英语四级真题
  • True to her word, she was correct almost every time.
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  • The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.
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  • The tradition, dating back to 300 B.C., was later incorporated into the Christian church.
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  • She succeeded in quitting smoking abruptlyShe was also a researcher of tobacco and health.
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  • Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.
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  • One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.
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  • Of course I was scared, yet I had this strong sense of I have to do this.
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  • Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.
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  • Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.
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  • Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.
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  • In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.
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  • I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.
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  • I was making as much money as I was as an accountant.
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  • I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.
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  • I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.
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  • I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked like in the book.
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  • However, it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself.
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  • His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.
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  • Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operations.
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  • By conventional standards, Leah was a typical successful woman before she changed her career.
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  • Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.
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  • As soon as I saw the location, I knew this was it.
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  • And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.
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  • With Facebook she could keep her relatives up to date on what she was doing.
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  • When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees.
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  • The team was led by Dr.
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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 second trip was made in October last year.
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  • The scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.
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  • The red color was popular for Chinese New Year celebrations.
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  • The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.
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  • That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.
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  • Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.
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  • She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook.
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  • She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.
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  • Reporter Zachariah Hughes says that neither King nor Zircle was injured.
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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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  • Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.
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  • It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.
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  • It was a wonderful period.
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  • It began to make her feel bad that some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.
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  • In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don’t really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.
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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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  • His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.
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  • Facebook was so convenient.
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  • Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.
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  • And there was plenty of opportunity to do whatever you felt like doing.
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  • And dress, yes, that was the revolution.
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  • AliyZircle was the first to report an attack.
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  • may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.
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  • What mattered most was the residents' physical health and mental status.
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  • This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.
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  • Their life was much more comfortable than that of todayIt was helpful to maintaining a nation's tradition.
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  • The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.
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  • The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher.
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  • She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming.
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  • Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.
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  • It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.
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  • It was characteristic of the agrarian culture.
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  • It was based on concepts developed at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College by Susan Gray, the legendary pioneer in early childhood education research.
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  • Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
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  • In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.
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  • In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.
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  • In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.
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  • I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.
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  • I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.
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  • As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.
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  • Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.
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  • The sale was completed.
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  • Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.
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  • Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.
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  • It was actually a tricycle with a petrol motor at the rear.
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  • To others, it was the opposite of fun.
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  • They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.
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  • The researchers, led by Martin Reimann, carried out a series of experiments to see if people would choose a smaller meal if it was paired with a non-food item.
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  • The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.
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  • SimpliSafe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with handheld jamming equipment.
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  • Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
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  • One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.
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  • It did not work out as well as was expected.
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  • Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.
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  • By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.
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  • As predicted, the students with a growth mind-set felt that learning was a more important goal than getting good grades.
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  • The castle, which is located on 11,700 acres, was leased to members of the royal family between 1848 and 1970, including King Edward VII and George V.
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  • On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.
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  • He was  saving the life of a 9-month-old  boy who was blown into the path  of an oncoming subway train by  a high wind.
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  • Abergeldie Castle located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was built by Sir Alexander Gordon of Midmar who later became the Earl of Huntly.
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  • The worst night for sleep in the U.K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14.
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  • The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
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  • The first person I told was my mother.
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  • The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as flawless.
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  • The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.
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  • That was when true criticism, the type that changed me as a person, began.
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  • That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
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  • She was an English teacher.
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  • She was also my mother.
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  • Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.
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  • Once the essay was flawless, she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.
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  • Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
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  • My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.
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英语六级真题
  • Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.
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  • What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.
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  • Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.
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  • Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.
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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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  • The essential place to visit, however, was Italy.
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  • The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.
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  • The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.
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  • The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.
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  • That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.
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  • That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
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  • Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.
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  • One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.
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  • Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.
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  • Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.
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  • London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.
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  • It was unaffordable for ordinary people.
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  • It was fashionable among young people of the time.
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  • It represented genuine American artIt was a completely new inventionPursuit of beautyEase of care.
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  • In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.
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  • Implicitly or explicitly, American fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not.
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  • If Paris was cast aside, the tradition of beauty was also to some degree slighted.
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  • He thought the state's outsourcing proposal was simply unworkable.
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  • Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.
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  • Fashion in America was logical and answerable to the will of the women who wore it.
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  • Extracurricular activities reflect the differences in child rearing in the Pew survey, which was of a nationally representative sample of 1,807 parents.
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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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  • Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship.
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  • Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.
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  • Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.
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  • She was very nervous.
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  • I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.
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  • And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.
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  • Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.
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  • When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.
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  • When I was in high school, dozens in my class alone would have answered differently.
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  • The lawsuits said that the label was misleading because it gave the impression that the products had been certified by a third party when the certification was the company's own.
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  • The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.
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  • That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
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  • So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.
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  • One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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  • Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.
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  • More than a decade later, there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.
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  • It was in conformity to the prevailing practice in the market.
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  • It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today's kitchen.
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  • In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and just 1% were portrayed in a work setting.
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  • I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.
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  • Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife's daily routine.
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  • Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.
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  • Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.
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  • A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.
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  • It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.
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  • Their aim was to determine the relationship between these risk behaviors and mental health issues in teenagers.
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  • The prime minister denied there was a connection between his news adviser's outside interests and the change in legislative programme.
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  • The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.
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  • The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked – the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.
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  • Telepressure was also correlated with sleeping poorly and missing work.
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  • In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.
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  • E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.
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  • But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.
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  • But the plan was suspended in July 2013.
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  • Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.
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  • And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.
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  • Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.
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  • One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special for it.
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  • In a sense, it was.
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  • I was lucky to be at the technology conference then, and I had access to 3D printers.
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  • Guess what? The worst food I ever had was in France.
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  • Born in fire and fury, Devils Tower was then shaped by the slow, gentle work of wind and water.
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  • And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.
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  • When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.
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  • What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.
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  • Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro.
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  • To one group, he was identified as African-American, and another was told he was Black .
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  • This was made clear by the work of two sociologists, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.
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  • This one was chosen because it echoed the labels of groups, such as Italian Americans and Irish Americans, that had already been freed of widespread discrimination.
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  • The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.
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  • She was fortunate, though.
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  • Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' he said, hinting at mentors ( ' , 导师 ), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about belonging at such a top institution.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • (be的第一和第三人称单数过去式)
    Was is the first and third person singular of the past tense of be .