384,000 vehicles were written off on Britain’s roads last year. Most alarmingly, 44% ofyoungsters who wrote their car off, did so just metres from their own home. Regardless of how hard the nation’s drivers work tostay safe on roads, more than 1,000 vehicles are being written off ev...
she realized it was a piece of metal from the shipwreck. She wondered if it could be used to signal for help. She spent days working on it, trying to make it into a makeshift signal device. Finally, her efforts paid ...
I looked around and finally spotted David, who was standing by himself off to the side by a fence. He was small for ten years old. His usual big toothy smile was absent today. I walked over and asked him why he wasn’t with the...
Each year, around New Year’s Eve, I block off three days, get out my whiteboard markers and note taking app, and start to check in with myself and my family. I start by reflecting on how the last year went and what I want to accomplish in the year ahead. New Year’s resolutions...
Its metabolical processes are of interest only to historians! It's popped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot!" (Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch) ...
While persuasive writing styles usually come off as confident, the narrator’s admission that he doesn’t precisely know the answer to this conundrum helps humanize the conflict he’s debating. Certainly, this is a depressing worldview, and one which the reader is free to disagree with, but ...
The following two excerpts, from recent pieces by Ian Frazier and John Updike, are 100 percent off-the-wall; nothing written during America‘s earlier golden ages was any funnier. Frazier's piece is called "Dating Your Mom," and it begins like this: In today’s fast-moving, transient,...
4. The changes in car production in Japan shows a palpitation for the second quarter of the year. 5. The number of students in debate clubs fluctuated in different months of the year and rapid ups and downs could be observed in t...
a guy. she got 25 to life. as they were moving her from new york upper state prison. a van hit the transport car she was in head on. she was able to get free and walk off. no one has been able to find her until now. who in the hell shot her is what i am wanting to ...
A. blew off 炸掉”;B. cut off 切断”;C. wiped out 精疲力竭”;D. cut out 切断”。 根据下文“Maja 8 her first artificial leg.可知这里意思是一颗炸弹炸掉了她的左腿。故选Ao(8)考查动词。句意:在美国接受了两年的治疗, Maja收到了她的第一条假肢。 A.seized 逮住";B. adjusted 调整”;C....