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many

英 ['menɪ] 美['mɛni]
  • pron. 许多;许多人
  • adj. 许多的
  • n. (Many)人名;(法)马尼

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to relaxto matureto harvestto reflectIt is more meaningful than other stages of life.

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is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.

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While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

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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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To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

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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 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 keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

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They emphasize the strength of toilet paper the most.

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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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The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

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The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.

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The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.

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Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture.

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Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

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Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

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Regardless of your stated preference, if you're ready to quit, quitting abruptly is more effective, says Dr.

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People are generally more competitive.

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On the plus side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enriching experiences.

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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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Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

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More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

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Many more people with HSAM started to contact researchers due to the mass media.

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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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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.

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It makes their life more complicated.

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It keeps our most precious memories until life's end.

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It is the most time-honored form of fancy art.

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It is more important to those with a longer lifespan.

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In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.

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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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I'm extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail, explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies.

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I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.

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For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

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For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.

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Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operations.

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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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But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

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As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

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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 most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant 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 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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Winter in many places is very cold.

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When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions.

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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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Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots.

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Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

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Many feel the technology is too new and unproven.

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Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship.

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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 also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.

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Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions.

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Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.

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A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

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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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[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes ( ' , known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).

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What mattered most was the residents' physical health and mental status.

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Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.

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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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This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

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They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.

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They generally appear more resourceful They are more likely to get over hardship.

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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 surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.

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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.

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The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic ( ' , 神经质的 ) than other people.

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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 most difficult step in programming values will be deciding exactly what we believe is moral, and how to create a set of ethical rules.

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The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.

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The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

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The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility.

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The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.

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That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

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Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.

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Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

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Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

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On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

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Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

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Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

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Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.

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More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

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More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.

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Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

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Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

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Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.

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Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span.

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It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.

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It seems to me this highlights quality issues in elementary schools more than pre-K, and indicates longer-term success must connect pre-K with all the other issues related to educating a child.

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It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.

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It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.

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In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

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I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

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For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

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For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

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Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr.Sloane said.

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Develop a more sophisticated program.

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Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.

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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 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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While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

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While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

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To focus more on beauty products than clothing.

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To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.

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They found the antiques there more valuable.

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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 appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.

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The summer program run by a nonprofit organization has helped many underserved students learn advanced math.

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The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

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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 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 lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

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The involvement of more women in fashion design.

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The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.

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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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Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.

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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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Researchers who share get plenty of personal benefits, including more connections with colleagues, improved visibility and increased citations.

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Pricing carbon proves the most economical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Panini's Ancient Rome and Modern Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches.

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Open data sharing is most important to medical science.

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Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.

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Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

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Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

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Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.

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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 Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

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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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Massive rubbish dumps and sprawling landfills constitute one of the more uncomfortable impacts that humans have on wildlife.

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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 schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.

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Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.

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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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Many aristocrats began to move into Roman-style villas.

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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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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 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.

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Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

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In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

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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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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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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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Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.

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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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Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

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Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.

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By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

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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 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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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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According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.

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2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

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You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

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Retailers make the most money this time of a year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.

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Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

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Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

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More and more will shop online.

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For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.

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And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.

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Yet even then reports of widespread youth rebellion were overdone: Most kids in the ‘60s and ‘70s shared their parents' basic values.

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With the launch of interactive advertising, many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV, says David Kline of Cablevision.

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With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.

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While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

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We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

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Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

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This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

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They also, however, use far more natural resources—fuel, water ( ' , all those baths and golf courses) and building materials.

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The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

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The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

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The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax ( ' , 消费税) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.

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Sometimes the best treatment might be the most expensive.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

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Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Our problems are structural, and will take many years to solve.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Not many young people eligible for voting are interested in local or national elections these days.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Most politicians are kind of crooked ( ' , 不诚实的), one student declared.

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Most of these operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes.

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Most feel that their parents understand them, and they believe their family is the No.

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Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year.

