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criteria should be used in selecting people for promotion within the pany. honour v. to give someone public praise or a reward: He was honoured with a knighthood. n. a reward, prize or title that publicly expresses admiration or respect: She received an honour for her services to the munity. He was buried with full military honours (= with a special celebration to show respect). 經(jīng)典時文背誦 The Palace Museum Situated at the heart of Beijing, the Palace Museum is approached through Tiananmen Gate. Immediately to the north of the Palace Museum is Prospect Hill (also called Coal Hill), while on the east and west are Wangfujing and Zhongnanhai neighborhoods. It is a location endowed with cosmic significance by ancient China’s astronomers. Correlating the emperor’s abode ( 住所 ), which they considered the pivot (樞軸 ) of the terrestrial (陸地 ) world, with the Pole Star, which they believed to be at the center of the heavens, they called the palace The Purple Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third Ming emperor Yongle who, upon usurping(篡奪) the throne, determined to move his capital north from Nanjing to Beijing. In 1911 the Qing dynasty fell to the republican revolutionaries. The last emperor, Puyi, continued to live in the palace after his abdication until he was expelled (驅(qū)逐 ) in 1924. Twentyfour emperors lived and ruled from this palace during this 500year span. 。 able to be shown, touched or experienced: We need tangible evidence if we’re going to take legal action. Other tangible benefits include an increase in salary and shorter working hours. enlarge v. 1 [I or T] to bee bigger or to make something bigger: They’ve enlarged the kitchen by building over part of the garden. Symptoms of the disease include an enlarged spleen or liver. 2 [T] to print a bigger copy of a photograph or document discriminate v. to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, religion, sex, etc: She felt she had been discriminated against because of her age. In order to increase the number o