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If you ______ in such a hurry you ______ sugar into the sauce instead of salt.
The website is ______ closed for maintenance.
One of the more noted optical illusions in the annals of visual deception appeared in the night sky this week when a giant full moon appeared on the horizon. The giant ball of yellow-white light made the Moon appear to linger for longer, and Earth's satellite seemed larger at that point in its journey across the sky than at any other position. In fact, the size of the Moon in the sky does not vary and its apparent enlargement on the horizon is purely a trick of the eye. It was first written about by the ancient Chinese and Greeks— although scientists are still arguing over its cause. The illusion was especially visible on Wednesday night because this month's full moon coincided with the summer solstice, while clear skies gave spectacular views as the moon rose slowly above the horizon. When the Moon is full, it and the Sun are on opposite sides of the sky. During summer, when the Sun rises high in our sky, the full moons are correspondingly low—allowing them to linger longer over the horizon. The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore said that there was no doubt that when a full moon was low on the horizon it invariably looked bigger than when it was high up in the sky, but that this was purely an illusion. "The effect is visible at every full moon but was particularly good this time because the full moon was as low in the sky as it could ever be and appeared to hover above the horizon, " Sir Patrick said. One way of showing that the Moon does not really vary in size is to hold up a small coin to the sky to see how far away it can be held before it blocks out the Moon—it should do it at the same distance no matter where the Moon is positioned. "It has been known and commented on for many hundreds of years. An explanation was given by the last and greatest astronomer of ancient times, Ptolemy, who said the illusion was due to the fact that we were seeing the Moon across filled space and could compare it with objects such as trees and houses, " Sir Patrick said. The conventional explanation for the illusion today is that it Is a combination of two psychological effects. The first is the Ponzo illusion, named after Mario Ponzo in 1913, who drew two identical bars across converging lines such as railway tracks. Both bars are the same size but the nearer looks smaller because the eye and the brain judge the farther bar to be bigger in proportion to its surroundings. This could explain why we perceive the Moon to be larger when it lies against a background of familiar objects such as trees and buildings. However, critics of this idea point out that airline pilots flying at high altitudes sometimes experience the Moon illusion even without seeing any recognizable features on the horizon. And, curiously, the illusion disappears for many people when they bend down and watch a full moon through their legs. The second explanation is that the brain does not see the sky as the "ceiling" of a true hemisphere, but rather as a flattened dome. In other words, objects that are overhead, such as flying birds, are perceived to be nearer than objects on the horizon—which is why we imagine objects on the horizon to be bigger than objects overhead. But this explanation does not satisfy some scientists, either. In a theory similar in some ways to the Ponzo illusion, Professor Don McCready of the University of Wisconsin believes the true explanation rests in the fact that our brains tend to make objects smaller when they appear closer to us based on distance cues. When the Moon is on the horizon, the surroun-ding buildings and trees give us clues that it is very far away which causes the brain to perceive it to be larger than it would normally appear, Professor McCready said.
Edna O'Brien has lived in London for a few decades, but she speaks, as she writes, in a voice inflected with the rhythms and accents of the west of Ireland, where she grew up. She calls herself "an exile(放逐者)", like her great literary forebears, Joyce and Beckett, whom she reveres, and points out that exiles "tend not to go back". "The place I grew up in is my imagery, my geography of mind and pen, " she says. "But to live there again..." Uncharacteristically(非同寻常地), she leaves the thought uncompleted, preferring to direct me to the final scene of her new memoir, Country Girl, in which she meets an Irishwoman in the street who tells her about her aunt in Dublin before adding, "But we live here now." O'Brien agrees: " 'We do, ' I said, and it was as if the two countries warred and jostled and made friends, inside me, like the two halves of my warring self. " For most of the latter half of her exile—some 25 years—O'Brien has lived in a "book-laden" house in the cosmopolitan district of Knightsbridge, a five-minute walk from Harrods, London's most famous department store. Expensive sportscars and SUVs line the pavements, and the shops are exclusive boutiques, which are the favorite of fashionable elegant ladies. Most of the houses have steps leading up to glossy front doors, but O'Brien's is reached by a dark alley that runs to a side entrance. Among the moneyed anonymity of the neighborhood, it feels set apart. There is a leather-bound edition of Shakespeare on the table in the first-floor sitting room, and a copy of Finnegan's Wake occupies a prominent position on the shelf. Despite the spring sunshine, there is a fire in the grate. Edna O'Brien has always been renowned as a great beauty, and at the age of 82, she remains good-looking. On the day we met, she had just returned from a series of literary festivals in Ireland, where she was well received—which has not always been the case. Country Girl not only revisits her childhood in County Clare, her convent(女修道院)education, and unhappy first marriage, but the scandal that ensued in Ireland when she fictionalized those episodes in her first novels. She has continued to explore her childhood memories in her fiction, but she says the memoir offers a different perspective: "Some of the material overlaps, but it's differently rendered. The mother that exists in my fiction is the same mother as in my memoir, but it's not the same aspects of her. " Besides, she does not apologize for returning again and again to her early years: "Childhood imagery, experiences, griefs, and joys—if they are there—are formative for a writer. Some people remember their childhoods in a generalized way, as rich or poor, happy or sad, but a writer's early life is embedded in them. "
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______ is announced in the papers, our country has launched a largescale movement against smuggling and fraudulent activities in foreign currency exchange deals.
You will now be asked a question about a familiar topic. After you hear the question, you will have 15 seconds to prepare your response and 45 seconds to speak.Your friend has suddenly had a good run of fortune and come into a large amount of money. He would like to ask you for some suggestions on how to use this money. What would you recommend?
