Where is love How can we find love
The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like "Paleolithic Man", "Neolithic. Man", etc. , neatly sum up the whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label "Legless Man". Histories of the time will go something like this: "in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks. "
The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s eye view of the world—or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: "I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see I saw the sea." The typical twentieth century traveler is the man who always says, "I’ve been there. " You mention the remotest, most evocative place names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say, "I’ve been there"—meaning, "I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else. "
When you travel at high speed, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on toot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.
Anthropologists label nowadays’ men "Legless" because ______.
A:people forget how to use their legs B:people prefer cars, buses and trains C:lifts and escalators prevent people from walking D:there are a lot of transportation devices
Where is love How can we find love
The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like "Paleolithic Man", "Neolithic Man", etc. , neatly sum up the whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label "Legless Man". Histories of the time will go something like this: "in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks. "
The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s eye view of the world—or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: " I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see I saw the sea. "The typical twentieth century traveler is the man who always says, " I’ve been there. " You mention the remotest, most evocative place names in the world like E1 Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say," I’ve been there"—meaning, "I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else. "
When you travel at high speed, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing : he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his : the just reward of all true travelers.
Anthropologists label nowadays’ men "Legless" because ______.
A:people forget how to use their legs B:people prefer cars, buses and trains C:lifts and escalators prevent people from walking D:there are a lot of transportation devices
Animals are divided into many groups. Some groups of animals include the, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Insects are small animals that have six (21) legs and three body parts (the (22) , the thorax, and the abdomen). Many insects can fly; flying insects have one or two (23) of wings. Some flying insects include butterflies, moths, dragonflies, flies, and mosquitoes. Some (24) insects include springtails, fleas, and lice.
Fish are swimming animals that have scales and fins. Fish (25) oxygen that is dissolved in the water using gills. Most fish have bony skeletons, but some, (26) sharks and rays, have only cartilage.
Amphibians are animals that (27) their life in the water, breathing with gills. As they grow, they breathe air using lungs, and many (28) the land. Some amphibians include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts.
Reptiles are cold-blooded animals (29) scales, Some reptiles are: the dinosaurs, lizards, crocodilians, and snakes.
Birds are animals (30) have feathers, wings, a beak, hollow bones, and an efficient, one-way breathing system. Most birds can fly, but some (31) . The biggest bird (and the fastest-running bird) is the ostrich, a (32) bird. The smallest bird is a type of hummingbird that is only as (33) as a moth.
Mammals are warm-blooded (34) that nourish their young (using mammary glands) and have hair. Most mammals give birth to live young, but a few primitive mammals (like the duck-billed platypus) lay (35) . Some examples of mammals are whales, bats, cats, dogs, horses, and people.
A:head B:hands C:legs D:arms
Passage 4
Once they are more than a month old,
babies seem to learn readily. (84) Moreover, solving a problem or discovering
the relationship between their own actions and an event in the external world
seems to have its own rewards for infants. The pleasure involved in such an experience seemed obvious in one study of two-to-four- month-old infants who were given a chance to control a yellow-and-green mobile. One of these mobiles was suspended above each infant, who play in a crib (小床) with a ribbon attached to one ankle. The other end of the ribbon was attached to the hook from which the mobile was suspended. As the infants moved about, waving their arms and kicking their legs, they learned to connect the motion of one leg with the bobbing(跳动) of the mobile. As they smiled and gurgled(咯咯的笑) at the moving mobile, the infants began to kick the leg attached to the mobile forcefully and precisely and only that leg. Apparently, they enjoyed controlling the mobile, for they would continue for as long as 45 minutes. Nor is this pleasure in mastery limited to infants. In an experiment with fifth and sixth graders, the children were asked to solve some word puzzles that varied in difficulty. The youngsters smiled more, and reported far more pleasure, when they solved a difficult puzzle than any easy one. The implication is that human beings of any age-from infancy to old age- derive pleasure from intellectual mastery. |
