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英语四级真题
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
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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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  • Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate upcycle and improving economy.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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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  • There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • You should live your life attempting to identify and control those things which you can genuinely control.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The researchers are currently analyzing the study participants' health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The findings shed light on normal age-related changes in mental function, which could aid in understanding the process of dementia ( ' , 痴呆), according to the researchers.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The biggest challenge here is irrigation, which consumes 70% of the world's fresh water.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Such findings, which run counter to common sense, have surfaced before.
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  • So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • 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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  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373 students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading -102- more strict, to determine how their mind-sets might affect their math grades.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • This would be an environment in which teachers and students actually knew each other.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.
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  • The principle is about understanding what is motivating to this group of players, which requires some understanding of psychology.
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  • The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oilproducing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.
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  • Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
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  • Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.
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  • However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.
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  • Forty-eight of the students received instruction in study skills only, whereas the others attended a combination of study skills sessions and classes in which they learned about the growth mind-set and how to apply it to schoolwork.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • State arts councils help sponsor local arts and crafts festivals which draw crowds of tourist consumers.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have  plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • But what did Carnegie-Mellon yield in Pittsburgh? And what happened in Ithaca, home of Cornell University, which is also high on the list?I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I can answer for both.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • As a leader, it can be challenging to create an environment in which people will freely disagree and argue, but as the saying goes: From confrontation comes brilliance.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind theblasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70people.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "A balanced breakfast is really helpful, but getting regular meals throughout the day is more important to leave blood sugar stable through the day, which helps control weight and hunger levels," says Elder.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • "What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here," he says.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • "When people are sleep-deprived, there are higher levels of stress hormones in their bodies which can decrease immune function," says Doctor Felice, of Northwestern University in Chicago.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • A maker space is a place which can be in a school, but it doesn't look like a classroom.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, 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 liberati
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological innovation, makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in detail.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Also, I've a good chance of winning a scholarship at Leeds, which will be pretty awesome, the benefits of being a music genius.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Although they are both gainfully employed, they fit cleaning jobs into their nights and weekends, which is when their service is in most demand any way.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • And exercise releases hormones that can improve mood and relieve stress, which can also help learning.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • And what happened in ithaca, home of Cornell University, which is also high on the list?
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate "upcycle" and improving economy.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • As a leader, it can be challenging to create an environment in which people will freely disagree and argue, but as the saying goes: From confrontation comes brilliance.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Bacteria are carried by various 'media', which can include raw food, moist surfaces where bacteria have been left, our hands or skin and from coughing or sneezing (打喷嚏).
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Beyond gender, young adults' living arrangements differ considerably by education—which is tied to financial means.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Bill, for instance, often gets painful "flashbacks", in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list—which is dominated by sites in developing and conflict- ridden countries—would be an international embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy's profitable tourism industry.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books—which has increased over 1, 000 percent since 1977.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • But those shifts have yet to be reflected in record obesity levels, which stand at 36.5% overall in the US.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • David Hunt, an associate professor in sociology at Augusta University, which has rolled out digital textbooks across its math and psychology departments, told BuzzFeed News that he understands the utility of using systems that require access codes.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Dori began operating EFK out of her virginia home, which she then expanded to local recreation centers.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Eric Schmidt is one of the bosses of Google, which owns AlphaGo.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Even if they could, Simpli Safe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Hops, for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a relatively recent addition to the beverage.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • However, our idea is for it to be also fun and entertaining, something which traditional documentaries aren't so much.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I leave it to the reader's political preference to decide which, if any, charges should stick.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I really want to lose some of these belly fat and turn it into muscle, but I'm not sure which of the gym equipment would best help.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • I'm self-employed, which means I work for myself and I do what I love.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • In 1816, Careme began a culinary journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Hesiod offers an idea — which you very often find in some of the world's great religions, in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and others — that in some sense, when you hurt another human being, you hurt yourself.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures — advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping boy.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • It captures the energy which plants produce during photosynthesis, a process of converting sunlight into energy.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力
  • It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • It's pretty incredible how it has managed to hijack the genes of the algae on which it feeds.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Jody has created several different presentations which she gives to different types of audiences, and she tries to establish an emotional connection with the students so that they will feel comfortable asking questions or talking to her privately.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind the blasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70 people.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Mail companies are logistics companies, which puts them in a special position to help when disaster strikes.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • McGraw Hill, which controls 21% of the higher education market, reported in March that its digital content sales exceeded print sales for the first time in 2015.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • michigan's dominance in auto research and development is under attack from several states and countries which desire to replace our leadership in transportation.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree and works in public health,was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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 most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.
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  • The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.
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  • The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.
