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英 [ɑː] 美[ɑr]
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Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.

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Why learning and forgetting are complementary.

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While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

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Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

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When you can quote a specific number like a fifth of the patients were able to quit, that's compelling.

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What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

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Toilet paper manufacturers are facing a great challenge in promoting its sales.

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This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.

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This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

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They were offered nicotine replacements.

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They were looked after by physicians.

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They were given physical training.

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They were encouraged by psychologists.

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They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

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They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

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They are simply unable to make it.

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They are shaped like jewel cases.

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They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.

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They are heavily painted in red.

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They are favored as a form of art.

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They are cherished by the rich.

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They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.

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These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

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These extra features are deemed unnecessary by the majority of shoppers, which probably reflects how these types of products are typically more expensive than regular toilet paper, even when on special offer.

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There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

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The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.

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The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

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The millennials ( ' , 千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.

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The house prices are currently too high.

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The elaborate patterns were believed to offer protection against evil.

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The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.

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Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

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Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

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Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.

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Some traditions are simple, like the red eggs that get baked into Greek Easter breads.

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Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

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Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

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Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage.

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Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.

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People are in harmony with the environment.

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People are healthy and energetic longer.

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People are generally more competitive.

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Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

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Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say.

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Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( ' , 神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.

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Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

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Members of poorly managed teams are easily distracted from their work.

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Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

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Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

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Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

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In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.

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In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.

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In her study, participants were randomly ( ' , 随机地) assigned to two groups.

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In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.

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In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

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Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

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However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

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High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

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Hackman ( ' , who died in 2013) noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

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For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

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Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

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Eggs are, too.

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Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.

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Consumers are loyal to certain brands.

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Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.

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Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

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Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

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But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

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But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

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And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

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And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

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Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

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A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

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A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.

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A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

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Veiseh agrees: It is like having these open wounds – they are just a part of you, he says.

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With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

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With Facebook she could stay connected with her family no matter how far away they were.

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Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

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What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.

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We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

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There were no injuries.

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The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.

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The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

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The attitudes are published in a new AAA survey of 1,800 drivers.

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The 13 dead were all Costa Rican, the foreign ministry said.

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She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies and traveling.

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She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.

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People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

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Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

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Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

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Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.

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It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

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In fact, I’d like to relive a period I’ve already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

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Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today!  There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

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He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

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Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.

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But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

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Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murder and exposing people to danger, according to police.

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Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.

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Yet they are doing it quite differently.

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Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

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Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

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Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

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Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.

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White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.

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While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

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While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

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Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

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Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

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We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.

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Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

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To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

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They were versed in literature and interested in art.

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They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

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They were courageous and venturesome.

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They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

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They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.

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They are not as serious in its online stores.

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They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

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They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

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They are more likely to be at risk of dying.

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There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.

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There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

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There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

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There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

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There are benefits to both approaches.

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There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.

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The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.

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The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

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The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

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The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.

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The most successful sharers—those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often—get noticed, and their work gets used.

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The meals are not particularly appetizing, or even safe.

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The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problemsolving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.

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The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

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The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.

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The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

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The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

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System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

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Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.

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Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

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Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

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Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

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Repositories are essential to scientific research.

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Private collections were of greater variety.

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People used to live near people of different income levels; neighborhoods are now more segregated by income.

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Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.

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Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

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Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.

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Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

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Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.

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Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.

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None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.

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Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

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Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.

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Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

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More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

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Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

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Martin said officials were still working to analyze the data from the Board of Regents.

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Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

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Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style.

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Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.

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Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

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Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.

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Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens.

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It has been flatly rejected by the governor.

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In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

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If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

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If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

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Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

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Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.

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High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.

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Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

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Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

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Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.

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For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

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Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

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Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

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Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

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Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.

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Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

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Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

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Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

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Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

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Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

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Children were not always raised so differently.

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Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.

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But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

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But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.

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But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.

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But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

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At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

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Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

You are here to be educated.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

A restaurant in Spain uses a foodie to "re-create forms and pieces" of food that are "exactly the same, " freeing cooks to complete other tasks.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 单项填空 原文

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

A sudden stop can be a very frightening experience, especially if you are travelling at high speed.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Abridged dictionaries, such as pocket and desk dictionaries, are shortened.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 任务型读写 原文

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to the author, fish are most likely to be found in shallow water under waterside trees.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

According to the card, if you are unable to go, you can contact Alice's mother.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

According to the passage, human being are used to living in the day light.

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According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Admittedly, those mighty forces are spiritual ones.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Adolescents enter high school with great excitement but are soon looking forward to graduation.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

After realising an email accident, you are likely to feel awful.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

All around her, people were suffering, especially the elderly.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

All the competitors are served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

All these elements of office design are related.

2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons...and monkeys in space.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

2017年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Among the items provided by the school for a visual presentation are a desktop computer and loudspeakers.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

And both Helena Bonham-Carter, who plays the part of lady Tottington, and Ralph finesse as victor are really funny.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And I've found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文

And the good morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, finn, 13.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And the special effects are amazing.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And there are lots of cupboards.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

And there are many people skating over there.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

And there are some restaurants outside.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

And they are as clear as glass.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

And you are doing biology, if I remember correctly.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

And, there are several new clubs, too.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Andy, you've been standing in front of that sandwich counter forever.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

Anger seems simple when we are feeling it, but the causes of anger are various.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Animals are built of many different materials----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Are we still going to have group study tonight?

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Are you excited about your trip?

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文

Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

2014年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Are you going to put the seeds of tomatoes into the soil, too?

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

Are you prepared for a bigger one?

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Are you ready to go now?

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine basis.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 听力 原文

As a result, many special are quickly dying out.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, "oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As some psychologists put it, "It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

2016年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

At a local school a successful charity supper has been held.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

At present, these technologies are still expensive, though.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

At the bottom of the paper were these words:" see what you can do when you keep trying? "

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

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We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Researchers in the late 1960 covered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally ( ' , or collaboratively) and innovatively.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Habits are a funny thing.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

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But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

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Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

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To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

Some species of trees have been"read out of the party"by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

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Moreover, some have been found to have a valuable function in building up soil fertility.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Unfortunately,these critics are virtually forgotten.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

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Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”: hotels, restaurants and cafes.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

New skills and unfamiliar business models are needed too.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Moreover,the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined— France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

But by giving in to critics now they are inviting pressure to make more concessions.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

But bank’s shares trade below their book value, suggesting that investors are skeptical.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Bankers have been blaming themselves for their troubles in public.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

In fat, circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Allen‘s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

“The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter.

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Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

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These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.

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There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

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There are simply too few posts.

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There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

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The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those who’ve stayed too long.

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The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

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Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

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So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

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Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

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Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products.

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Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

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Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced”.

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Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable.

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Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

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It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

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In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

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In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

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If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.

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Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

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For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

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For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

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For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

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Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

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At Harvard, Mr.Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”—they form a sort of social glue.

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As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

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According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

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This tendency in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too.

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The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits ( ' , particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

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The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar.

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Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

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Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

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Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

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A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

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You are the lucky inheritor of a dream come true.

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When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

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Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

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There are three reasons for the public-sector unions’ thriving.

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The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

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The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

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The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

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The challenge the computer mounts to television thus bears little similarity to one format being replaced by another in the manner of record players being replaced by CD players.

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Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

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Similar to newly staked mining claims, they are full of potential.

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Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.

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