JERUSALEM - Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion.After a week in which visi...
As can be seen from the charts more and more people own mobile phones in China now. At the end of 2002, there were 20 million mobile phone users. By the year 2005 the number has reached up to 30 million. People have found mobile phones very convenient. T...
During last summer vacation, I paid a visit to my uncle’s. It was the first time I had seen the sea. Tow years ago my uncle, a closed friend of my father, transferred from Shanxi to Yantai, a beautiful port city; and then my aunt joined him a coupl...
Former US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton have been visiting Haiti as part of their fund-raising efforts to aid the earthquake-stricken nation.They visited camps for some of the 1.3 million homeless survivors and met President Rene Preval.They s...
Federal law enforcement officials have alerted a number of world-class athletes to expect grand jury subpoenas in the case against Canadian physician Anthony Galea, three sources familiar with the investigation tell SI.com.While it is unclear which athlet...
Air pollution levels in Hong Kong have reached a record high, prompting government warnings to people to avoid going out.The Environmental Protection Department said some Air Pollution Index readings were more than double the level at which people should...
Directions: 问题：城市交通拥护解决方案：（solution）1. 建造（lay down）更多道路优点：降低街道拥护程度加速车流（flow of traffic）缺点：占地过多2.开辟（open up）更多公共汽车线路优点：减少自行车与小汽车缺点：对部分人可能造成不方便结论：两者结合How to Solve t...
Stocks jumped Monday, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 pushing back into positive territory for the year, as investors welcomed AIG's $35 billion asset sale and a pair of mergers in the pharmaceutical sector.Signs that a Greek bailout package is in the wor...
My hometown is a beautiful place with a pupulation of eight million.It stands beside the Gulf of Bohai. Tianjin has many high office and commercial buildings and wide tree-lined streets.Several excellent world-famous institutions of higher learning are l...
Man and His Environment Throughout history man has changed his physical environment in order to improve his way of life. With the tools of technology he has altered many physical features of the earth. He has transformed woodlands and prairies into farms...
Generally, war is repugnant, but peace is welcome.While peace is the ultimate goal of all of our undertaking in this world, war has been inevitable in the course of human civilization. Does man have an innate taste for war? Or is it just an acquired sche...
Karl Rove, often described as President George W. Bush's brain, defended the former president in a new book against claims that he lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq in 2003."[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not," Rove wro...
As a result, the population of the world is increasing, causing tots of problems. Second, because of the development of industry, tots of the wastes from factories pour into the air and rivers, causing pollution of att kinds. Third, some terrorists are us...
June 8, 2003Dear Customer Service Representative, I am writing to comp[ain about the bad delivery service of your company. The IBM Desktop computer we ordered from your store two weeks ago finally arrived yesterday. There were not any signs of damage to...
With the worldwide increase of population， more and more water is needed. Meanwhile，the water sources are getting polluted by human beings in one way or another. Some nations are taking measures to solve this problem. They even communicate with each ot...
The US Federal Reserve has repeated its pledge to keep interest rates at record lows in order to nurture the economic recovery.The Fed said its main interest rate would be kept at the current 0% to 0.25% range, as widely expected.Its rate-setting committe...
A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.Provincial Gov. Toryalai Wesa confirmed the blasts hit four locations.One of the explosion...
To stop cheating is file work for both the teachers and the students. For the teachers, they should attach great importance to the test of the ability of using the knowledge to solve problems rather than the mechanical memory of textbooks. For the studen...
