Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Mike Procter. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In 2005 many people watched the doc

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BBC News with David Austin. Venezuela says it will withdraw from the Organization of American States, accusing it of trying to meddle in the country's internal affairs. The decision was signaled shortly after the group voted to hold an emergency meet

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Item 10. Vocabulary. eclipse. One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement because time and movement cannot be separated. A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes, for time a

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About six or seven million years ago chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common primate ancestor. Chimps went on to become the relatively small-brained, forest dwelling creatures we know and love. Humans went on to evolve large brains, spread throu

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary rare: not common irrational: not reasonable classified: grouped by like qualities provoke: to excite or bother a living thing and cause a reaction initiate: to be the one to start something delicacy: a type of food that is ra

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Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know tod

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Jacqueline is at the table as Mark slips behind the tent to change his clothes. Suddenly a dark shape appears from behind the brush, heading towards Jacqueline--a black bear. Just as Mark shouts a warning, Jac, bear, the attacker strikes. Blink of an

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Are Cockroaches Actually Useful? The natural History of the Cockroach, on this Moment of Science. For certain species of cockroach, humans make the perfect roommates. Why do cockroaches like living in our houses? And what do they do when theyre not b

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Saudi Arabia Is First Country to Give Citizenship to Robot Saudi Arabia says it has become the first country in the world to grant citizenship to a robot. 沙特自称已经成为全球首个授予机器人公民身份的国家。 The female robots n

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第一套题: ISSUE: College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the

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...importantly, By the year 2050,humans will fall in love with the robots .It says here at Science. It's specificly the science of a Dutch researcher who claims the robots are becoming so human-like that it's only a matter of time apparently 2050 be

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考试日期: 2013年2月2日 Reading Passage 1 Title: Agriculture in Africa Question types: Sentence completion; Matching; TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN; Multiple choice 文章内容回顾 非洲一个地区的农业,涉及到那个区域的耕作方式,

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Researchers Remember Discovery of Lucy Skeleton 研究人员回忆发现露西骨架始末 It has been more than 40 years since the discovery of the early human skeleton named Lucy. The old bones were found in Ethiopia. Lucy is one of the most famous

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AS IT IS 2015-05-03 Hippos: The Life Force of African Rivers 河马:非洲河流的生命力量 The hippopotamus is an animal very important to the health of Africa's rivers and lakes. Their dung, or solid waste, helps Africas aquatic ecosystem. But

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AS IT IS 2015-03-16 Fighting for Lions in Zimbabwe 在津巴布韦为更好的保护狮子而努力 Conservationists are breeding lions in the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe. The wildlife experts hope to increase the lion population to keep the

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A walking humanoid robot(类人机器人) able to use its whole face and body to express emotion was unveiled this week in Japan. The robot was created by scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University and its makers say its the first of its kind. It is abl

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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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Vronique LaCapra | Washington 02 December 2009 A very small genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees may help explain why chimpanzees can't speak, but humans can The ability to communicate using complex spoken language is a uniquely human ch

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It started in Greenwich, England. Hour by hour, it traveled west. It hit all the Americas. Then it hit Asia. Then it hit Russia, eastern Europe, and eastern Africa. In just 24 hours, nobody in the world was talking. People were still moving their mou

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Did you hear? Andy asked. Donna asked, Did I hear what? Andy said, Ground beef contains pink slime. I don't know what pink slime is, but it sounds bad. Donna said, I'll tell you what pink slime is. It's trimmings from the cows. They used to put it in

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