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口语部分 文化篇 Read the text carefully and be prepared to answer the question: Arts A Japanese man who came to the US said, When I first came here, what struck me most about this place was sex and money. He had noticed the emphasis that is pl

News & Reports 2010-10-17

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says he has asked his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki to release two German reporters detained in Iran. NATO has gran

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A school shooting in Florida prompted a nationwide drive for more gun laws, but cities in Florida are not likely to join in. The state of Florida did impose a waiting period for gun purchases and raised the age for gun sales to 2

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With the current heat wave gripping many parts of China, people in some of the worst-affected cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou are scrambling to try to find ways to 'beat the heat.' CRI's Liu Min has more. August 7th was the date marking the beginning

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In one sense,we can trace all the problems of the American city back to a single starting point--we Americans don't like our cities very much.That is,on the face of it,absurd.After all,more than 3/4 of us now live in cities,and more are flocking to t

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Soaring housing prices are driving people out of the country's first-tier cities Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, a new survey shows. 一项最新调查显示，北京、上海、广州和深圳不断上涨的房价正迫使人们逃离这几

Price determines travelers' choices

By Yang Wanli BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhuanet) --The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway will connect the three cities in which I spend most of my time, said Man Zi, a 25-year-old dance teacher, who moved from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, nine

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Its summer again and blue is the sky Heatwavess on and crime rate is high Is this what we asked for Is this what we want As long as the temperatures rising Its all right Its ok It s all right Where do you go? When the sun shines What do you do? When

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By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 11 July 2007 A heat wave that gripped most of the United States has let up in some parts of the country but continues in others. New York City opened up nearly 300 cooling centers. The state of Virginia issued a haza

VOA慢速英语 2008 0403a

This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America's largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation -- more than seventy percent --

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If you live on Earth, here are two things to keep in mind: one, Fridays are awesome! And two, and this is not awesome, theres a good chance that the air you breathe is too polluted to be healthy. 如果你生活在地球上，这里有两件事要记住

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每日一词【955】junk food：没营养的垃圾食物

今天我们要学的词是junk food。 Junk food, 指那些没营养的垃圾食物。美国第一夫人米歇尔.奥巴马呼吁食品工业多生产健康食品。 She urged the major food makers to produce more healthy food, rather than junk food

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Foreign brands are becoming cheaper in China as a result of their pursuit for consumers in lower-tier cities along with competition from the e-commerce market. However some consumers still think their goods are more expensive than the same ones sold

世卫:低收入国家空气质量低

UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (Xinhua) -- More than 80 percent of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN spokesman said here Thursday.

Cities called key to growth

BEIJING, Mar. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Urbanization will be a major feature of China's economic growth and continue to gain momentum, Liu He, Party chief of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said on Saturday. At the China Development For

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Jaw-dropping landscapes of the future have been created based on predictions by top engineers and architects. 高级工程师和建筑师的预言为未来勾勒出一幅令人震撼的图景。 The glorious vista feature floating and underwater citi

CCTV9英语新闻：China to have a bright new railway services timetables

China will have a bright new railway services timetables from Sunday. It is the largest expansion in decades involving extensive regions and a range of trains. Beijing Railway Bureau said the capital will run 30 more services, leading to a record hig

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2015年CRI China Opens New High-speed Rail to Northern Border City in Jilin

The first high-speed rail line to a border city in northeast China is set to open in Jilin Province on Sunday. The new line is to link Jilin City with Hunchun, which is at the borders of North Korea and Russia. Local residents have come to the railwa