_______ values 核心價值

adj.過時的

adj.荒涼的,無人煙的

v.推延;拖住（某人）;停止進展

n.最顯要的位置；最重要的地位

v.使(某人看似)有罪;使牽連

adj.不加區別的，無差別的；不分青紅皂白的

adj.詳盡的 (兩個答案)

n.排出的(廢)氣

adj.鬱悶的,沮喪的,消沉的

v.蹂躪;大肆破壞 (兩個答案)

n.損傷,損害

n.主權國家 _________ state

_______ camera 監視攝像機

Many, perhaps most, of the more than 90,000 dams in the country are now obsolete.

When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life.

By contrast, wooden statues were carved from several pieces of wood that were pegged together to form the finished work, and metal statues were either made by wrapping sheet metal around a wooden core or cast by the lost wax process.

From the start, however, the towns and cities took equal hours as their standard, and the public clocks installed in town halls and market squares became the very symbol of a new, secular municipal authority.

The foremost cuneiform text, the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, deals with humankind’s attempts to conquer time.

Furthermore, potentially favorable gene combinations are often destroyed by indiscriminate environmental forces such as storms, floods, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions, without natural selection being given the opportunity to favor these genotypes.

Spores light enough to float on the breezes were carried thousands of miles from more ancient lands and deposited at random across the bare mountain flanks.

They supposedly use the sponges for protection against stingrays and other hazards on the bottom as they search for fish to eat.

Thus, for our purposes, efficient “swimming” means underwater locomotion by animals with streamlined bodies, not the exhausting, inefficient locomotion of humans in swimming pools.

A shorter drought in which they exhausted their stored food supplies might already have gotten them in deep trouble, because growing crops required rain rather than reservoirs.

The most recent comprehensive evaluation of early intervention_{干涉,干預;介入} programs suggests that, taken as a group, preschool programs can provide significant benefits_{利益,好處,優勢}, and that government funds invested early in life may ultimately lead to a reduction in future costs.

Much more is known about Anaximander than about Anaximenes, probably because Anaximander, who was born sometime around 610 B.C.E, ambitiously attempted to write a comprehensive history of the universe.

Parasites and diseases diminish the strength and limit the growth of animals, and among highly social creatures, epidemics can devastate whole populations.

Uruk, for instance, had two patron gods – Anu, the god of the sky and sovereign of all other gods, and Inanna, a goddess of love and war – and there were others, patrons of different cities.