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So what’re the main times of the day that u watch tv?9 B7 `8 L4 w4 O
Well a little around  breakfast  time and it tends to be really late. 11 or even midnight when i've finished  work3 Y4 d% R% V& b- V6 F' Q% R
And  what sort of program do u go for?8 g, C" Y( x3 S! N& i* q: l$ ?
Some news bulletins ,but also really like to put up my feet up with some  of the  old comedy shows.
& T( q/ Q. V: p3 P" D% zFine, and turning to the new channel  , what which type of programs would u like to see more of ?
( s- V) v( |8 OWell I certainly don’t think we  need any more factuary   factual programs like news or interviews. I think we need more about  something like local information. You know, provide providing a servicefor the community perhaps for the younger favors viewers . you know, good quality stuff. : e8 {: W+ f2 \
If u had to give the director to some specific advice when they set up the channel, what  advice would you give them? I think I’d advise them to  pay a lot of attention to the quality of the actual broadcast. You know, the sound system ppl are fussy  these days  about that in general I think the ought  to do a lots more of  these kinds of interview ,talking with their potential customers. {$ S! K. `) z) w" Y/ P) |# j
Oh I’m glad you that your think is valuable
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Ok this will be a commercial channel of course. But how often do you think is tolerable to have adverts?% T7 U. k* W  w- y1 C( V3 d
   Well   out of this list , i'd say every quarter of an hour . I don’t think we can complain about that as long as they don’t last ten  minutes each time .
8 _7 E. x: ~; rThank you very much .
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传个简单的    坚持  坚持！！
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l 38 the first calendar* f$ Q- f1 e/ _% |0 W
future historians will be in an unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. they will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence steadily accumulates. what is more, they will not have to rely solely the written word. films, vedios, cds, cd-roms are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. they will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. but the historians attempting reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task. he has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.! \  A4 i7 v# ?! W: k$ B* `

8 M7 E; e! }; C* nup to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of argiculture. for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
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; L- u3 q& d7 p* [) X, Y4 y( Fhistorians have long been puzzled by dots, lines, symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. the nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last ice age which began about 35,000 bcs and ended about 10,000 bcs. by correlating markings made various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. they have found that it was connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. it is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. it has long been known that hunt sences depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. they had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writting. it is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. it seems that man were ** a real effort 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.

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l37 the westhaven express, P: V. d2 E0 J. K
we have been expected that trains will be punctual. over years conditioning, most of us have developed an unshakable faith in railway timetable. ships may be delayed by storms. planes may be cancelled because of bad weather. but trains must be on time. only an exceptionally heavy snowfall might temporarily dislocate railway services. it is too easy to blame the railway authorities when something dose go wrong. the truth is that when mistakes occur, they are more likely to be ours than theirs., }) |' E% S+ q

0 {% _/ g3 M  \5 Q  F. Gafter consulting my railway timetable, i noted with satisfaction that there was an express train to westhaven. it went direct from my local station and the journey lasted only a mere hour and seventeen minutes. when i boarded the train, i could not help noticing that a great many local people got on as well. at the time,it did not strike me as odd. i reflected that there must be a great many people besides me who wished to take the advantage of this excellent service. neither was i surprised when the stopped at widley, a tiny station only a few miles along the line. even a mighty express train can be held by signals. but when the train dawdled at station after staion, i began to wonder. it suddenly dawned on me that the train was not saoring down the line at ninety miles an hour, by barely chugging along at thirty. one hour and seventeen minutes passed and we had not even covered half the distance. i asked a passenger if this was the westhaven express, but he had not even heard of it. i determined to lodge a complaint as soon as we arrived. two hours later, i was talking angrily to the station master at westhaven. when he denied the train's existent. i borrowed his copy of the timetable. there was a note a triumph in my voice when i told him that it was there in black and white. glancing at it briefly, he told me to look again. a tiny asterisk conducted me to a footnote at the bottom of the page. i said: this service has been suspended.

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Okay, as you look at this next exhibit, you'll notice something quite common --- an ordinary bar of soap. Now, soap has been around a long time --- in fact, the ancient Phoenicians produced soap as a substance for washing the body way back in 600 B.C. They made it by blending goat's fat with wood ash. The Phoenicians, as you may know, regularly traded along the Mediterranean, and they were the ones who introduced soap to the Greeks and Romans. Now, soap was not something welcomed by all countries. In fact, during the superstitious Middle Ages, many people were afraid to bathe their whole body too frequently. They thought it could be dangerous for their health --- that it could even kill them. And even after the production of soap became common in some European countries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries --- even then some people in the hear of Europe refused to use it. You'll find it interesting that when a duchess was given a box of soap as a present in 1549 she was so insulted that she had the gift --- giver thrown off her estate! But by the nineteenth century the attitude toward soap had changed drastically. In some regions of Europe the tax on soap was so high that people secretly made their own. A baron went so far as to suggest that the wealth of a nation could be judged according to the amount of soap it used. Now, if you turn your attention to the next exhibit, you can see how soap is manufactured today.$ l" t) Z2 C2 m6 H) o+ Y2 `

