It is hard to escape the images of Konza City in Kenya. Advertisements promoting the future high-tech hub, or technopolis, appear daily in the country's newspapers and show regularly on the state television network. The ambitious plan is the work of...
LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Xinhua) -- 21 Jump Street opened in the first place this weekend, garnering 35 million U.S. dollars in ticket receipts as was widely expected. Holdover Dr. Seuss' The Lorax continued to cast a spell on moviegoers, as it finishe...
CANBERRA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Ian Thorpe's chance of qualifying for the London Olympic Games has been wasted out as he failed to make the semifinals of 100m freestyle on Sunday at Australia's selection trials. The five-time Olympic champion, who qui...
MOSCOW, March 18 (Xinhua) -- China beat Russia 45-44 on Sunday to win the men's team crown at the 2012 Moscow Sabre World Cup. Facing the defending champions, the Chinese team of Zhong Man, Wang Jingzhi, Jiang Kelu and Liu Xiao, pulled off an impress...
LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Xinhua) -- 21 Jump Street opened in the first place this weekend, garnering 35 million U.S. dollars in ticket receipts as was widely expected. Holdover Dr. Seuss' The Lorax continued to cast a spell on moviegoers, as it finishe...
A Brazilian court has barred 17 executives from U.S. oil giant Chevron and its drilling contractor Transocean from leaving Brazil while it considers criminal charges against them in connection with an oil spill late last year. George Buck, chief oper...
LONDON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Children with heavy school bags are facing a higher risk of back pain, a latest study revealed. A team of Spanish researches reported that the link was found in more than 1,400 school children aged between 12 and 17 in No...
Belarus has executed two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protests from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial. Belarussian news media reported Saturday that Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov, both 25, ha...
BEIJING, Mar. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Urbanization will be a major feature of China's economic growth and continue to gain momentum, Liu He, Party chief of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said on Saturday. At the China Development For...
得阅读者得天下，这是学生对阅读理解重要性的精辟概括。阅读理解在大学英语四级考试中占有很大比重，提高阅读速度和效率是决胜英语四级考试阅读理解题的关键。为了帮助学子们掌握提...
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第一句按类型可分为：开门见山型、标靶型和导入型三类。 所谓开门见山型，即指文章直接推出论点，表达文章的中心思想或主题走向。开门见山型的特征往往为定义型句子。一般都较为简短...
1、切忌的阅读方法。 根据我的经验，我发现许多考生在阅读中多存在以下的不良习惯，这里特别指出，希望能够引起考生的注意，并加以避免改正。 (1)指读，即为了集中注意力，用手指或笔...
一提到如何提高英语阅读水平，人们自然想到的答案是：多读。这当然没错，熟能生巧是世人皆知的道理。但，读也要讲求质量。盲目无绪地乱读未必就能提高阅读水平。不少学生感到委屈，...
