According to Gregory Luzaich, the disadvantage of modest drinking is ______. A.dam
According to Gregory Luzaich, the disadvantage of modest drinking is ______.
A.damaging the liver
B.costing much
C.breaking marriages
D.spoiling the wine
According to Gregory Luzaich, the disadvantage of modest drinking is ______.
A.damaging the liver
B.costing much
C.breaking marriages
D.spoiling the wine
According to Gregory Rodriguez, which of the following statements is true?
A.Mainstream America discriminates against immigrants of certain ethnicities.
B.America’s assimilating machine is still working.
C.Immigrants find it difficult to abandon their cultural identities.
D.Immigrants should abandon their own cultures.
6.6 things you do not know about Gregorian calendar 1. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Easter. In 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII introduced his Gregorian calendar, Europe adhered to the Julian calendar, first implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Since the Roman emperor’s system miscalculated the length of the solar year by 11 minutes, the calendar had since fallen out of sync with the seasons. This concerned Gregory because it meant that Easter, traditionally observed on March 21, fell further away from the spring equinox with each passing year. 2. Leap years don’t really occur every four years in the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar included an extra day in February every four years. But Aloysus Lilius, the Italian scientist who developed the system Pope Gregory would unveil in 1582, realized that the addition of so many days made the calendar slightly too long. He devised a variation that adds leap days in years divisible by four, unless the year is also divisible by 100. If the year is also divisible by 400, a leap day is added regardless. While this formula may sound confusing, it did resolve the lag created by Caesar’s earlier scheme—almost. 3. The Gregorian calendar differs from the solar year by 26 seconds per year. Despite Lilius’ ingenious method for syncing the calendar with the seasons, his system is still off by 26 seconds. As a result, in the years since Gregory introduced his calendar in 1582, a discrepancy of several hours has arisen. By the year 4909, the Gregorian calendar will be a full day ahead of the solar year. 4. Some Protestants viewed the Gregorian calendar as a Catholic plot. Though Pope Gregory’s papal bull reforming the calendar had no power beyond the Catholic Church, Catholic countries—including Spain, Portugal and Italy—swiftly adopted the new system for their civil affairs. European Protestants, however, largely rejected the change because of its ties to the papacy, fearing it was an attempt to silence their movement. It wasn’t until 1700 that Protestant Germany switched over, and England held out until 1752. Orthodox countries clung to the Julian calendar until even later, and their national churches have never embraced Gregory’s reforms. 5. Britain’s adoption of the Gregorian calendar sparked riots and protest—maybe. According to some accounts, English citizens did not react kindly after an act of Parliament advanced the calendar overnight from September 2 to September 14, 1752. Rioters supposedly took to the streets, demanding that the government “give us our 11 days.” However, most historians now believe that these protests never occurred or were greatly exaggerated. On the other side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, Benjamin Franklin welcomed the change, writing, “It is pleasant for an old man to be able to go to bed on September 2, and not have to get up until September 14.” 6. Before the Gregorian calendar’s adoption, the English new year began on March 25, or Lady Day. Julius Caesar’s calendar reform of 46 B.C. instituted January 1 as the first of the year. During the Middle Ages, however, European countries replaced it with days that carried greater religious significance, such as December 25 (the anniversary of Jesus’ birth) and March 25 (the Feast of the Annunciation). The latter, known as Lady Day because it celebrates the Virgin Mary, marked the beginning of the year in Britain until January 1, 1752. 12.European Protestants rejected Pope Gregory’s calendar reform because__.
A、it was not useful for them to deal with civil affairs.
B、it would hamper their movement.
C、it may do harm to the interests of national churches
D、they embraced the Catholic church.
The Pek Wine Steward prevents wine from spoiling by injecting argon, an inert gas, into the bottle before sealing it airtight with silicon. Mr. Luzaich, a mechanical engineer in Windsor, Calif—in the Sonoma County wine country—first tallied the costs of his reasonable consumption in October 2001. "I'd like to come home in the evening and have a glass of wine with dinner", he said. "My wife doesn't drink very much. so the bottle wouldn't get consumed. And maybe I would forget about it the next day, and I'd check back a day or two later, and the wine would be spoiled". That meant he was wasting most of a $15 to $20 bottle of wine dozens of times a year.
A cheek of the wine-preservation gadgets on the market left Mr. Luzaich dissatisfied High-end wine cabinets cost thousands of dollars—a huge investment for a glass-a-day drinker. Affordable preservers, meanwhile, didn't quite perform. to Mr. Luzaich's liking; be thought they allowed too much oxidation, which degrades the taste of a wine.
