The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
M:While most financial planners do give numbers, I don't think that's useful, as people are living in different areas with different costs of living, and have different needs and wants, which is why I suggest that people aim for financial independence. W: What do you mean by financial i...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
This was a conventional funeral in the 1960s, but this send-off of the dead has undergone adjustments over the decades. Perhaps the most significant change is the rising popularity of cremation, says Gary Laderman, chair of Emory University's department of religion and author of two books on...
7 Let us suppose that you are fortunate and can describe to your own satisfaction in so many words the exact meaning of your chosen theme. There is still no guarantee that anyone else will be satisfied. Nor need they be. The important thing is that each one feels for himself the specific...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
In November 1998, a few days before the fourth Conference of Parties, some 9.000 people died from an hurricane in Central America. Hurricanes are not uncommon in the Americas but never have so many people died in a hurricane in United States because the US government ...
The stunning city of Petra in Jordan was built by the Nabataeans with staggering sums from the luxury trade. Now the discovery of a faraway submerged altar temple shows the extent of its reach.
4. Oral healthcare is not affordable for many people and remains a sentinel of the ever-growing health inequalities gap13. Low socioeconomic status is associated with greater prevalence and severity of oral diseases. Caries and periodontal diseases are preventable, but the cost of accessing a dent...
**1. Why was lobster seen as "survival food" in history?** 文章第二段提到,龙虾曾经被认为是“生存食物”,因为它们数量很多,而且不容易保鲜,只有在人们非常饿的时候才会吃。 A. 价格普遍昂贵,与文章描述不符。 B. 难以捕捉,文章没有提到。 C. 看起来可怕,味道不好,与文章描述不符。 D. 很常见,而且...