A. marriage B. hesitation C. complicated D. happening E. guilty F. celebrating G. duty H. performed I. famous J. disrespectful K. profited |
Hamlet is the most
The character of Hamlet has a personal, painful quality that still draws readers and playgoers today as it did 400 years ago. The problems he faces, such as what is
Hamlet is the young prince of Denmark. At the beginning, he is sad about his dead father. Everyone else around him is
Hamlet is told that a spirit has been walking around Elsinore castle. He meets it and it says that his father was killed, and by his brother Claudius — it was “murder most horrid (可怕的)”! Now, the ghost instructs him, it is his
Hamlet is in a terrible position. He does not know whether the ghost is who he says he is, or a being sent by the devil (魔鬼). Matters are
Hamlet has a play performed for the king which stages the way the ghost told him of his father’s murder. Claudius reacts with horror, proving to hamlet that he is
He tells Gertrude he hates her
Cunning (奸诈的) Claudius attempts to play Lacerates and Hamlet against each other, and in the final scene it all goes horribly wrong.
One
A. as B. involve C. filling D. rapidly E. major F. developed G. all H. by I. along J. needs K. present |
Throughout the 20th century, Japanese towns and cities grew
The urban areas on the Japanese island of Honshu (本州岛) continue to grow
Four
A. networks B. convenient C. access D. databases E. updated F. benefits |
The Internet has made our lives more convenient. We can get the most
A. initially B. formed C. societies D. map AB. officially AC. constructed AD. potentially BC. investigate BD. perspective CD. boundaries ABC. consideration |
Construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the Square Kilometre Array, has
A huge intergovernmental effort, the SKA has been hailed as one of the biggest scientific projects of this century. It will enable scientists to look back to early in the history of the universe when the first stars and galaxies were
It will also be used to
The SKA will
A second array of 197 traditional dishes, SKA-Mid, will be built in South Africa’s Karoo region.
Dr Sarah Pearce, SKA-Low’s director, said the observatory would define “the next fifty years for radio astronomy, charting the birth and death of galaxies, searching for new types of gravitational waves and expanding the
She added: “The SKA telescopes will be sensitive enough to detect an airport radar on a planet circling a star tens of light years away, so may even answer the biggest question of all: are we alone in the universe?”
The SKA has been described by scientists as a gamechanger and a major milestone in astronomy research.
“To put the sensitivity of the SKA into
Prof Alan Duffy, director of the space technology and industry institute at the Swinburne University of Technology, said the SKA would probably be the largest telescope
A. selected B. distinctive C. signature D. odds AB. domestication AC. decided AD. individuals BC. tamest BD. conflicted CD. mixed ABC. develop |
If you see a house cat, the
As it turns out, this story started about 10,000 years ago, when humans and cats
This
“As humans became farmers and started staying in one place, they had grain stores and waste piles” that attracted rodents, Lyons said. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: the humans had fewer rodents to deal with and the cats got an easy meal.
The wild, undomesticated ancestor species of house cats, Felis silvestris, lives in Africa and Eurasia. These felines are tasty snacks as kittens and stealthy predators as adults, so
But not every F. silvestiis is born with a coat that blends into its habitat.
“Genetic mutations are occurring all the time.” Lyons said.
There isn’t much evidence to indicate why early cat people chose the individuals they did, but Lyons said the range of coats seen on modern domestic cats shows that our agrarian ancestors favored cats with markings that would have
In its native mixed forest or scrub desert environment, a cat with stark white paws would have stood out to predators and prey.
When humans started taking an interest in cats, these white paws would have stood out to them, too. “There were probably people saying, ‘I particularly like that kitten because it has white feet . Let’s make sure it survives’”, Lyons said.
Humans probably also
These
Then, those cells slowly migrate down and around the body. If those waves of cells move far enough to meet each other on the cat’s front side, the embryo will be born a solid-colored kitten, such as an all-black or all-orange cat. Felines
So, the next time you see a kitty wearing white socks, you’ll know that this
A. investigated B. scale C. enabled D. tracking E. readily F. searching G. misuse H. delayed I. entirely J. eventually K. checking |
A secretive facial recognition program “could announce the end of public anonymity(匿名),” said Kashmir Hill in The New York Times. While police departments have used facial recognition tools for years, they’ve been limited to
We’ve been building toward this moment for a long time, said Adrian Chen in The California Sunday Magazine. In the late 1800s, the French police officer Alphonse Bertillon devised the first “method for identifying criminals based on their physical features,” using 11 physical measurements. But
All this has already led to growing fears about facial recognition, said Janosch Delcker and Cristiano Lima in Politico. com, but “attempts at
Even if some bans on the technology succeed, said Bruce Schneier in The New York Times, we’re still building an “observation society.” Facial recognition is just one identification technology among many. A(n)
A new analysis of the running habits of over a million people showed that exercise is contagious — though this depends on who's spreading it.
For the study, two scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used
The researchers found an additional kilometer run by friends influences an individual to run an additional 0.3 kilometers. An additional kilometer per minute run by friends
The findings suggested that a runner's peers did influence him or her to run more, but not all users exerted
"Social comparisons may provide an explanation for these results," the study's authors wrote. This theory, they added, "
But do we make comparisons to peers performing better than us, or to those performing worse? That's been a subject of
Comparisons to those ahead of us may
The findings show how effective
Although many companies offer tuition repayment, most companies only repay employees for classes that are
One good reason for giving employees
And even if employees do leave after graduation, it generally takes several years to complete any degree program. Thus, even if the employee leaves upon graduating, throughout those years, the employer will have a more sophisticated, more intelligent, and therefore more valuable and productive employee. And, if the employee stays, that education will