Passage 31The number of women directors appointed to corpo-rate boards in the United States has increased dramati-cally， but the ratio of female to ma...
Passage 30Since the early 1970‘s， historians have begun to devote serious attention to the working class in the United States. Yet while we now ...
Passage 29Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have described the physiological mechanisms that allow the seal to cope with the extreme oxyge...
Passage 28The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thes...
Passage 27Since the late 1970‘s， in the face of a severe loss ofmarket share in dozens of industries， manufacturers inthe United States have bee...
Passage 26In choosing a method for determining climatic condi-tions that existed in the past， paleoclimatologists invokefour principal criteria. First...
Passage 25In 1977 the prestigious Ewha Women‘s University inSeoul， Korea， announced the opening of the firstwomen’s studies program in Asi...
aromatic :: fragrantarrant :: thorough; complete; unmitigatedascetic :: practicing self-denial; austereashen :: ash-coloredasinine :: stupidaskance ::...
aboriginal :: being the first of its kind in a region: primitive: nativeabortive :: unsuccessful: fruitlessabstemious :: temperate: sparing in drink, ...
stanch :: check flow of bloodstigmatize :: brand; mark as wickedstultify :: cause to appear foolish or inconsistentstymie :: present an obstacle; stum...