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One of the most important uses of gold is for money.Gold can be used to make rings ,earrings and other things.Gold is also used to make gold leaf, a very flat ribbon of gold that is often used on picture frames. Cups and dishes can also be made from fold.Gold has many uses. An ant can pick up an object more than fifty times its own weight. A bee can pull load more than one hundred fifty times its weight. If we were as strong in proportion to our size, we could pull a five-ten truck. A very snobbish woman met George Bernard Shaw, the famous English play writer, at a garden party one after noon. She was the sort woman who was only interested in people who were rich or famous,and she was very eager to have Shaw as a guest in her own home so she could show him off to her friends. One day she sent her driver in a black Rolls Royce to Shaw’s home with the following invitation: Lady Whitley-Fallwell will be at home on Thursday, the 14th of December, from 4 to 6. The following reply came back immediately: So will Mr.G.B.Shaw Anatomy is the study of how living things-plants, animals, and people are built. The word comes from the Greek meaning “to cut up”. Cutting apart or dissecting dead human bodies was a crime(犯罪) in ancient times. In the 1st century A.D. , Galen, a Greek doctor, dissected animals to study their parts.His writings on anatomy remained important until the 1400’s. Andreas Vesalius, a Belgian doctor, wrote a famous book on anatomy in 1543. It was based on his dissections of dead human bodies. There are several branches of anatomy. Gross anatomy is the study of large parts of the body. Histology is the study of tissue(组织), and cytology is the study of cells(细胞). Comparative anatomy deals with differences is structure. ； / 快约 ath85cwb 多饰象牙，这也是西边特产。综而论之，我想这琴，怕就是他们西戎的琴呢！”明蕙依在明秀臂弯下，好奇道：“锦瑟无端五十弦。四姐姐，这会是瑟的一种吗，传到西域去了？”明秀端详着琴身，摇头：“虽然弦也不少，整个构造原理同瑟迥异。”“那他们还敢跟我说是古琴？”明柯还是很郁闷，“问我实打实要了古董的价钱！我砸他们的店去！”“先别急，”明秀沉稳道，“我已说了，看这木头样子，是有年代的；看特色，又像西边风味。那末会不会这就是他们那边的琴，而