大学英语精读第四册 Unit Three:Why Do We Believe That the Ear

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Do you know so many of you will climb into your cars today perhaps to shuffle your children to soccer, to football, make their (refer to the cars) run to the grocery store. But do you also know what's

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CNN 2010-10-03

Declassify US government documents and witness testimony from former or retired US military personnel confirm beyong any doubt the reality of ongoing UFO incursions at nuclear weapon sites. When I say UFO, the witnesses have described this craft as d

SSS 2009-01-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

SSS 2010-01-12

If youve ever had a garden or grown flowers in a window box, youve probably heard that you shouldnt water your plants at high noon because their leaves might scorch. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can foc

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China's national observatory renewed its orange alert for cold wave- the second highest level - on Sunday evening. Sun jun, chief forecaster of the National Meteorological Center, says the strong cold front is linked with the activity of the polar vo

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The mascot, Kangkang, debuted on Thursday. It's based on a colored ink prototype painted by well-known Chinese artist Han Meilin. The 80-year-old is the man behind the famous fuwa, the mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. For the Spring Fes

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For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, 首先，如果真是艾宾浩斯效应， then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds 那么我们应该预期月球错觉对于空中的飞行员来

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When a prospective employer makes unreasonable demands on you before things start to get serious, it's a strong signal to hit the road. 当一位未来雇主在工作还没正式之前就提出了无理要求，那么明显说明你需要跑路了。