17Rooms in a House GLOSSARY to babysit to take care of another persons children or pets (animals) for a short period of time, usually in exchange for money* Olivia started babysitting her neighbors children when she was 14 years old, for $7 per hour.

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A cat is said to have nine lives because it is more tenacious of life than many animals. People always think that due to the speed, cleverness and flexibility of cats, they can stay alive in most difficult situations when other animals would have be

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The next morning, they all piled into the rental car and drove south to the main visitors center in the Everglades. I cant believe the runaround were getting, Grandfather said as he waved his pass at the ranger in the booth. First Melanie Harper says

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After Mr. Lee had gone, Benny said, Ill tell you what lets do. Lets drive around behind the Tower House. If we go very slowly maybe we can see a back window. We wouldnt seem to be looking. Fine, said Henry. I cant believe those stories about a hundre

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Scientist Working to Save Bees Is Winner of Environmental Prize BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about the latest winn

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英语学习笔记: antiwar adj. 反战 antipathy n. 憎恨,反感 antithesis n. 正好相反 antibacterial adj. 抗菌的 antibacterial soap 抗菌皂 antibacterial agent 抗菌因子 antibody n. 抗体 He committed himself to the antiwar moveme

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第二天清晨,丹尼尔兴高采烈地和爸爸一起去爬山。可是爬到半山腰的时候,爸爸实在是累得筋疲力尽,这可怎么办呢? Listen Read Learn Daniel: What a beautiful day! Dad: The weather is so crazy. It rained cats and dogs last night, but cleared up in the mornin

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Barbara, Australia speaker So, what is my favorite animal? Definitely cats. I love cats. I had a cat when I was a child. He was mostly black with white paws and the tip of his tails was white and he was dead cute and he lived to be seventeen years ol

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经典语境背诵 Dad: Shirley says that there are a lot of stray cats in the street, and she wants to adopt one ,thingking it may be our dog Barbies boyfriend. Its kind of her to think of that,but its surely wired to make a cat be a dogs boyfriend.

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A: What is your policy towards tenants keeping pets? B: You may have a pet, but you have to pay an extra two hundred dollar cleaning deposit. A: How many pets can we have? B: You may have only one pet. You can have either a small dog or a cat. A: Wha

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Big Cats at Home on the Range Five years ago, U.S. conservation biologist Josh Donlan got some people howling with a controversial article in the scientific journal Nature. Almost literally howling, since the subject was his proposal to re-wild the G

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Lesson Nine 听力部分 Dictation: Please prepare your paper and pen. Do ________ like to __________? Although ____________________________________ are _______________, this ____ always so. Cats ______________knowing how to ____ and ____---they have

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Dialogue 1 Mark: Jingjing, check out what I got at the supermarket near your office. 马克: 京晶,看看我在你办公室附近那间超市买到了什么。 Jingjing: Pistachios? Those are my favorite nuts. That big jar must have cost a lot. 京晶

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Your Cat Thinks You're Cool 猫咪认为: 你是最好的 We tend to see house cats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, g

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The cat's earliest ancestors probably hunted both on the ground and in the trees. To survive, they needed not only claws, but remarkable balance, an aptitude all cats retain to this day. In keeping with its reputation, the cat usually does land on al

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Cats And Colors You can look at that quilt your cat is curled up on and see a patchwork of greens, blues, and yellows. Your cat, however, cannot see color variation in the quilt. And here is why. Both humans and cats depend on the back layer of the e

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Margaret was very close to her mom. They had always been best friends. Margaret was now 25 years old. It was time for her mom to let her go out on her own. You have to be more independent, said her mom. Margaret didn't want to. I don't want to leave

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Your Cat Thinks You're Cool We tend to see housecats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, given a choice, Fluffy would proba

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I don't understand those people in India, Lester said. His wife Lucy asked, What about them? He said, They're hungry. They're surrounded by millions of cows. But their religion doesn't allow them to eat cows. It's crazy to have all that fresh meat an

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Yeah, so I think from growing up with dogs, like we always had dogs at home or my granddads house, so we were always playing with dogs, so I've never really had a fear of dogs like some people have, and I always considered myself a dog person, you kn

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