1. A) All the passengers were killed. C) No more survivors have been found. B) The plane crashed in the night. D) It's too late to search for survivors. 2. A) Its results were just as expected. B) It wasn't very well designed. C) It fully reflected t

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And then came an even more exciting find, in a cave called Lascaux, a gallery of pictures of breathtaking beauty. As more and more paintings came to light, they revealed prehistoric artists had painte

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Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment. In the dense complex world of a tropical forest, it is more important to see well that to develop an acute sense of sme

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AS IT IS 2016-10-03 Newest Service Robots Act Like Humans Machines are now doing many jobs usually performed by people. One new invention is a machine that operates cars and other vehicles in parking garages. Another kind of robot can transport food

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...importantly, By the year 2050,humans will fall in love with the robots .It says here at Science. It's specificly the science of a Dutch researcher who claims the robots are becoming so human-like that it's only a matter of time apparently 2050 be

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考试日期: 2013年2月2日 Reading Passage 1 Title: Agriculture in Africa Question types: Sentence completion; Matching; TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN; Multiple choice 文章内容回顾 非洲一个地区的农业,涉及到那个区域的耕作方式,

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Researchers Remember Discovery of Lucy Skeleton 研究人员回忆发现露西骨架始末 It has been more than 40 years since the discovery of the early human skeleton named Lucy. The old bones were found in Ethiopia. Lucy is one of the most famous

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AS IT IS 2015-05-03 Hippos: The Life Force of African Rivers 河马:非洲河流的生命力量 The hippopotamus is an animal very important to the health of Africa's rivers and lakes. Their dung, or solid waste, helps Africas aquatic ecosystem. But

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AS IT IS 2015-03-16 Fighting for Lions in Zimbabwe 在津巴布韦为更好的保护狮子而努力 Conservationists are breeding lions in the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe. The wildlife experts hope to increase the lion population to keep the

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A walking humanoid robot(类人机器人) able to use its whole face and body to express emotion was unveiled this week in Japan. The robot was created by scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University and its makers say its the first of its kind. It is abl

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Cats And Colors You can look at that quilt your cat is curled up on and see a patchwork of greens, blues, and yellows. Your cat, however, cannot see color variation in the quilt. And here is why. Both humans and cats depend on the back layer of the e

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Vronique LaCapra | Washington 02 December 2009 A very small genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees may help explain why chimpanzees can't speak, but humans can The ability to communicate using complex spoken language is a uniquely human ch

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It started in Greenwich, England. Hour by hour, it traveled west. It hit all the Americas. Then it hit Asia. Then it hit Russia, eastern Europe, and eastern Africa. In just 24 hours, nobody in the world was talking. People were still moving their mou

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Did you hear? Andy asked. Donna asked, Did I hear what? Andy said, Ground beef contains pink slime. I don't know what pink slime is, but it sounds bad. Donna said, I'll tell you what pink slime is. It's trimmings from the cows. They used to put it in

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REMY:Well, it made my dad proud. DAD:Now, dont you feel better,Remy?Youve helped a noble (高贵的)cause(事业). REMY:NobleWere thieves,Dad.And what were stealing is, lets face it, garbage(垃圾). DAD:It isnt stealing if no one wants it.

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The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. But it also threatens wildlife, like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla. VOAs Steve Baragona reports that the spread of Ebola shows how animal diseases spill over the barr

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Technology Quarterly 科技季刊 Technology Quarterly on language: Brain scan: Terry Winograd 科技季刊:脑部扫描:特里威诺格拉德 The Winograd Schema tests computers' understanding of the real world. Winograd模式测试计算机对真

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Topics: The White House; noises made by animals, humans, and machines; document versus documentation; to have to do with; gawd-awfully (god-awfully) Words: renovation wing head of state press briefing room china set to bark pow bam thud splat clank d

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REMY:Well, it made my dad proud. DAD:Now, dont you feel better,Remy?Youve helped a noble (高贵的)cause(事业). REMY:NobleWere thieves,Dad.And what were stealing is, lets face it, garbage(垃圾). DAD:It isnt stealing if no one wants it. R

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Dogs do have much shorter life spans than we humans do. In an attempt to gauge our pets stage in life in a way we can relate to, we often use the popular myth of multiplying their age by seven. One problem with the formula is that it doesnt consider

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