Section C Compound Dictation Department stores are large retail stores selling many different kinds of merchandise arranged in separate departments. Such stores are found in nearly every important city in the world, and the large department stores of

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A controversial and partly boycotted Arab League summit has ended in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no progress on the Lebanese political crisis and a summit declaration that Iraq refused to endorse. Despite the obviously sharp divisions among th

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今天我们要学的词是 acrimonious. acrimonious 的意思是尖刻的、充满火药味的。An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to deliver a final communique, highlighting widening divisions between global powers

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We have been through a long season of war 我们经历了漫长的战争 We have faced trials that were not foreseen 我们面临过无法预见的考验 And we've seen divisions about how to move forward 也产生过关于如何前进的分歧 But t

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Workers job hunt on company time A quarter of US workers who use computer admit using it to hunt for a new job on company time according to the survey. Among workers who believe their Internet use is monitored by their bosses, one-quarter use their w

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 05 July 2007 In another blow to Somali government plans to hold a long-delayed peace conference to end the country's 16-year-old civil war, elders of the most dominant clan in Mogadishu, the Hawiye, have failed to resume talks t

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This is AP News Minute. Dozens of immigrant advocates rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices consider 2 programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation. Texas is leading 26 states dominated by Republicans in challenging

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 March 2008 A controversial and partly boycotted Arab League summit has ended in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no progress on the Lebanese political crisis and a summit declaration that Iraq refused to endorse. Desp

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In Ukraine, Divisions Not Necessarily About Language ODESSA From the outside, the crisis in Ukraine appears to be drawn along ethnic and linguistic lines - between Russian-speakers who identify with Russia and Ukrainian-speakers who identify with Ukr

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Divisions on Ebola Quarantine Procedures Emerge in US Divisions have emerged between top U.S. health officials and two state governors who imposed rigorous quarantine protocols for American medical professionals returning from Ebola-stricken African

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Chapter 27 - Napoleons dispositions for the battle of Borodin On the twenty-fifth of August, so his historians tell us, Napoleon spent the whole day on horseback inspecting the locality, considering plans submitted to him by his marshals, and persona

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One Punch Pauly was the world's greatest boxer. With either hand, he had the world's most powerful punch, said his trainer. I saw him punch a Manhattan phone book. It was four inches thick. After Pauly's punch, it was one inch thick. Pauly weighed on

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Early humans hunted animals and gathered wild plants. They moved in groups or tribes from place to place in search of food. Then, people learned to plant seeds and grow crops. They learned to use animals to help them work, and for food. They found th

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By Mandy Clark Belfast 26 February 2008 Northern Ireland was once torn by centuries of sectarian violence, and even now after 10 years of relative peace, entrenched divisions remain. Protestants and Catholics rarely even play the same games, and even

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 17 January 2007 In Somalia, the demise of the country's once-powerful Islamist movement is putting enormous pressure on the secular, U.N.-recognized interim government to rally popular support and stabilize the country. VOA C

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By Greg Flakus Mexico City 07 July 2006 The official final vote count in Mexico's presidential election showed ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon winning by only 236,000 votes. His main rival is threatening to challenge the outcome, and, even if

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A Historic Election 历史性选举 After a hard-fought campaign, Democratic Senator Barack Obama has won the US presidential election, and will become the 44th President of the United States the first African-American in the countrys history to do s

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o, you can either choose to use those opportunities 你可以选择使用这些机会 to continue fighting the fights that we've been locked in for decades 继续数十年来人类之间持续的冲突和斗争 or you can choose to reject those old d

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Amid the specter of a possible default on U.S. debt obligations - and dire warnings from economists, investors, and credit ratings agencies - Washington remains mired in a political standoff, blocking a deficit-reduction deal that would pave the way

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本期内容: AleakedphonecallbetweenIMFandEuropeanofficialsdealingwithGreecehighlighteddivisionsbetweenthecountrysinternationalcreditorsandinfuriatedthegovernmentinAthens.Accordingtothetranscript,obtainedbyWikiLeaks,IMFofficialssaidtheFundmightpul

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