A:kicked their legs randomly all the time B:kicked the leg controlling the mobile most of the time C:attached the colorful ribbons to their own legs D:felt very tired and lost their interest soon
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Walk on Two Legs{{/B}} ? ?A team of scientists that studied chimpanzees (黑猩猩) trained to use treadmills(跑步机) has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy than getting around on all fours. ? ?Michael Sockol, researcher of UC Davis, worked for two years to find an animal trainer willing to coax (劝诱) adult chimps to walk on two legs and to walk on ail fours. ? ?The five chimps also wore face masks used to help the researchers measure oxygen consumption. While the chimps worked out, the scientists collected data that allowed them to calculate which method of locomotion (移动) used less energy and why. The team gathered the same information for four adult humans walking on a treadmill. ? ?The researchers found that human walking used about 75 percent less energy and burned 75 percent fewer calories than quadrupedal and bipedal walking in chimpanzees. They also found that for some but not all of the chimps, walking on two legs was no more costly than on all fours. ? ?"We were prepared to find that all of the chimps used more energy walking on two legs -but that finding wouldn’t have been as interesting," Sockol said. "What we found was much more telling. For three chimps, bipedalism was more expensive, but for the other two chimps, this wasn’t the case. One spent about the same energy walking on two legs as on all fours. The other used less energy walking upright." These two chimps had different gaits (步法) and anatomy (解剖) than their quadrupedal peers. ? ?Taken together, the findings provide support for the hypothesis that anatomical (解剖学的) differences affecting gait existed among our earliest apelike ancestors, and that these differences provided the geneticvariation which natural selection could act on when changes in the environment gave bipeds an advantage over quadrupeds. ? ?Fossil and molecular evidence suggests the earliest ancestors of the human family lived in forested areas in equatorial Africa in the late Miocene era (中世纪) some 8 to 10 million years ago, when changes in climate may have increased the distance between food patches. That would have forced our earliest ancestors to travel longer distances on the ground and favored those who could cover more ground using less energy. ? ?"This isn’t the complete answer," Sockol said. "But it’s a good piece of a puzzle humans have always wondered about: How and why did we become human? And why do we alone walk on two legs?" |
A:where humans came from B:how chimpanzees could be trained to use treadmills C:why our apelike ancestors came to walk on two legs D:when our earliest ancestors began to live in forested areas
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Walk on Two Legs{{/B}} ? ?A team of scientists that studied chimpanzees (黑猩猩) trained to use treadmills(跑步机) has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy than getting around on all fours. ? ?Michael Sockol, researcher of UC Davis, worked for two years to find an animal trainer willing to coax (劝诱) adult chimps to walk on two legs and to walk on ail fours. ? ?The five chimps also wore face masks used to help the researchers measure oxygen consumption. While the chimps worked out, the scientists collected data that allowed them to calculate which method of locomotion (移动) used less energy and why. The team gathered the same information for four adult humans walking on a treadmill. ? ?The researchers found that human walking used about 75 percent less energy and burned 75 percent fewer calories than quadrupedal and bipedal walking in chimpanzees. They also found that for some but not all of the chimps, walking on two legs was no more costly than on all fours. ? ?"We were prepared to find that all of the chimps used more energy walking on two legs -but that finding wouldn’t have been as interesting," Sockol said. "What we found was much more telling. For three chimps, bipedalism was more expensive, but for the other two chimps, this wasn’t the case. One spent about the same energy walking on two legs as on all fours. The other used less energy walking upright." These two chimps had different gaits (步法) and anatomy (解剖) than their quadrupedal peers. ? ?Taken together, the findings provide support for the hypothesis that anatomical (解剖学的) differences