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The telephone system is a circuit-switched network. For much of the history of the system, when you placed (26)a call, you were renting a pair of copper wires that ran continuously from your telephone...

The first real organized effort to uniting Europe came _1_With the creation of the Council of Europe, was established _2_In 1949.While not as influential as the European Community in term of public aw...

　Halloween’s origins dated back to the ancient Celtic _1_Festival of Samhain (pronouncing sow-in).The Celts, who _2_Lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, United _3_Kingdom, and no...

　Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought t...

　In the United States there are, strict speaking, __1__no national holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment or executive proclamation, __2__appoint the day which each holiday is c...

Successful aging is a psychological feat. Fear for death, for example, may sometimes oppress you.__1__even when this is successfully overcome, there is still something for you to deal with-loneliness....

One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising (26) is the possibility of unraveli...

　Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1__The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a sk...

Section A Mini-lecture 听力原文Paralinguistic features of languagesGood morning, everyone. Today we’ll continue ourdiscussion on describing language. Last week weexamined such features of langua...

听力原文Part 1, Listening ComprehensionSECTION A MINI-LECTUREObserving BehaviourGood morning, everyone. Today we will look at how to observe behaviour in research.Perhaps you would say it is easy ...