Four and a half months after they began the hike in Georiga, Sarah and Edie finally succeeded at Mount Katahdin in Maine.
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Charles Babbage was born too soon. He hoped to invent a calculator. But the technology of his time was too simple. Babbage could not make his dream come true .
All his life, Baggage was interested in n____________ . For example, he could find out how f________ a pig’s heart beats or make a table to calculate how much wood a man could saw(锯) in 10 hours.
Baggage was also an inventor. Around 1830, he decided to d________ and build a machine for doing simple mathematical calculations. He called this machine the Difference Engine . Making the machine
The Difference Machine was very big and difficult to make. It was made of two tons of steel and gears(齿轮).While he was building this h________ machine, he had an idea for a new machine. This one would do all kinds of calculations. He called it the Analytical Engine. It was the start of the modern computer. But Babbage used up all his money b________ he could complete either machine.
Re-inventing the Engine
In 1854, two Swedish inventors built a working mechanical calculator. It was b_______ on the Difference Engine. This machine was able to print out different kinds of forms and tables. It was very accurate.
Babbage was the first person to come up with the idea of computers. And he is more famous today than he w_______ in his day. 14 松江
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The weather is getting cold. We have a warm home to keep comfortable. But what about stray (流浪的) animals? They are poor and 1 81 . All they can do is to walk the streets and hope to find food in the rubbish dump. There are around 500 million stray and unwanted dogs in the world and a similar number of stray and unwanted cats, according to the WSPA (世界动物保护协会). Why are there so many stray animals? Being given up may be the main r 82 , Zeng Li, host of the Beijing-based stray cats protection website Lucky cats, told China Daily. Today, the whole world is calling for better care of stray animals. And many countries have already taken lots of effective ways. In the UK and US, the WSPA helps animals find new homes. It also provides m 83 service for unwanted sick animals. The society has a 24-hour animal abuse (虐待) hotline. Anyone can call if he or she finds that someone is hurting an animal.
In Germany, the government has made lots of 1 84 for animal protection. Besides, it also encourages people to get those stray pets back home. You can also do something else to help.
For a child, once you find a stray animal, you can ask adults around you for help instead of r 85 to catch it yourself. Or it may bite you.
If it is safe enough to catch a stray animal, you'd better send it to an animal shelter (避难所). These shelters
are usually private organizations. Most people v 86 to take care of stray animals there. You can find the number of such organization online.
There is one thing you need to keep in mind. When you decide to have a pet, take care of it carefully and g 87 . Never give it up, or it will become a poor, stray animal.
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