英语美文背诵系列（22） 43.Statistics There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records ...
英语美文背诵系列（21） 41.American black bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these brown, red, or even yellow coa ...
英语美文背诵系列（20） 39 The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes ar ...
英语美文背诵系列（18） 37 Icebergs Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being ----- s ...
英语美文背诵系列（17） 35.Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum – a dark, thick ooze from the earth – had been known for hundreds o ...
英语美文背诵系列（17） 33 Plankton浮游生物. / 'plжηktэn; `plжηktэn/ Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plan ...
英语美文背诵系列（16） 31 British Columbia British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and population. It is nearly 1.5 times as large as Texas, and extends 800 miles(1,28 ...
英语美文背诵系列（15） 29 Telecommuting Telecommuting-- substituting the computer for the trip to the job ----has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work. For wo ...
英语美文背诵系列（14） 27. Scientific Theories In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists ...
英语美文背诵系列（13） 25. Movie Music Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the ver ...
英语美文背诵系列（12） 23 Ford Although Henry Ford’s name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 ...
英语美文背诵系列（11） 21 The Origin of Sports When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, th ...
英语美文背诵系列（10） 19.children’s numerical skills 怎么还是胖胖：） people appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imag ...
英语美文背诵系列（09） 17.Evolution of sleep Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend ...
英语美文背诵系列（08） 15 The Nobel Academy For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from th ...
英语美文背诵系列（07） 13 Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were wid ...
英语美文背诵系列（06） 11 Archaeology Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrat ...
英语美文背诵系列（05） 09 Suburbanization If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergen ...
英语美文背诵系列（04） 07 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in Amer ...
英语没问背诵系列（03） 05 The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evo ...
英语没问背诵系列（02） 03 The Definition of “Price” Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed ...
英语没问背诵系列（1） 01 The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performe ...
