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[填空题]Before refrigerators, homes usually had ice boxes. But (47) way to keep food cool without the need for electricity is to use an evaporative cooler. This is easy to make and does not even use (48) .
A common design is a tall box with food placed on several shelves inside. The shelves are pieces of metal with many small holes through them. The sides of the box are (49) with pieces of thick cloth. Containers of (50) are placed at the top and bottom of the cooler. The ends of each piece of cloth lie in the water so the cloth stays wet.
Put the cooler in the open air but not in the sun. (51) will pass through the wet cloth. The inside of the box will (52) several degrees cooler than the outside air temperature. And this may be (53) enough to keep foods fresh at least for a short time.
Cold (54) in a freezer, however, can keep foods in good condition for months after the (55)
[填空题]Old time Australian homes usually had no sliced bread and washing had to be done by hand.
[单项选择]British political scientists once had difficulty understanding how the unbalancing effects of affording greater representation to the wealthy was once the means of preserving the______of the commonwealth.
A. character
B. equipoise
C. affluence
D. discontent
E. rectitude
[单项选择]
We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.
"You could win prizes," our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing. "The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. "
We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten- dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. I’m going to spend mine on candies one hopeful would announce while another practiced looking serious wise and rich.
Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but c
A. It must appear in time.
B. It must be done in class.
C. It must be done on a construction sheet.
D. It must include the words on the blackboar
