阅读理解. American cities are similar to other cities around the world. In every country, cities reflect the values of the culture. American cities are changing, just as American society is changing. After World War Ⅱ, the population of most large
12. —Which do you like best of all the jackets? —I'll ___ the grey one.It looks on me.( ) A. take B. sell C. have 13. —Your friend looks unhappy.What's wrong? —She lost her pet dog.You know,...
St. Augustine wrote about the two cities separated by a wall, the one temporal and the other sacred. So the concept goes back to the Church doctrine of separate spheres of influence. Later it acquired an Enlightenment strain. In each case it predates the colonies, and it certainly predates ...
If there's one absolute giveaway from non-Americans that you are from the USA, it is that your shirt will say things like "Choose Love" or "Seattle" or "USC." Graphic tees, or t-shirts with text on them at all, are less common throughout, say, Europe. We say it's...
A bookshop, library, bar, restaurant and event space, now with four divisions in three cities—Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.(最后一段第一句) 译文:The Bookworm 书店——位于中国北京,是一家集书店、图书馆、酒吧、饭店和 活动场所于一体的书店,现在在北京、苏州和成都三个都市共有四家分店。 【...
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE“The Beast in the Jungle”We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capableof killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, 1953OPPENHEIMER HAD LONG BEEN HARBORING a vague premonition that something dark and momentous lay in...
This breed is descended from dogs that were once bred to hunt and provide food in Europe and the British Isles. In 1884, a 23-pound son of Farrow’s Obo, named Obo II, was brought to the United States. By 1936, four varieties were being shown: Black, Parti, English, and a fourth...
I: In Britain we are often told that people are leaving the big cities to live in the countryside but is this the case worldwide?E: Not at all. If you look at the biggest cities in 1950, seven out of the top ten were in the developed countries but by the year 2000, the ...
My family fled and thankfully found a safe haven in Europe, but so many other families did not have such luck. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced or killed in this senseless conflict that is ravaging my homeland. It is my hope that a strong education will equip me with...
... The treasures of the East were long brought overland to Alexandria, or Constantinople, or the cities of the Levant, and thence distributed to Europe by the galleys of Genoa or of Venice. ... But when the Turk placed himself astride the Bo...