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baron：n男爵，巨头，大王，大亨
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The winds of a tornado are the most violent and destructive ones on Earth. Any of you who have seen one knows very well how frightening and powerful they are. What's interesting about them is that scientists don't actually know exactly why tornadoes occur.
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We do know, however, what happens when tornadoes are formed. As you remember, a front occurs when cool, dry air from the north meets warm, humid air coming from the south (from the Gulf of Mexico, for tornadoes in the United States). Where these air masses meet, a narrow zone of storm clouds develops, and thunderstorms, and sometimes tornadoes, occur.
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, ~. m" X; K$ T/ u4 m' A" }How is this violent weather produced? Well, a mass of warm, humid air rises very rapidly. As it rises, more warm air rushes in to replace it. This inrushing air also rises, and in some cases, especially when there is extreme thermal instability, begins to rotate. When this happens, the rotating air forms a tornado.! A0 h( j( o8 D5 s2 K

3 V6 y7 o: q3 P: N. x1 r, K. p! ~Even if you've seen tornadoes only in movies, you know that they can demolish buildings in seconds. This is possible because when a tornado passes over a house, it sucks up air from around the house and so the air pressure outside the house drops rapidly. Inside, pressure remains the same. So, air pressure inside is greater than air pressure outside. The result is that the building explodes outward. Next, we'll talk a little bit about how new technological developments are being used to try to predict tornadoes.. Z. K% s; i; S. a( I8 e. e
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RamessesI

这么有毅力的LZ……膜拜~

小丑030301

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( o/ i4 b; Z  O5 I  OYou'll recall that in last week's class I talked about how the sound made by most animals, though sometimes complex, are different from human language. Only in humans do these sounds represent objects and events. Keep in mind that most animals can only repeat their limited utterances over and over again, while humans can say things that have never been said before. Today I want to focus on human language and how it developed.+ q8 v3 T- e; C: R$ _
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I doubt you'll be surprised when I say that the evolution of language was slow and laborious. There's some reliable evidence that language began with early humans a million and a half years ago. Through the study of the size and shape of brain fossils, scientists have determined that early human brains, like modern brains, had a left hemisphere slightly larger than the right hemisphere. We know that in modern humans, the left hemisphere's the seat of language. We also know that early human brains had a well-developed frontal section, known as Broca's area, which coordinates the muscles of the mouth and throat.0 }+ W! u1 h7 T2 C

5 [) n4 t1 G, CIt's clear, then, that early humans had a speech apparatus. They could produce any sound that we can. What we don't know is whether early humans used what they had. Since scholars know virtually nothing about prehistoric speech patterns, all they can do is speculate about how language actually originated. Let me give you a brief summary of some of these theories. $ U% `$ g! H/ w' `+ m! y! \
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原帖由 RamessesI 于 2009-12-20 11:21 发表 - r% N, r% T% e* {. v* m
这么有毅力的LZ……膜拜~

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欢迎常来啊

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At last month's meeting you asked me to draw up a report about the possibility of keeping the student center open twenty-four hours a day. I decided that the best way to assess the need for expanded hours was to talk to the people who were still in the student center at closing time.
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+ z* C1 r. C& ]. P  Y5 VFirst, over the course of the two weeks, I interviewed more than fifty students as they left the student center at its regular closing time of twelve midnight. About eighty percent of them said they would prefer that the center stay open later. Of the three main uses of the center --- eating in the snack bar, recreation in the game room or watching TV, and studying --- by far the most popular late night activity is --- and this may surprise you --- studying. Almost all of the people I talked to said that their main reason for being in the center after ten p.m. was to study in groups or to find a quiet place to study because their dorm was too noisy. Of course, many of these people used the snack bar or TV room for breaks.5 U, }. J0 b8 n0 J- L! q( u
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My recommendation is that we ask the administration to keep the center open after midnight for studying. The recreation room and snack bar can still close at the usual time. This should meet the objection that it costs too much to staff the center from midnight to eight a.m., which I'm sure will be the first response.
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RamessesI

要加油啊~我会常过来看看（监督？）你进度的

小丑030301

好嘞，没问题

zyuan12

我很惭愧的过来了...% q8 v# i- _; A* P
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楼主实在太厉害了
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原帖由 zyuan12 于 2009-12-20 20:12 发表
" J  y9 k2 q$ M: K我很惭愧的过来了...
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我总是以各种理由推脱...

