Imagine this: you’ve been working hard all year and you are finally on your 2-week holiday. _______________Should you get some form of compensation(补偿)? There’s a new rule which allows EU workers to claim back(要求收回) holiday time if they fall ill during their paid leave. _______
_______ Here are two opinions.
YES! By Kiera Smithers
As we all know, holidays are there for a reason— you can have a chance to relax yourself and then ready to work again with more energy. ________________ So, why should someone who has worked hard all year have their holiday ruined(毁掉) because they got sick when they were going to rest? Imagine if you had to fly home early or spend the rest of the time in bed— you’d definitely want some form of compensation, wouldn’t you?
NO! By Aaron Harper
_______________ People will go on holiday, then come back and claim that they’d been ill the whole time, and then go on holiday again! Another thing, all this depends on your definition of being “sick”. Some people will go to bed if they’ve got a headache, but others will come to work despite(尽管) having the flu. ______
_______ If you come back from your holiday, then take some more sick leave, other people are going to have to work more.
根据短文上下文，将下列句子还原到文中，使短文意思完整通顺。
| A．If you’re sick on holiday, you’re even more likely to get sick. |
| B．Do you think it’s fair? |
| C．Finally, it’s unfair on “honest” workers. |
| D．But on your vacation, you get sick and you have to spend most of the time in bed. |
E. I think this rule is unfair.
Do you have a tail？ Of course not， we know． But tails are like opinions． actually， everyone has them： fishes， birds， most reptiles， and even some of our closest relatives．
Since tails first evolved（进化） at least 500 million years ago． Geckos （壁虎）use them to store fat， birds use them to steer through the air． But for most mammals （哺乳动物），（1） Yet， as you get closer to humans on the evolutionary tree， tails disappear， Gorillas（大猩猩）don' t have them， and neither do chimps（黑猩猩） or any other apes （类人猿）， including us， of course． To understand why， take a look at how we walk．
（2） walking like this gives us a huge advantage because unlike four﹣legged animals，which have to pour energy into every step they take， two legs take advantage of gravity（重力），which does some of the work for us． You see， each time we take a step， gravity pulls us forward．The end result is that when we walk， we use around 25% less energy than walking on all fours， and this way of getting around also totally eliminates（淘汰） the need for a tail．
It's said that you can still see a reminder of a time when our ancient ancestors had one． Just look at a human spine（脊椎）．（3） That's your tailbone． It's all that's the rest of our tail．
Now， babies are born with what looks like a tail， but that's not what's really going on． Most often， these tails are actually a parasitic twin（寄生物）． These types of tails usually form as a birth defect（瑕疵）．（4）
So the tail of humans has gone， it's the result of evolution millions of years Will humans be much taller， stronger or smarter in the future？
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A． Nowadays， humans can walk completely upright． B． And in these situations， doctors will advise to remove the tails with no harm to the babies． C． they serve one major purpose﹣﹣balance． D． You can see how the last few bones are partly fused（融合） together． |
2018 年世界杯就要到来了．你对足球感兴趣吗？
Are you World Cup 2018 which is coming soon？
为了实现中国梦，我们必须努力学习和工作．
to achieve our Chinese Dream， we must study and work hard．
在科学家们的努力下，中国已经能够制造像 C919 这样的大飞机．
With scientists' great efforts， China has to make big planes like C919．
曼迪和苏珊都不喜欢这本书．
Mandy Susan likes this book．