Harvard President's Address: a Different Life1. Students' wonderWhat【T1】 would be like【T1】______2. What should students understand about Harvard mostA center of new and【T2】 ideas【T2】______3. President's adviceFollow your【T3】【T3】______Choose【T4】courses【T4】______Follow a program towards your objectives.Do things that capture your【T5】【T5】______【T6】 to the faculty【T6】______Faculty's【T7】: to teach and work with you【T7】______Willing to【T8】 your interests, curiosity【T8】______【T9】 ideas【T9】______ It's time to learn and【T10】 to ideas【T10】______
Should scientific researches be carried out and controlled by the government instead of private companies? This has been an intensely discussed question for years. The following are the supporters' and opponents' opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and then give your view on the issue. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. YES It is more pragmatic for the government to take up the role of controller, set up rules and regulations and periodically examine and verify the research findings to make sure it is going in the right way. The government is accountable for the whole nation and its people, thus it is more aware of the public need. It has greater powers and more resources to implement scientific researches, and make sure that the benefits are maximized. When research funds come from organizations that expect to profit from a favorable outcome, then there is a strong potential for biased results. However, if they are controlled and funded by the government, such conflicts of interest are less likely to occur. NO In a bid for carrying out a project, private companies stand out with their greater flexibility. For instance, private contractors can sign with any expert in the field to make an effective team. More importantly, it definitely saves time and resources for private companies to initiate a project, since there would be less complicated procedures related to the government. It does not seem necessary for officials to " know" what the scientists are doing. Otherwise, it would not be " research" in the real sense of the word.
If something happens to the brain's development during pregnancy, it is more likely ______ affected in a male.
Modern theatre audiences are less able to understand classical plays than previous generations because of a declining knowledge of literature and history, Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, believes. Hytner called for the study of history to be made compulsory for 14-to 16-year-olds and warned that important cultural resonances were being lost as the influence of traditional classical education receded. He said: "Generation by generation...people are being cheated of something that's really good to know. " Hytner, who is best known for his direction of Adrian Lester in Henry V, made his comments yesterday during a discussion with the writer Alar Bennett about his play The History Boys. He told an audience of history and English teachers at the fourth annual Prince of Wales education summer school in Dartington, Devon, that history should be studied until at least age 16. He said people had been lamenting the demise of classical education since he had been a schoolboy. But he added that as a director he had also noted the impact of the decline of basic British historical knowledge among audiences. "I knew that Henry IV usurped Richard II and was then murdered. It was something I had been taught and simply knew. But there's very little you can rely on now even with National Theatre audiences. We have a very metropolitan audience but there's very little you can rely on an audience knowing. Fifty years ago you could put on classics and it v/ould have a different resonance for people. But now, except for people who have had a classical education, you get no frisson when Agamemnon behaves like a pig. You get around it but generation by generation the feeling I get is that people are being cheated of something that's really good to know. Certainly it makes life harder, if you produce work 50 percent of which is from a classical repertoire, if people do not have an overview of English literature and English history. " Students are currently required only to study history until the age of 14. Some English literature must be studied until 16 but pupils are not required to sit a full GCSE in the subject. Asked whether history should be made compulsory until 16, Bennett said, "I tend to think that it didn't do me any harm. I did history because I liked doing it so it was never a burden. I certainly think English should be compulsory and I think history should be too. " Bennett's play The History Boys, which recently finished a run at the National, considers what constitutes a good education as it follows the fortunes of a class of A-level historians who are being prepared for Oxbridge entrance exams by teachers with very different philosophies towards learning and passing exams. Hytner said he originally thought the text would not have widespread appeal. "I was wrong. It turned out to have the widest appeal of any play at the National."
He had to eat a(n)______ meal, or he would be too late for the football match.
If I have improved in any way, I owe _____ all to you.
Hearing the news, they are ______joy and sorrow.
The boxer got ______ and fell down when his opponent gave him the final blow.
A. inappropriate B. attend C. slips D. track E. financeF. unchangeable G. organize H. participate I. formal J. as much asK. slides L schedules M. calls for N. trail O. punctuality Americans believe time is a limited resource; they try to conserve and manage it. People in the U.S. often【C1】______ seminars or read books on time management. It seems they all want to 【C2】______their time better. Professionals carry around pocket planners—some in electronic form—to keep【C3】______of appointments and deadlines. People do all they can to squeeze more life out of their time. The early American hero Benjamin Franklin expressed this view best: "Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of." To Americans, 【C4】______is a way of showing respect for other people's time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually【C5】______an apology, and maybe an explanation. People who are running late often call ahead to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less 【C6】______the situation, the less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-togethers, for example, people often arrive【C7】______30 minutes past the appointed time. But they usually don't try that at work. To outsiders, Americans seem tied to the clock. People in other cultures value relationships more than【C8】______. In these societies, people don't try to control time, but to experience it. Many Eastern cultures, for example, view time as a cycle. The rhythm of nature—from the passing of the seasons to the monthly cycle of the moon—shapes their view of events. People learn to respond to their environment. As a result, they find it easier to "go with the flow" than Americans, who like plans to be fixed and【C9】______. Even Americans would admit that no one can master time. Time, like money, 【C10】______all too easily through our fingers. And time, like the weather, is very hard to predict. Nevertheless, time is one of life's most precious gifts. And unwrapping it is half the fun.
Every now and then we hear news about poisonous food, such as tainted milk powder, illegal food additives, and illegal cooking oil, which pose great danger to people's health. Give your ideas off cracking down on poisonous food. Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: My Ideas of Cracking down on Poisonous Food You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is. In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea OR describe your idea. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.
My car is always in good repair when I go on a holiday. The underlined word means ______.
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