K: how many people are there in your family? J: my immediate family is quite small. Its just my older step-brother, my mom, my step-dad and me. how about you? K: I have a large family. I have three older sisters, my twin sister, a younger brother, an

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Section C Compound Dictation In police work, you can never predict the next crime or problem. No working day is (36) ______ to any other, so there is no (37) ______ day for a police officer. Some days are (38) ______ slow, and the job is (39) ______

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Identicals share one of the closest human relationships biologically. They are likely to grow up looking and sounding extremely similar, yet not a 100% match. A small number of genes in the mother's eggs sit outside the nucleus, known as mitochondria

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The remote village of Kodinji in southern India, population about 13,500, is home to more than 100 pairs of twins, and 90% of those were born within the last 18 years. No one quite knows why, and no published study explains the phenomenon. At the las

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Topics: American Authors-Willa Cather; the basics of hockey; oblivious versus forgetfulness; carnivore versus predator; equal versus identical Words: frontier Great Plains trilogy spirit remote to edit intellectual property puck jersey intermission t

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Heavy air on this Moment of Science. Here's an oxiny question: does air weigh anything? At first it might seem preplexing, on the one hand, air just seems floating, I mean, to say something is as light as air is to say its weighlessness, is isn't? Bu

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Unit 8 Section (A) Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning At first it was just plain surprising. Word last week that a scientist named Ian Wilmut had succeededin cloning an adult mammal an achievement long thought impossible caught the imagination o

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Unit 6 Nature and Nurture After-Class Reading PASSAGE I Science Looks Twice at Twins Proper Names Chevrolet 雪佛兰(轿车品牌) Cleveland 克利夫兰(美国俄亥俄州东北部港市) Jim (男子名

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The remote village of Kodinji in southern India, population about 13,500, is home to more than 100 pairs of twins, and 90% of those were born within the last 18 years. No one quite knows why, and no published study explains the phenomenon. At the la

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Essentially, the D.H.C. concluded, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. 从根本上讲,主任下结论道,波坎诺夫斯基化程序包含了一系列对发展的抑制 We check the normal growth and, paradoxically

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Twins by Richard Sidaway What do the singer Alanis Morissette, the supermodel Gisele Bundchen and the ex-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan all have in common? The answer is, they all have a brother or sister who was born on the same

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The Epidemic of Cheating in Sports Throughout time, cheating in sports has caused debate and dispute. Athletes often do whatever it takes to win in competition. Some take drugs that are meant to improve their performance, such as steroids. These migh

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文本: S: Okay, two bottles. Explain. J: Theres a good bottle and a bad bottle. You take the pill from the good bottle, you live; take the pill from the bad bottle, you die. S: Both bottles are of course identical. J: In every way. S: And you know

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He and his coworker, Sheila, were at Shake Shake in Brooklyn. They had both ordered cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes. He had ordered a coffee shake. She had ordered a chocolate shake. Their buzzer sounded. He went to the pick-up counter. He brought t

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模仿句子:Paula and Bridgette Powers are identical twins from eastern Australia who do the most extraordinary thing. They choose to speak at the same time. 翻译:葆拉和布丽奇特鲍尔斯是澳大利亚东部的同卵双胞胎,她们会做

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Key Sentences (重点句子) 347.What is your hurry? 什么事让您这么着急呢? 348.I'm sorry to burst in on you like this, but I'm really upset. 我很抱歉这样突然地找您,但我真的很心烦。 349.What on earth has happ

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If you frequently find yourself covered in mosquito bites, while others escape without so much as an itch, you can blame your genes. 如果你发现蚊子特别喜欢叮你,而其他人都安然无恙,这其实与你的基因有关。 For British

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What are the characteristics we can control for? 我们能够控制那些特征? Well I'm going to match families on country of birth and residence, 我考虑的匹配包括出生地和居住地, the demographics -- what sex, their age -- their i

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本期真题 1. Could you take a _____ sheet of paper and write your name at the top? A) bare B) vacant C) hollow D) blank 2. A culture in which the citizens share similar religious beliefs and values

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模仿文本:Now there's one corner of the Cuban capital Havana where you'd be forgiven for thinking that you're seeing double. Calle 68-A is home to a remarkably high number of twins, and most of them are identical. There are many wild and wonderf

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