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2 W) o" O% z7 G+ Y我也很惭愧阿，刚上完其他的bbs，玩啊，昨儿也玩了一天，唉，鞭策自己啊， 后悔啊，昨儿的时间都浪费了，去背新3了，我就不信了

小丑030301

而且这俩天也没早起，真是，明天必需早起了，加油

痕迹~wǒ祁

09年12月20日  p: B, G4 J; a
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Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock ,which used to strike the hours day and night  was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since. One night, however, our vicar woke up with a tart ,the clock was  striking the hours, looking at his watch ,he saw that it was one a clock , but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. armed with the torch, the vicar went up into the tower to see what was going on. In the torch light ,he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately  recognized as bill wilkons, our local grocer.
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Whatever are you doing up ,bill ?”said the vicar in surprise.
* u0 S: G: D7 l“I’m trying to repair the bell.” Answered the bill.
7 N3 p6 s4 ~. NI’ve been coming up here night after night for weeks now , you see I was hoping give you a surprise .”
2 L7 ~/ J: l* r* y2 _4 NYou certainly give me a surprise!” said the vicar.+ U6 ?9 r% f& V/ {& I+ z" Q
You probably woke up l in the  village as well, still , I’m glad the clock was working again.”
% ?! B* @4 G+ ^- [: K5 X$ Y“That’s the trouble, vicar.” Answered the bill “it’s working alright, but I’m afraid that one o’clock strike thirteen times ,and there is nothing I can do about it!’! K0 d5 E1 Q' C
“we’ll get to used to that, bill.” said the vicar  “ thirteen is  not as  good as the one ,but it’s better than nothing . now let’s go downstairs and have a cup of tea.”
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These days we take for granted the wide variety of music available on the radio. But, this wasn't always the case. In the early days of radio, stations were capable of broadcasting only a narrow range of sounds, which was all right for the human voice but music didn't sound very good. There was also a great deal of crackling and other static noises that further interfered with the quality of the sound.
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- [3 d( S) d/ FA man named Edwin Armstrong, who was a music lover, set out to change this. He invented FM radio, a technology that allowed stations to send a broad range of frequencies that greatly improved the quality of the music.1 U, S$ ^! Y1 P: @: y
Now, you'd think that this would have made him a millionaire; it didn't. Radio stations at that time had invested enormous amounts of money in the old technology. So the last thing they wanted was to invest millions more in the new technology. Nor did they want to have to compete with other radio stations that had a superior sound and could put them out of business. So they pressured the Federal Communications Commission --- the department of the United States government that regulates radio stations --- to put restrictive regulations on FM radio.
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The result was that its use was limited to a very small area around New England. Of course as we all know, Edwin Armstrong's FM technology eventually prevailed and was adopted by thousands of stations around the world. But this took years of court battles and he never saw how it came to affect the lives of almost everyone." _+ v- @5 j6 c( k7 I& f
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I'm going to talk about a train that exemplifies the rise and fall of passenger trains in the United States: the Twentieth Century Limited. Let me go back just a bit. In 1893, a special train was established to take people from New York to an exposition in Chicago. It was so successful that regular service was then set up between these cities.9 |0 ~9 L/ g$ r2 Y1 d, ~. U
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The inaugural trip of the Twentieth Century Limited was made in 1902. The train was different from what anyone had ever seen before. It was pulled by a steam engine and had five cars: two sleepers, a dining car, an observation car, and a baggage car, which --- believe it or not --- contained a library. The 42 passengers the train could carry were waited on by a large staff. There were even secretaries and a barber on board.$ |1 D) I% {0 P9 Y. V

  B2 Z! L. ?+ x) L* LIt wasn't long before people had to wait two years to get a reservation. As time passed, technical improvements shortened the trip by a few hours. Perhaps the biggest technological change occurred in 1945 --- the switch from steam to diesel engines.
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痕迹~wǒ祁

09年12月21日
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Some time ago ,an interesting discovery was made by archeologists on the Agen island of kea .. x2 }2 W8 ~  _6 G7 B
An American team explored a temple which stands in ancient time on the promontory of Ayia irini    . the city at one time must have been prosperous,  for it enjoyed the high level of civilization. Houses, often three storeys high were built with stone , they have large rooms with beautifully decorated walls, the city was even equipped with the drainaga system, for a great many of clay pipes were  found beneath the narrow streets. 2 m+ i' Q% F0 c* k, j) V
The temple which the archeologists explored was used  as a place of worship from the fifteen centry BC until Roman times. In the most sacred room of the  temple , clay fragments of 15 statues were found, each of these are represented a goddess and had , at one time , been painted, the body of one statue was found among remains dating from 15 sentry BC, its missing head happened to be among remains  of the 5th centry BC. This head must have been  found in classical time and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then , when the archeologists reconstructed the fragments ,they were amazed to find that the  goddess turned out to be a very modern looking woman . she stood 3 feet high, and hands rested on her hips, she was wearing a full-length skirt which  swept the ground . despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed. But so far, the archeologists have been  unable to discover her identity.' P3 d, K  m" h0 R  N

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zyuan12

我...也许真的不适合坚持...3 J* h/ M2 ?' ?+ L- N
还是堕落着+偶尔忙忙专业课吧7 B: l! a" k. p) z" M# B9 \
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你们加油啊！！！

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