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Being old is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. (Anonymous) Six months before she died, my grandmother moved into an old people's home and I visited her there when I was in Britain. She was sitting in the living room wi

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National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June every year. Of course, the holiday celebrates something most of us love the donut. Most countries around the world have donuts. They usually come in two forms. Some are ring-shaped and covered with

英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国 -3

The ideal date depends on what the weather will do this year, never easy to predict. But there is some surprising help at hand. On the ceiling of the Songs' living room, a pair of red-rumped swallows newly arrived from their winter migration is busy

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Its been called the vine that ate the south. Kudzu grows so fast it can completely cover a cabin in the woods in a couple of days. The invasive plant takes over another 150,000 acres every year. Which costs another $6 million to control. But plant pa

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Invasive species get a bad rapbut we humans are usually to blame for their spread. Take Japanese stiltgrass, an invasive that arrived from Asia nearly 100 years ago as a packing material for porcelain. When it creeps into forests, it forms dense carp

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 29 July 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which has seen little of the sectarian violence plaguing much of the rest of the country, doctors say they treat more people burned in household incidents than inju

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Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, 同性恋权益不主要是婚姻权益， and for the millions who live in unaccepting places 而对数以百万生活在不包容 with no resources, 和缺少资源地方的人们， dignity remains elu

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(8)

You see, like all networks, mycorrhizal networks have nodes and links. 你们看，就像所有的网络一样，真菌的网络中也有节点和链接。 We made this map by examining the short sequences of DNA of every tree and every fungal indivi

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(9)

Mother trees colonize their kin with bigger mycorrhizal networks. 母树通过更大的菌根网络来覆盖住自己孩子们所在的区域。 They send them more carbon below ground. 在地下，它们给孩子们会送去更多的碳。 They even

雅思阅读--三段论搞定判断题

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When the time came to plant, a Chinese farmer would have hundreds of different varieties to choose from. 一旦到了种植季节，中国的农民就需要在100多种稻种之中选出适合今年种植的稻种。 each of which offered a slightly

英语摇滚:In For The Kill

In For The Kill We can fight our desires, ooooo-ooooo, but when we start making fires. We cant have it so hot, ooooo-ooooo, whether we like it or not. They say we can love who we trust, ooooo-ooooo, but what is love without lust? Two hearts with accu

日本稻田里种出“贱熊泰迪”

Summer in Japan means festivals, fireworks and a host of annual events designed to bring people together despite the searing heat. And as the sun beats down on fields across the nation, theres one special rice paddy thats slowly taking shape, transfo

Infectious diseases kill 1,669 on Chinese mainland in July

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Infectious diseases claimed 1,669 lives on the Chinese mainland in July, with AIDS contributing to 70 percent of the deaths, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said Tuesday. A total of 5,552 AIDS cases, which is categorized as a

Giving the Seedligns a Hand

Giving the Seedligns a Hand A man of the state of Song was worried about his seedlingsgrowing too slowly He pulled up the seedlings one by one and went home exhausted．I am tired out today．I helped the seedlings to grow，he said to his family．H

Who Was Johnny Appleseed 苹果核约翰尼 Chapter 7 A Good Apple

A good apple is a nickname for someone who is a good person. Johnny Appleseed was a good apple. Sometimes he helped settlers build cabins or chop trees. He knew they were struggling to make new lives for themselves in the west. If people couldnt pay,

Who Was Johnny Appleseed 苹果核约翰尼

Johnny Appleseeds real name was John Chapman. He earned his nickname by planting thousands of apple seeds in Americas Midwest. For this, he became a legend during his own lifetime. Johnny Appleseed was best known as an apple lover, but he was many ot

雅思阅读判断题--逻辑“三段论”更好解

雅思阅读判断题被同学们视为纠结题目之一，因为其类似于国内考试判断对错题，但又增加了not given的选项提高题目难度，所以对于广大考生来说多少有些挑战。殊不知这一类雅思题目解题方

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16.The early railroads were........the existing arteries of transportation: roads,turnpikes, canals,and other waterways. A.those short lines connected B.short lines that connected C.connected by short lines D.short connecting lines 答对率：50% 答案