美语听力 English Café 575

Topics: The Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 and the creation of the District of Columbia; The Hollywood Sign; next versus upcoming versus future; critical situation versus critical position; steaming Words: finances mutiny militia permanent residence to

美语听力 English Café 577

Topics:Famous Americans Stephen F. Austin; Classic TV M*A*S*H; disability versus handicap versus impairment; recourse versus resort; to fly in the face of (something) Words: frontier economy land grant colony to negotiate contract revolution to annex

美语听力 English Café 578

Topics: Movies The King and I; nation versus sovereign versus kingdom; to obstruct versus to hinder; fire and brimstone Words: musical governess arrogant stubborn to respect role autobiography court to exaggerate to ban to colonize classic nation sov

美语听力 English Café 582

Topics: Andersonville Prison; garbage versus litter versus trash versus rubbish; downtime; pronouncing eight, height, and weight Words: Confederacy Union slavery to capture prisoner of war starvation disease skeleton war crimes to be hanged to execut

美语听力 English Café 522

Topics: American Playwrights-Eugene O'Neill; The Passenger Pigeon; spare versus slender; Was I wrong! Words: boarding school to be reborn to feature sailor intermission critic to translate passenger to migrate crop to hunt to be extinct spare slender

美语听力 English Café 519

Topics: American Authors-Tom Wolfe; Aerosmith; to convince versus to compel; latter versus last; ultimate Words: journalist to research drama flashy streamline to hallucinate fiction bonfire unique soloist to dedicate (oneself) to be inducted to conv

美语听力 English Café 518

Topics: American Presidents-Franklin Delano Roosevelt; to be trapped versus to be lodged; to keep it together, to keep a stiff upper lip, and as luck would have it; pardon me Words: to make a name for (oneself) to appoint administrator to run for to

美语听力 English Café 517

Topics: Movies-Die Hard; American Authors-Emma Lazarus; in front of versus ahead of versus before; as if versus as though versus as for; to take stock Words: to be separated to give (something) another try to freshen up hostage safe cowboy to be desc

美语听力 English Café 500

Topics: Famous Americans-Elizabeth Blackwell; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; to delay versus to put off versus to procrastinate; during versus while; sheer Words: poverty to earn a living to be rejected to harass to contract blind to incorporate imp

美语听力 English Café 499

Topics: Americans Abroad-The Confederados in Brazil; Chaco Canyon National Historical Park; speaking in tongues, folks, porridge, and just right; to ingratiate (oneself) with Words: civil war economy to have a tie to heritage archeologist engineering

美语听力 English Café 498

Topics: American Movies/Musicals-Mary Poppins; Craigslist; oblivion and to overwhelm; to select versus to elect; wee hours Words: nanny nursery suffragette to interview chaos to adapt classified advertisement to incorporate to generate revenue to cra

美语听力 English Café 467

Topics: Movies-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Famous Americans-Babe Didrikson Zaharias; to deliver versus to distribute versus to ship; describing the loss of hair on a man's head; to ward off Words: fairy tale animated folly vain fair cottage dwar

美语听力 English Café 468

Topics: The Jonestown Massacre; Square Dancing; perspective versus prospective versus prospect; scheme versus schema; heart condition Words: massacre to be affiliated with temple charismatic to owe (someone) (something) to be blackmailed commune to b

美语听力 English Café 512

Topics: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Radio City Music Hall and The Rockettes; Satan versus Devil versus demon versus evil; to know best; with regard to Words: immigrant rag fire escape to mourn sprinkler system manslaughter to acquit commiss

美语听力 English Café 510

Topics: American PresidentsBenjamin Harrison; to call the shots versus to wear the pants; inquiry versus enquiry; There's more than one way to skin a cat. Words: rank incentive to expand pension to make a deal domestic to restrict monopoly to dissolv

美语听力 English Café 506

Topics: Ask an American-International work visas; to demonstrate versus to indicate versus to denote; hoot and to not give a hoot; Nice to meet you Words: skill set workforce competitive to stretch innovative to sponsor current up chances are optimis

美语听力 English Café 505

Topics: Famous Americans-Jonas Salk; The Wanamaker Department Stores; it's all yours; good for you; fair enough; hyphen versus dash; All of the good, none of the bad Words: physician research laboratory vaccine virus immunity to eradicate paralysis e

美语听力 English Café 509

Topics: American PlaywrightsArthur Miller; Mister Rogers'Neighborhood; to evoke versus to invoke; fluently versus fluency; pronouncing bought and boat, late and let, and beer and bear Words: poverty working class anti-Semitism faulty illusion contemp

美语听力 English Café 477

Topics: The American Indian Movement of the 1970s; Famous Buildings-The Sears Tower; inception versus conception versus to beget; to get back; cash on the barrelhead Words: to relocate reservation Civil Rights Movement specialized to occupy demand to

美语听力 English Café 474

Topics: How to Become a Dentist; The Guano Island Act; classic versus classical; to be there for (someone) versus to take (someone) there; after full deliberation Words: routine plaque diet anesthesia anatomy periodontics licensed birth defect natura