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Lesson 32 New words and expressions 1. once People are not so honest as they once were. She was once my internet friend. Rome was once a powerful empire. 2. temptation The temptation to steal is greater than ever before especially in large shops. He
Michael Hallkas (Class of 2001): I remember people graduating last year and they already had jobs coming at them like six, seven different positions at once and now it's like people are 2)scrounging f
Glossary affluent a. 丰富的, 富裕的n. 支流, 富人 axe n. 斧, 斧头vt. 削减(人员、经费、计划、机构等) banal a. 平凡的, 陈腐的 battered 弄垮的 beam n. 光线 ray or stream of light behead vt. 斩首, 砍头 boast 吹牛
Callum: Hello, I'm Robertson, Callum Robertson and this is entertainment. Today, Casino Royale the new James Bond film; is it any good and what is Daniel Craig like in his first performance as 007? We'll hear the views of BBC film reviewer Mark Kerm
Item Nine. Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh. More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered the coast. Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding t
My own starting point, for what it's worth, was an illustrated science book that I had as a classroom text when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. 我写本书的最初灵感,不管其价值如何,来自我在念小学四、五年级时有过的一
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? The Apollo moon missions ended almost 40 years ago. But for lunar scientists, they're gifts that keep on giving. Researchers studying rocks brought back by ast
President Obama is on a trade mission to India. US companies are sending nearly ten billion dollars in exports to that country. NPR's Scott Horsley reports Mr. Obama sees India's fast-growing market as a big opportunity for US employers. An Indian po
Republican critics are criticizing President Obama's 2013 budget plan which seeks four trillion dollars in deficit reduction in the next decade. It calls for government spending cuts which the GOP supports but it also seeks an end to tax breaks for t
A US negotiator says North Korea has agreed to declare and disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year. He says this is a promising start to improving multi-national relations with the communist country, Six-Party Talks scheduled for
1. Violence storms that battered the eastern US have been blamed for killing at least ten people, and leaving more three millions without power. Many now are facing the possibility of temperatures near or above 100 degrees without electricity, withou
Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks. 好几只猴子捉住了铁皮人,带着他飞出国境,直飞到堆着厚厚的尖锐石头的深谷。 H
As Father Ralph parked his car and walked across the lawn, the maid waited on the front veranda, her freckled face wreathed in smiles. Good morning, Minnie, he said. Oh, Father, happy it is to see you this fine dear morning, she said in her strong br
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Thursday that the city had experienced the snowiest January in history after a thick blanket of snow covered the city. During a press conference to update the city's snow rem
Hello, everyone. I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Two separate communities in Georgia are mourning two college students killed during different times. Funerals are being held today for Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk and Uni
TAIYUAN, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- More than 326,000 people have been affected after heavy rain battered a county in Lvliang city, in north China's Shanxi province, local authorities said Wednesday. Torrential rains lashed 512 villages of Linxian county las
Business 商业报道 Yahoo! 雅虎 Googling a new boss 谷歌前高管出任雅虎新总裁 Marissa Mayer takes on one of the toughest jobs in tech 玛丽莎梅耶尔找了科技领域最棘手的一个工作 SHORTLY after news broke on July 16th of
NANNING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Nine people are dead and one missing in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region after rainstorms that have affected millions of people over the last few days, local authorities said on Tuesday. As of Tuesday evenin
(一)尽量先以自己熟悉的语言了解新闻内容 同样的,在进行当天的英文新闻学习前,先从中文的媒体了解当天主要的国际或国内新闻内容,在听英文新闻时,就容易多了。当然,这是在学习期
Demon man with your hell on my neck Preachin' to me I'm not worthy of amnesty You're no testimony to my final fate Unlike you I'm not drunk on my reverie I will build a kingdom from my remnants I will build a kingdom from my remnants I'm nobody's lef