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1.1 The revolutionary aspect of this new timekeeper was neither the descending weight that provided its motive force nor the gear wheels (which had been around for at least 1,300 years) that transferred the power; it was the part called the escapement.

1.3 Some researchers say the results constitute compelling evidence that telepathy is genuine. Other parapsychologists believe that the field is on the brink of collapse, having tried to produce definitive scientific proof and failed. Sceptics and advocates alike do concur on one issue, however, that the most impressive evidence so far has come from the so-called ‘ganzfeld’ e xperiments, a German term that means ‘whole field’.

2.2 The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze, however; rather an irregular seesaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean.

2.3 While it is true that the olfactory powers of humans are nothing like as fine as those possessed by certain animals, they are still remarkably acute.

3.3 It follows from the above that sparing use of energy reserves should tend to extend life.

3.1 Discussion now centres on whether the route through the maze is communicated as a

'left-right' sequence of turns or as a 'compass bearing and distance' message.

3.3 Forests are one of the main elements of our natural heritage. The decline of Europe's forests over the last decade and a half has led to an increasing awareness and understanding of the serious imbalances which threaten them.

4.2 The MSC has established a set of criteria by which commercial fisheries can be judged.

4.3 It was found that children from the noisy schools had higher blood pressure and were more easily distracted than those who attended the quiet schools. Moreover, there was no evidence of adaptability to the noise. In fact, the longer the children had attended the noisy schools, the more distractible they became.

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1.2 Theoretically, in the world of trade, shipping costs do not matter. Goods, once they have been

made, are assumed to move instantly and at no cost from place to place. The real world, however, is full of frictions.

1.3 Some scientists doubt the value of traditional knowledge because the occupation of the Arctic doesn't go back far enough. Others, however, point out that the first weather stations in the far north date back just 50 years.

2.1 It is common for supporters of road networks to reject the models of cities with good public transport by arguing that such systems would not work in their particular city.

2.3 Perhaps the most fundamental step in developing a sense of number is not the ability to count, but rather to see that a number is really an abstract idea instead of a simple attachment to a group of particular objects.

3.1 But it is worth trying, for to understand the initial shock of those images is to understand the extraordinary power and magic of cinema, the unique, hypnotic quality

3.3 The monkey projects demonstrate that, compared with control animals that eat normally, caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age.

4.3 The more effort put in and the wider the whole school involvement, the more substantial the results are likely to be.

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1.3 （媒体负面）People are clearly more curious about bad news than good. Newspapers and

broadcasters are there to provide what the public wants. That, however, can lead to significant distortions of perception.

2.1 The impetus behind the development of these early plastics was generated by a number of factors - immense technological progress in the domain of chemistry, coupled with wider cultural changes, and the pragmatic need to find acceptable substitutes for dwindling supplies of 'luxury' materials such as tortoiseshell and ivory.

2.3 There were several reasons why original science continued to be written in Latin. The first was simply a matter of audience.

A third reason why the writing of original science in English was delayed may have been to do with the linguistic inadequacy of English in the early modern period.

3.2 According to Siegel, international environmental organisations are beginning to pay closer attention to the region, partly because of the problems of erosion and pollution of the Nile delta, but principally because they fear the impact this situation could have on the whole Mediterranean