26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

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Playing Fair in Business Marcel: Hey, why do you have the file for the Donovan account on your desk? I thought that was Evans account. Amanda: It is, but Im about to snatch it from him. He wont know what hit him. Marcel: Youre stealing his account? I

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US President Barack Obama says those photos of Osama Bin Laden's body will not be released. The White House has been under intense pressure to release the images to prove the terrorist leader is actually dead. But the president says they are too gris

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The federal government will unveil its overhaul of the aged care system today.Wealthier Australians will be required to contribute more to the cost of their care but they will be given more flexibility with how they pay.There will also be a more mone

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Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient being treated at a hospital in Dallas, is now listed in critical condition, according to hospital officials. Health officials were looking at around 50 people while coming in contact with him, closely monitoring 9 of

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迷你对话: A:John hasn't got married up to now. 约翰迄今为止还未结婚了。 B:Don't you know that he has beencarrying a torch forMary for years? 难道你不知道他这么多年来一直单恋着玛丽吗? A:Really? Does Mary know th

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Warren: So, thanks for telling me about the ballet and all that kind of stuff, but Im really more into sports and things like that. Do you know of any other things you can do in New York? Antoinette: Oh, absolutely. There are a lot of events for a sp

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This is a fire ant colony in the southeastern United States. Like all ant colonies, it's ruled by a queen and all her workers and warriors are made up completely of female offspring. Unlike other ants, fire ants seem to have almost criminal leaning s

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美联社,新闻一分钟,president,Bush,Saudi Arabia,1. President Bush appoints embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the UN, sidestep ping the Senate which is on its August break. 2. Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has died. Fahd who moved the kingdo

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overnight. The clashes are part of a new round of fighting between pro-government tribes and Shi'ite Houthi rebels, who have been battling the government intermittently since 2004. It is the fifth day of bloody clashes between the factions. The fight

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Trump Looks to Reset Campaign as More Republicans Abandon Him WASHINGTON Less than three months before election day, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is trying to reset his struggling campaign and regain momentum after a difficult perio

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You thought you knew Taylor Swift. On her newest album, the pop star says not so fast. The album's called Reputation. And it's Swift's first album in three years. And it's an introduction to what Taylor Swift is calling the new T

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文本 S: What are you doing here? M: As ever, Im concerned about you. S: Yes, Ive been hearing about your concern. M: Always so aggressive. Did it never occur to you that you and I belong on the same side? S: Oddly enough, no! M: We have more in com

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When one family fights with another, it's a feud. 当一个家族与另一个家族展开斗争时,就成了一个世代的恩怨。 When lots of families fight with one another in identical little towns up and down in the same mountain range, it's

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Mexico's Fox Calls for Calm After Drug-Related Killings Mexican President Vicente Fox has called on his people to be calm following the discovery of twelve drug-related bullet ridden bodies along Mexi

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本期内容: Taylor Swift's music video for her latest single, Look What You Made Me Do, includes a scene where she is shown raiding the bank vault of a music streaming company. Having smashed records on UTube and Spotify and notched up her first

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The controversial outcome of Iran's presidential election and subsequent protests are rippling across the globe, particularly in Washington, where President Barack Obama has pledged to open a dialogue with Tehran. Analysts say that such a diplomatic

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Topics: The Hatfields and the McCoys; serving in the military to obtain U.S. citizenship; consistent with, in agreement with, coincide with, and identical to; software versus application versus app; to run out of versus to be out of Words: feud presu

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今天我们要学的词是 escalate. Escalate 动词,有增加,升级的意思。The feud between President Trump and Senator Bob Corker escalated over Trump's tax cut plan. 美国总统川普和参议员科克围绕川普的减税计划的争执进

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Topic1 4-Yr-Old Dies after Being Locked up in CarA 4-year-old boy has died after being forgotten and locked up in the car by his parents in Xiangtan, central China's Hunan Province last Saturday. The tragedy has again triggered heated debate on child

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