A. The limited life made many people pay Social Security taxes yet never benefit from it. B. Life expectancy was only 60 years, so few people would like to pay the Social Security taxes. C. A retiree could collect more in benefits if he/she would not die before the limited time. D....
6. English is ___ used in the world. That's why we need to learn it.7. You can buy drinks from the drinks machine over there. But remember: it only accepts ___.8. The Internet has become part of ___ life. People can work, study and have fun on the Internet.Ⅲ. 根据汉语...
Whenhewas20,in1985,Kéréearnedavocationalscholarshiptostudycarpentry(木工)in Berlin.Butwhileabsorbedinthepracticalityofroofingandfurnituremaking,healsoattended nightschoolandwasadmittedtoTechnicalUniversityofBerlin,fromwhichhegraduatedin2004 withanadvanceddegreeinarchitecture.Hewasstillastudentwhenhedesignedandbuiltthe...
August Wilson was a famous American writer. He left school in the ninth grade. In the late 1960s, Wilson built a theater and began to think of ways to make people know more about African-American life. He had the idea of a series of(系列) plays. Each of the plays showed how African...
new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city.In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces...
amounts of what happens to us in our lives. And sometimes memory was downright creative. Mark Twain understood this. He’s quoted as saying, “some of the worst things in my life never happened”.(Laughter) And research shows us that we actually remember the past more positively as we ...
During Covid, one of these predictions came true. Millions were forced to work from home. So, what will work be like in the future? That's what we'll be discussing in this program, and as usual we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary...
Back in the 1930s, the country life was really tough. One day after dinner, Susan’s mother sat on the seat, announcing to the children the Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Susan reflected carefully and seriously on what her mothe...
Now, carving their faces took over six and a half years, and cost almost a million dollars.And this was in the 1930s, during the worst economic depression in U.S. history!Does that strike any of you as odd? Well, I personally think that the Great Depression of the 1930s actually mak...
Focussing on Walter Greenwood's 1933 novel Love on the Dole and critical responses to it, this article aims to assess criticism of working-class writing and analyse problems in its reception. The article posits a new reading of the novel, foregrounding Greenwood's complex sexual politics, his ...