美语听力 English Cafe 201

Topics: Famous Americans: Flannery OConnor; 60 Minutes; well-(something); red and blue states Words: misfit fanatic devout grotesque posthumous on the air prime time investigative journalism to catch (someone) off guard to go too far libel theme musi

美语听力 English Cafe 200

Topics: The White House; noises made by animals, humans, and machines; document versus documentation; to have to do with; gawd-awfully (god-awfully) Words: renovation wing head of state press briefing room china set to bark pow bam thud splat clank d

美语听力 English Cafe 199

Topics: The Rocky Horror Picture Show; civil disobedience; night versus evening; starring; force versus enforce versus reinforce Words: musical parody cult film costume squirt gun fraudulent demonstration march crack nonviolent repression civil disob

美语听力 English Cafe 198

Topics: The Secret Service; tween culture; on versus upon; exclamations My God and Jesus Christ; evidence versus proof Words: currency to counterfeit agent to shield assassination bravery to lay (one's) life on the line tween buying power controversi

美语听力 English Cafe 197

Topics: Ask an American: segregation; paradise lost; to go off; trip versus journey versus voyage versus travel Words: to come in standard to acclimate captain representation apparent to work against to evolve to defy paradise lost to go off trip jou

美语听力 English Cafe 195

Topics: Famous Americans: Orville and Wilbur Wright; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; each day versus every day versus everyday; split infinitives; to spare (someone) (something) Words: to credited (someone) with (something) to spark aviation glider kite

美语听力 English Cafe 194

Topics: Author/artist royalties ASCAP; house swapping; hop in versus pop in versus drop in; compound nouns Words: royalties intellectual property copyright cause estate to enforce to swap stranger to match up arrangement housing market desperate to h

美语听力 English Cafe 193

Topics: Classic comic strips with a political/social commentary bent; child protection laws; uncalled for; state versus status; as though Words: comic strip bent commentary wry editorial pages registry sex-offender parental consent abused neglected s

美语听力 English Cafe 196

Topics: American Cities: Indianapolis; Malcolm Gladwell and his books; to brush up on versus to polish up; to come off; a matter of Words: to observe spectacle to count (something) as (something) racetrack lap canal second only to based in implicatio

美语听力 English Cafe 192

Topics: Ask an American: private gun ownership; north of; compulsory versus mandatory versus obligatory; mayday Words: semiautomatic round to ban outlawed to arm social issue law-abiding hunting high heels part of the equation north of compulsory man

美语听力 English Cafe 191

Topics: American Cities: Dallas; conservative Christian/fundamentalist universities; to wear (someone) out; shrink; already Words: convention center trade show barbeque Bible Belt evangelicalism vocal fundamentalist conservative Christian right stric

美语听力 English Cafe 190

Topics: The U.S. Supreme Court; microloans/microcredit; less than (X) days versus up to (X) days; mainstream account; words ending in ic versus ical Words: to appeal Supreme Court Supreme Court Justices to take (ones) place to appoint to bork credit

美语听力 English Cafe 189

Topics: Famous Americans: Helen Keller; The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing; opposable thumbs; due to versus because of; the prefix Mc Words: deaf blind sign language palm Braille magna cum laude companion advocate thoroughbred rare derby to spon

美语听力 English Cafe 188

Topics: Regulating monopolies and antitrust laws; American songs: Happy Birthday; whilst versus while; to blow away (something); using do for emphasis Words: monopoly competitor antitrust law sanctioned to break up to appeal lyrics kindergarten to ca

美语听力 English Cafe 187

Topics: Ask an American: student exchange programs; begs the question; face value; at the time versus then Words: to test (one's) limits TV production wrestling choir to come down here to host (someone) famine drought to take (ones) place unity begs

美语听力 English Cafe 185

Topics: Taxes Americans pay; wedding/baby showers and gift registries; leverage, to dig, to guess versus to think versus to believe Words: property tax appraised value due utility sales tax income tax to throw (someone) a party wedding/bridal shower

美语听力 English Cafe 184

Topics: Native American casinos; YouTube; impact versus influence, created in/on/by; so far versus to date Words: to gamble casino autonomy reservation income heritage to upload excerpt to be copyrighted to sue offensive content to flag impact influe

美语听力 English Cafe 183

Topics: Famous Americans: Langston Hughes; childcare options in the U.S.; to totally own(ed) (someone); bad news Words: collectively to be offended ancient soul homemaker dual-income childcare mobile nanny daycare stimulation babysitter totally to ow

美语听力 English Cafe 186

Topics: American Cities: San Diego; tabloid press and U.S. libel/slander laws; under (someones) thumb; precision versus accuracy; coming to you from Words: moderate climate urban renewal defense pharmaceutical press tabloids headlines shocking slande

美语听力 English Cafe 167

Topics: Ask an American: underage drinking; to chalk (something) up to; fluke; quite; aint; domino effect and chain reaction Words: access consistency rebellious binge drinking DUI DWI assault date rape to model sexually transmitted disease unintende