For them, reading is the greatest pleasure in the world.But nowadays(如今), there 11 fewer and fewer among us. With the 12 of the Internet,most people would like to 13 their spare(空闲的) hours on the Internet, reading news or watching movies. As bookworms are dying out from our ...
Lennie and George have a dream: to own a small farm one day. When they get a job in the Salinas Valley, the dream seems to be within their grasp. But Lennie’s love of petting soft things, such as small animals or people’s hair, leads to disaster. Number of pages: 105. Estimated...
Even though I got it from the library, I want a copy for my shelf so I can refer back to the cool info I learned and show it to people. Thanks to the author for writing this book that gives us all a peak into this fascinating area of research and culture. Helpful Report Abigail...
. . UNTIL PEOPLE START DYING . . . IMPORTANT PEOPLE. A murder victim is discovered in a shallow grave in southern Georgia. The skeleton turns out to be that of Billy Howell, a well-liked business owner thought to have died in a boating accident 25 years earlier. Under appreciated ...
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a duty and a pleasure. She enjoyed helping them. At last her mind was made up: “I'm going to be a nurse ” she decided. “Nursing isn't the right work for a lady ” her father told her. “Then I'll make it so ” she...
I haven’t read all of Updike’s books, but in the books I have read, there is often more passion for ideas and words than for people. The sex scenes tend to feel yucky to me, like sticky pages in an old sex magazine. For other views of the book, look at a 1986 review of ...
She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with ...
依据第三段中的“Days ago in China, three old men were caught by the police for killing a serow, a kind of protected animal.( 几天前,在中国,三名老人因杀死一种受保护动物而被警方抓获)”可知鬣羚在中国是受保护的动物。故选C项 。 (2)题详解: 推理判断题。依据第四段的首句“However, ...
FBI agents and others all deserve a tremendous amount of credit for piecing these cases together against impossible odds. Most important, the book tells the story of these courageous people in the civil rights movement and their families, who never gave up hope, never stopped believing. They con...
The words “protect animals” appear everywhere in books and on screens, because some animals are even in danger of dying out. But sometimes the fact can be a little different from what people read or watch.About 300 black bears were killed in Florida, the US, in October, 2015. It’s ...