1、OG12th-SC 正确的句子1. The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia, were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Captain James Cook, who so named them supposedly because their sheer wet rocks glistened like glass.2. Although a surge in retail sales has raised hopes that a recovery is finally unde
2、r way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.3. Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, it was not u
3、ntil almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying traditional Native American poetry in native languages.4. Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, perhaps none was more concentrated than the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto American shores i
4、n little more than three decades.5. Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nations third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.6. In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning a
5、nd repair because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.7. As its sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, the company has become increasingly wil
6、ling to compete for the mass market sales it would in the past have conceded to rivals.8. The widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since.9. Like the Brontes and Brownings, James Joyce and Vir
7、ginia Woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.10. Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.11. Th
8、ere are several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been to form the mud or clay into bricks, and, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, to lay them in the wall in mud mortar.12. Rising inventories, if not accompanied by corresponding
9、 increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.13. A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.14. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electro
10、magnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Suns poles or equator.15. Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new
11、emergency response teams, and create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.16. Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double the 1.4 percent growth rate i
12、n personal spending for the previous quarter.OG12th-SC 正确的句子17. The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural“ to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or anything that has been synthesized.18. Plants are more efficient than f
13、ungi at acquiring carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.19. The Iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting.20. Unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly
14、 without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.21. Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acq
15、uire language.22. None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed do.23. Once designed with its weight concentrated in a metal center, the discus used in track
16、competition is now lined with lead around the perimeter, thereby improving stability in flight and resulting in longer throws.24. In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organisms attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the c
17、hemical irritant.25. Using accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C., worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, “the good goddess“.26. Emily Dickinsons letters to Susan
18、Huntington Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susans marriage to Emilys brother and ending shortly before Emilys death in 1886, outnumber her letters to anyone else.27. Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in Burma and estimated
19、to be 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.28. Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the
20、harvesting of fish and seafood, and the exploitation of other wild and domestic resources.29. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and exciting enormous interest whenever they were
21、 put on show.30. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.31. Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were relatively si
22、mple and static, Barbara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983,at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another. OG12th-SC 正确的句子32. Galileo was con
23、vinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as to a person standing on land.33. Because an oversupply of computer chips has sent prices plunging, the manufacturer has a
24、nnounced that it will cut production by closing its factories for two days a month.34. Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its survival depends on whether it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,
25、000 artifacts.35. Along with the drop in producer prices announced yesterday, the strong retail sales figures released today seem to indicate that the economy, although growing slowly, is not nearing a recession.36. Dressed as a man and using the name Robert Shurtleff, Deborah Sampson, the first wom
26、an to draw a soldiers pension, joined the Continental Army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.37. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many develop
27、ing countries.38. In 1850,Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on Women, a treatise that argued for equal political and legal rights for women and for changes in the married womens property laws39. In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so that he could marr
28、y Anne Boleyn.40. Dr.Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically at an invading microbe or foreign substance.41. To develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers
29、 would have to know a great deal more than they do now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.42. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spaw
30、ned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest. 43. Laos has a land area comparable to that of Great Britain but a population of only four million people, many of whom are members of hill tribes ensconced in the virtually
31、inaccessible mountain valleys of the north.44. The plot of The Bostonians centers on the rivalry that develops between Olive Chancellor, an active feminist, and Basil Ransom, her charming and cynical cousin, when they find themselves drawn to the same radiant young woman whose talent for public spea
32、king has won her an ardent following.45. Quasars, at billions of light-years from Earth the most distant observable objects in the universe, are believed to be the cores of galaxies in an early stage of development.46. In ancient Thailand, much of the local artisans creative energy was expended on t
33、he creation of Buddha images and on construction and decoration of the temples in which they were enshrined.47. Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western Scotland this summer, bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975.OG12th-S
34、C 正确的句子48. In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Popes contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language.49. The automotive conveyor-belt system, which Henry Ford modeled after
35、 an assembly-line technique introduced by Ransom Olds, reduced the time required to assemble a Model T from a day and a half to 93 minutes. 50. According to some analysts, the gains in the stock market reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier
36、in the year and instead come in for a “soft landing,“ followed by a gradual increase in business activity.51. A new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to
37、make sense of speech.52. Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.53. The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results o
38、f his early experiments in his “Essay on Heat and Light,“ a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.54. The report recommended that the hospital eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospit
39、als.55. Many house builders offer rent-to-buy programs that enable a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down payment to move into new housing and to apply part of the rent to a purchase later.56. Many of the earliest known images of Hindu deities in India date from the time of the K
40、ushan Empire and were fashioned either from the spotted sandstone of Mathura or from Gandharan grey schist.57. It can hardly be said that educators are at fault for not anticipating the impact of microcomputer technology: Alvin Toffler, one of the most prominent students of the future, did not even
41、mention microcomputers in Future Shock, published in 1970.58. A leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what Marxs Das Kapital is to socialism.59. The Olympic Games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the Greek
42、world，for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of the festival. 60. While all states face similar industrial waste problems, the predominant industries and the regulatory environment of each state obviously determine the types and amounts of waste produced, as well as the cost of disposal.
43、 61. Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, Chinas first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete. 62. When Cong
44、ress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states will try to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage more aggressive sales of United States farm products overseas.OG12th-SC 正确的句子63. The yield of natural gas from Norways Trol
45、l gas field is expected to increase annually until the year 2005 and then to stabilize at six billion cubic feet a day, an extraction rate that will allow at least 50 years production.64. Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol cons
46、umption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions toward certain diseases.65. In a plan to stop the erosion of East Coast beaches, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed building parallel to shore a breakwater of rocks that would rise six feet above the waterline and
47、act as a buffer, absorbing the energy of crashing waves and protecting the beaches.66. The 32 species that make up the dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its aggressive hunting pod
48、s.67. Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure.68. The first trenches cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamou
49、kar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.69. Once they had seen the report from the medical examiner, the investigators had no doubt that the body recovered from the river was that of the man who had attempted to escape from the state prison.70. His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led
