Short-term Memory There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or weeks. Sometimes information in the long-term memory

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Slippery When Wet 滑溜溜的鳗鱼 Many people enjoy eating fried eel, but few stop to think about the life of this unique fish. There are hundreds of different species of eel, all of which can be roughly divided into two groups according to their

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Let's Hear It for Mom! 听听妈妈的故事 Where would we be without mothers, those tireless caregivers who wipe our noses, pack our lunches, cry at our weddings, and always consider us, though we may already be adults, their babies? Although we ma

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Remembering the Lady of the Lamp 感谢白衣天使 As with natural disasters such as earthquakes, war exacts a heavy psychological toll on those of its victims fortunate enough to avoid death or injury. Ironically, one of the first recorded sufferer

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Turn the TV on to one of the cable sports channels anytime and there's a pretty good chance you'll see two or four powerfully built young people grunting and yelling as they smash a rubber ball across a net. Such is the modern style of tennis, once t

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Recently we were told by a student that setting aside time for improving his physical fitness would be a total misuse of his working hours. He assured us that he would be no better served by a fitness program than by learning to play bridge. College

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An hour before midnight is worth two after or so my mother used to tell me as I sat down to breakfast after a particularly late night. But is it really true that sleep before 12 p.m. is twice as good for you as sleep after that hour? At the time, lik

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According to the writer Walter Ellis, author of a book called the Oxbridge Conspiracy, Britain is still dominated by the old-boy network: it isn't what you know that matters, but who you know. He claims that at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Oxbr

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American men don't cry because it is considered not characteristic of men to do so. Only women cry. Cry is a weakness characteristic of the femele, and no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine. Crying, in ou

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What Is Money and What Are Its Functions? Money is something you've been familiar with throughout your life. In fact, you may already consider yourself an expert on the subject. You regularly use money to measure the value of things you own. You also

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Universe may be proven flat 宇宙是平的 The Boomerang experiment balloon inflating just before launch 气球发射升空前在充气 A high-flying balloon which soared over Antarctica may have answered one of cosmology's greatest questions by rev

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EU overhauls aid system 欧盟将彻底改革其援助计划 European aid too often arrives too late 欧盟援助总是姗姗来迟 The European Commission is to radically overhaul the way it runs its vast foreign aid programme after years of ineffic

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Aids to kill 'one in two Africans' 艾滋病将使一半非洲人丧生 The UN is cutting life expectancy rates in Africa 非洲人寿命减短 The Aids virus will kill half of all young adults in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, according to a s

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Water 'found on Mars' 火星上发现有水 The brine seepage is believed to be in Candor Chasm 咸水渗出物应该是在Candor Chasm There is currently water on the surface of Mars, Nasa scientists believe. The evidence is contained in pictures ta

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UK and China boost learning links 中英将加强教育合作 The internet can bring educational contacts 互联网可加强教育领域的交流 The UK and China have signed a deal aimed at boosting education and training links. Latest figures show

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Nasa doubles Mars traffic 美将发射两枚探测器登陆火星 An artist's impression of what the new rovers will look like 想象中的新的漫游者的样子 The American space agency, Nasa, has announced that it is planning to send two unmanne

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AOL's billion dollar profits 美国在线利润十多亿 In January, AOL announced plans to merge with media giant Time Warner 美国在线1月宣布计划与媒体巨头时代华纳合并 America Online, the world's richest internet company, beat an

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The Origin of the Rainbow 彩虹的起源 Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best. 有一天,世界上的五颜六色彼此争吵了起来,每一个颜色都声称自己是最好的。 Gree

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The Dog and the Shadow 狗和影子 It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now, on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and

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江山易改,本性能移 Transsexuality is an interesting, if baffling, subject for most people. It is often confused with transvestitism, even though the two are distinctly different. Transvestites feel a compulsion to dress in clothing that is c

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