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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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  • That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
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  • Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
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  • Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.
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  • It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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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  • Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.
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  • In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic—happiness at work.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.
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  • They are not clear which products are truly green.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.
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  • The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.
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  • The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.
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  • Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates— especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.
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  • One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.
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  • Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.
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  • Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
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  • It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.
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  • Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.
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  • In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
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  • In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.
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  • If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
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  • For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.
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  • Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
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  • Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.
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  • But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.
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  • BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.
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  • What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.
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  • There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.
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  • The researchers found that telepressure is a major cause of stress at work, which over time contributes to physical and mental burnout.
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  • The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.
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  • South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.
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  • Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.
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  • Most of them take jobs which don't require a college degree.
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  • Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.
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  • In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a white disease.
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  • Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.
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  • Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.
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  • Du Bravac works for CTA – which puts on the show each year – and said that this shift to a search for solutions has been noticeable as he researched his predictions for 2016.
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  • The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.
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  • That will help you decide which items are really worth it.
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  • Sports drinks which are often high in sugar and calories made up most of the food and drink deals, with soft drinks and fast food filling out the reminder.
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  • People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give in to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, which affects the mind and cognitive function.
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  • Currently, there’s mounting criticism of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which fights childhood obesity by encouraging youngsters to become more physically active, and it signed on singer Beyonce and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, both of whom also endorse sodas which are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.
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  • When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.
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  • There are some very commendable characteristics of the CFL [compact fluorescent ( ' , 荧光的 ) light bulb], yet the selection of any light source remains inseparable from the luminaire ( ' , 照明装置 ) that houses it, along with the space in which both arc installed, and lighting requirements that need to be satisfied.
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  • The incandescent light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, which came to be the symbol of inspiration, has been developed into hundreds, if not thousands, of forms.
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  • That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
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  • Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
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  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
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  • One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is that they assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future, he says.
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  • Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.
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  • In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.
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  • In 2011 they released a landmark study titled Academically Adrift, which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.
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  • Imagine how intimidating it be for prospective students unfamiliar with the complexities of higher education to navigate this kind of information and then identify which schools are the best fit.
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  • Cialdini conducted a study in San Diego in which coat hangers bearing messages about saving energy were hung on people's doors.
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  • A job application might mention affiliations with groups such as the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers or the National Black Employees Association, the names of which apparently have consequences, and are also beyond their members' control.
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  • A 2001 study cataloged all the ways in which the term Black carried connotations ( ' , 涵义 ) that were more negative than those of African American.
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  • Yet improvement won’t come easily, it won’t come overnight and there are limits beyond which not even science can take us.
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  • The best form of advertising is probably word-of-mouth advertising which occurs when people tell their friends about the benefits of products or services that they have purchased.
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  • The agency createsadvertisements and develops a media plan, specifying which media will be used and in which proportions.
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  • Indeed many organizations also useinstitutional or prestige advertising which is designed to build uptheir reputation rather than to sell particular products.
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  • If we could figure out how to improve the efficiency with which we use energy, we can do a lot of work with the energy that is available.
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  • "AI is hugely exciting," she said, "but it has limitations, which present grave dangers given uncritical use."
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  • "One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is that they assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future," he says.
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  • "Snapping a photo directs attention, which heightens the pleasure you get from whatever you're looking at," Dehl says.
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  • "The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t
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  • "There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it," he said.
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  • "This study shows the importance of so-called non-cognitive' or soft skills in contributing to children's positive peer relationships, which, in turn, contribute to their academic success,"said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Duke Center for Child and Fami
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  • 18-hour cities combine the best of 24-hour and 9-5 cities, which contributes to downtown revitalization.
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  • A 2001 study cataloged all the ways in which the term " Black " carried connotations 涵 义 that were more negative than those of " African American. "
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  • A job application might mention affiliations with groups such as the "Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers" or the "National Black Employees Association," the names of which apparently have consequences, and are also beyond their members' con
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  • A robot's appearance affects its ability to successfully interact with humans, which is why the riKEN-Tri Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research decided to develop a robotic nurse that looks like a huge teddy bear.
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  • A season in the field will help determine which, if any, of the varieties are ready for commercialization.
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  • About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.
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  • Access to foot traffic and proximity to transit allow the type of entertainment-oriented businesses such as bars and restaurants to stay open later, which attracts both younger, creative workers and baby boomers nearing retirement alike.
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  • According to social psychologist Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, the average data-sharing rate for the journal Psychological Science, which uses the badges, increased tenfold to % from 2013 to 2015.
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  • According to The Boston Globe, students who earned their bachelor's in 2012 have an average monthly loan payment of $2, which is one-third more than those who graduated in 2004.
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  • After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.
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