Welcome to the fifth and final installment of this year’s Gift Guide! I apologize that it has taken me so far into December to finish these round-ups. Putting this Guide together every year is a bit like childbirth. When it’s over, I quickly forget how grueling it was. Then, smack...
The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish or fireflies or woodpeckers. Today, in contrast, we control this planet. And the question is: How did we come from there to here?
Whenhewas20,in1985,Kéréearnedavocationalscholarshiptostudycarpentry(木工)in Berlin.Butwhileabsorbedinthepracticalityofroofingandfurnituremaking,healsoattended nightschoolandwasadmittedtoTechnicalUniversityofBerlin,fromwhichhegraduatedin2004 withanadvanceddegreeinarchitecture.Hewasstillastudentwhenhedesignedandbuiltthe...
couldstillheartheoperaticsoundsitwasmaking underwater.” Therealizationthatthisisapreciousland,to berespectedbyhumans,wasoneofthebiggest thingsthathithometoGinni. 8.Whichofthefollowingbestexplains“takethe plunge”underlinedinParagraph2? A.Trychallengingthings. B.Takeadegree. C.Bringbacklostmemories. D.Sti...
our ancestors were insignificant animals. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish or fireflies or woodpeckers. Today, in contrast, we control this planet. And the question is:...
721.In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. 起初,屠呦呦奔赴疟疾更为常见的海南研究疟疾患者。 722.In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing...
70,000 years ago, our ancestors were insignificant animals. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish...
From the moa in New Zealand to the dodo in Mauritius, the arrival of humans has often spelled extinction for tasty but previously isolated animals. Many scientists had assumed that the woolly rhinoceros, ashaggybeast that sported an enormous horn, suffered the same fate. The animal was common ...
What I wanted, more than anything, was a few days' rest... 我最想要的就是能休息几天。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 She had been in what doctors described as an irreversible vegetative state for five years... 她处于医生所说的不可逆性植物人状态已经5年了。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 Meanwhile, most young ...
1章练习题 Fill in the blanks. In the past century, language teaching and learning practice have been influenced by three different views of language: the view, the view and the view. 【答案】structural,functional,interactional 【解析】上世纪语言教学和语言学习受三种语言观的影响:结构主义,功能主义...