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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the complex-compound sentence. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Most writers worth their fingertip calluses begin as avid readers. We read books, magazines, and websites indiscriminately until we start to notice the w

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasurea single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. There is no food and no water for them. And they will not see the sun

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we remember President Abraham Lincoln. This Thursday is the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. (MUSIC) VO

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But they are hungry and eager to reach their mother whos delayed feeding them on this special day. Now she lures them with the promise of milk, the only food the cubs have known since they were born, deaf and blind beneath the snow some two months ag

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Day 10. And the mother has let her cubs a mile from the den. Its time to put them to the test. Theyve grown enormously in confidence, but they dont have their mothers sense of urgency. At last it seems that they are ready for their journey. And they

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Midsummer on the tundra and the sun does not set. At these altitudes, the suns rays are glancing and not enough of their energy reaches the ground to enable trees to grow. Youll need to travel five hundred miles south from here before that is possibl

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As we travel south, so the suns influence grows stronger. And at 50 degrees of latitude, a radical transformation begins. Summers here are long enough for broadleaf trees to replace conifers. Broadleaves are easier to eat and digest, so now animals c

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The advance of the seasons brings constant change. As the suns influence diminishes in the north, so the deciduous forests of America begin to shut down, losing their leaves in preparation for the dark, cold months ahead. One season hands over to ano

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The sun beating down on tropical waters powers the weather systems of the globe. Moisture evaporates from the warming ocean and rises to create great storms. The winds generated out at sea sweep inland across the continents. As they travel across the

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Deer are frequent casulties of the harsh winter. And these leopards are not above scavenging from a corpse. African leopards could never survive here. But the Russian cats have thick fur to shied them from the cold. There are only 40 Amur leopards le

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Their secret is teamwork. Impala are their favourite prey. They start to hunt and the pack splits up. An aerial viewpoint gives a new insight into their strategy. As the dogs approach their prey, they peel off to take up separate positions around the

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The dogs know their prey must come out or drown. Now its a waiting game. The rest of the pack are calling. Theyve made a kill in the forest and this is an invitation to join in the meal. The impala is in luck. A pack this size kills once a day and ev

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All across southern Africa, all animals are journeying for the same reason. Buffalo join the great track. Nowhere else on Earth are so many animals on the move for the same urgent purpose. They are all heading for the swamps of the Okavango, a vast i

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 20 December 2007 Espresso drinkers are losing what critics praise as one of the world's best certified organic robusta coffees. The government of Kerala state has refused to extend the lease on the land where the rare beans

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

Rabble-rouser的意思是“煽动者、煽动政治家(尤指利用情绪或偏见煽动民众,以期获得领导地位及达到私人目的的人)”。你知道这个词的来历吗? 19世纪中

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BBC Learning English People and Places Alexis Kekeh Alexis:My name is Alexis. Im from Togo. William: and Im William Kremer. Welcome to People and Places! One of my favourite things about living in London is the incredible mix of people that you find

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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Ajax Cape Town's Thulani Serero won the player of the year award at the South African Premiership awards at Gold Reef City on Sunday. The 21-year-old striker's awards included Footballer of the Year Award, the Premier

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Organization, Teamwork, and Communication Facing Business Challenges At Lexmark International From IBM to Independence How do you build a new, independent organization after years of control by a giga

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

今天我们要学的词是crowd pleaser。 A crowd pleaser, 指深受欢迎的人或事。 The movie is a crowd pleaser, 大家都爱看这部电影。 His performance was a crowd pleaser, 他的表演得到一致好评。大熊猫泰山在美国的时

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By Gary Thomas Washington 12 June 2006 The United States and its European allies have offered Iran a package of incentives to get Tehran to abandon any ambition to build nuclear weapons. Iran has not rejected the package outright, but is standing fi

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