Lesson 64 The Channel Tunnel海峡隧道 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Why was the first tunnel not completed? In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Tho

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My Waterloo advanture begins in C* in the southeast of England. These history enthusiasts rehearsing for huge reenactments of the battle some a*'s 200 anniversary. Some have ancestors who were there. When the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte's looke

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These slow motion images are shocking.-It's showing quite clearly that the bone is disintegrating on the impact. The limb would have to be removed. There was no bone left. -Terrifying really. You can see the bone flexing as the bullet approaching. -A

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Coming up next...The battle begins, and I'm rolled up in to join the Waterloo gun group. I'm finding out what it was like to be a soldier at Waterloo 200 years ago. And now I'm heading for one of the key locations on the battle field. -We are going t

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-If you do that three times a minute, you're gonna win? -Bloody hell. He could do it. It must be very kind of difficult just to keep concentration. And when they were not...Oh, God! Incredible loud. My ears are ringing. A well-** gun crew could fire

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There's one thing playing soldiers with replica, the genuine Waterloo cannons without laughing matter. We persuaded the royal armies to let us fire this 200-year-old gun, using live ammunition. With test in the army approved range and s*, under the s

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Napoleon loved his cannons. He'd risen through the ranks as an artillery officer and he knew how brutally effective his so-called beautiful daughters could be. -What Napoleon actually wants to do is use these cannons to wear down the enemy. Yes, lite

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Hollywood actor Sean Bean tells the story of Waterloo, one of history's most decisive battles. Sean's journey of discovery is inspired by his own experiences of playing Napoleonic soldier Richard Sharpe in TV films based on Bernard Cornwell's best-se

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And absolutely starving, and tells you about the food.-The sergeant of each section gave us a small piece of bread about an ounce, so which is. -Not why you starving. -To each man and an inqury was made along the ranks for a butcher. One having gone

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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz spent his two years in the job trying to build his credentials as the banker to the developing world. But one of his first decisions back in 2005 put his job on the line. On Friday, the World Bank released documen

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He was never implicated in the Siemens bribery allegations, but Klaus Kleinfeld will have to pay the price. After a meeting of the supervisory board, Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not be available for another term as CEO of the company. An unce

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The Dow Jones is the oldest running stock exchange in the United States looming large from Wall Street to your 401(K) . Founded back in 1896, the Dow was set up to track America's big industrial companies. But these days, GE is the only component in

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The closing bell rang moments ago and it couldn't have come too soon for many investors after this crazy week on Wall Street. It was another roller-coaster session for the market. Stocks actually edged into the plus column briefly, but by the end it

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A divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. And the court said the Bush Administration broke the law in its refusal to limit emissions of those gases. And accordi

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Oliver, there was a strong market reaction when Microsoft announced it was buying aQuantive, what's behind this deal? Well, I think Microsoft knows it needs to get into the advertising business. For years, it's basically made money one way, which is

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Well, some people might want to read things on finance for Memorial Day weekend. But gas prices has bring you a trip a quarter, treble A actually calculate how much your trip cost you. If you want to find out, you can load onto fuelcostcalculator.com

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Well, the Dow struggled to beat yesterday's record high. Stephanie Elam is in New York with a look at the final numbers and other business news headlines on this Thursday. Hi, Stephie. Hi, Richard. It's struggled but, ah, did really manage to pull i

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Script: Now we move to northern Germany where the so-called G8 is underway among the leaders of the world's most powerful nations, and that would include President Bush. The truth is ,however, it's an uneasy gathering and not just beneath the surfa

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Yahoo launching a celebrity gossip site, hoping to cash in on the summer of Paris Hilton. This as shareholders seem to have no problem with CEO Terry Semel cashing in on Yahoos flat stock performance. CNBC, Silicon Valley of your trip, Jim Goldman is

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A joint play to start the Paris Air Show, with the biggest them all , the airbus A380 the symbols in France. The A380 has had a host technical problems , but Airbus says the production delays that followed are behind now. Weve learned a lot of lesson

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