考研背诵50篇——13 Skyscrapers and Environment

In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public

考研背诵50篇——06 Television

Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an e

考研背诵50篇——01 The Language of Music

A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly depende

考研背诵50篇——09 Suburbanization

If by suburb is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period th

考研背诵50篇——11 Archaeology

Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tr

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Before the 1930's ,workers were only paid as long as they were smart [00:05.69]If they were smart enough not to be ill,they were pai [00:10.06]If they were smart enough not to by injured,they were pai [00:13.66]And if they were very smart,they would

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A new device is helping computers provide great amounts of informatio [00:27.35]The device is the compact disc or C [00:43.02]It was invented several years ag [00:57.50]to replace music records made of plasti [01:13.67]A CD is played on a machine tha

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Ladies and gentleme [00:08.91]we are arriving at the scenic spot now [00:26.04]and there are a few things you need to remembe [00:43.76]First,remove all valuables from the coa [01:01.49]because we can't guarantee their safet [01:17.74]Second,note the

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The best way to find a book in the librar [00:16.46]is to use the card catalogu [00:27.53]The catalogue is an index of all the book [00:46.24]All the cards are filed alphabeticall [01:01.20]and storied in drawers in large cabinet [01:16.04]There are

考研背诵50篇——43.Statistics

There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of government units (states and statistics come from the same Latin root status) and a ge

考研背诵50篇——48 Bacteria

Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are us

考研背诵50篇——49 Sleep

Sleet is part of a person's daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll abou

考研背诵50篇——30 The origin of Refrigerators

By the mid-nineteenth century, the term icebox had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States . The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, ta

考研背诵50篇——39 The Salinity of Ocean Waters

If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity. One of these is the

考研背诵50篇——35.Oil Refining

An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum a dark, thick ooze from the earth had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made of it. In the 1850 s Samuel M. Kier, a manufacturer i

考研背诵50篇——34 Raising Oysters

In the oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes- by transplanting them. First, farmers selected the oyster bed, cleared the bottom of old shells and other debris, then scattered clean shells about. Next, they planted f

考研背诵50篇——29 Telecommuting

Telecommuting-- substituting the computer for the trip to the job ----has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work. For workers it promises freedom from the office, less time wasted in traffic, and help with child-car

考研背诵50篇——21 The Origin of Sports

When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds dance. The apes have sim

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The United States is a land of immigrant [00:20.87]The immigrants brought many different styles of food with the [00:41.74]That's why you can find almost every kind of food in Americ [01:04.89]In some case [01:13.04]Americans have adopted foods from

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