Inthe 1930s, alotofpeopleintheUSAwereoutofwork. AmongthesepeoplewasamannamedAlfredButts, healwayshadaninterestinwordgamesandso, tofillhistime, heplannedagamewhichhecalled“Lexico”. However, hewasnotcompletelysatisfiedwiththegame, sohemadeanumberofchangestoitand, intime, changeditsnamefrom“Lexico” ...
I regret to say that my conscience has not troubled me at all about deserting you.But as for enlisting—when I think of joining the army in varnished boots and a white linen suit and armed with only a pair of dueling pistols—And those long cold miles in the snow after my boots wore ...
Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group. 出自-2017...
【题目】People in the United States honour their parents with two special days: Mother's Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father's Day, on the third Sunday in June. Mother's Day was proclaimed a day for national observance by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ann Jarvis from ...
I chose the jumping race.? One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. She always won the blue ribbons. Needless to say, she didn’t feel threatened when I competed against her at the next show. She didn’t need to. I came in next to last. The stinging ...
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we are having the dog days of summer C. We’re leading a dog’s life D. We’re in the dog’s house 4. The passage tells us something about ___. A. dogs and their life B. the structures of dog expression C. the expressions that describe dogs D. the meaning of expressions ...
3 For hundreds of years, hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the particular religious day on which they occurred. One Australian meteorologist (气象学家) began giving women's names to tropical storms at the end of the 19th century. In 1953, the US National Weather Service, which is...
Surrounded by the majestic Teton mountains and blanketed in snow early in the season, it's no wonder that Jackson is frequently named one of the country's best small towns in winter. Its main square even dresses up for the season, as its famous elk antler arches are adorned with an arra...
阅读理解 Before the mid-nineteenth century, people in the United States ate most foods only in season. Drying, smoking and salting could keep meat for a short time, but the chance of eating fresh meat and drinking fresh milk was very limited: there was