考研英语复习- Unit 19- A C.pptVIP

explosion [n] 激增 2010 年阅读 Text 2 That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions. foundation [n] 基金会 2013 年阅读 Text 3 For example, the Long Now Foundation,based in San Francisco, has created a forum where thinkers and scientists are invited to project the implications of their ideas over very long timescales. Its flagship project is a mechanical clock, buried deep inside a mountain in Texas, that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years