LESSON 13 1.Appeal v. 1.恳请 同:implore 2.吸引 The government is appealing to everyone to save water. The music is too old-fashioned to appeal to people any longer. 2.Bustle n.喧扰的活动 同:fuss There was a great bustle as the children got

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about a threat to North America's colorful monarch butterflies. We will tell about what is being called the olde

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新东方4+1听力口语MP3-语音语调 Unit31 Part One 听辨练习 A. 词辨音 Listen, circle the corresponding number if you hear front vowels and back vowels in the word. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. B. 短语辨音 Write down the words you hear on the tape, then

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英国王族的继承是怎么一回事? Rob: Hello, I'm Rob Stephen: And I'm Stephen. Rob: And this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Today we're talking about royalty and succession. Stephen: Succession is the act of taking over the

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These Things Shall Never Die--Charles Dickens The pure.the bright,the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longing after something's lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striv

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Chris: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Chris. Rosie: And I'm Rosie. Chris: Rosie, have you ever heard of the island of Tonga? Rosie: It sounds familiar, but Im not too sure where it is. Chris: Its a small South Pa

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1. A gunman in Ohio killed at least one student and wounded four others at Cleveland area high school. The suspect has been taken into police custody. Police have not released the motive. 2. The National Association of Realtors says sales contracts f

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Expressions from Alice in Wonderland Hello! From VOA Learning English, this is Words and Their Stories. Many expressions that we use in American English come from movies and books. Today we will explore expressions from Lewis Carrolls famous book Ali

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It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, 思特里克兰德的最重要的一幅作品 The Woman of Samaria, 《萨玛利亚的女人》 This was described in Christie's catalogue as follows: 【根据克利斯蒂藏画目录

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Do not go, said the king, who was very proud of having a subject. Do not go. I will make you a Minister! 这位因为刚刚有了一个臣民而十分骄傲自得的国王说道:别走,别走。我任命你当大臣。 Minister of what? 什么大臣

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He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. 在附近的宇宙中,还有 325、326、327、328、329、330 等几颗小行星。 He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to his knowledge. 他就

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O wert Thou in the Cauld Blast O wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, Id shelter thee, Id shelter thee; Or did Misfortunes bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my b

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Business 商业报道 Starbucks v Kraft 星巴克对决卡夫 A double shot of discord 不合引发连环炮 The kings of coffee brawl with the monarchs of macaroni 咖啡之王对决通心粉之霸 STARBUCKS once seemed so unstoppable that the Onion

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Does the world need yet another drama about Queen Elizabeth II? British actress Helen Mirren famously played the tough *monarch in her Oscar-winning turn in The Queen (2006). 世界上还需要多一部关于英国女王伊丽莎白二世的戏吗?在

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It is not every day you get a chance to see the Queen of England so when you do, the pressure is on to find a way to remember it forever. For a 14-year-old quick-thinking boy in Belfast, Ireland, that way was to snap a selfie with the very unsuspecti

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News that the Crown Estate returned record profits of ?285m last year means the Queen is expected to receive a further ?2m in public funding next year. But just how rich is the Queen and where does her wealth come from? 有消息称英国皇家财产管

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Jordans Queen Rania is a very modern monarch. She has worked for companies like Citibank and Apple Computer and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also uses YouTube to help people around the world understand more about the Arab world. She became

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HARI SREENIVASAN: The crash of a Russian jetliner in Egypt morphed into an international dispute today on whether a bomb was behind it. All 224 people on board were killed when the plane broke up Saturday, just 23 minutes after taking of from Sharm e

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Margrethe II of Denmark 丹麦王室才女 Margrethe II (born 16 April 1940) is the Queen regnant of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark, and meanwhile she is a talented artist. Margrethe's name can be heard everywhere in

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Explanation: The idea behind the words We the people is one of the most important ones in a democracy. A democracy is a government where the citizens (the people who are part of a country) vote for and elect (or choose) the people who will govern (or

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