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The manager of a small building company was very surprised to get a bill for two white mice which one of his workmen had bought. He sent for the workman and asked him why he had the bill sent to the company.
"Well," the workman answered, "you remember the house we were repairing in Newbridge last week, don't you？ One of the things we had to do there was to put in some new electric wiring. Well, in one place we had to pass some wires through a pipe thirty feet long and about an inch across, which was built into solid stone and has four big bends in it. None of us could think how to do this until I had a good idea. I went to a shop and' bought two white mice, one of them male and the other female. Then I tied a thread to the body of the male mouse and put him into the pipe at one end, while Bill held the female mouse at the other end and pressed her to help her. I suppose he was a gentleman even though he was only a mouse. Anyway, as he ran through the pipe, he pulled the thread behind him. It was then quite easy for us to tie one end of the thread to the electric wires and pull them through the pipe."
The manager paid the bill for the white mice.
The manager wondered why ________.
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PALO ALTO, California--" Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter--even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise," US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.91kg)less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
"The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity," said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(儿科专家) at Stanford University.
"American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years." Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet nor took part in any extra exercise.
"One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories," Robinson said.
"Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more," Robinson said.
The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must travel off the beat- en track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose (宏大的)as bookshops. Instead, the book sellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to small barrows (活动推车)which line the roadside. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
The text tells us Londoners like ________.
【B13】
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He has been called the "missing link", half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The 【B1】 of the Snowman has been around for 【B2】 .Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they 【B3】 this creature and called it the "Yeti", and they said that they had 【B4】 caught Yetis on two occasions 【B5】 none has ever been produced as evidence (证据).
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has 【B6】 In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not 【B7】 the tracks of a monkey or a bear and 【B8】 that the Abominable Snowman might really 【B9】 .
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were 【B10】 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than 【B11】 animal tracks, which had been made 【B12】 as they melted(融化)and refroze in the snow 【B13】 , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was 【B14】 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, 【B15】 , no evidence had ever 【B16】 been produced. These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman 【B17】 .
But if they ever 【B18】 catching one, they may face a real 【B19】 Would they put it in a 【B20】 or give it a room in a hotel？
【B1】
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