A.are more likely to live longer than people who often eat fruitsB.don’t need to go to hospitalC.may live longer than people who don’t eat nutsD.don’t have to do sports【2】The underlined word “well-being” in Paragraph 2 shares the same meaning as “___”.A.illnessB.health...
Burger King created the Whopper in 1957—more than a decade before McDonald’s launched the Big Mac. Its original price was just 37 cents. 1958: First Pizza Hut opens Al Moldvay // Getty Images 1958: First Pizza Hut opens Wichita, Kansas, welcomed the first Pizza Hut in 1958. The orig...
36-cm skirts over the past six months. their results show that it has jumped from an average age of 36-year-old at the start of millennium (千禧年) to 40 today. figures from 1980 showed that on average women stopped buying minis when they reached 33 years old--a figure unchanged from...
As chief financial officer of what was until recently the world's largest airline, Derek Kerr has what most would consider a good problem at American: He has had plenty of money to spend. But that's more challenging that it appears. In his previous job,
Fig. 2: Drought events from a long-term perspective. Full size image Two megadroughts in central Europe Fig. 3: Precipitation variability over the last millennium. Full size image Fig. 4: Temperature variability over the last millennium. ...
Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and The Clash, punk rockers have had a sweeping influence on music and culture. It can still be seen some 40 years after Sid Vicious died and more than a decade since the lights went off at the famed punk rock and new...
If you were looking for a fun-filled seaside British holiday in the 1800s, there was no better place to visit than West Pier in Brighton. During its heyday, The West Pier saw millions of visitors annually, many of whom were there to experience the concert hall that was added on in 191...
While previous studies seem to show that the reducing the stakes of the test has not brought about the impact as intended yet, after a decade’s implementation, further and deeper investigation is needed to investigate what exactly the change means to students and their English-language learning....
As car flops go, the Pontiac Aztek ranks up there with Ford’s Edsel and its failure was symptomatic of the shortcomings of General Motors at the turn of the millennium. It was intended to be cooler-looking than a minivan. The problem was it was built on the cheap and the Aztec used...
If the millennium was not yet at hand on the North Side, an old conflict was. Cub President Dallas Green, an import from Philadelphia who’d pulled the Cubs into the 20th Century with all the finesse of Sherman touring Georgia, announced the collapse of negotiations with Wrigleyville. ...