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高英期末复习资料(收纳) 第 PAGE \* Arabic 1 页第 PAGE \* Arabic 1 页 Translate into Chinese The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a Gothicarched gateway of aged brick and stone.You pass from the heat and glare of a big,open square into a cool,dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see,losing itself in the shadowy distance. It is a point of honour with the customer not to let the shopkeeper guess what it is she really likes and wants until the last moment. The seller,on the other hand,makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him of all profit,and that he is sacrificing this because of his personal regard for the customer. The pole is attached at the one end to an upright post around which it can revolve,and at the other to a blind-folded camel,which walks constantly in a circle,providing the motive power to turn the stone wheel. The machine is operated by one man,who shovels the linseed pulp into a stone vat,climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes,and then throws his weight on to a great beam made out of a tree trunk to set the ropes and pulleys in motion.Ancient girders creak and groan,ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can.Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards,taut and protesting,its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding-wheels and the occasional grunts and sights of the camels. But the most significant change thus far in the earths atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial revolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since.Industry meant coal,and later oil,and we began to burn lots of it——bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide(CO2),with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth.Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole,upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to preven