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Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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While the team can't be sure their results are due solely to Obama, they also showed that those with the lowest bias were likely to subconsciously associate black skin colour with political words such as "government" or "president".
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
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You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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Basically we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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Flamingos have evolved very leathery skin on their legs so they can tolerate the salt water, says David Harper, a professor at the University of Leicester.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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For most of human history, we all had dark skin.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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Last year, MATTEL, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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Skin may seem like a superficial human attribute, but it's the first thing we notice about anyone we meet.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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The water is so corrosive that it can burn the skin and eyes of unadapted animals.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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There are now Barbies of one of 7 skin tones, 22 eye colors and 24 hair styles to choose from.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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Today skin color is evolving the new mixtures of people coming together and having children with new mixtures of skin color genes.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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What we did in our ancestry was to produce more permanent natural coloring in our skin cells.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
Noun
1. a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch;
"your skin is the largest organ of your body"2. the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
3. an outer surface (usually thin);
"the skin of an airplane"4. body covering of a living animal
5. a person's skin regarded as their life;
"he tried to save his skin"6. the rind of a fruit or vegetable
7. a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal
Verb
1. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
2. bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of;
"The boy skinned his knee when he fell"3. remove the bark of a tree
4. strip the skin off;
"pare apples"5. strike against an object;
"She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken"