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Last Letters Home From an American Soldier Who Died in Irap To son, Cecil, Just a quick note preface before I start in earnest. When I wrote this you were 8, still a little boy. In 2002, I was called to active duty in the Marine Corps in the War on Terrorism. On the 11th of September 2001 when America was attacked, I knew that I would eventually have to go and I was filled with a
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Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Nicolaas Bloembergen My parents, Auke Bloembergen and Sophia Maria Quint, had four sons and two daughters. I am the second child, born on March 11, 1920, in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. My father, a chemical engineer, was an executive in a chemical fertilizer company. My mother, who had an advanced degree to teach French, devoted all her energies to rear
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
Modern Olympic Games Review 1980 Olympics, Moscow Dates: Jul.19 ～ Aug.3 Sports: 21 Events: 203 Participants: 5,179 (4,064 men; 1,115 women; 80 countries) Final Torchbearer: Sergey Belov Four years after 32 nations walked out of the Montreal Games, twice that many chose to stay away1 from Moscow -- many in support of an American-led boycott2 to protest the December 1979 Soviet
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Detour to Romance Located in the checkroom2 in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9∶05 train. I remember seeing Harry that first evening. He wasn’t much more than a thin, anxious kid then. He was all dressed up3 and I knew he was mee
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
Charms and Symbols Color Color Colors can influence more than your mood. Each color has a special significance in attracting, or repelling1, the power of the planets. Black Saturn2 is attracted by black, and because Saturn has a negative effect on children, youngsters are cautioned never to wear black clothing. It is a good color, however, for persons born under the sig
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
The Bird Flu Recently，the news has been filled with reports of the “bird flu.” Asia is on a region-wide health alert, with governments slaughtering millions of chickens to contain1 outbreaks of the bird flu in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan and China. Influenza2 -- commonly called “flu” -- is one of the oldest and most common diseases known to man. It can
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Can Babies Be Designed? We hear a lot nowadays about designer babies. The idea that parents can choose the genes of their children sounds frightening. The question we have to answer is: how much can we and should we control the creation of designer babies? What exactly is a “designer baby”? One simple way that parents design their child is by choosing its sex. From a technical
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Driving on the Road in England Almost everyone in England over the age of 17 either owns or has access1 to a car and uses it frequently, especially for short journeys in suburban areas. This leads to enormous motorway2 congestion3.The average speed in built up4 areas is now 11 miles an hour slower than driving a horse and carriage a hundred years ago. Driving on the left
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
West Nile Virus West Nile virus(WNV) was first isolated from a febrile1 adult woman in the West Nile District of Uganda in 1937. The virus became recognized as a cause of severe human meningoencephalitis2 in elderly patients during an outbreak in Israel in 1957. WNV has been described in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, west and central Asia, Oceania, and most recently, North Ameri
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South Africa -- The Birding Mecca1 South Africa’s diverse habitat and vegetation provides a perfect breeding ground for a lively and varied selection of birdlife. It ranks as one of the top birding destinations in the world. The country’s vast stretches of bush-land and woodlands are home to an astonishing array2 of bush birds, including giant birds of prey. Slender-legged waders3 and
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Pubs in Britain There are 70,000 pubs in England and Wales and several thousand more in Scotland. Every country has its drinking shop, but none has an institution quite like the British pub. The essence of a good pub (which modern buildings hardly ever achieve) is a feeling of intimacy. It must have nooks1 and crannies2, corners and snugs3, where conversations and assignations4 can
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Diaries in Ireland Feb. 9, 2003 Sunday My Stay with Lough Gill When I woke up, it was broad day, with sunshine. Outside the windows was a row of dense green trees, outside the green trees were a lot of fine foreign roofs, in the distance lied the grass-green Ben Bulben. I was very glad to have in my view such fine landscapes, such a pleasant mountain. At 10∶ 30 a
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
Learn English for the 2008 Olympics ——Going Abroad Foreigner: I know it’s a good thing to go abroad, and you suffered for being a closed society for too long, but now I find this craze for going abroad a bit incomprehensible.Many people with neither need nor the means1 are trying desperately to go abroad. I’ve had many people whom I hardly knew coming to me asking me to help them.
