LESSON 11 1.Abode n.住处 同:residence The woodcutters abode was a house in the forest. 2.Annual adj.一年一次的 同:yearly The company allows us an annual vacation of two weeks. 3.Coax v.诱哄 同:cajole The mother coaxed the boy to take the m

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Well that's a pressure cooker of a day on Capitol Hill as we wait and wonder how this vote for healthcare plays out, the final vote is expected Sunday and Democratic house leaders are trying to convince undeclared members to vote yes. 216 votes are n

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President Obama is due to speak at a memorial service this hour for 29 miners killed in a mine explosion in West Virginia earlier this month. In excerpts of his eulogy, the president talks about the miners dying in pursuit of a better life. As a resu

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Homing in on global security challenges at their Toronto summit, leaders of the eight wealthiest nations urged Iran to stop its nuclear saber-rattling, and NPR's Jim Zarroli says the G8 also condemned North Korea's recent attack on a South Korean shi

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Investigators appear to be contradicting claims by Halliburton that its cement job was no responsible for the BP blowout that led to a historical oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's Jeff Brady says t

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Move Over Fast Fashion, Here Comes Slow Fashion 快时尚尚未降温又迎来慢时尚 A few years ago, Maxine Bdat who is now in her early 30s looked in her closet. It was full of clothes, but she had nothing to wear. And that was because it was a

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令人惊骇的恐怖袭击 The Horror of New York City's Attacks Jim Malone Newark, New Jersey 12 Sep 2001 00:41 UTC The twin attacks on the twin towers came without warning and just minutes 1)apart.

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美国国会誓言将对恐怖行动进行报复 US Congress Vows Retribution David Swan Capitol Hill 12 Sep 2001 The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have returned to work after Tuesday's ter

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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News! We are back from a long weekend and hope you enjoyed it. We're bringing you today's commercial-free headlines, so hang out with us for a few minutes. First Up: Rescue Eff

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Chaim Response and Settlement Dialogue 1 -Chaim service department. -Hello!.I'm calling to apeal a property insurance claim denial. -May I have your name,please? -Mr.Li,Mr.Li wenming. -Yes.I've found your name here in the records.You lost your house

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6Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. 2Then the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3March around the city once with a

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Motorcycles By Nik Peachey It had the standard BSA chrome petrol tank with the BSA insignia on each side. It was already older than I was. It had been built in the early 60s at a time when the British motorcycle industry was at its peak. By the 80's

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One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit Mexico shook the southern part of the country Thursday night. Mexican officials said Friday at least 32 people had died. The 8.2-magnitude earthquake was stronger than the 1985 quake that killed thousa

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The White House says it's exploring new options to save the auto industry after a 14-billion-dollar bailout bill collapsed in the Senate yesterday. Congressional Democrats want the Bush Administration to act quickly. NPR's Debbi Elliot reports. Whit

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President Barack Obama has now scheduled what is being billed as a major address to Congress on health care for September 9th. The speech will come just one day after lawmakers return to the Capitol from their August recess. The move comes at a time

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. President Obama's plan to create more jobs could cost around 100 billion dollars. That's according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs who appeared on CNN's State of the Union today. We wanna add infr

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Backed by NATO air strikes, rebels in Libya say they've regained control of a strategic city just 100 miles from the rebel capital. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Benghazi that rebels welcome the increased NATO effort. From a vantage point, a few mi

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The revival of independent film 独立电影的复兴 Scripts, not effects 剧本才是王道,资金不是问题 Independent films are at last recovering from the slump 独立电影终于起死回生了 Im bored with the radio. Lets go to the cinem

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Once it is in place, the idea is that three people, 计划问世以后,打算这么做:3个人, Christiansen in Menlo Park, California, Professor Robert B. Smith at the University of Utah, and Doss in the park, 加利福尼亚门洛公园的克里

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Explanation: Terrorism (or violence that is used against people to try to scare them) used to be something that Americans only read about in the newspaper. They knew that terrorists were dangerous (or could hurt them), but it didnt really happen in t

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