December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957Th

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Millions with Mental Health Get Little or No Treatment 数百万有心理健康疾病的人们得到很少或没有得到治疗 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. The World Health Organization reports that hundreds of mil

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40 years later, aero experts coined the term transonic. 40年后空气动力学专家创造了跨音速这个术语。 They debated, should it have one S or two? 他们争论这个术语应该用一个S,还是两个S? You see, they were having trou

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Still have some vacation time to burn, but tired of reading bad novels on the beach? Try a book written especially for people whod rather go to the planetarium than to Planet Hollywood. Its called The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technolo

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Shakespeare noted that a worm may eat a king, after that king is dead. Sadly, parasitic worms infect people who are still alive, especially kids. Publi

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图片1 After their tent-pole film Tomorrowland opened to a soft $41 million in North America over the Memorial Day weekend, Disneys executives must now be looking to China in hopes of cutting their losses on the $190 million picture. 周末北美阵亡

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device for moving the cursor on a computer

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Science and Technology 科技 Looking for the Higgs 捕获希格斯粒子 Enemy in sight? 敌军现身? The search for the Higgs boson is closing in on its quarry 希格斯玻色子的研究逼近其目标 ON JULY 22nd two teams of researchers base

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你那些到了能干活年龄的孩子们可以受雇做牧工。德罗海达将成为一个家族企业,由家里人经营而无须外人插手。' 她说给咱们寄去澳大利亚的钱了吗?菲问道。 帕迪一挺腰板。我不会为这种

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要操纵一台电脑,令它好好地为人们服务,实在是一门并不简单的学问。简单地说,???操纵电脑的人要先学会一套和电脑交谈的文字,称为“电脑语言”

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阅读判断题是一种比较新的题型。它考查应试者判断识别文章所提供的信息的能力。考试方式为,给出一篇300~450词的短文,根据短文列出7个句子,有的句子提供了正确的信息,有的句子提供

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Campaigning to the EU referendum in Britain has been suspended after a member of parliament was killed in an attack in Northern England. The Labor MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed outside the library where she was meeting her constituencies in West Yor

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December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957Th

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Ornithological trends 英国鸟类迁徙趋势 This bird has flown 有所改变 Why some species are thriving outside southern England 为什么英格兰南部有些物种开始兴盛? WHEN people talk about a north-south divide in Britain they are

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WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall, the U.S. space agency said Thursday in a statement. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rove

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As the new year starts you might have recently bought a new diary or calendar and thought Where do these words come from? at least thats what I did. There is also, of course, also the chance that you have been merrily scheduling in gym appointments a

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February is a big month for the film industry, when movie makers look to capitalize on school holidays and the start of a new year. After the blockbusters Lost in Thailand and The Grand Master, what are the expectations of the audience in February? I

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Wikitongues Seeks to Save Worlds Dying Languages Experts say there are about 6,500 languages spoken throughout the world. But the United Nations estimates that about half of these languages are in danger of disappearing. The U.N. cultural agency, or

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Labrinth《Last Time》:童年的外星人 《美国偶像》《英国达人秀》和《X-Factor》的评委西蒙考威尔的眼光总不会错他可是西城男孩等一众成功音乐人的恩师,并在选秀节目中挖掘了一大批乐坛新人

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A: Whats up? You dont look too good. B: Yeah, my head hurts, thats all. Ive been in physics class all day. Its killer! A: I liked physics. Its all math, really; arcs, curves, velocity, cool stuff. B: Yeah, yeah, but todays lesson was all about the cr

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