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things that were buried resurface in her mind, in her life. A sense of injustice, a prickle of rage. The year of the snake had been the worst, the part she had tried to bury. Origami was a path, a light, because it never resorted to twists or curves to fix a form. ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day one week earlier to extend the shopping season during the Great Depression. But some states pushed back on Roosevelt’s pushback so in the 1940s you had several years withmultipleThanksgiving Days (more turkey for everyone – hooray!) Eventually ...
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being...
D.They feel they’ve lost sight of the things that are most important to them. E.They are choosing to abandon video games in favor of the minimalism style. F.Minimalism has helped people to really appreciate their h...
Ⅰ. Multiple choice(本题共15分,每小题1分) Choose the best answer from A, B or C according to the meaning of the sentence. 1. —Your skirt ___ so special. —Oh yes, it’s very popular these days. It’s a horse-face ...
Directions: Put the following sentences in the proper order so that they make a complete paragraph. 1. For instance, the word “kick” can mean many different things depending on how it is used in a phrase. 2. Learning how phrases come together in English will come with continued submersion...
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Tina got her ten points that day. She alsogot the love and respect of her classmates. To her, that was worth a whole lot more than ten points.第2 页共 2 页{#{QQABRYYAggCgAJAAAAhCEQECCgOQkAACAAoOQAAMIAAAyBFABAA=}#}第 1 页共 10 页第 2 页共 10 页中学生标准学术能力诊断性测试...
The traps are things that cause your natural ability to react without you realizing that there is a connection between the two. Thus, avoiding relevant traps is also a good idea.40For example, if one of your colleagues...