六级英语

Questions1to 5are based an the following passage.Dropping out of university to launch a start-up is old hat. The twist with Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre is that their start-up aims to i...

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.It would be all too easy to say that Facebook’s market meltdown is coming to an end. After all, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network burned as much ...

In the last 12 years total employment in theUnited Statesgrew faster than at any time in thepeacetime history of any country – from 82to 110million between 1973 and 1985 – that is, by a fullone th...

What does the future hold for the problemofhousing? A good deal depends, of course, on themeaning of “future”. If one isthinking in terms ofscience fiction and the space age, it is at leastpossibl...

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family roundtable at dinnertime and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn’t very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the new...

I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that put-upon member of society—a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and po...

Student expeditions do a great deal of good work on the Arctic islands but from time to time cause trouble in the huts, probably because students are not familiar with the 1 of the little wooden huts ...

It is well known that when an individual joins a group he tends to accept the group’s standards of behavior and thinking. Many illustrations (例证) could be given of this from everyday life, but w...

40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situat...

Many people often enjoy eating out either before or after a visit to the theatre. However, most of us would rather keep the two 11 separate. One man who thinks that they can be successfully combined h...