There was a fire in Tim's building on the weekend. Listen, read and fill in the blanks. Tim: Did you hear the news? Bob: No. What happened? Tim: On Saturday, it was about ten o'clock when I heard a loud noise. It was the fire alarm. I got up quickly

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 小学六年级英语

介绍: stay up 熬夜 I stayed up (late) to watch a film last night. 我昨晚熬夜看了部电影。 go off 闹钟响 My alarm clock goes off at 7 a.m. every morning. 我的闹钟每天早上7点响。 drop off at work 上班睡着 Sometimes I dro

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I'm Anderson Cooper, welcome to podcast, at 360 exclusive, he came face to face, eye to eye with a rifle-wielding student, and lived to tell about it, possibly prevent the murder of other students, also the ridiculous, let's get started. Tonight we'r

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(三)月

Frogs Were Used In Pregnancy Tests Between 1930-1950, African clawed frogs were in great demand. These frogs were imported all over the world and used in labs for pregnancy tests. Technicians injected a sample of a womans urine into a female frogs hi

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Today's early warning systems for earthquakes give you at most a few minutes to prepare for the hit. That's because today's systems rely on detecting the first early rumbles of an actual earthquake before sending the alarm. Now researchers say that f

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A: Alright class, now that were all dressed up lets see what professions you chose. Ah, I see a fireman, a police officer, a medic, and a lifeguard! Can anyone tell me what these people have in common? B: They save people from bad things? A: Thats ri

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04 An Emergency Airplane Landing GLOSSARY cockpit the part of the plane where the pilot and co-pilot sit, separated from therest of the airplane * The cockpit is filled with instruments used to operate the plane. turbulence a period when there is a l

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There are no scare poles ,no pain killing injections needed for this skin cancer treatment ,a harmless cream and a special plaster are all it takes. Inside the device,a tiny LED light activates a drug in the cream to create a toxic chemical that kill

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The US Border Patrol is encountering more problems with drug dealers from Mexico. A few weeks ago, a dealer ran over a border patrol agent. The agent, standing in the middle of a two-lane road, had motioned the dealers vehicle to stop. Instead, the d

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 24 June 2007 Cesar Acuna, 57, lies in a hospital bed recovering from dengue fever in Asuncion, 2 Mar 2007 Southeast Asian nations are worried about a surge in dengue fever this year. Experts say the disease, which usually g

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The United States and the U.K. issued this rare joint alert last week warning that Russia is actively preparing for a future cyberwar against the West. Jeanette Manfra is the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity chief,

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Too little salt makes for(导致) a bland(温和的;乏味的) meal. But too much is offensively briny(海水的;咸的). Now, scientists have discovered why too much tastes bad. The work is in journal Nature. As the previous podcast noted, the c

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 September 2007 Suharto (file photo) Former Indonesian President Suharto's victory in his lawsuit against TIME magazine is raising questions about Indonesia's Supreme Court. Its decision to order TIME to pay a huge d

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The thieves used a ladder, a flashlight, and a knife. And they were lucky. They broke into a famous museum. All they had to do was to break a window. They left half an hour later. They left with five paintings worth $200 million. The thieves cut the

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语小短文

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 March 2007 Press-freedom watchdogs are alarmed over the recent prison sentences of four journalists in the self-declared Somaliland republic. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Publisher Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, of So

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学个词-1756-fall-for 今天我们要学的词是 fall for. To fall for 有上当的意思,过去时是 fell for。Don't fall for that! He is just playing a prank on you. 他在拿你恶作剧,别上当。That was such an old trick. I cannot be

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今天我们要学的词是superbug。Superbug 超级细菌。The CDC sounded the alarm on a deadly and untreatable superbug. 美国疾病预防控制中心对目前尚无法治疗的致命超级细菌的蔓延提出警告。Superbugs are currently m

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 08 November 2007 Senior Israeli officials are expressing alarm over the news that Iran says it has3,000 gas centrifuges working to enrich uranium. VOA's Jim Teeple reports one senior Israeli official says the head of the U.N.

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

A statement from the High People's Court in Beijing shows the city's courts have heard about 200 criminal cases related to school violence in the past five years. The same statement says 14 percent of these cases involved malicious insults, slaps to

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Duct Tape and Wart s 管状胶带和疣 Have you ever used duct tape to tape a duct ? Do you even know what a duct is? Maybe not. But you definitely know what duct tape is, and youve probably used it to fix everything from glasses to flashlights. Now

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