Yet a host of factors

Yet a host of factors pushes employers to hire fewer workers for more hours and, at the same time, compels workers to spend more time on the job

Yet=>然而
host=>許多

How fire leapt to life

"How and where man learnt how to produce flame at will is unknow"

這句話的意思因該是"人類學會生火昰在何時(何地)發生的,昰一個謎"
我的疑問昰為何用過去分詞"learnt"?而不是過去昰"learned"?

What's next for Apple? All eyes on the holidays

If history is any indication, we could be in the midst of a quiet time for new Apple gear. So what is there to look forward to in the interim?


這段話意思我大概猜得出因該是"根據過往的經驗,目前可能是蘋果新產品上市前的過渡時期".

不過那段"So what is there to look forward to in the interim?" 我沒辦法很精確的解釋,

幾個疑問

1.主詞是那個?

2."in the interim"前面一定要加"to"嗎?

可以寫成"So what is there to look forward in the interim?"嗎?

Europe isn't having a good time at the moment. Recession wherever you look, economic chaos in Spain and Greece and in the UK, a sceptical public and openly hostile press. But the EU does have its advantages - without it, I doubt that we'd have Electric Bike of the Year.

#中間那句
"Recession wherever you look, economic chaos in Spain and Greece and in the UK, a sceptical public and openly hostile press"
的動詞在那裡?

#"a sceptical public and openly hostile press" 意思是"來自公眾壓力嗎?" 我看不太懂"sceptical "這個字在這邊的作用

Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct
left or right handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess
such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. 

看不太懂"Not even"開始後面那一段.

雖然我看過中譯為

甚至連和我們最親近的人猿都沒有這種心理學家所謂的"單側不對稱"的明確

但還是很難體會出原文的寫法,主要最看不懂的地方在於"such decided",另外可能又受到中文的影響,很期望看到"have或has"這類代表"有"的字彙出現,如果只給我看中文要我翻譯回英文,我會寫成

"even apes that are the closest us have not the lateral asymmetry as psychologists call it"

ZOO

The WZCS estimates that there are about 10000 zoos in the world, of which around 1,000 represent a core of quality collections capable of participating in co-ordinated conservation programmes.


對這段話的理解
WZCS估計有世界上大約有10000間動物園,期中1000間動物園具備參與保育計畫的能力.

中間那段" of which around 1,000 represent a core of quality collections",我一直看不太懂


這邊可以找到參考原文:
http://www.proficiency-test.com/2010/05/27/ielts-reading-sample/