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298. Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western Scotland this summer,
bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975.
299. Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of
them in such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’s
economy far more diversified than it was ten years ago.
300. Following the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, investigators
concluded that many key people employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractors work an excessive amount of overtime, a practice that can, potentially, cause errors in judgment.
301. Following the nutrition board’s advice on salt consumption would mean a
virtual end of the use of salt in cooking, an avoidance of obviously salty foods, and a reduced reliance on processed foods that contain significant but often hidden amounts of sodium.
302. For all（尽管） his professed（公开的） disdain（蔑视） of such activities, Auden was an inveterate（成瘾的） literary gossip.
303. For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788, England exiled some 160,000 criminals to Australia.
304. For many people, household labor remains demanding even if they can afford household appliances their grandparents would have found miraculous. 305.
For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably
more than they originally seemed. 306.
For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa,
animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military
equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears. 307.
For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise
annually, even if they are free of damage claims and moving violations. 308.
For protection from the summer sun, the Mojave lived in open-sided,
flat-topped dwellings known as shades, each a roof of poles and arrowweed
supported by posts set in a rectangle. 309.
For some birds the sense of smell appears to play a role in navigation,
since pigeons with surgically removed olfactory nerves have been found to
have increased difficulty in homing. 310.
For some reason the new consultant treats his clients like idiots, talking to them as if they were mentally deficient and incapable of understanding more than the simplest ideas.
311. Growing confidence in their ability to make profitable investments in the United States has led foreign investors to move from passive involvement in commercial real estate partnerships to active development of their own increasingly ambitious projects. 312.
Because new small businesses are growing and are seldom in equilibrium, formulas for cash flow and the ratio of debt to equity do not apply to them in
the same way as to established big businesses. 313.
Found throughout Central and South America, the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping fifteen hours a day and moving so infrequently that two species of algae grow on its coat and between its toes. 314.
Founded in 1983, the magazine has since more than doubled its
circulation, and its advertising. 315.
Framed by traitorous colleagues, Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for
twelve years before being exonerated and freed. being 正确的一例 316.
Frances Wright’s book on America contrasted the republicanism of the
United States with what she saw as the aristocratic and corrupt institutions of England.
317. Freedman’s survey showed that people living in small towns and rural
areas consider themselves no happier than do people living in big cities. 318.
From 1965 on, Yugoslavia’s standard of living has soared, but so have
unemployment and prices. 319.
From 1982 to 1987 sales of new small boats increased between five and ten percent annually.
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320. From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about
twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage yet was so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.
321. From the earliest days of the tribe, kinship determined the way in which
the Ojibwa society organized its labor, provided access to its resources, and defined rights and obligations involved in the distribution and consumption of those resources. 322.
From the time of its defeat by the Germans in 1940 until its liberation in
1944, France was a bitter and divided country; a kind of civil war raged in the Vichy government between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis and those who opposed them.
323. Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the
laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as to a person standing on land.
324. Gall’s hypothesis that different mental functions are localized in different
parts of the brain is widely accepted today. 325.
Geologists believe that the Bering land bridge, over which human beings
are thought to have first entered the Americans, disappeared about 14,000 years ago when massive glaciers melted and caused the sea level to rise several hundred feet worldwide.
326. Geologists believe that the warning signs for a major earthquake may
include sudden fluctuations in local seismic activity, tilting and other deformations of the Earth’s crust, changes in the measured strain across a fault zone, and variations in the electrical properties of underground rocks. 327.
George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first European writers
to consider the rural poor legitimate subjects for literature and to portray
them with sympathy and respect in her novels. 328.
Green anole lizards, familiar to schoolchildren as chameleons, have
recently become familiar to biologists as excellent animals for laboratory
studies of the interaction of stimuli and hormones.
329. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the
rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank’s profits on paper.
330. His right hand and arm crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World Warr, Horace Pippin, a Black American painter, worked by holding the brush in his right hand and guiding its movements with his left.
331. Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or “African sleeping sickness,” a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
332. His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the
range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the
concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas. 333.
Houseflies that hatch in summer live only about three weeks, but those
that emerge in the cooler days of fall often live longer than six months. 334.
However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in
government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.
335. Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by
overcutting trees and farming too intensively, and though some protective measures, such as the establishment of national forests and wildlife sanctuaries, were taken decades ago, great increases in population and in the intensity of industrialization are causing a worldwide ecological crisis.
336. Ideally, the professional career diplomat should help maintain an effective American foreign policy despite changes in administration.
337. Idioglossia is a phenomenon, incompletely understood at best, in which two persons develop a unique and private language with highly original vocabulary and syntax.
338. The use of single strain of plant for a given crop over a wide area, a