World Environment Day (WED) is a day we all need to put in our diaries. It happens on June 5 every year and should be one of the most important days of the holiday calendar. WED was created in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly. The environm

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Millions of people are alive today because they received the blood given by another person. June 14 is World Blood Donor Day. This is the day on which we can say thank you to those who give blood. Every country raises awareness of the importance of g

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BBC新闻的一篇报道题为中国打造世界最大的足球学校,它是否能让中国进入世界杯? 世界上最大的足球学校 在中国 BBC News: China opens world's biggest football academy. China is the world's most populous nation and

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The wind buffets you from every angle. 风从四面八方刮来。 And when the storm finally moves away,leaving in its place a clear, still, starlit night, 当随后雷雨逐渐消散,寂静、明澈的星夜终于来临时, you can hardly remem

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Have you ever watched a storm approaching on a hot summer's day? 你在炎热的夏天见过一场雷雨来临的情景吗? It's especially spectacular in the mountains. 这在山区尤其壮观。 At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a so

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Yet with all of these things there must have been a first time. 可是这一切必定有过第一次出现的时候。 Someone must have made the discovery. 这必定是某个人发明的。 Isn't it an amazing thought that, one day, a prehistoric ma

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But now you are going to say:Stop! That's not what we agreed. 但现在你一定会说,停!那不是我们当初同意的。 When did these people live, what were they like, and how did they live? 这些人生活在什么时候,他们长什么样

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On another occasion, but still in Germany in the Neander valley a human skull was found. 在另一个地方,但仍在德国,在尼安德尔山谷,人们发现了一块人的头盖骨。 And this was also immensely interesting because nobody ali

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第一章 从前 All stories begin with Once upon a time. 所有的故事都以从前 开头。 And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time. 那恰好是这个故事所要讲的:从前发生了什么? Once you we

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Then around ten years ago, German archeologists began excavating here. What they found astonished them, because under their feet were colossal structures-- stone circles built from huge T-shaped megal

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Wallace and Gromit: a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic British films are rarely successful in the United States. However, the animated adventures of a cheese-loving, eccentric inventor and his canine companion are proving to be a surprise hit

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罗布?霍普金斯Rob Hopkins提醒我们:世界赖以生存的石油即将耗尽。为转变到没有石油的世界,他给出了自己的解答-转变响应。过没有石油的生活,牺牲我们的舒适生活,建立一个完全不依靠石

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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Wild World是二十世纪七十年代英国民谣摇滚歌手Cat Stevens(凯特斯蒂文斯)的代表作,也是传唱度最广的一首,出自1970年的经典专辑《Tea for the Tillerman》(农夫的茶),许多歌手翻唱过这首歌,并演绎

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Other animals looking for food will come along too and must be scared away from the bait or killed. 其他寻找食物的动物也会出现,见到诱饵一定会被吓跑或被猎杀。 The first animal to come along is usually the hyena. 最先出现

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Have you ever been to the zoo or the circus? 你去过动物园或马戏团吗? How would you like to live in a zoo where the animals were not in cages? 如果有个动物园,动物都不关在笼子里,你愿意住在里面吗? The land in A

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Their stockings are like mittens with a place for the toe, 他们的袜子像连指手套,四脚趾相连与脚拇指分开。 and they would no more think of stepping on the mats with their shoes on than you would of getting into bed with your sho

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All the continents begin with an A except one. 地球上所有大洲的英文名字,除一个洲之外,都是以A开头的。 Asia is the largest continent. Africa is the next largest. 亚洲是最大的洲。非洲是第二大洲。 But Africa w

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Now they were carefully collected and valued twice as highly as before. 现在人们将它们收集起来并加倍珍惜它们。 And to become a government official, you had to know them all. 想成为一名中国政府官员,你必须熟读这些古

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Alexander only went east. Although 'only' may not be quite the right word! 亚历山大只向东方进军。只当然并非是个正确的词! But the lands that lay to the west of Greece did not tempt him just a couple of Phoenician and Greek colo

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