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Unit 10 Motorism The scene is a petrol station somewhere in England. A queue of cars stretches back over a kilometer down the road. As vehicles move slowly towards the pumps, the air fills with the sound of the car horns. People are getting frustrate
Unit 6 Lost and Found The weekend was over, and Begbie had returned to town, restless, and strangely unhappy. There was within him a curious sense of something lost. He unpacked his suitcase listlessly, compared its contents with the catalogue of his
Unit 100 The Wal-Mart You Don't Know Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's world's largest company -- bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale is hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sells in three months what num
Unit 30 Meet the Ten Richest People in the World in 2000 (I) 10. Michael Dell Age: 34. Nationality: American. Marital Status: Married. Children: 4. Worth: $16.5 Billion. Just barely squeezing in at number ten is the youngest of all of our billionaire
Unit 23 My Greatest Olympic Prize It was the summer of 1936. The Olympic Games were being held in Berlin. Because Hitler insisted childishly that his performers were members of a master race, nationalistic feelings were at all-time high. I had traine
Unit 22 The Voices of Time Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time communicates in many ways. Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a special meaning to the event. Manage
Unit 24 Is Beauty an Advantage? Is beauty an advantage? Does it make the beautiful individual powerful? Does it result in substantially better pay and opportunities in the workplace? Ten years ago, feminist author Woolf wrote about the beauty myth. W
Unit 44 Trees Are Violet In 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. Most of them, including Canne, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet, and his sister-in-law Berthe Morisot -- a bunch of lunatics and a w
Unit 57 Love Around the World Despite the fictitious characters, the film Casablanca perfectly illustrates what only die-hard romantics will admit in public: Love transforms our lives and joins it with others. It's a feeling so strong that it can aff
Unit 56 What is Autism? Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder that affects the way a person communicates and relates to other people. The range and intensity of disability varies widely, but all individuals affected by autism have difficulty wi
Unit 50 Don't We All? I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out work. Coming my way from across the parking lot what the society would consider a bum. From his looks,
Unit 82 Euthanasia: For and Against We mustn't delay any longer ... swallowing is difficult ... and breathing, too ... Those muscles are weakening ... These were the words of Dutchman van Wendel asking his doctor to help him die. Affected with a seri
Terri Is Not a Vegetable Terri Schiavo collapsed in her home in 1990, suffering from heart failure that rendered her severely brain-damaged. Michael Schiavo said his wife suffered from bulimia that resulted in a potassium deficiency, triggering the h
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, says state media. 朝鲜官方媒体宣布,朝鲜将调整所在时区,以纪念二战末从日本统治下获得解放。 North Kor
中式英语再次成为了热点。这次不再是地铁和景区指示牌上的英文错误,或者餐馆菜单上的4 Glad Meetballs(四喜丸子)、Chicken Without Sexual Life(童子鸡),而是中国人自创出来的新词汇:Smilence(笑而不
今晚的达人秀可谓是精彩纷呈,有小正太秀绝妙天籁,也有卷发大叔遭评委灭灯。达人用自创的乐器表演时,更让全体评委起身致敬,敬请期待。
Most teen girls love shopping for stylish clothes and trendy accessories. But that is often an unaffordable dream for young girls who live in foster care. Many were taken away from their families because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. In this repo