Houston, a city in the American state of Texas, will face worsening flooding conditions as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to rain on the city. On Friday, Harvey, the strongest storm to strike Texas in 50 years, came ashore near Corpus Christi, about

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Four dead in 70-car Florida pileup Highway accident at central Florida today where poor visibility on interstate 4 triggered a deadly chain/ reaction. It happened near Lakeland, Florida. Multiple crashes there left 4 people dead, dozens injured. Lat

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雅思口语高分必备词汇:房屋与旅馆 House Flat (AmE apartment)单元房 I am living in a flat right now. Block of flats ( AmE apartment block ) 住宅楼 I live in a block of flats nearby. Roomy/ spacious 宽敞的 I like the spaciou

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1. What is important to you in a job? 这个工作对你最重要的是什么? Challenge, the feeling of accomplishment, and knowing that you have made a contribution. 它带来的挑战感, 成就感以及为之做出贡献的满足. 2. Why do you w

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Mr. Bricks got a job with an insurance company after he left school, and went aound visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for this company for about a year, the insurance manager sent to him an

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An iron ore(铁矿)train operating across the northwest African nation of Mauritania(毛里塔尼亚) forms a striking image sneaking its way through the Sahara desert. This desert train has had to be adapted to suit the harsh conditions that make

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模仿文本:It's hard enough to get a job these days. But if you're someone with a learning disability or a developmental disorder, it's probably even tougher. Obviously there can be a wide range of possible disabilities, but many people with thes

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模仿文本: But why is it so much more irritating, and so much harder to ignore than just overhearing a full conversation? New research may have the answer, later in the programme. First though, to Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has been phoning ho

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Slavery on Our Doorstep There are estimated to be more than 20,000 overseas domestic servants working in Britain (the exact figure is not known because the Home Office, the government department that

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HARI SREENIVASAN: The White House, and House Republicans, are celebrating tonight. Today, they pushed through a bill to remake the health care system, something they failed to do back in March. The vote was 217 to 213. Lisa Desjardins begins our cove

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歌词如下: Hickety,Pickety,My Black Hen Hickety,pickety,my black Hen, She lays edds for gentlemen, Sometimes nine and sometimes ten. Hickety,pickety,my black Hen, Hickety,pickety,my black Hen, She lays edds for gentlemen, Sometimes nine and someti

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Sometimes it takes adverse conditions for people to reach out to one another Sometimes it takes bad luck for people to understand their goals better Sometimes it takes a storm for people to appreciate the calm Sometimes it takes being hurt for people

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题目要求: College StudentsLiving Condition 1. 反应大学生生存状况的词语从蜗居、蚁族到鼠族,不断涌现。 2. 对于这种现象,你有什么看法? 参考范文: College StudentsLiving Condition Recently, the living co

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No one seems to notice that referencing the time horizon is a total non sequitur. 似乎没有人注意到以时间作为参考系是得不出合理的结论的。 If intelligence is just a matter of information processing, 如果说智慧只包括信息

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Five Labor Leaders By Linda Burchill Broadcast: Sunday, September 05, 2004 (MUSIC) ANNCR: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. At the beginning of the twentieth cen

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1. It's been called the deadliest shooting rampage in the country's history. At least 30 people were killed when a man opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then in an academic building before he was killed. So far investigators have not offered a

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Duck 鸭子 A duck is a kind of bird. 鸭子是一种鸟类。 Ducks are smaller than swans and geese. 鸭子比天鹅和鹅的体型小。 They live in both rivers and seas. 鸭子生活在河里和海里。 What do ducks eat? 鸭子吃什么呢?

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AS IT IS 2015-03-25 Prison Watchdog Group Watching US Jails 监狱监管组织关注美国监狱 The United States has almost a fourth of the world's prison population -- more than two million people, to be exact. That number comes from the Internati

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AS IT IS 2015-12-07 Fisherman's Death Is Example of Labor Abuses 渔民死亡是虐待劳工的典型示例 A Vietnamese fisherman was killed last week while working in the contested waters of the South China Sea. His boat and the 13 surviving crew m

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Fighting Fire with Fire In African savannahs, or grasslands, wildfires can either be destructive or beneficial. It all depends on when those fires occur. Scientists at the World Agroforestry Center have developed a system to determine the best time t

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