新概念优美背诵短文 Unit8:American Revolution

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit8:American Revolution The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revol...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit23:Ford

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit23:Ford 23 Ford Although Henry Ford’s name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by today’s standards. Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, compared with the ten-or twelve...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit33:Plankton浮游生物

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit33:Plankton浮游生物 33 Plankton浮游生物. Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plants and animals are too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with the currents, providing a basic food for many larger animals. Plankton has been described as the equi...

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新概念优美背诵短文 Unit11:Archaeology

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit11:Archaeology Archaeology Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in whic...

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美丽英文诵读(34)Of beauty 论美

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect.美德好比宝石,它在朴素背景的衬托下反而更华丽;同样,一个打扮并不华贵却端庄严肃而有美德者是令人肃然起敬的。Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of grea...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit22:Collectibles

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit22:Collectibles 22 Collectibles Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In the United States, the kinds of collectibles currently popular range from traditional objects such as stamps, coins, ...

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新概念优美背诵短文 Unit12:Archaeology

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit12:Museums 12 Museums From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future. In New York City alone, six major institutions ha...

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美丽英文诵读(28)A Psalm of Life(人生礼颂)

Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem.请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲; 人生呵,无非虚梦一场! 因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般, 事物的表里并不一样。Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.人生是实在的!人生是热烈的! 人...

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美丽英文诵读(34)A forever friend(永远的朋友)

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Sometimes in life, You find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop; Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open ...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit30:The origin of Refrigerators

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit30:The origin of Refrigerators 30 The origin of Refrigerators By the mid-nineteenth century, the term “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit38:Topaz

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit38:Topaz 38 Topaz Topaz is a hard, transparent mineral. It is a compound of aluminum, silica, and fluorine. Gem topaz is valuable. Jewelers call this variety of the stone “precious topaz”. The best-known precious topaz gems range in color from rich yellow to light brown or pinkish red. Topaz is one of the hardest gem minerals. In the mineral table ...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit36:Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Sprea

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit36:Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading 36.Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle. The lithosphere(n.[地]岩石圈)is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit49:Sleep

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit49:Sleep 49 Sleep Sleet is part of a person’s daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, you temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your bre...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit42:Coal-fired power plants

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit42:Coal-fired power plants 42.Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations. (which were set up at the end of the ninet...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit48:Bacteria

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit48:Bacteria 48 Bacteria Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one mi...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit45:The Source of Energe

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit45:The Source of Energe 45.The source of Energy A summary of the physical and chemical nature of life must begin, not on the Earth, but in the Sun; in fact, at the Sun’s very center. It is here that is to be found the source of the energy that the Sun constantly pours out into space as light and heat. This energy is librated at the center of ...

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新东方优美短文背诵 Unit39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters 39 The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity. One of these is the subtraction of water from the ocean ...

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