But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to ...
surviving off the same minimum wage job, working full time for not a whole lot more than 100,000 yen a month, and still writing and writing, with no idea whether it’s ever going to get me anywhere. My life was like a dusty shelf in an old book store, where ...
that not only focuses on the leadership role of this one extraordinary woman, but will likely expand most reader’s knowledge of what living in France under German occupation was like for the many, who vehemently opposed the way their government had capitulated to a hostile outside force,...
A.Built-incameras. B.Thecapacitytousetools. C.Itsuniquegenderdesign. D.Theabilitytopickupobjects. 2.WhatdoSchaftandIantheInvinciblehaveincommon? A.Theyhavethesameheight. B.Theyoffersimilarapplications. C.TheybothwonintheRobo-Olympics. D.Theynowbelongtothesamefirm. 3.WhoisTelebotintendedfor? A....
He went on without waiting for the scowl, though he hated to miss it. It was really funny the way Lyubov hated him. Probably the guy was effeminate like a lot of intellectuals, and resented David-son's virility. Anyhow Davidson wasn't going to waste any time hating Lyubov, he wasn't...
He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy ...
Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World war II started, the Taylor moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult(成人)roles and won twice for...
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Yeah, this was a so called different world. Up until now he had been at school. Skipping classes by sleeping the whole time on the rooftop, he had went back to the classroom to fetch his bag after school. There he found these four people here. Like always, he had headed for his des...
The original formula was created byEdgar DaleandJeanne S. Chall. It was first published in 1948 in their book, “A Formula for Predicting Readability.” In 1995 Dale and Chall improved the formula and updated the word list from 763 to 3000 words (source:Readability Revisited: The New Dale-...