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标题: 六级练习2013.07.28 [打印本页]

作者: Rebecca949    时间: 2013-7-29 12:08     标题: 六级练习2013.07.28

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Next year will mark the 110th anniversary of a U.S. government agency that is unknown to most Americans. Yet its work affects their everyday lives in countless ways.
Generations knew the agency as the National Bureau of Standards. When it was founded in 1901, _____________________, and the nation used a variety of standards to measure length, weight, and mass. There were something like 30 different ways to measure quantities of liquid, for instance.
The agency is now known as NIST - the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Washington Post newspaper calls its headquarters complex in Maryland, on _________________________________, Uncle Sam's funhouse.
There, NIST technicians and scientists come up with new ways to measure things, set standards for products, and test new technology in all sorts of industries. NIST maintains the earth's atomic clock, which is thought to be so accurate, _________________________________or lose a single second.





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作者: susan.sui    时间: 2013-7-30 13:45

electricity was just making its way in widespread commercial use.
it will take more than 20 million years for it to gain
作者: jusc    时间: 2013-9-9 23:28

electricity was just making its way in widespread commercial use
作者: 伊梦青依    时间: 2014-5-21 20:28

electricity was just making this way and wide-spread commercial use




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