", a documentary about American car culture.In the 1950s, King Hubbert, a geologist working for Shell... — complaining, but not doing much to change the country's car culture.Like Blue, most Americans, except those ……

, “This is gutting (折磨) us. We’re like very delicate (脆弱的) china, speeding towards a brick wall.” Yes, 12 ……

WHEN Great Wall enthusiast William Lindesay signed an agreement last week with UNESCO... decline of sections of "wild" wall that had been largely untouched for hundreds of years.Under ……

very delicate (脆弱的) china, speeding towards a brick wall.”Yes, 12 years is a long time. But we feel..., for example, tells an intense (紧张的) story about an African-American man trying to escape from his white ……

If you spend a holiday at the seaside or by a rainforest, you may want a hotel room that looks out over the ocean or trees, but end up with a view of a car park or brick wall. But there will soon ……

of Unfortunate Events", via AP Television News."If you've got a car that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a car. I'm a brick wall. So you know what's going to happen."SHAQUILLE ……

in their car led them to a wrong road – all the way into the brick wall of an old German country church...) system told the couple to turn right where there was no road. Then the car ran into the side ……

artwork explains why American people like cars so much. ( ) 4. The items in the exhibition “Car Culture...A NEW exhibit, Car Culture: Art and the Automobile, at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington ……

Whatever geek culture is, it doesn’t involve real geeks, says New York-based writer and software... and geek culture with the title “When geeks rule”. According to Auerbach’s article in Salon ……

people live on Brick Lane. Once upon a time, areas where lots of people of one culture lived together... is in a typical (典型的) London red brick building, but more of the books are in Portuguese than ……

, “This is gutting (折磨) us. We’re like very delicate (脆弱的) china, speeding towards a brick wall.”Yes ……

that is also fast, easy and convenient.Cars are central to American culture: many Americans treat... by the rustic beauty bursting through the car window: fresh air, endless cornfields, cow after cow ……

are too influenced by car advertising on TV which shows scenes of a single car speeding along an... the cash needed to buy your first car: It's usually second-hand and small.That little car soon fills ……

. Sometimes you should use “that” and sometimes “which”. Which sentence here is wrong?A. The car which ran me over was speeding.B. The car that ran me over was speeding.C. The car, which was speeding, ran me ……

a brick wall2. bang one’s head against a brick wall字面意思为“用头撞墙”，实际表示“徒劳无益，枉费心机”。字面意思为“用头撞墙”，实际表示“徒劳无益，枉费心机”。Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a brick wall. 试图和他们讲道理只是白费口舌。Trying ……