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- Changing Roles of Public Education
- One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on th...
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- Telecommuting
- Telecommuting―― substituting the computer for the trip to the job ――has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work. For workers it promises freedom from t...
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- 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...
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- British Columbia
- British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and population. It is nearly 1.5 times as large as Texas, and extends 800 miles（1,280km） north from the United States borde...
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- Oil Refining
- An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever b...
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- Botany
- Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more...
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- Plankton
- 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 ab...
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- Raising Oysters
- In the oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes- by transplanting them. First, farmers selected the oyster bed, cleared the bottom of old shells and other debri...
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- 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 lith...
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- Icebergs
- Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being ―― somewhere ――in faraway, frigi...
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- 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 precio...
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- 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 tha...
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- The Blessed Dress
- I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. The month of Janu...
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- Enormous Debt
- There was no one quite like my father ―― in our town of Victor. When any other man in town had an extra dollar, he bought a drink; when Father had an extra dollar, he bought a book. Other pe...
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- The Dreamer 追夢人
- The Dreamer 追夢人 Go with your passion.It has been said that who see the invisible can do the impossible. 原文 When I was nine years old living in a smaIl town in North Carolina I f...
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- Waiting at the Door
- By Barbara J. Crocker My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the animal shelter to pick out a puppy to keep her company. Grandma decided on a little terrier t...
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- A Boy and His Tree
- A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… He loved the t...
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- 一杯奶可以溫暖我們一輩子
- One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next h...
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- The Aria(中文注釋)
- The Aria 詠嘆調 My fiancee and I were out to dinner with two of her friends one weekend night. There was a long wait, but we were in no hurry, so we were happy to sit at the bar for a while and ha...
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- Never Write Right
- When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. Half the students sneered(冷笑,譏笑), the rest nearly fell out of their chairs laughing....
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- 不懂寫作
- 十五歲的時候，我在英語課上宣布說準備寫書，并自己畫插圖。一半的學生開始竊笑，其余的笑得幾乎從椅子上跌倒在地上。“別傻了，只有天才才能成為作家，”英文老師自以為是地說道，“而你這學期的成績可能只得D。”我羞愧得...
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- 假如我又回到了童年
- If I were a Boy Again If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Pers...
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- 我永遠的情人節
- My Forever Valentine The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as m...
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- 情暖今生(原文帶注釋)
- The GiftIt was well after mid night, wrapped in my warm fleecy(羊毛似的) robe I stood silently staring out the ninth floor window of the daunting New York hospital. I was staring at the 59th Stree...
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- 情暖今生(譯文)
- 時間早就過了午夜了，在雄偉威嚴的紐約醫院，我裹在暖暖的羊毛睡袍里，靜靜地站在九樓病房的窗前凝視窗外。我看著眼前的第59街大橋，它像圣誕樹般閃閃發光，美麗動人。在我心中，紐約一直有一個特別的位置，有百老匯的戲院，音樂...
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