He took a DVD out of the package. The DVD was for Season 2 of the TV series Lost. He pointed the remote at his DVD player. He pushed the Open button on his remote. The tray slid out of the player. He placed the DVD onto the tray. He pushed the Close

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语小短文

Uganda Protesters Clash With Police Over Opposition Leader's Arrest Riots have broken out in Kampala after the fourth arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. According to reports, there have been confrontations between rioters and Ugandan police a

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(四月)

New pictures smuggled out of North Korea and obtained by the ABC showed the desperate plight of the population there. Homeless and orphan children as young as eight are shown begging for food in the streets. The pictures also reveal the military is s

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1. Authorities in Massachusetts have released the 911 call and police communications that led to the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates. The sergeant who made the arrest can be heard telling dispatchers that Gates was being uncooperative an

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Being Arrested by the Police I was walking down the street minding my own business one evening when I was stopped by a police officer. After asking me a couple of questions about where Id been, he told me to put my hands behind my back. He was going

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年ESL之日常生活

Two girls were trick-or-treating on Halloween night when a large group of teens attacked them, leaving both high school seniors unconscious. One needed surgery to repair her eye socket. The victims were white, and their attackers were black. Seven at

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Vaccines and chest compressions are both ways to save lives. Now, separate new reports say each could save more lives if they were used more. One report is from the International Federation of Red Cross

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U.S. Senator Jim Webb has arrived in Burma's administrative capital for talks with the country's military leaders. The Democrat senator from Virginia will be the first high-ranking U.S. official to meet with General Than Shwe. Senator Jim Webb The v

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And we have news this morning on illegal border crossings. No, no, no, no - not border crossings from Mexico to the United States, these are illegal border crossings of people fleeing the United States. Canada reports a sharp inc

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International pressure for the release of Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from prison is mounting. But Burma's pro-democracy activists and opposition politicians say the international response, including from the United Nations, needs to

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The mayor was in a hurry. He was late. He drove his car faster. He didn't want to miss his plane. The traffic light was red. He went through the red traffic light. I'm glad no police are around, he thought. He heard a siren. He saw a red light behind

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第1级听力-English Level 1

今天我们要学的词是 arbitrary. Arbitrary 形容词,任意的,武断的。Turkey warned its citizens against travelling to the United States, saying Turks face the risk of arbitrary arrest and should take precautions if they do decide to g

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Hong Kong 15 June 2007 Indonesian police have arrested the head of the Southeast Asia terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) along with its military leader in a major blow to an organization that has been blamed for a series

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 01 June 2007 The relatives of victims of Europe's worst massacre since World War II have welcomed the arrest of a key suspect in the atrocity. Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir was detained Thursday and flown to the United N

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The head of the world's largest police organization, Interpol, says he is satisfied with China's security preparations for the Beijing Olympics. He was speaking at Interpol's Asian Regional Conference in Hong Kong, where senior law enforcement offici

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年3月

There is a firestorm tonight over what happened three days ago at a Starbucks in Philadelphia where the police were called in and two black men were arrested. 今晚有件事闹得沸沸扬扬的,就是关于三天前在费城的一家星巴克所发

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

文本: C- Christopher Tietjens V- Valentine Wannop S- Sandbach V: You'll have to go round by Camber railway bridge! Someone: Idiot! S: I refuse to play with you. In fact, I've a good mind to issue a warrant for your arrest, for obstructing justice

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今天我们要学的词是quota。 Quota, 定量,配额。Idaho has set a quota of 220 wolves for the upcoming hunting season, 爱达荷州规定,今年狩猎季节最多只能猎杀220头狼。意大利职业足协负责人说,Italian footbal

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When the anti-whaling ship, the Ady Gil, collided with the Japanese whaling ship the Shona Maru 2, the Ady Gil was badly damaged and later it sank. Listen to Jan 7th 2010 for more about this collision in the Antarctic. Three weeks ago, the New Zealan

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This is AP News Minute. President Trump says Federal workers will have to make adjustments, as the government shutdown rolls into a new week. He offered to build a border wall with steel instead of concrete, an idea Democrats dismissed. US-Chinese tr

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