You know that pearls grow inside oysters, but would you ever think to look for diamonds inside an ostrich Well, a hunter once shot an ostrich and discovered, to his great surprise, that the big bird had swallowed a bunch of diamonds. How could such a strange thing happen
Like many other birds, the ostrich swallows small stones that stay inside its "gizzard." The gizzard is a bird’s second stomach. It is where the food is ground up. The small stones help to grind up the food so it can be digested. They do the chewing, because birds don’t have teeth. In the case of the ostrich with the diamonds, the bird simply had expensive taste in rocks. He used the diamonds to help digest his dinner.
Diamonds and stones aren’t all that an ostrich will swallow. If there are no stones around, it will eat just about anything. Sadly for ostriches in zoos this can be a fatal habit. The tendency to swallow anything it sees has caused the death
A. enough food
B. bird seed
C. teeth
D. diamonds
During the traditional wedding ceremony, the bride and the bridegroom promise each other lifelong devotion. Yet, about one out of four American marriages ends in divorce. 61) Since 1940, the divorce rate has more than doubled, and experts predict that, of all marriages that occurred in the 1970s, about 50% will end in divorce. The U. S. A. has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, perhaps even the highest.
What goes wrong 62) The fact that divorce is so common in the United States does not mean that Americans consider marriage a casual, unimportant relationship. Just the opposite is true. Americans expect a great deal from marriage. They seek physical, emotional, and intellectual compatibility. They want to be deeply loved and understood. It is because Americans expect so much from marriage that so many get divorced. They prefer no marriage at all to a marriage without love and understanding. With typical American optimism, they end one marriage i
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being very different from all other nationalities. It is claimed that living on
an island separated from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the
reason is, it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has developed some
attitudes and habits distinguishing him from other nationalities. Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person among people he knows well. Before strangers he often seems inhibited, even embarrassed. You have only to witness a railway compartment any morning or evening to see the truth. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing(打盹) in a corner; no one speaks. An English wit (风趣的人)once suggested to overseas visitors, "On entering a rail- way compartment, shake hands with all the passengers." Needless to say, he was not bein A. The difference between the English and the other Europeans. B. The character of English people. C. The shy Englishman. D. The code of behavior. 我来回答: 提交
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