53. What does the underlined word "abandoned" mean in English?54. When did the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill become famous?55./新考向 开放性试题/ Which animal is your favourite according to the passage? Why?V.阅读理解(二)(本题共5小题,每小题2分,共10分)阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,回答...
What does -110 mean? You also need to understand how odds work in point-spread betting. In the above Super Bowl example, you’ll notice a -110 next to both spreads (assuming you’re using American odds). This is called the vig (short for vigorish) or the juice. It is a price that...
Though many Amish speak English without difficulty, for most Amish people it is still a second language. I once asked someone from a much “higher” Amish group whether dealing in English still “felt” like using a foreign language. She replied that it did, saying that she thinks in Pennsy...
Though many Amish speak English without difficulty, for most Amish people it is still a second language. I once asked someone from a much “higher” Amish group whether dealing in English still “felt” like using a foreign language. She replied that it did, saying that she thinks in Pennsy...
We need to figure out what they mean by “they’re not doing well.” That’s one thing that we talked about yesterday—Is it a behavior problem, or is it an academic problem? So that’s another thing to consider.So after they’ve done that, eventually it will come back to that ...
In that talk, Lee addressed the first question “What does it mean to take anything seriously?” by declaring that “when we take something seriously, we often talk about professing it:” “The deepest, oldest meaning of the word “profess” is to take religious orders in a public and ...
June is #Pridemonth. This is the most colorful month of the year since the LGBTQ+ pride is celebrated. The RAINBOW flag is used widely but it is not the only flag that people in the community connect with. Did you know that there are more than 20 differe
It's been a long and bumpy road to the Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut in more than four years — a moment that could prove decisive to the finances of millions of Americans. The Fed on Wednesday lowered its benchmark rate by 0.50 percentage points, a critical pivot after ...
OpenAI came to life in 2015 in San Francisco as a joint initiative of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. The mission was simple but wildly ambitious—develop safe and open AI tools to empower (rather than eradicate) people. “OpenAI’...
Welcome to San Luis Obispo, California—a city of 44,000 located between Los Angeles and San Francisco. What makes this one of the happiest cities in the United States? The area’s natural beauty is one important factor. The city is close to both the ocean and the mountains, and there ...