The solution, he decided, was a better gas. Many preservers pumped nitrogen into an opened bottle to slow a wine's decline, even though oenological literature suggested that argon was more effective. So when he began designing the Pek Wine Steward, a metal cone into which a wine bottle is inserted, Mr. Luzaich found that his main challenge was to figure out how best to introduce the argon.
He spent months fine-tuning a gas injection system. "We used computational fluid dynamics to model the gas flow", Mr. Luzaich said, referring to a computer-analysis technique that measures how smoothly particles are flowing. The goal was to create an injector that could swap a bottle's oxygen atoms for argon atoms; argon is an inert gas, and thus unlikely to harm a nice Chianti.
Mr. Luzaich, who had previously designed medical and telecommunications products, also worked on creating an airtight seal, to secure the bottle after the argon was injected. He experimented with several substances, from neoprene to a visco-elastic polymer (which he dismissed as "too gooey"), before settling on a food-grade silicon.
To save wine, a bottle is placed inside the Pek Wine Steward, the top is closed, and a trigger is pulled for 5 to 10 seconds, depending on how much wine remains. When the trigger is released, the bottle is sealed automatically, preserving the wine for a week or more. The company says. "We wanted to make it very easy for the consumer", Mr. Luzaich said. "It's basically mindless".
The device, which resembles a high-tech thermos, first became available to consumers in March 2004, and 8,000 to 10,000 have been sold, primarily through catalogs like those of The Wine Enthusiast and Hammacher Schlemmer The base model sells for $99; a deluxe model, which also includes a thermoelectric cooler, is $199.
According to Gregory Luzaich. the disadvantage of modest drinking is______.
A.damaging the liver
B.costing much
C.breaking marriages
D.spoiling the wine
Breastfeeding(母乳喂养) for a month or longer appears to reduce a woman's risk of getting diabetes(糖尿病) later in life, according to a new study.The breastfeeding and diabetes link has been reported in other studies, according to researcher Eleanor Schwarz.Yet, her study makes the link easier to believe.Her study is published in a journal of medicine in America.Schwarz and her colleagues looked at data about breastfeeding practices.They evaluated data on 2,233 women from California.Of those, 405were not mothers, 1,125 were mothers who breastfed for at least a month, and 703 were mothers who had never breastfed.They were 40 to 78 years old.
According to Schwarz's study, the risk of getting a diagnosis(诊断) of Type 2 diabetes for women who breastfed all their children for a month or longer was similar to that of women who had not given birth.But mothers who had never breastfed were nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes as women who had never given birth.Mothers who never breastfed were about 1.4 times as likely to develop diabetes as women who breastfed for one to three months, Schwarz found.
While one month of breastfeeding appears to make a difference, Schwarz says, even longer is better.(76)"Previous studies have shown the longer the mom breastfeeds, the more benefit for her body." Many experts recommend breastfeeding for six months and continuing for a year, she says.
The diabetes-breastfeeding link is probably explained by belly fat.Mothers, who don't breastfeed, as they get older, may have more belly fat, as breastfeeding helps new mothers take off weight."Belly fat increases the risk of diabetes as you get older," she says.
The finding isn't surprising at all, says Kimberly Gregory.She often gives advice to women who get diabetes occurring during pregnancy(怀孕) that they are at risk for later getting Type 2 diabetes and suggests they breastfeed.The new findings will probably inspire Gregory to add to the advice she gives moms-to-be about the benefits of breastfeeding.She often focuses on the benefits to the baby.
According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.About two thousand and two hundred old women took part in the study.
B.Eleanor Schwarz's research program was about men and women who suffered from diabetes.
C.Over one fifths of the women never got married.
D.Eleanor Schwarz's results seem more reliable.
Who is Debra Gregory?
A.A horse trainer
B.Dixie Rose's owner
C.The head of the Skroll Center
D.The doctor treating Dixie Rose
A.careless
B.finicky
C.strict
D.snobbery
Gregory: Let's take a coffee break, shall we?
Flora:_______, but I can't.
A、I wish I could
B、We shall
C、Yes, let's
D、You will
Who is asked to call back?
A.Dorothy
B.Fracis Gregory
C.Isabel Hawkins
Who is asked to call back?
A.Dorothy Borrow
B.Francis Gregory
C.Isabel Hawkins
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