根据第二段“She warns that big projects like this one could be used to support or excuse ‘much more unsustainable development in the desert in the future’.(她警告说,像这样的大型项目可能会被用来支持或为未来在沙漠中‘更不可持续的发展’找借口。)”可知,Wilder对海水淡化厂的态度是怀疑的。故选...
1【题目】The Painted Desert is in Arizona(亚利桑那), America. It covers93,500 acres(公顷) and stretches over 160 miles. It is called “paintedbecause it has coloured rocks. The rocks look like they were painted. Thiscolorful desert has cliffs(悬崖) and hills. It also has trees that turne...
The Arizona desert is really dry. Anyone stuck in it without water would die from dehydration(脱水)within three days. Unless, that is, they had one of Omar Yaghi’s next-generation water harvesters. Although daytime humidity(湿度)is only about 10 per cent, this rises to 40 per cent at ...
One thing that visitors can rely on seeing when visiting the desert is an abundance of unusual cacti. The best-known of these is the majestic saguaro, which only grows in Arizona. These desert giants can grow up to 40ft tall and have become a symbol of the southwest. Lesser-known, but...
In the Arizona desert, tomatoes hang from ceilings, spinach grows without soil and shrimp lire in indoor pools. What’s going on.’ Food research! People perform these experiments to learn how to produce more food. There will be over 6.5 bil- lion people on earth after two decades. We ...
As he arrives, the monster appears above him in the hatchway crawl space having pulled off the board Chris had nailed. CHRIS (CONT'D) (into camera) This is the only thing that can kill the monster. It’s gonna be risky but without great risk, there is no freedom. So we will now ...
Having undertaken to tell this story, I wish that I could describe the man’s appearance; that would be a natural thing to do. Unfortunately, and somewhat strangely, I find myself unable to do so with any degree of confidence, for afterward no two of us agreed as to what he wore and...
根据文章第二段第一、二句 The Arizona desert is really dry. Anyone stuck in it without water would die from dehydration (脱水) within three days, unless he had one of Omar Yaghi's next-generation water harvesters, who is a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley. 可知第二段提到...
People were able to continually keep on fixing up their epicyclic theory, to keep on accounting for new observations, and they were completely wrong in knowing what was going on. I don’t think we’re that badly off, but it’s illustrative of another thing that bothers some people. Every...
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