The Five Laws began with a drink. Late one night in 2005, I sat down for a whiskey with Sir James Black, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing the beta-blockers for hypertension and histamine
Even when position is conceptually independent of word length (e.g., positions one and two are at the beginning of words of all lengths), bigram frequen- cies may depend on word length. For example, gr starts 19 different five-letter words in English but no three-letter words. Finally,...
Here is a letter and some books for you.这封信和一些书是给你的。(以here开头的句子,其谓语动词和靠近的主语一致) 三、主谓一致重点知识归纳 集合名词做主语的主谓一致问题 1.通常用作复数的集合名词 police(警察),people(人),cattle...
Thank you, Christiane, and thank you all for joining us today to discuss our third quarter results and business update. We are very pleased with the progress we've made since our second quarter call. The entire Five Below organization has come together with a refreshed mindset and a focus t...
As with the example fromThe Hunger Games, this flashback begins with a more general summary (about a female coworker and the “Inner Party” member O’Brian) then we come to the end of the flashback with another summary (a paragraph beginning “That was all, and he was already uncertain...
a world record in the200-meter backstroke and two FINA Swimmer of the Year Awards, Missy Franklin is hanging up her goggles.In a letter on ESPN, Franklin announced her retirement, citing chronic shoulder pain that she's been battling for more than two years.At the 2012 Summer Olympics in ...
With a boy's curiosity I have peeped through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such a room. “One day—it was in March, 1883—a letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the table in front of the ...
29.What happened to the writer at the beginning of the story? ___A.His father died in a car accident six years ago.B.He had to drop out of school to look after his sick mother.C.He couldn't afford his two brothers' tuition even if he worked from day to night.D.He didn't hav...
Each sentence must begin with a capital letter. 1. if / night / tell / you / me / there / a/ ferry / can / is / ? / 2. into / it / long / get / take / does / Rotterdam / to / how / ? / 3. half / her / takes / get / hour / to / to / work / an / it ...
“One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. ’From India!’ said he...