Last
spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower. It had
broken down the previous summer, and
though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it. I
would not hear of the suggestion and
said that I would fix it myself.1)
从时间上看，promised在前，got roun...
... not sure ___61___ is more frightened, me or the
female gorilla(大猩猩) that suddenly appears out of nowhere. I’m walking
on a path in the forest in the Central
African Republic. Unexpectedly, I’m face-to-face
with the gorilla, who begins screaming at ___62___ top of her lungs. That makes
h...
...he
ocean. For this work, titled “Truckload of Plastic,” Von Wong and agroup of
volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied
together to look like they’d been dumped (倾倒) from a truck all at once.Von Wong hopes that his work will also help
pressure big comp...
The whole village
soon learnt that a large sum of money had been lost. Sam
Benton, the local butcher, had lost his wallet while taking his savings to the
post office. Sam was sure that the wallet must have been found by one of the
villagers, but it was not returned to him. Three months passed, and t...
...of them
earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had
been dumped down on the quay. One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the
boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from
Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days o...
...completed tests of
creative thinking. They were randomly divided into four groups and exposed to
various noise levels in the background, from total silence to 50 decibels (分贝), 70 decibels,
and 85 decibels. The differences between most of the groups were statistically
insignificant; however, the...
AT
that moment we were interrupted by the appearance of Madame Coutras, who had
been paying visits. She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing
creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in
alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets. She had a bold hooked nose and three
c...
The US Committee on Foreign Investment, or Cfius, opened an investigation into the acquisition in 2019, only months after the Trump administration had placed Chinese telecoms group Huawei on the "entity list".month本身为名词，句中是months名词短语作状语吗？
...st have gone out very early ,for he hadn't shown up at the breakfast.2.Who that you had ever seen is stronger than him?老师我想问下，这两个句子这里为什么要用过去完成时呢（for he hadn't shown up…和who that you had…)，我感觉没有就是明显的“过去的过去”...
But I realized it had been more than two years since I had read most of those titles. I had stopped reading gradually, the way one heals or dies.请问：the way one heals or dies表达什么意思，怎样理解它与前面句子(I had stopped reading gradually)语义上的衔接。谢谢老师！
... swim towards the shore, when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in a circle.It now came straight towards them at tremendous speed.In less than a minute, it roared past them only a few feet away. After...
...gyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way ...