For a few months after the “library” opened, I didn’t bother taking a look, as I had assumed that it would be stuffed full of cheesy love stories. Then I noticed folk conducting spring cleans dropping boxes of voluminous books on various subjects there. And these books were free. This...
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – This past summer, it seemed like everyone I chatted with was concerned about the rising cost of food and despite the rising costs, the lack of healthy food that is affordable. In my household, my wife and I have taken on the challenge of growing specific greens and ve...
B、the language of which C、all it said D、which it had said It __A_ me three years to draw the beautiful horses. A、took B、paid C、spent D、cost Please remind me _B__ her this note. A、leave B、to leave C、leaving D、left The new discovery _A__ be of ...
When I was a kid, I didn't have much friends, and I didn't think it was very interesting and cool to play on the slide with other kids in the garden every day. I love the sound of instruments in the house. I love the moment my fingers press the keys and the magic begins to h...
it had an obscene amount of funding despite little direction and spent too much of the money on marketing what other researchers frequently snubbed as unoriginal research. It was, for some, also an object of envy. As a nonprofit, it had said that it had no intention to chase commercializatio...
There was a time when I had to count every penny (一分钱) I spent. I had to count the cost in my head while 1 . I would stand there and add up each item over and over. I remember on a Christmas Eve when I was shopping at Trader Joe’s. I stood by the refrigerators and co...
1. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river--and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights...
根据第一段“There was a time when I had to count every penny I spent.”可知,作者那段时期经历的困难是需要足够的钱维持收支平衡。故选B。 (2)题详解: 词义猜测题。根据第二段“I...had to give up the one thing I loved—a bag of chicken tamales (鸡肉玉米粽) . That bag pushed the ...
Love and logic: The story of a fallacy 爱情与逻辑:谬误的故事 1 I had my first date with Polly after I made the trade with my roommate Rob. That year every guy on campus had a leather jacket, and Rob couldn't stand the idea of being the only ...
Vassiliou’s team based its method on an early form of seismic-isolation that rolls a shaking building to a stop the way a skater in a half-pipe eventually comes to rest. By separating a building from the ground with a...