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Today, most countries in the world have canals. Many countries have built canals near the coast, and parallel (67) the coast. Even in the twentieth century, goods can be moved more cheaply by boat than by any other (68) of transport. These (69) make it possible for boats to travel (70) ports along the coast without being (71) to the dangers of the open. Some canals, such as the Suez and the Panama, save ships weeks of time by making their (72) a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not (73) on the coast; still other canals (74) lands where there is too much water, help to (75) fields where there is not enough water, and (76) water power for factories and mills. The size of a canal. (77) on the kind of boats going through it. The canal must be wide enough to permit two of the largest boats using it to (78) each other easily. It must be deep enough to leave about two feet of water (79) the keel of the largest boat using the canal. When the planet Mars was first (80) through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was crises-crossed by a (81) of strange bluegreen lines. These were called "canals" (82) they looked the same as canals on earth (83) are viewed from an airplane. However, scientists are now (84) that the Martian phenomena are really not canals. The photographs (85) from space-ships have helped us to (86) the truth about the Martian "canals".
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Material culture refers to what can be seen, held, felt, used--what a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of material culture in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a th6usand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra. Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on music and, when it becomes widespread, on the music culture as a whole. One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out. the influence of the electronic media--radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modem nations; they have affected music cultures all over the globe. It can be learned from this passage that ______.
2008年以来，面对国内遭遇历史罕见的低温雨雪冰冻灾害、国际次贷危机不断蔓延和加深的严峻复杂形势，通过采取措施，有效应对，国民经济保持了平稳较快发展。初步核算，一季度国内生产总值61491亿元，按可比价格计算，同比增长10.6%，比上年同期回落1.1个百分点。其中，第一产业增加值4720亿元，增长2.8%，回落1.6个百分点；第二产业增加值30778亿元，增长11.5%，回落1.7个百分点；第三产业增加值25993亿元，增长 10.9%，回落0.4个百分点。国内市场销售增长加快，城乡消费均保持快速增长。一季度，社会消费品零售总额25555亿元，同比增长20.6%(3月份增长21.5%)，比上年同期加快5.7个百分点。其中，城市消费品零售额17377亿元，增长21.2%；县及县以下消费品零售额8178亿元，增长19.3%。分行业看，批发和零售业消费品零售额21490亿元，增长20.4%；住宿和餐饮业3687亿元，增长23.6%。限额以上批发零售贸易业大类商品零售中，汽车类、石油及制品类、家具类和金银珠宝类均增长30%以上。价格总水平处于高位，房屋销售价格继续上涨。一季度，居民消费价格总水平上涨8.0%(3月份同比上涨8.3%，环比下降0.7%)，涨幅比上年同期高5.3个百分点。其中，城市上涨7.8%，农村上涨8.7%。分类别看，一季度，食品价格上涨21.0%，拉动价格总水平上涨6.8个百分点；居住价格上涨6.6%，拉动价格总水平上涨1个百分点；其余各类商品价格略有涨跌。一季度，商品零售价格同比上涨7.4%(3月份上涨7.8%)，比上年同期高5.3个百分点；工业品出厂价格同比上涨6.9%(3月份上涨8.0%)，比上年同期高4.0个百分点；原材料、燃料、动力购进价格同比上涨9.8%(3月份上涨11.0%)，比上年同期高5.7个百分点；70个大中城市房屋销售价格同比上涨11.0%(3月份上涨10.7%)，比上年同期高5.4个百分点。城乡居民收入继续提高，城镇新增就业稳定增加。一季度，城镇居民人均可支配收入4386元，同比增长11.5%。农村居民人均现金收入1494元，同比增长18.5%。一季度，全国城镇新增就业人数303万人，完成全年新增就业1000万人目标的30.3%。其中，下岗失业人员实现再就业128万人，完成全年实现再就业500万人目标的25.6%。 2008年1-3月比2006年1-3月，社会消费品零售总额增长了（）
The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History Tom Standage urges drinkers to savor the history of their favorite beverages along with the taste. The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Walker & Company, June 2005), Standage lauds the libations that have helped shape our world from the Stone Age to the present day. "The important drinks are still drinks that we enjoy today," said Standage, a technology editor at the London-based magazine the Economist. "They are relics(纪念物) of different historical periods still found in our kitchens." Take the six-pack, whose contents first fizzed at the dawn of civilization.Beer The ancient Sumerians, who built advanced city-states in the area of present-day Iraq, began fermenting(发酵) beer from barley at least 6,000 years ago. "When people started agriculture the first crops they produced were barley or wheat. You consume those crops as bread and as beer," Standage noted. "It’s the drink associated with the dawn of civilization. It’s as simple as that." Beer was popular with the masses from the beginning. "Beer would have been something that a common person could have had in the house and made whenever they wanted," said Linda Bisson, a microbiologist at the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis. "The guys who built the pyramids were paid in beer and bread," Standage added. "It was the defining drink Egypt and Mesopotamia. Everybody drank it. Today it’s the drink of the working man, and it was then as well."Wine Wine may be as old or older than beet--though no one can be certain. Paleolithic humans probably sampled the first "wine" as the juice of naturally fermented wild grapes. But producing and storing wine proved difficult for early cultures. "To make wine you have to have fresh grapes," said Bisson, the UC Davis microbiologist. "For beer you can just store grain and add water to process it at any time." Making wine also demanded pottery that could preserve the precious liquid. "Wine may be easier to make [than beer], but it’s harder to store," Bisson added. "For most ancient cultures it would have been hard to catch [fermenting grape juice] as wine on its way to [becoming] vinegar." Such caveats and the expense of producing wine helped the beverage quickly gain more cachet (威望) than beer. Wine was originally associated with social elites and religious activities. Wine snobbery may be nearly as old as wine itself. Greeks and Romans produced many grades of wine for various social classes. The quest for quality became an economic engine and later drove cultural expansion. "Once you had regions [like Greece and Rome] that could distinguish themselves as making good stuff, it gave them an economic boost," Bisson said. "Beer just wasn’t as special."Spirits Hard liquor, particularly brandy and rum, placated (安抚) sailors during the long sea voyages of the Age of Exploration, when European powers plied the seas during the 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries. Rum played a crucial part of the triangular trade between Britain, Africa, and the North American colonies that once dominated the Atlantic economy, Standage also suggests that rum may have been more responsible than tea for the independence movement in Britain’s American colonies. "Distilling molasses for rum was very important to the New England economy," he explained. "When the British tried to tax molasses it struck at the heart of the economy. The idea of ’no taxation without representation’ originated with molasses and sugar. Only at the end did it refer to tea." Great Britain’s longtime superiority at sea may also owe a debt to its navy’s drink of rum-based choice, grog(掺水烈酒), which was made a compulsory beverage for sailors hr the late 18th century. "They would make grog with rum, water, and lemon or lime juice," Standage said. "This improved the taste but also reduced illness and scurvy. Fleet physicians thought that this had doubled the efficiancy of the fleet."Coffee The story of modern coffee starts in the Arabian Peninsula, where roasted beans were first brewed around A,D, 1000. Sometime around the 15th century, coffee spread throughout the Arab world, "In the Arab world, coffee rose as an alternative to alcohol, and coffeehouses as alternatives to taverns (酒馆)--both of which are banned by Islam," Standage said. When coffee arrived in Europe it was similarly hailed as an "anti-alcohol" that was quite welcome during the Age of Reason in the 18th century. "Just at the point when the Enlightenment is getting going, here’s a drink that sharpens the mind," Standage said, ’The coffeehouse is the perfect venue (聚会地点) to get together and exchange ideas and information. The French Revolution started in a coffeehouse." Coffee also fuelled commerce and had strong links to the rituals of business that remain to the present day. Lloyds of London and the London Stock Exchange were both originally coffeehouses.Tea Tea became a daily drink in China around the third century A.D. Standage says tea played a leading role in the expansion of imperial and industrial might in Great Britain many centuries later. During the 19th century, the East India Company enjoyed a monopoly on tea exports from China. "Englishmen around the world could drink tea, whether they were a colonial administrator in India or a London businessman," Standage said. "The sun never set on the British Empire---which meant that it was always teatime somewhere." As the Industrial Revolution of 18th and 19th centuries gained steam, tea provided some of the fuel. Factory workers stayed alert during long, monotonous shifts thanks to welcome tea breaks. The beverage also had unintended health benefits for rapidly growing urban areas. "When you start packing people together in cities it’s helpful to have a water-purification technology like tea," which was brewed with boiling water, Standage explained.Coca-Cola In 1886 pharmacist John Stith Pemberton sold about nine Coca-Colas a day. Today his soft drink is one of the world’s most valuable brands--sold in more countries than the United Nations has members. "It may be the second most widely understood phrase in the world after ’OK’ ," Standage said. The drink bas become a symbol of the United States--love it or hate it. Standage notes that East Germans quickly reached for Cokes when the Berlin Wall fell, while Thai Muslims poured it out into the streets to show disdain for the U.S. in the days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "Coca-Cola encapsulates what happened in the 20th century: the rise of consumer capitalism and the emergence of America as a superpower," Standage said. "It’s globalization in a bottle." While Coke may not always produce a smile, a survey by the Economist magazine (Standage’s employer), suggests that the soft drink’s presence is a great indicator of happy citizens. When countries were polled for happiness, as defined by a United Nations index, high scores correlated with sales of Coca-Cola. "It’s not because [Coke] makes people happy, but because [its] sales happen in the dynamic free-market economics that tend to produce happy people," Standage said. Sometime around the 15th century coffee spread throughout ______.
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