今天环球教育小编给大家分享雅思阅读经典句子(上)

1.The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity's step's towards a life-enhancing technology.

2.To early man ,fire was a divine gift randomly delivered in the form of lightning ,forest fire or burning lava .

3.Unable to make flame for themselves ,the earliest people probably stored fire by keeping slow burning logs or by carrying charcoal in pots.

4.It was probably a secondary invention ,accidentally made during tool-making operations with wood or stone.

5.Studies of primitive societies suggest that the earliest method of making fire was through friction.

6.Percussion methods of fire lighting date back to Paleolithic times ,when some Store Age tool-makers discovered that chipping flints produced sparks.

7.In Europe ,the combination of steel ,flint and tinder remained the main method of fire -lighting until the mid -19th century.

8.Walker never patented his invention ,and three years later it was copied by a Samuel Jones,who marketed his product as Lucifers.

9.It wasn't until 1906 that the substance was ecentually bsnned .

10.The innovation didn't catch on until after 1896 ,when a brewery had the novel idea of advertising its product in match books.

11.One of london Zoo's recent advertisements caused me some irritation ,so patently did it distort reality.

12.Zoos were originally created as places of entertainment ,and their suggested involvement with conservation didn't seriously arise until about 30years ago , when the Zoological Society of London held the first formal international

meeting on the subject.

13.I discover fresh zoos on almost a weekly basis.

14.The second flaw in the reasoning of the WZCS document is the na? ve faith it places in its 1000 core zoos.

15.This might be a good starting point ,working on the premise  that members must meet certain standards ,but again the facts don't support theory.

16.Even assuming that the WZCS's 1000 core zoos are all of a high standard -complete with scientific staff and research facilities ,trained and dedicated keepers ,accommodation that permits normal or natural behavior ,and a policy  of

co-operating fully with one another-what might be the potential for conservatio?

17.Today approximataly 16 species might be said to have been'saved ' by captive breeding programmes ,although a number of these can hardly be looked upon as resounding successes.

18.A building reflects the scientific and technological achievements of the age as well as the ideas and aspirations of the designer and client.

19.The origins of what is now generally know as modern  architecture can be traced back to the social and technological changes of the 18th and 19th century.

20.Technological advances also helped bring about the decline of rural industries and an increase in urban populations as people moved to the towns to work in the new factories.

21.The buildings were stripped of unnecessary decoration that would detract from their primary purpose --to be used or lived in .

22.The economic depression of the 1930s and the second world war prevented their ideas from being widely realized until the economic conditions improved  and wartorn cities had to be rebuilt.

23.The rediscovery of quick -and -easy-to-handle reinforced concrete and an improved ability to prefabricate building sections meant that builders could meeet the budgets of commissioning authoritis and handle a renewed demand for

development quickly and cheaply.

24.This led to many badly designed buildings ,which discredited the original aims of Modernism.

25.Mass-produced .low-cost high -rises seemed to offer a solution to the problem of housing a growing inner -city population.

26.Far from meeting human needs ,the new eataes often proved to be windswept deserts lacking essential social facilities and service.

27.Disllusionment at the failnure of many of the poor imitations of Modernist architecture led to interest in various styles and ideas from the past and ,present.

28.The trend in architecture now favours smaller scale building design that reflects a growing public awareness of environmental issues such as energy efficiency.

29.Humans think in categories :black and white ,up and down ,left and right .

30.Research has shown that there is a genetic  or inherited element to handedness.

31.While left-handedness tends to run in families ,neither left nor right handers will automatically prodice off-spring with the same handdness .

32.Even among identical twins who have exactly the same genes ,one in six pairs will differ in their handedness.

33.If something happens to the brain's development during pregnancy ,it is more likely to be affected  in a male and the hemisphere more likely to be affected in a male and the hemisphere more likely to be involved is the left.

34.It should be no surprise then that among mathematicians and architects ,left-handers tend to be more common and there are more left-handed males than females.

35.It is no cincidence that left -handed children ,forced to use their right hand ,often develop a stammer as they are robbed of their freedom of speech.

36.Indeed when the champion teenis player Ivan Lendl was asked what the single thing was that he would choose in order in order to  improve his game ,he said he would like to become a left-hander.

37.As autumn apporoaches ,the beekeepers pack up their hives and go south ,scrambling for pollination contracts in hot spots like California's fertile Central Valley.

38.Not until the 1920s when cars and trucks became affordable and roads improved ,did migratory beekeeping begin to catch on .

39.Most people consider almond honey too bitter to eat so the bees get to keep  it for themselves.

40.Just in case some are still lively ,bees can be pacified with a few puffs of smoke blown into each hive's narrow entrance.

41.Foul smelling chemicals are often used to irritate the bees and drive them down into the hive's bottom boxes ,leaving the honey -filled supers more or less bee free.

42.The joutney and the stay are by definition outside the normal places of residence and work and are of a short -term and temporary nature  and there is a clear intention  to return 'home' within a relatively shout  period of time .

43 Tourists tend to visit features of landscape and townscape which separate them off from everyday experience.

44. The viewing of these tourist sights often involves different forms of social patterning ,with  a much greater sensitivity to visual elements of landscape or townscape than is normally found in everday life.

45.People linger over these sights in a way that they would not normally do in their home environment and the visual is objectified or captured through photographs ,postcards,films and so on which enable the memory to be endlessly

reproduced and recaptured.

46.It has been said that to be a tourist is one of the characteristics of the characteristics of the'modern experience'

47.Not to 'go away' is like not possessing a car or a nice house .

48.Travel is a marker of status in modern societies and is also thought to be necessary for good health .

49.The latest technology ,and simple technology at that ,is revolutionizing the content of dictionaties and the way they are put togrther.

50.For the first time , dictionaty publishers are incorporating real ,spoken English into their data.

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