Former New York Mayor Gives $1.8 Billion to Johns Hopkins University Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he is donating $1.8 billion to his former school, Johns Hopkins University on Sunday. 纽约前市长布隆伯格周日宣布将

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Forbes' list has new names; Gates No. 12005年福布斯富豪榜又有新变动,比尔盖茨仍旧稳居榜首 Thanks to a surge in demand for steel, the Internet and Scandinavian sofas, there are some new names among the very richest of the world'

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英语商业新闻-一名妇女从烟草公司获得236亿美元赔偿 A court in the USA has ordered the tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds to pay a woman $23.6 billion in damages. Cynthia Robinson filed a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds in 2008 and fought f

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AS IT IS 2015-02-04 Obama Seeks $50 Billion for Foreign Relations Spending 奥巴马寻求500亿美元的外交关系经费 President Barack Obama sent his budget proposal to Congress on Monday. His budget calls for four trillion dollars in federal s

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EU Fines Google a Record $5 Billion The European Union has fined Google $5 billion for having too much control of software that goes into mobile phones. 由于过度控制手机上安装的软件软件,欧盟对谷歌开出了50亿美元的罚款。

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研究:G-20补贴矿物燃料4520亿美元 As leaders of the Group of 20 major economies gather in Turkey for the 2015 summit, campaigners are calling on them to stick to their pledge to stop subsidizing fossil fuels. With the Paris climate summit

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奥巴马夫人启动两亿美元女孩教育项目 U.S. first lady Michelle Obama has announced new multi-million dollar global programs to get more girls into education. On a visit to Britain, which is also taking part in the plan, Obama described

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BBC News with Stewart Macintosh. Tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers and civilians are taking part in celebrations to mark the anniversary on Saturday of the birth of the countrys founder Kim Il Sung. Along with the traditional parade of missi

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BBC news with Marion Marshall. The engine manufacturer Royce-Rolls says its reached an 800 million dollar settlement in principle with the British, US and Brazilian authorities relating to bribery corruption. The British company which makes engines f

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BBC news with Jonathan Izard. Republicans in the US congress have withdrawn a controversial initiative to strip an independent congressional ethics watchdog of its powers. The plan,which outraged Democrats, also drew criticism from the president-elec

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What movie holds the record for earning the most money worldwide? 以下哪部电影收入最高? Avatar, Titanic, Jurassic World, or Star Wars: The Force Awakens? 《阿凡达》、《泰坦尼克号》、《侏罗纪世界》或《星球大战:原力

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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China has agreed to buy $25 billion worth of liquefied natural gas over the next 25 years from the Malaysian national oil and gas company known as Petronas (short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad). The Chinese want to increase their use of natural gas

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Yusuf Alireza unexpectedly quit as chief executive of Noble Group, Asia's biggest commodities-trading firm. 亚洲最大商品贸易商来宝集团(Noble Group)首席执行官优素福?阿里(Yusuf Alireza)意外宣布离职。 Noble, which is ba

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The United Nations has asked for $2.1 billion to help Yemen where millions of people are caught in a two-year-old civil war. 联合国呼吁各方筹集21亿美元,为两年中遭受内战冲击的千万也门人提供帮助。 A Saudi Arabian-led

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Michigan State University to Pay $500 Million to Victims of Larry Nassar Michigan State University has agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who have said they were sexually abused by sports doctor Larry Nassar. 密歇根州立大

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G-20 Subsidizing Fossil Fuels by $452 Billion, Research Shows G-20补贴矿物燃料4520亿美元 As leaders of the Group of 20 major economies gather in Turkey for the 2015 summit, campaigners are calling on them to stick to their pledge to stop sub

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Donors Pledge $2.7 Billion in New Deal for Somalia 捐助者承诺27亿美元的新政索马里 Delegates from 50 countries across Africa, Europe and the Persian Gulf came together in Brussels Monday to sign a New Deal Compact to help rebuild Somalia

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A Florida man is arguing he created the iPhone and the iPad, and wants Apple to pay him $10 billion for stealing his idea. 美国佛罗里达州一名男子日前对苹果公司提起诉讼,要求索赔100亿美元。他宣称,iPhone和iPad都出自

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