英语四级真题
  • Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.
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  • Why learning and forgetting are complementary.
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  • While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.
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  • Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.
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  • When you can quote a specific number like a fifth of the patients were able to quit, that's compelling.
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  • What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
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  • Toilet paper manufacturers are facing a great challenge in promoting its sales.
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  • This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.
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  • This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.
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  • They were offered nicotine replacements.
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  • They were looked after by physicians.
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  • They were given physical training.
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  • They were encouraged by psychologists.
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  • They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.
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  • They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.
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  • They are simply unable to make it.
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  • They are shaped like jewel cases.
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  • They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.
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  • They are heavily painted in red.
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  • They are favored as a form of art.
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  • They are cherished by the rich.
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  • They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.
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  • These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.
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  • These extra features are deemed unnecessary by the majority of shoppers, which probably reflects how these types of products are typically more expensive than regular toilet paper, even when on special offer.
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  • There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.
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  • The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.
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  • The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.
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  • The millennials ( ' , 千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.
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  • The house prices are currently too high.
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  • The elaborate patterns were believed to offer protection against evil.
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  • The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.
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  • Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.
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  • Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.
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  • Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.
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  • Some traditions are simple, like the red eggs that get baked into Greek Easter breads.
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  • Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.
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  • Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.
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  • Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage.
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  • Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.
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  • People are in harmony with the environment.
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  • People are healthy and energetic longer.
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  • People are generally more competitive.
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  • Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.
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  • Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say.
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  • Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( ' , 神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.
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  • Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.
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  • Members of poorly managed teams are easily distracted from their work.
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  • Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.
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  • Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.
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  • Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.
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  • In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.
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  • In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.
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  • In her study, participants were randomly ( ' , 随机地) assigned to two groups.
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  • In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.
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  • In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.
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  • Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.
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  • However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.
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  • High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.
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  • Hackman ( ' , who died in 2013) noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.
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  • For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.
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  • Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.
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  • Eggs are, too.
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  • Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.
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  • Consumers are loyal to certain brands.
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  • Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.
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  • Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
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  • Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.
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  • But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.
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  • But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.
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  • And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.
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  • And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.
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  • Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.
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  • A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.
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  • A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.
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  • A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.
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  • Veiseh agrees: It is like having these open wounds – they are just a part of you, he says.
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  • With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.
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  • With Facebook she could stay connected with her family no matter how far away they were.
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  • Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.
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  • What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.
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  • We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.
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  • There were no injuries.
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  • The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.
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  • The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.
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  • The attitudes are published in a new AAA survey of 1,800 drivers.
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  • The 13 dead were all Costa Rican, the foreign ministry said.
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  • She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies and traveling.
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  • She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.
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  • People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.
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  • Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.
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  • Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.
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  • Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.
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  • It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.
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  • In fact, I’d like to relive a period I’ve already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.
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  • Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today!  There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.
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  • He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.
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  • Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.
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  • But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.
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  • Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murder and exposing people to danger, according to police.
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  • Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.
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英语六级真题
  • Yet they are doing it quite differently.
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  • Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.
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  • Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.
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  • Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.
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  • Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.
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  • White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.
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  • While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.
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  • While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.
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  • Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
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  • Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.
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  • We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.
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  • Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
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  • To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.
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  • They were versed in literature and interested in art.
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  • They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.
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  • They were courageous and venturesome.
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  • They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.
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  • They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.
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  • They are not as serious in its online stores.
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  • They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.
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  • They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.
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  • They are more likely to be at risk of dying.
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  • There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
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  • There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.
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  • There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.
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  • There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.
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  • There are benefits to both approaches.
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  • There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.
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  • The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.
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  • The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.
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  • The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.
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  • The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.
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  • The most successful sharers—those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often—get noticed, and their work gets used.
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  • The meals are not particularly appetizing, or even safe.
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  • The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problemsolving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.
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  • The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.
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  • The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.
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  • The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.
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  • The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
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  • System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.
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  • Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.
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  • Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.
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  • Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
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  • Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.
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  • Repositories are essential to scientific research.
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  • Private collections were of greater variety.
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  • People used to live near people of different income levels; neighborhoods are now more segregated by income.
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  • Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.
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  • Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.
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  • Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.
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  • Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.
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  • Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.
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  • Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.
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  • None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
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  • Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.
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  • Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.
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  • Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.
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  • More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.
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  • Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.
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  • Martin said officials were still working to analyze the data from the Board of Regents.
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  • Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
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  • Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style.
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  • Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.
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  • Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
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  • Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.
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  • Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens.
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  • It has been flatly rejected by the governor.
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  • In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.
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  • If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.
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  • If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.
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  • Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.
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  • Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.
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  • High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
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  • Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.
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  • Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.
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  • Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.
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  • For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.
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  • Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.
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  • Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.
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  • Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.
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  • Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.
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  • Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.
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  • Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.
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  • Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
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  • Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.
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  • Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.
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  • Children were not always raised so differently.
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  • Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.
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  • But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.
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  • But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.
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  • But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.
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  • But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.
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  • At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.
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  • Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.
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  • Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.
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  • A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.
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  • You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.
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  • You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself.
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  • You are here to be educated.
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  • Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • (be的复数和第二人称单数现在时形式,口语中在代词后常略作-’re)
    Are is the plural and the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be .Are is often shortened to -'re after pronouns in spoken English.
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英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters