英语考研

Passage FourIt came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip co Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross's campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within...

The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the mark...

The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakin...

Dogs are social animals and without proper training, they will behave like wild animals. They will soil your house, destroy your belongings, bark excessively, fight other dogs and even bite you. Nearl...

Improbable as it may seem, an increasing number of Germans are giving up their elegant Mercedeses, sleek BMWs and ferociously fast Porsches and getting behind the wheels of imported American models &n...

Passage FourWhen we worry about who might be spying on our private lives, we usually think about the Federal agents. But the private sector outdoes the government every time. It's Linda Tripp, not the...

Passage OneLow-level slash-and-burn farming doesn’t harm rainforest . On the contrary , it helps farmers and improves forest soils . This is the unorthodox view of a German soil scientist who ha...

Passage TwoAs a wise man once said , we are all ultimately alone . But an increasing number of Europeans are choosing to be so at an ever earlier age. This isn’t the stuff of gloomy philosophica...

Passage ThreeSupporters of the biotech industry have accused an American scientist of misconduct after she testified to the New Zealand government that a genetically modified (GM) bacterium could caus...

Passage fourEvery fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike, I just couldn’t get going in the morning,” she says. I’d get depressed and gai...