affecting gait existed among our earliest apelike ancestors, and that these differences provided the geneticvariation which natural selection could act on when changes in the environment gave bipeds an advantage over quadrupeds. ? ?Fossil and molecular evidence suggests the earliest ancestors of the human family lived in forested areas in equatorial Africa in the late Miocene era (中世纪) some 8 to 10 million years ago, when changes in climate may have increased the distance between food patches. That would have forced our earliest ancestors to travel longer distances on the ground and favored those who could cover more ground using less energy. ? ?"This isn’t the complete answer," Sockol said. "But it’s a good piece of a puzzle humans have always wondered about: How and why did we become human? And why do we alone walk on two legs?" |
A:Human walking used more energy than bipedal walking in chimps B:One chimp used about the same energy in walking on two legs as on all fours C:Two chimps used more energy walking on two legs D:Three chimps used less energy walking on two legs
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Freezing to Death for Beauty ? ?People in Beijing wear a lot of clothing during winter to fend(抵御) off the cold. In the United States, however, people wear {{U}}?(51) ?{{/U}}, partly because the ear is the primary mode of transportation. Cars take {{U}}?(52) ?{{/U}} straight to their workplaces, which are heated well. The American diet is full of calories, so their {{U}}?(53) ?{{/U}} can afford to burn heat more quickly. ? ?Fewer layers of clothing give people the opportunity to stay {{U}}?(54) ?{{/U}}. Lots of Yale girls wear skirts {{U}}?(55) ?{{/U}}when it’s 10 degrees Centigrade(摄氏温度的) outside. Some of them at least wear boots, tights(裤袜), and leg-warmers(暖腿套). Some, however, really just go for(选 择) the look {{U}}?(56) ?{{/U}}the risk of health. These girls have nothing to prevent their legs {{U}}?(57) ?{{/U}} the wind, and no socks to protect their feet. A mini skirt and a pair of stilettos(细高跟鞋) are all that they wear. ? ?Typically, the ones pursuing fashion are {{U}}?(58) ?{{/U}}, with little body fat. Just by the nature of their bodies, they are already at a disadvantage compared with normal people in {{U}}?(59) ?{{/U}}weather. I have always {{U}}?(60) ?{{/U}}, whenever I pass these girls, how they manage to refrain from shivering and just smile like spring had arrived. ? ?And then there are the guys, The girls can be said to {{U}}?(61) ?{{/U}}health for beauty..But why do guys {{U}}?(62) ?{{/U}} so little? It is not like, once they shed(脱掉) some layers, they suddenly become better-looking. They are not exactly being fashionable when they {{U}}?(63) ?{{/U}} wear sporty (花哨的) shorts and shower slippers in the midst of winter. It’s not cute (喜人的). ? ?Of course, people have the freedom to look whatever {{U}}?(64) ?{{/U}} they want. I am just surprised that, given the vast difference between winter and summer temperatures in Connecticut, they can still {{U}}?(65) ?{{/U}} like they are partying on the beach in the middle of February. |
A:arms B:heads C:legs D:bodies
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? ?It is not unusual for a pet to be sent by air cargo from Columbia to New York, but last December’s shipment of a 4-year-old sheep dog caught a New York Kennedy Airport Customs inspector’s eye. The dog looked to be on its last legs, and there was an unusual lump on the side of its body. An X-ray and emergency surgery revealed the presence of 10 condoms tightly packed with five pounds of cocaine that had been surgically implanted in the dog’s abdomen - yet another first for Customs in the war on drugs. ? ?When it comes to transporting drags, the methods used are only as limited as a smuggler’s imagination. Kilo bricks of cocaine are routinely concealed beneath false bottoms of containers that hold poisonous snakes. "You’ve got snakes that are 12 feet long," says a United States Fish and Wildlife Service agent - and sometimes the drag is in the snake. "Who’s going to pull it out and feel it?" ? ?In 1994, United States Customs seized 204,391 pounds of cocaine, 559,286 pounds of marijuana and 2,577 pounds of heroin. Just how much actually flows into the country is anyone’s guess. Some Customs officials estimate that only 10 percent of the drugs coming into the country are ever seized. In Miami, the District Attorney won’t even prosecute small fry. "It’s got to be over five kilos of cocaine, above a kilo of heroin and more than 5,000 pounds of marijuana or it’s not something that we’re going to stop the presses on," says Tom Cash, a retired agent. ? ?Given this deluge, one can only wonder if agents are ever confounded by some of the smuggling methods. "There are things we haven’t seen before," says John McGhee, a Miami Customs special agent, "but nothing really surprises us." |
A:it could stand only on its hind legs. B:it had only two legs. C:it was very attractive. D:it had a very big abdomen.