UNIT 2 Accommodation and housing 住宿及找房子 LISTENING 1 Phoning an Agency for a Flat Share 打电话给房屋中介找分租公寓 Vocabulary 接下来听的对话中,用到了 1~5 所列出的单字和和片语,请从( A ) ~ ( E )中

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Back at the resort, the Alden children found their grandfather sitting on the cabin porch with Abby. How did you make out in town? Grandfather asked. We got everything well need for the signs, said Henry, handing Abby the change. Sandpaper, brushes,

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When the last day at the beach came, Henry said, Lets telephone and ask Grandfather to come down for our last beach picnic. He can meet our new friendsMr. Lee, Miss Lane, and Miss Smith, said Benny. And Miss Lane has finished the picture, said Violet

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很多人都相信上帝是公平的,关上眼前的一扇窗会为你打开另一扇窗。在最新的科学研究中我们也能得到类似的结论:天生听力有缺陷的人会有更好的视觉。 Recent research explains how the deaf can

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秘诀23 前面的音影响后面的音,叫顺向行同化 这种现象多见于单词读音中,如当名词后加-s(-es)变成复数,动词单数第三人称加-s(-es),或规则动词后加-ed变成过去式或过去分词,由于受前面音的影响,这些后加成分的读音各不相同。如cats和beds其复数形式同样是加-s但前者

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's been 18 years since a book called Because Of Winn-Dixie changed author Kate DiCamillo's life. It was the first of her string of bestsellers for young readers, ranging from picture books to novels. Now DiCamillo has a new

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Jim: Argh...I feel terrible, I keep sneezing and my eyes are all watery, what's wrong with me? 啊,我感觉很糟糕,我一直在打喷嚏,眼睛也泪汪汪的,我怎么了? Tom: Wow, you're not dying are you, it looks like you have a col

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Killer Cats: Cats Kill Up To 3.7 Billion Birds Each Year 杀手猫:猫每年杀死37亿只禽类 Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: 又到了《科学一刻》听众来信时间了。一位听众写道: De

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary crop up: to appear suddenly (sometimes temporarily) fill a void: to provide a feeling or thing that is missing in ones life catch on: to become popular double: to have a secondary purpose handle: to touch and/or hold in ones

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《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 23 “猫狗”政治论

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An animal rights group in Phoenix, Arizona is gathering signatures to present to the president of PetsRUs, a nationwide store that sells pet accessories and small pets. They said they would never sell dogs, cats, or rabbits, said activist Barbara Wal

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俗话说,体型越大,摔得越惨,现在我们知道了,体型越大,脚底越硬。 Big cats or wolves seem like scaled-up versions of the tabby or terrier sleeping on your sofa. But the proportions do subtly change as animals get larger

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Background:最近,科学家们称马达加斯加岛上的独有动物的祖先,当年是乘坐天然的木筏来到了这座位于印度洋的岛屿上。马达加斯加岛位于非洲东海岸300英里处,是世界上少有的生物多种类岛屿

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Five years ago, a husband and wife opened a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michael and Hilary Gustafson called it Literati. And, almost on a whim, they did something that would make them famous in the town. MICHAEL GUSTAFSON: We bas

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Beneath its adorable exterior is your cat hiding the heart of killer.Researchers now estimated that each year domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals in the United States alone.The report is in Nature Communications.We already knew that dome

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Big Cats and People Live in Close Quarters in India远离大猫 In India, as a consequence of stricter protection of wildlife and increased tolerance, numbers of large carnivores are increasing in private lands and lands outside the protected-area sy

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Deer are frequent casulties of the harsh winter. And these leopards are not above scavenging from a corpse. African leopards could never survive here. But the Russian cats have thick fur to shied them from the cold. There are only 40 Amur leopards le

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今天我们要学的词是dress up。 Dress up, 指穿正装,或是特意穿戴打扮。今天是美国一年一度的万圣节。 People dress up in all kinds of costumes to celebrate Halloween, 人们穿上各式各样的特别装束,来庆祝万

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I dont like cats. Thats not really true. I like cats, but they dont like me. Last week, my friend Sara asked me to babysit her cat for two days while she was out of town. Normally, I would have said no, but she was in a jam, so I said okay. As I said

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Do Cats Eat Spiders? 猫吃蜘蛛吗? Do cats eat spiders? Our answer? Yes, they do. And thats not all cats will eat. Cats, both domestic and wild, are obligatory carnivore s , meaning that they dont have the chemical tools in their bodies to acces

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