rainfall of 307.7 mm per year, and average temperatures are 37.8 °C in the summer and 4.7 °C in the winter. Temperature extremes in the park have been recorded at 45 °C during the summer and -5 °C during winter nights. Local Aboriginal people recognise five seasons: 1. Piriyakutu (August/September) - Animals breed and food plants flower . 2. Mai Wiyaringkupai (November/December) - The hot season when food becomes scarce . 3. Itjanu (January/February/March) - Sporadic storms can roll in suddenly. 4. Wanitjunkupai (April/May) - Cooler weather 5. Wari (June/July) - Cold season bringing morning frosts . Tourism The first tourists arrived in the Uluru area on 1936.Since the park was listed as a World Heritage Site, annual visitor numbers rose to over 400,000 visitors by the year 2000. Climbing Uluru is popular attroction for visitors, but the Anangu(local people) do not climb Uluru because of its great spiritual significance
(A) a prominent (B) a precious (C) an elaborate (D) a huge 4. Evidence concerning the origins of the native people living in the coastal areas of western Canada is vague. (A) contradictory (B) abundant (C) acknowledged (D) unclear 5. History consists of a complex weave of social, cultural, and economic forces that are not easily unraveled. (A) separated (B) disregarded (C) illustrated (D) condensed LESSON 30 charisma clever convince endure forfeit precarious severe sporadic superior wanton weak widespread wisdom witticism woo charisma n. a special quality that endears other people adj. charismatic to the person who has this quality Syn. appeal She has a charisma that no other candidate possesses. John F. Kennedy was known for his charismatic personality. clever adj. intelligent; resourceful adv. cleverly Syn. astute n
concept of liberty, combined with a growing religious zeal which stressed the perfectibility of mankind and the brotherhood of all races, caused profound changes in how the English thought and wrote about slavery. A great deal of scholarship has devoted itself to tracing the growth of antislavery sentiment in English poetry and literature from the eighteenth century, especially in that century's romantic idealization of the "noble savage." However halting and sporadic these changes in racial attitudes expressed in literature were, most critics agree that by the end of the eighteenth century abolitionism had gained considerable momentum and had become a cause championed by many of England's most respected and influential Romantic writers. By 1770 abolitionism was no longer confined to isolated literary individuals or radical Quakers who for decades had denounced the British slave trade and slavery itself
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