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Unit 4 Entertainment One Lets take a vacation ! 我们去度假吧! 1 Introduction A Americans are very mobile, and travel is very popular for many people. In America, when people take a vacation, they often drive a car. Some families travel far within th

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Each night on Old Las Vegas's Fremont Street, lights and speakers create a show overhead. Paris may be the City of Light, but the city of lights is the gambling oasis of Las Vegas, in the western state of Nevada. Along a downtown casino row that's of

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菲律宾发展博彩业吸引中国游客 Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry in the Philippines. Close to five million foreign visitors traveled there last year, perhaps lured by the countrys tropical beaches. But the country hopes to entice

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The Lord of the Rings author was JRR Tolkien. He was a Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University in England. He died in 1973, aged 81. He signed the movie rights to a company in Hollywood in 1969. This included rights to sell

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Peter: Look at this! I just won 2,000 smackaroos! Angela: Where did you get all that money? Peter: I won it betting on the game last night. I placed a small wager with high odds and won big. Angela: Wow, I always put money in the pools at work, but I

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Malcolm X, a.k.a. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a black American activist who had a lasting impact on race relations in America. His speeches and political work helped bring to the worlds attention the evil of racism in the USA. He led an extraordina

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1. The suspect in this morning's shooting rampage in Baton Rouge Louisiana is now behind bars. Police say 25-year-old Anthony Bell shot and killed four people at a church, then abducted and killed his

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Unit 45 Looking for a good book(1) 第45课 寻找一本好书(1) C: Excuse me, I'm looking for a good novel. Can you recommend anything? 顾客:对不起,我正在找一本好的小说。你能介绍一下吗? S: Certainly. What kind of novel

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about the devices that have come to rule our lives. (SOUNDBITE OF RINGTONE) MARTIN: Yeah, we're talking about smartphones. This week, Apple shareholders are meeting, and two major

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Growing Up As A Bank Robber's Daughter In 'Bandit' play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:02repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. MICHE

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March 19th, 2003 - For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital, Baghdad. President George W. Bush

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March 19th,2003For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital Baghdad. President George W. Bush tells

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A: Did you hear? The state is thinking of legalizing gambling in our city! Soon we are gonna have amazing hotels and casinos here which will be good for our business! B: Are you serious? Gambling is a vice industry built on deception and fed by the i

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英语作文 Directions: Wealth brings happiness. (财富带来幸福). In this part, you are to write within 40 minutes a composition of about 200 words about the The Relationship between Wealth and Happiness. You can agree or disagree, completely or partial

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Or at least plenty of money wagered in Deadwood's gambling halls Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 03 June 2010 In the 1980s, town commissioners decided to fix up Deadwood and make it a genuine historic attraction. About one million people visit each ye

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第五讲:推理判断题 命题规律 综合性推论和判断试题常会围绕文章出题。 要求将篇首、篇尾、段落中主题句,概括归纳并从中推断出全文主题。 合性推

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The movie 21 offers the appealing notion that success is just a matter of number crunching and calculation. Learn to count the cards in Las Vegas and you'll never struggle for money again. There's a catch: You have to be an exceptional MIT student. D

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Yet Another Millionaire 又是一个百万富翁 The latest winners of the UK National Lottery Euromillions jackpot are Joan and Brian Caswell. The retired and now very wealthy couple from Bolton claim they wont let the £25 million (around 275 mill

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Naw Kham, who was convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, was executed earlier this afternoon. The Myanmar drug lord and three of his accomplices, identified as Hsang Kham, Yi Lai,and Zha Xika, were given the lethal inj

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