1、1. The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in Bellville, but it wasn’t until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. 2. I did my best to avoid showing pleasure, but what I was feeling was pure delight at this that my words had the power
2、 to make people laugh. 3. He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windshield to get his attention. 4. Wondering whether there might be better ways to explore animal intelligence than experiments designed to teach human signs, I realized
3、 what now seems obvious: if animals can think, they will probably do their best thinking when it serves their own purposes, not when scientists ask them to. 5. If life is about survival of a species--- and intelligence is meant to serve that survival, then we can’t compare with pea-brained se
4、a turtles, which were here long before us and survived the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. 6. For a month in the spring of 1987, my wife Ellen and I lived in the bustling eastern Chinese city of Nanjing with our 18-month-old son Benjamin while studying arts education in Chinese kinder
5、gartens and elementary schools. 7. Repeated failures may cause some children to set the bar too low for themselves, withdrawing from new experiences and missing out on opportunities to guarantee they won’t fail again, warns Goldstein. 8. It became apparent that the incident was trigger
6、ed by George’s anger towards his parents for their resentment about his poor grades and his not being like his sister, a popular, gifted student. 9. It is realizing that you are not always going to have your way, that things are not always going to be happy, that you are going to have to be b
7、rutally honest with both yourself and your partner, and that you will sometimes learn things about yourself that you do not like. 10. The 2005 Georgia Manufacturing Survey shows that companies basing their competitive strategies on the development of innovative products or processes enjoy hig
8、her returns on sales, pay better wages and have less to fear from outsourcing than do manufacturers relying on other competitive strategies. 11. Georgia manufacturers that rely on innovation for their competitive edge reported returns on sales 50 percent higher than companies that compete by
9、providing low cost products– a gap that grew substantially since the last survey in 2002. I did my best to avoid showing pleasure, but what I was feeling was pure delight at this that my words had the power to make people laugh. He must have been completely lost in something he was rea
10、ding because I had to tap on the windshield to get his attention. Wondering whether there might be better ways to explore animal intelligence than experiments designed to teach human signs, I realized what now seems obvious: if animals can think, they will probably do their best thinking when
11、it serves their own purposes, not when scientists ask them to. If life is about survival of a species--- and intelligence is meant to serve that survival, then we can’t compare with pea-brained sea turtles, which were here long before us and survived the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs.
12、 For a month in the spring of 1987, my wife Ellen and I lived in the bustling eastern Chinese city of Nanjing with our 18-month-old son Benjamin while studying arts education in Chinese kindergartens and elementary schools. Repeated failures may cause some children to set the bar too low
13、 for themselves, withdrawing from new experiences and missing out on opportunities to guarantee they won’t fail again, warns Goldstein. It became apparent that the incident was triggered by George’s anger towards his parents for their resentment about his poor grades and his not being like his
14、 sister, a popular, gifted student. It is realizing that you are not always going to have your way, that things are not always going to be happy, that you are going to have to be brutally honest with both yourself and your partner, and that you will sometimes learn things about yourself that y
15、ou do not like. The 2005 Georgia Manufacturing Survey shows that companies basing their competitive strategies on the development of innovative products or processes enjoy higher returns on sales, pay better wages and have less to fear from outsourcing than do manufacturers relying on other competitive strategies. Georgia manufacturers that rely on innovation for their competitive edge reported returns on sales 50 percent higher than companies that compete by providing low cost products– a gap that grew substantially since the last survey in 2002.