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Charms and Symbols Cornerstone1 Even buildings made of steel and glass usually have a cornerstone, often engraved with the date construction began. It is a talisman2 intended to bring luck not only during construction, but throughout the life of the building. The custom has its origins in prehistoric times, when it was believed the gods must be compensated3 for the land a struc
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Living Like Ronnie The students at Beijing Hongzhi Middle School, where I teach English once a week, are an impressive group, but like so many kids in Beijing they are also under tremendous pressure from their parents to get good grades. This pressure seems never to end. Many times students will confide to me that they have been having difficult conversations with their parents about their
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To Live or to Die The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation1 and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been rel
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English Meals The writer Somerset Maugham1 observed that one could eat very well in England, simply by having breakfast -- three times a day. Although the great English home cooked breakfast a feast of bacon, eggs, sausages, grilled2 tomatoes, mushrooms, kidneys, kippers3,and so on -- has given way to a belief that instant coffee and cornflakes must be healthier, it is still available all
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Recognition of Dedication Jane’s job was to monitor the assembly lines1 at a cosmetics2 manufacturer. Each hour she took note of the production level of each line and sent the information to the floor manager3. Jane counted output, matched4 it with a count of materials used, and then did it all over again. Nobody asked her why the lines were slow or fast. That wasn’t her job. J
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
The Language of Flowers Every flower tells a story. A red rose given to a true love, a daisy peeking out of a buttonhole, a bundle of violets handed demurely1 to a crush2 each conveys a different sentiment3. Flowers, plants, and herbs have been used as symbols since antiquity4, but the romantic custom of using flowers to converse5 began to flourish in the 19th century. Courting6 co
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Learn English for the 2008 Olympics The Younger Generation Foreigner: At present, China is the fastest developing country in the world. Your sustained fast economic growth has never been rivaled1 in history. Predictions may vary, but hardly any one doubts that someday you will become a superpower. Chinese: Yes, that’ s the general belief, but there are people who sing a different
英语沙龙2004全年合辑上
Dashan’s Feeling about Language Learning Zhao Wei: You have been in China for so many years, what’s your feeling about living in China? Do you enjoy it? Dashan: Well, actually, I lived in China full time for 7 years, from 1988 to 1995. But now since 1995, I live half in Canada and half in China. I really enjoy that, because I enjoy my work in China and my friends and everything
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Home in Space -- The International Space Station In 1984 the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced a new program to establish a permanent space station, called Freedom. In 1994 the project was combined with the Russian Mir 2 project to produce the International Space Station (ISS). The International Space Station is the largest and most complex intern
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Modern Olympic Games Review 1960 Olympics, Rome Fifty-four years after Italy had to give up hosting the Olympics due to the eruption1 of Mount Vesuvius2, Rome finally got its chance. Rome made the most of its dramatic history, holding the wrestling3 competition in the Basilica of Maxentius4, site of wrestling contests 2,000 years earlier. Among the other ancient sites that were used
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January 25 Burns Night Robert Burns1, the eighteenth century “common man’s poet” who wrote of humble matters in his brash2 “Lallans3” dialect4, remains Scotland’s favorite native son. Here his birthday is celebrated as he himself would have liked it. Partyers assemble in the banqueting hall, where they tuck into5 such dishes as wind dried cod with horseradish6 and egg sauce and
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The English Like Tea Foreigners may scoff1, marketing men may try to seduce with alternatives, but the English still carry on doggedly2 in their devotion to what they consider to be one of the few good things ever to come from elsewhere. While other people stiffen3 their sinews4 with something stronger, the English constitution5 merely demands tea. They have imbued6 it with
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Learn English for the 2008 Olympics New City Versus the Old Foreigner: Beijing is developing so fast that in effect, it is a completely new city. Impressive as your new skyscrapers are, they are changing the face of Beijing completely, turning it into a nondescript1 city like any other modern city in the world. I find it such a great pity. Chinese: It is a problem, I admit. And it
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Charms and Symbols Bell In ancient times all over the world, it was believed that evil spirits could put up with just about anything except the clanging1 of a bell. Over time, the bell itself, even when not ringing, came to be regarded as a powerful lucky symbol. Because it is suspended in a hanging position, it takes on the representation of all life suspended between heaven and earth. It
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The Puppy Express The Topps stood on the shoulder1 of the road and watched as their truck's engine shuddered2 and died. Nancy and Joe, their two children, Jodi, twelve, and Matthew, fifteen, and their elderly dog, Snoopy, were 1,500 miles from home, stranded3 on a highway in Wyoming, with the old truck clearly beyond even Joe's gift for repairs. The little dog, peering around the circle of
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Obesity and Risk in Driving Heavier people are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in car accidents than lighter people, according to new research. That could mean car designers will have to build in new safety features to compensate1 for the extra hazards2 facing overweight passengers. In the US, car manufacturers have already had to redesign air bags so they inflate3 to
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Salvador Dali: A Madman That Is Not Mad When Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain, he was actually the third Salvador Dalí. His father was named Salvador, and he had an older brother, who had died 9 months before Dalí's own birth. Because of the incredibly coincidental dates between the death of the first child and the birth of the second, Salvador Dalí's parents chose to loo
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