We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.
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They found inspiration in the world's greatest masterpieces.
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The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
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Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fossil fuels remain the major source of primary energy consumption in today's world.
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For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.
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Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
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Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.
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They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.
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So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.
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One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.
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Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.
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It's simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleaner.
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It is not necessarily true that economic growth will make our world cleaner.
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It is beneficial to encourage young people to explore the broader world and get ready to make it a better place.
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Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.
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In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
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Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
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Environmental protection and improvement benefit people all over the world.
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But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.
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As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.
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And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.
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A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium ( ' , 千年的) Goals, he is far from alone.
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Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.
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Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
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In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.
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After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.
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Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
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The world will undergo revolutionary changes.
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The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.
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The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.
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South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.
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Scientists and engineers have long believed in the promise of batteries to change the world.
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Pushing the current world leaders to come to a consensus.
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More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.
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Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.
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Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.
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Learning how to take risks in an ever-changing world.
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For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.
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For better or worse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasingly globalized world.
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Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.
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Dr.Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world's energy future.
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And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.
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And even before then, scholars warn, the demand for resources in an energy-hungry world could raise pressure to renegotiate Antarctica's treaties, possibly allowing more commercial endeavours here well before the prohibitions against them expire.
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A battery-powered world comes with its own risks, too.
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When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms, says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World Wide Fund for Nature.
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There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance.
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The study's most striking findings shed light on the racial biases permeating the professional world.
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Racial biases are widespread in the professional world.
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Like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.
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Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.
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What do you actually do and how do you prepare for your job?If sheer numbers provide any proof, Americans’ universities are the envy of the world.
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\And yet that happens every day in the video game world,\ Farley told reporters during a press conference Friday. \I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game thr
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\I can't imagine if there's any other acting job in the world where you don't know what show you're in, when you're hired,\ says voice actor Keythe Farley, who chairs the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee.
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\The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world,\ read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t
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\There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance.\
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\What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto,\ Dehl explains. \That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more.\
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\When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms,\ says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World wide Fund for Nature.
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A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
Across the developed world, ear use is in decline as more people move to city centers, while young people especially are opting for other means of travel.
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After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.
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Agencies and companies throughout the world are working on developing technology that would dispose of or capture space debris before it causes serious damages.
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And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.
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And the World Resources Institute WR in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; It also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer p
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.
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As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
At the University of California (UC), we pride ourselves not only on the quality of our research, but also on its contribution to improving our world.
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But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
By comparison, you would expect to find a technological specification like this on your standard laptop in an office anywhere in the world.
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Claer Barrett, the editor of financial times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.
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Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.
2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
For better or worse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasingly globalized world.
2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; It has been downloaded 5,700 times.
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Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of \fake math\—an emphasis on the rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world.
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If it doesn't sound like too much of a cliché, our world is constantly changing and it's changing quickly.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
In a world where people are increasingly dependent on their phones, though, such strategies often fail.
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In the seed world, that makes them rare, because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.
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Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.
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It has artworks that any museum in the world would want to collect, paintings by many world-famous artists like Monet and picasso.
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It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tons of e-waste discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tons respectively.
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It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.
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It was used during World War Two by the Americans.
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It wasn't until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a priority at all.
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It's a huge hit around the world.
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Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in
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like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.
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Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.
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Manufacturing companies on average rely on more than 35 contract suppliers around the world to create a single product.
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Martin Sommerkorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity the World wildlife Fund.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining
2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one—industrialization.
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piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.
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