitable bill back to the Bank of
England and cashed it; then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it,
and he gave it to us at our wedding, and it has always hung in its frame in the
sacredest place in our home ever since. For it gave me my Portia. But for it I
...
...子上的使用说明含混不清。This
is a confusing word because it has several meanings. 这是一个使人糊涂的词，因为它有几个意思。The
first week was a little confusing. 第一周让人感到人有些困惑。I
found some of the questions really confusing. 我觉得有些问...
I remember the day during
our first week of class when we were informed about our semester (学期) project of
volunteering at a non-profit organization. When the teacher introduced us to
the different organizations that needed our help, my last choice was Operation
Iraqi Children (OIC). My first im...
Meanwhile he had never ceased to work at his art; but, soon tiring of the studios, entirely by himself. He had never been so poor that he could not buy canvas and paint, and really he needed nothing else. So far as I could make out, he painted with great difficulty, and in his unwillingness to accep...
...实用英语语法》（最新版）第518页上有这样两个例句：He asked me whether (if) I wanted to go by train or by plane.
She asked whether (if) I was leaving that day or the
following day.2.在商务印书馆和牛津大学出版社（中国）有限公司2002年1月第1版《牛津高...
...about stay-at-home dads. If American society and business won’t make it easier on future female leaders who choose to have children, there is still the ray of hope that increasing numbers of full-time fathers will. But based on today’s socioeconomic trends, this hope is, unfortunately, misguided...
...我怎么会住到这种地方来。45. come from（P481）作“to
happen as the result of doing something 源自于，产生于”解时，构成“come from doing something”。例如：Most of her problems
come from expecting too much of people.她的大多数问题都是因为对别人要求...
...5）"The man preparing the documents is the firm's lawyers" has all the following possible meanings EXCEPT _______.A.the man who has prepared the documentsB.the man who has been preparing the documentsC.the man who is preparing the documentsD.the man who will prepare the documents参...
... free” promotions because of the ___60___
(criticize) that they lead to waste. Consumers prefer money off individual
items. However, though it’s nice to get a few cents off a pack of sausages, it
would help even more if they could sometimes ___61___ (offer) in smaller packs.
Even the biggest sau...
...;points out the benefit of mutual help. As one person, people can’t make a wide influence or achieve a high goal. However, if one has others with him(or her)&...