One gizmo, one chore Here’s my simple test for a product of today’s technology: I go to the bookstore and check the shelves for remedial ...
The Transnational Economic Zone Borders these days have little meaning for Singapore-based regional executives of electronics firms like Sanyo and Ph...
Unit twenty-nineOn Custom Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be ...
Unit ThirtyMoney Money offers power, an almost unique form of power. Paradoxically money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technica...
Unit thirty-oneOn Reading Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for o...
Unit thirty-twoA Stunning Advance in Third World Productivity? Two weeks ago, China had the 10th largest economy in the world. This week it jumps to t...
Unit thirty-threeThe Liberty of Press The proposition which I mean to maintain as the basis of the liberty of the press, and without which it is an em...
Unit thirty-fourFuture Trend in World Trade In spite of the difficulties of predicting future trends in world trade, we can specify factors that will ...
Unit thirty-fiveXenotransplantation Transplant surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body and integrate them into another, granting the lu...
自2005年6月考试起，大学英语四、六级考试的原始分数在经过加权、等值处理后，参照常模转换为均值为500、标准差为70的常模正态分数。同时，四、六级考试不设及格线，考试合格证书改为成绩报告单。四、六级考试报道总分计算公式为：式中X表示每个考生加权、等值处理后的原始分数，Mean表示常模均值，SD表示...