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A Baby’s Growth

1. To describe a baby’s growth, the old saying "one thing leads to another" should really read, "one thing leads to an explosion. " The perfection of vision and the ability to hold his head up allow appreciation of visual space. The evolution of increasingly efficient reaching also lets the baby appreciate and participate in his three-dimensional world.
2. You may notice that your baby can grab toys with either hand. This is partly because the baby has learned to grasp an object even if it touches his hand lightly or his eyes are averted. By the end of the fourth month, he can probably alternate hands to grab the toys or transfer a toy from one hand to the other. He may even wave it briskly, then transfer it and repeat the waving, shuttling it back and forth between hands. In imitating the behavior of one hand with the other, the baby may be becoming aware that he can do the same thing with each arm and that each

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1. To describe a baby’s growth, the old saying "one thing leads to another" should really read, "one thing leads to an explosion. " The perfection of vision and the ability to hold his head up allow appreciation of visual space. The evolution of increasingly efficient reaching also lets the baby appreciate and participate in his three-dimensional world.
2. You may notice that your baby can grab toys with either hand. This is partly because the baby has learned to grasp an object even if it touches his hand lightly or his eyes are averted. By the end of the fourth month, he can probably alternate hands to grab the toys or transfer a toy from one hand to the other. He may even wave it briskly, then transfer it and repeat the waving, shuttling it back and forth between hands. In imitating the behavior of one hand with the other, the baby may be becoming aware that he can do the same thing with each arm and that each

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[单项选择] Many sentences used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the troth. The relation between interest rates and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy. Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rearview mirror and a faulty steering wheel. Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3 % last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5 % this July. This is a long way below the double-digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is also less than most forecasters had predicted. In late 1994 the panel of economists which T
A. there is a clear relationship between inflation and interest rates.
B. the economy always follows particular trends.
C. the current economic problems are entirely predictable.
D. the present economic situation is better than expected.

[单项选择]How would you describe the writer’s attitude toward Karaoke（　）
A. She often goes, and likes it sometimes and sometimes not.
B. She thinks it is not only fun, but stress relieving as well.
C. She has not tried it herself so has no attitude about it.
D. She feels it is a waste of time.

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Which of the following statements describe(s)the properties of a purely segmented memory system （） ．
Ⅰ．It suffers from internal fragmentation
Ⅱ．It permits implementation of virtual memory
Ⅲ．It divides memory into units of equal size

A. Ⅰ only
B. Ⅲ only
C. Ⅱ only
D. Ⅰand Ⅲ

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Which of the following can describe the woman’ s dancing
A. Not bad.
B. Excellent.
C. Terrible.
D. Just so-so.

[填空题]How does the speaker describe his friend’s dog Jim He is a large and ______ police dog.

[单项选择]Which of the following describe(s) a hedger（　）
A. An oil refiner who has a large inventory of unleaded gasoline that will not be sold for 3 months takes a SHORT position in unleaded gasoline futures contracts. 
B. An orange grower will harvest oranges and process them into orange juice at the end of next month. He sells (takes a SHORT position in) orange juice futures today. 
C. All of the above describe hedgers.

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Something weird is happening in the wilderness. The animals are becoming restless. Polar bears and penguins, dolphins and dingoes, even birds in the rainforest are becoming stressed. They are losing weight, with some dying as a result. The cause is a pursuit intended to have the opposite effect: ecotourism.
1. ______
Ecotourism has clear benefits. Poor countries that are rich in biodiversity benefit from the money tourists bring in, supposedly without damaging the environment. "Ecotourism is an alternative activity to overuse of natural resources," says Geoffrey Howard of the East Africa office of IUCN (the World Conservation Union) in Nairobi, Kenya.
"Many of our projects encourage ecotourism so that rural people can make a living out of something apart from using too much of the forests or fisheries or wetlands."
2. ______
What is not considered are less obvious im