At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" 　　The other woman replied, "Yes I am, I m...

A dreaded major earthquake in Tokyo would set off a crisis of "toilet refugees," with a restroom shortage for nearly 820,000 people, a government study said.

An expert panel of the gover...

Stress caused by a slowing economy, shrinking retirement accounts and rising unemployment rates is driving some American smokers to increase the habit or delay quitting, according to a new survey.

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A UK researcher has a new explanation for how the human race manages to keep a fairly even balance of males and females, despite massive deaths of young males in war and selective abortion of female f...

Red-letter day



Meaning
In earlier times a church festival or saint's day; more recently, any special day.

Origin
This comes from the practise of marking the dates of church festivals on ca...

　雅思(IELTS—International English Language Testing System)考试作为一种国际通用的英语语言水平测试系统，它的权威性和实效性越来越受到准备到英国国家，特别是英联邦国家留学和移民的人士的认可雅思热方兴未艾。但与此同时，雅思考虑一些不为人所熟悉的风格和特点，却使很多考生感到不知所措甚至因此失利，尤其是它包括一项考生与考官面对面直接交谈的口语考试，更使许...

Chinese women are beautiful. So are American ones. Actually, all women are beautiful. However, the way to express beauty is quite different due to the disparity of culture and national conditions.

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　　1. 时间先后

　　考题中经常通过现在和过去的状况的比较来设置陷阱，考生要特别注意used to, in the past, many years ago, at present, now，in the future 等一系列提示时间先后的词。

　　例如在租房场景中房东会说这里从前有5个人住，后来走了两个，所以现在就只有三个人住了，而题目问的是现在房子里住的...