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Topics: Famous Americans: Thomas Edison; Liberia; symposium versus workshop versus seminar; to account for; Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Words: inventor prodigious practical phonograph patent entrepreneur te

美语听力 English Cafe 301

Topics: Ask an American: The value of church services; outbreak versus break out; to pull off versus to pull over versus to pull in; to act silly Words: invest church synagogue to overlook value pastor to commit suicide halo sacred demonstrable impac

美语听力 English Cafe 300

Topics: American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; The Folk Tales of Uncle Remus; drug versus pill versus tablet; pronouncing ?; engagement versus commitment Words: sickly disillusioned spoils system to declare rough trust canal at odds with folk tale

美语听力 English Cafe 299

Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high Words: McCarthyism Red Scare to play on demagogue hearing to blacklist to change (

美语听力 English Cafe 298

Topics: Famous Americans: Jesse Owens; National Science Foundation; plea versus appeal versus petition; somewhat versus somehow; Is that all? Words: track and field Jim Crow law segregation obstacle world record to boycott autograph ticker-tape parad

美语听力 English Cafe 296

Topics: Ask an American: driving while texting; ground versus soil versus land; as such; pupil versus people Words: eyewitness report to lose control apparent median to clip to flip distraction visual to glance manual cognitive to take (ones) mind of

美语听力 English Cafe 295

Topics: Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Bozo the Clown; kind of versus so-so versus more or less; firm versus company; to get + participle Words: odyssey concurrently plot extra-terrestrial cryogenically frozen to read lips to sneak to coincide with cl

美语听力 English Cafe 293

Topics: Famous Americans: Al Capone; The U.S. Military Academy at West Point; to crash versus to shatter versus to smash; how about you? versus what about you?; bite me Words: odd job gang mentor scar to bribe to culminate massacre to lock (someone)

美语听力 English Cafe 294

Topics: American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln; to rise versus to raise versus to arise; rather than versus prefer; to tender (ones) resignation Words: humble origins log cabin itinerant teacher to fall into debt oratorical abolitionist debate to seced

美语听力 English Cafe 312

Topics: Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters; The National Geographic Society; shade versus shadow; rarely versus seldom; every cloud has a silver lining Words: union management Teamsters mob to convict fraud bribery sentence to follow up on a lead to diffu

美语听力 English Cafe 311

Topics: Ask an American: Concussions Affect U.S. Teen Athletes; customer versus client; overwhelming; exciting; discussion on/about Words: ref time out trainer concussion face down to work (someone) match whistle fogginess to think straight nausea di

美语听力 English Cafe 309

Topics: Movie - West Side Story; Uncle Sam; ship and other suffixes; grab a spoon/fork; to take the big game down Words: to thwart gang rival poignant musical catchy to depict goatee chin to recruit counterpart stout grab a spoon/fork to take the big

美语听力 English Cafe 308

Topics: Famous Authors: Herman Melville; the Ku Klux Klan; to locate versus to position versus to localize; to keep on your toes; to roll with the punches; to suffer from versus to die of/from Words: whaling ship revival to seek revenge canon terrori

美语听力 English Cafe 307

Topics: Famous Americans: Booker T. Washington; things Americans believe are lucky; horribly versus terribly versus awfully; full tuition reimbursement; carbon copy Words: freedmen peer activism accommodating desegregation historically black universi

美语听力 English Cafe 306

Topics: Ask an American: Health effects of city living; how do you say versus what do you call; rsum Words: to play out urban well-being poverty incidence bottom line in-house depressed substance abuse return on investment bike lane to think outside

美语听力 English Cafe 305

Topics: Famous Songs: Ive Been Working on the Railroad; Burning Man; irony versus sarcasm versus satire; agreement versus contract; to fall for (someone) versus to fall for (something) Words: folk song to date back railroad to pass the time away whis

美语听力 English Cafe 304

Topics: American Presidents: Bill Clinton; Louisiana Voodoo; articulation versus enunciation versus pronunciation; to start versus commence; I believe you versus I believe in you Words: governor fiscal responsibility to mar affair to impeach to lie u

美语听力 English Cafe 303

Topics: Jaws; The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Star, and the Medal of Honor; to go in versus to go into versus to get in versus to get into; overwhelming; off-kilter Words: jaw shark resort town breakthrough score suspense se

美语听力 English Cafe 310

Topics: Famous Americans: Clara Barton; The California Gold Rush; problem versus issue versus concern; cordless versus wireless; brothers and sisters Words: medical supplies front lines angel in charge of to advance victim to rush word spread to pan

美语听力 English Cafe 316

Topics: Ask an American: Libraries Using Ad Campaigns to Improve Image and Funding; making introductions; stack versus stock Words: to light up to click deficit geek mental synapse to get (ones) geek on billboard poster reaction hip to hit to introdu