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More than a decade later, there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

A baby's play is nothing more than a game.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother's name, and far more.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

A study from California polytechnic university found more hummingbirds in areas with heavy industrial machinery.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to life in likes, as children grew, they became more anxious to get more public approval.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

According to the author, fish are most likely to be found in shallow water under waterside trees.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

After all, "patty poem" gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change in so many others.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

After all, not everyone has realized that wildlife has thoughts, feelings, and most importantly, equal rights to survive.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

After questioning 1, 000 mothers with children under 18, it found that , on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

All of this makes the actions of the homeless tom smith even more remarkable.

2018年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Although it doesn't taste of anything special, it's still worth a try, as is the knobbly cat's head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Although skills and talents bring great success, the most valuable asset one can hold is the heart.

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

Although the job takes a significant amount of time, most students agree that the experience is worth it.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly the persistence of memory.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

And how about some more onions too?

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

And like more Americans, she's not alone.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

And she said social media companies must also take more responsibility.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And there are many people skating over there.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And while many took dollars, many others pinned their own cash to the board.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And, before I finish, let me just give you some advice which should make your stay more enjoyable.

2016年高考英语四川卷 听力 原文

Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because it remains unknown how users' data will be taken advantage of.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Animals are built of many different materials----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Another block to awareness is the obsession many of us have with naming things.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Architects play a more important role than builders.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As a result, many special are quickly dying out.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

As data and identity theft becomes more and more common, the market is growing for biometric technologies to keep others out of private e-spaces.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读表达 原文

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As natural architects, the pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

2016年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

As the Kennedy center's artistic adviser for Jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for Jazz, make the music more accessible.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Astonishingly, the Tremont hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Authentic fire gear (服装) is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! adults need about eight hours.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the java dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Because a college community differs from the family, many students will struggle to find a sense of belonging.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Because more force is needed for sliding.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

Because of that, this part of my trip has become more pleasant.

2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

Because there are more places to take shelter.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Because there is more food to eat.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Bechtel, who works in downtown west palm beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died of common childhood diseases.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Berlin has been the easiest while the most difficult was the Czech town of Pilsen.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

Blackbirds and seagulls are also being more nocturnal.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

But don't expect it to show up in too many driveways.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But in many cafés in Korea, you can do more than that.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

But it seems that many people don't cook fish at home.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

But Lehanne's psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

But more importantly, we made a commitment to grow together as a couple.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

But more than that, I now regularly compare my views with those of many others.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

But more than thirty books came up when I typed in ‘Hollywood comedies'.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文

But other books require a bit more work on your part.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 七选五 选项

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Most tests require collecting cells by webbing saliva in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

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More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

In facts, the more new things we try- the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

In fact, all of these cultural developments occurred separately at different times in many parts of the world.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Historical particularism became a dominant approach to the study of culture in American anthropology, largely through the influence of many students of Boas.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long-term assets in their income statement.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”: hotels, restaurants and cafes.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limited success, and expansion aboard.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials,those selected people will do most of the work for them.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant,for example from the initial influential prove resistant,for example the cascade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

But by giving in to critics now they are inviting pressure to make more concessions.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

While traditional “paid” media – such as television commercials and print advertisements – still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.

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Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

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This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs.

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The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( ' , and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

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The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.

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So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

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Many students experience both varieties.

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Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

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It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

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However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

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Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

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For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

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For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

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But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like.

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But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

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As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

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Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

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All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.

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Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

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The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits ( ' , particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

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The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar.

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Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification for it all humans share common origins it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.

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Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

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Yet for the most part, the animal kingdom moves through the world downloading.

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The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.

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The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long.

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That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

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Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

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In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

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In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

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Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

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For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode.

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First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

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Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

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Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

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But many within the public sector suffer under the current system, too.

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At the state level their influence can be even more fearsome.

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When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

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This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the foremer becomes all the more urgent.

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In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

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Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

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This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish would described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.

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This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad.

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The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

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The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

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The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

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That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.

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Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

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She exhibits the idealism common to many advocates of sustainability, be it in food or in energy.

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Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

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Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

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In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

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Human nature being what it is, most people stick with default settings.

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Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.

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During the late 1990s,national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

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Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems.

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