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Topics: How to become a teacher in the U.S., steps in ordering food in a restaurant, to walk the walk and talk the talk, constraint versus restraint, monkey business, on a regular basis Words: reciprocal credential postbaccalaureate practicum basic s

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Topics: Famous Songs - Red River Valley; how recall elections work; to reduce versus to lessen versus to decrease versus to decline; sort/to sort; to intervene versus to interfere Words: to trace (somethings) origins to hasten to bid (someone) adieu

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Topics: Famous Americans - Bobby Fischer; Kiss; barely versus scarcely; polite phrases used to refer to death; situation versus circumstance Words: chess match grandmaster child prodigy rivalry collusion seclusion to defend (ones) title to revoke hea

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Topics: American Presidents - Andrew Jackson; Redwood National Park; safe versus save versus to save; to be implicated in versus to be involved in; one and only Words: prisoner of war duel to cede ugly bigamy forced relocation to dismantle in full to

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Topics: Ask an American - The Appeal of Superheroes; property versus propriety versus proprietary; trust versus believe; little does he know; suffocated; to relish Words: emotional connection wish fulfillment fantasy primordial balance to seek justic

美语听力 English Cafe 375

Topics: The Lone Ranger; the Liberty Bell; uprising versus revolution versus rebellion; given; revenge versus vengeance Words: ranger mask lone sidekick strict moral code bell liberty to ring crack inscribed to proclaim inhabitant uprising revolution

美语听力 English Cafe 365

Topics: Movies - King Kong; Famous Americans - Lance Armstrong; its sounds versus it sounds as if; acting versus pretending; gobbledygook Words: remake offering jungle shackles to gross cyclist triathlon consecutive testicular prognosis bracelet alle

美语听力 English Cafe 368

Topics: American Presidents - Ronald Reagan; using suffixes; to persuade versus to convince; to bring around/round Words: to come to fame welfare incumbent whopping assassination supply-side economics laissez-faire trickle-down economics dtente to de

美语听力 English Cafe 358

Topics: Movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Famous songs The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; to go on versus to keep on versus to move on; the suffix ship; to blow a raspberry Words: to guess interracial miscegenation head-on liberal to object to wr

美语听力 English Cafe 359

Topics: Leopold and Loeb Trial; Famous Songs: The Itsy Bitsy Spider; tunnel versus channel versus canal; right versus privilege; binge Words: perfect crime to lure chisel ransom capital punishment on parole toddler itsy bitsy spout gutter washed out

美语听力 English Cafe 362

Topics: American Presidents - Harry S. Truman; to handle versus to address versus to deal with versus to cope with; naysayer; hold that thought Words: to enlist leadership qualities haberdashery atomic bomb to surrender to flourish public approval ra

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Topics: Ask an American - Rural doctors; lets start versus lets get started; continuously versus continually; chaos Words: intention rural soul mate to be captured to train prospective lifelong interactive monitor lecturer slides continuously continu

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Topics: Movies - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; The MacArthur Fellows Program; important versus significant versus critical; tough; navel-gazing Words: extra-terrestrial alien to be stranded to lure psychic highest-grossing foundation genius merit no s

美语听力 English Cafe 127

Topics: Ask an American: Starving Artist; as a matter of fact, process versus procedure, to haggle Words: to make a living diversity stimulus hard to beat to make it to collaborate to interact gatekeepers density dynamism to cease to exist to push (s

美语听力 English Cafe 125

Topics: Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general, expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction Words: chef cookbook recipe to master column to spoof to kick it up a notch fusion anthropologist intimate

美语听力 English Cafe 122

Topics: Ask an American: Endangered languages; rednecks, dictionary versus thesaurus Words: domain to domesticate fragile to erode to disrupt to mend to embody landscape revitalization to enrich daunting reclamation apprentice to be without recourse

美语听力 English Cafe 140

Topics: New York Theater District/Broadway shows; Barbie dolls/G.I. Joe; I dont have versus I have no, in the street versus on the street, identifying yourself on the phone Words: district mainstream controversial cutting-edge lucrative figurine infa

美语听力 English Cafe 135

Topics: Types of vocational education in the U.S.; American Cities: Miami; to have a monkey on (ones) back; to administer; to execute; to be off Words: vocation apprenticeship trade home economics community college associate degree to look down upon

美语听力 English Cafe 136

Topics: The Betty Ford Center; poker; to be short on time versus time is running out, past year versus last year, supervisor versus manager Words: addiction rehab painkiller intervention residential counselor hand tournament champion endorsement to s

美语听力 English Cafe 138

Topics: Monster truck shows and races; blue jeans and Levi Strauss, to be up against the wall, liability versus responsibility, pronouncing either Words: monster pickup truck destructive to crush track obstacle freestyle to root blue jeans (or jeans)