121. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs (烈士) ; he is provided with comport and leisure by the most productive economy ever kno...
101. Thus in addition to the chances of going away from the right path outlined above, the scientific investigator shares with the ordinary citizen the possibilities of falling into errors of reasoning in the ways we have just indicated, an...
81. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorical int...
61. Of course, it would be as dangerous to overreact to history by concluding that the majority must now be wrong about expansion as it would be to re-enact the response that greeted the suggestion that the continents had drifted. 62. While...
41. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any give...
21. For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is available for the student to show to prospective employers. 22. All this imposes a constant pressure and strain of work, but in spite of t...
1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half. 2. But it will be the drivers responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a sea...
新托福与雅思相比,虽然难度加大,但是考生只要在备考技巧上多下功夫,同样能达到事半功倍的效果。如何能做到从战略上藐视它,在战术上重视它。 阅读也有小窍门 专家指出,有...
为帮助同学们高效备考托福考试,向同学们介绍托福考试阅读评分标准.新托福阅读考试共三篇文章,每篇12-14道题,如果遇到加试时从考试的五篇文章中随机选取三篇计分.在这三篇文章中...
托福阅读细节题考查的其实是精确定位,托福阅读中的细节题其实不难,但前提是定位的点要对,做新托福阅读细节题,最重要的一点就是要尽量地去精确定位,大家在平时的练习中要...
Questions 30-40 Most sources of illumination generate light over an appreciable period, and indeed if an object is lit for a very brief time(less that 1/25 second), the human eye will not react in time to see the object. A photographic emul...
Question 10-19 Both in what is now the eastern and the southwestern United States, the peoples of the Archaic era (8,000-1,000 B.C) were, in a way, already adapted to beginnings of cultivation through their intensive gathering and processin...
Questions 1-9: Europa is the smallest of planet Jupiters four largest moons and the second moon out from Jupiter. Until 1979, it was just another astronomy textbook statistic. Then came the close-up images obtained by the exploratory spacec...
Questions 30-39 Native Americans probably arrived from Asia in successive waves over several millennia, crossing a plain hundreds of miles wide that now lies inundated by 160 feet of water released by melting glaciers. For several periods o...
Questions 41-50 The stylistic innovation in paining known as Impressionism began in the 1870s. The Impressionists wanted to depict what they saw in nature, but they were inspired to portray fragmentary moments by the increasingly fast pace...
Questions 20-29 Many ants forage across the countryside in large numbers and undertake mass migrations; these activities proceed because one ant lays a trail on the ground for the others to follow. As a worker ant returns home after finding...
The cities in the United States have been the most visible sponsors and beneficiaries of projects that place art in public places. They have shown exceptional imagination in applying the diverse forms of contemporary art to a wide variety o...
Questions 20-30 A survey is a study, generally in the form of an interview or a questionnaire, that provides information concerning how people think and act. In the United States, the best-known surveys are the Gallup poll and the Harris po...
Questions 40-50 Of all modern instruments, the violin is apparently one of the simplest. It consists in essence of a hollow, varnished wooden sound box, or resonator, and a long neck, covered with a fingerboard, along which four strings are...
The wide variety of climates in North America has helped spawn a complex pattern of soil regions. In general, the realms soils also reflect the broad environmental partitioning into humid America and arid America. Where annual precipitation...