Is There Life on Mars? For most of the 20th century, there has been life on Mars. Or, at least in the minds of the Earthlings, who inhabit its closest planetary neighbor. When at the end of the 19th century, the American astronomer Percival Lowell th

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》89 Seven Myths of Single Womanhood

Unit 89 Seven Myths of Single Womanhood There is much confusion and concern over what it means to be a single lady. This is because most young women swallow enough of the singlehood lies to permeate themselves with single sickness. It is hard not to

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US

Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US During and after World War II, challenges to segregation became more common and more successful. Three major factors accounted for this: -- The Great Migration The great migration was the mo

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》68 How "Average" People Excel

Unit 68 How Average People Excel Why do ordinary individuals often seem to achieve more than those talented fast-trackers, who tend to plateau after initial eye-catching achievements. To find out, I interviewed over 190 men and women in my work as a

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》61 Web Feats

Unit 61 Web Feats Here is a look at six ways the internet has made an impact on us in the past decade. There's no going back! Everybody can get information if they learn how to look for it. Irritated at the half-remembered lyrics of a song? Need a re

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》62 World Bank

Unit 62 World Bank The World Bank is one of the major channels through which development aid is passed from the Industrial West to the poor and developing nations. In the last decade, important changes have taken place in the size of the Bank's opera

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》63 E-commerce, the Small Business Road to Profits

Unit 63 E-commerce, the Small Business Road to Profits Is it correct to say, As the big get bigger, the small get smaller? It could well be so, if it weren't for the Internet and the surge of electronic commerce. Much has been changed. Think back to

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》64 The Story of Corn

Unit 64 The Story of Corn Before 1492, when Columbus discovered America, no one living in Europe knew corn existed. Up to this time, corn grew only in the Americas. Scientists believed corn was originally cultivated by Indians in the highlands of Mex

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》66 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Unit 66 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill The Exxon Valdez departed from the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9:12 pm March 23, 1989. After passing through Valdez Narrows, pilot Murphy left the vessel and Captain Hazelwood radioed the Coast Guard to report the

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》67 Some Kids Are Orchids

Unit 67 Some Kids Are Orchids Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we are right. Boys commit about 85% of all youth homicides, and in those cases about 90% conform to a pattern in which the line from bad

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》69 Why Character Counts?

Unit 69 Why Character Counts? Some time ago I was asked to consult for a bank that was having a problem with employee morale. I don't know what's wrong, complained their young president. Bright and ambitious, he'd risen through the ranks only to see

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》70 Tsunami Generation" Braves Physical

Unit 70 Tsunami Generation Braves Physical, Psychological Scars Although many people call tsunamis tidal waves, they are not related to tides but are rather a series of waves, or wave trains, usually caused by earthquakes. Tsunamis have also been cau

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》71 Escape Valve

Unit 71 Escape Valve A man and woman I know moved in together recently. It was, as such occasions are, a moment of sentiment and celebration. It was also a limited engagement. Before moving in, they had already set a fixed date when they would break

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》65 The American Sleep Deficit

Unit 65 The American Sleep Deficit There are many things that divide Americans. But at least one thing unites us. Most of us -- 64 percent, to be precise -- are sleep-deprived. A recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation found that lack of sleep

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》72 E-mail Is Here to Stay

Unit 72 E-mail Is Here to Stay Is e-mail a blessing or a curse? Last month, after a week's vacation, I discovered 1,218 unread e-mail messages waiting in my inbox. I pretended to be dismayed, but secretly I was pleased. This is how we measure our wir

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》73 You Make Mona Lisa Smile

Unit 73 You Make Mona Lisa Smile For nearly 500 years, people have been gazing at Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa with puzzle. First she is smiling. Then the smile fades. A moment later the smile returns only to disappear again. What is

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》74 Will We Follow Dolly, the Sheep?

Unit 74 Will We Follow Dolly, the Sheep? Hearing Scottish scientists' success in cloning a sheep from a single adult cell, the world cones to an unsettling realization: the science is the easy part. it's not that the breakthrough was not decades in t

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》75 The Concerns about Genetically Modified Food

Unit 75 The Concerns about Genetically Modified Food Genetic Modification (GM) has the power to save lives through its use in medicine, such as the production of insulin for diabetics or the treatment of genetic disorders. The current outcry comes wh

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》91 The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin Care

Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin Care Most of us know that vitamins can work wonders on our skin from the inside. However, many people have yet to realize the benefits of using vitamins on the outside. Below is a simple guide to aid you thr

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词4500》53 Fast-food Culture Serves up Super-size Americans

Unit 53 Fast-food Culture Serves up Super-size Americans Stop blaming people or their genes -- it's an abundance of unhealthy, heavily advertised, low-cost food that underlies the nation's obesity crisis. America is overlooking the real cause of its

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