JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, a woman is attacked and the life of her 13-year-old son, Joe, is altered forever, along with his family. That's the dramatic outline of the new novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich, which has been nominated for

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EXPLORATIONS - October 9, 2002: George Catlin, Part 2 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we pre

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By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. A new exhibit of paintings is being shown at the Smithsonian A

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about William Henry Harrison. Although he was elected in 1840, many Americans still remember his catchy campaign slogan: Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. Tyler referred to John Tyler,

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Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee Tribe in the early 1800s. He led the Shawnee and other tribes in fighting American expansion into what is now the Northwestern United States. In the end, however, their efforts failed. Tecumseh was born in western

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American Indian Charter School Wins Approval in Oklahoma Last month, Oklahoma education officials approved plans to open a charter school to serve American Indian students. A charter school is established by a legal agreement, is operated by parents

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Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an apostrophe. The apostrophe shows the reader where letters have been remove

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Ever Wonder Where Your Ancient Ancestors Lived? By Nancy Steinbach and Jill Moss Broadcast: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA SPECIAL E

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel far and wide to learn about some of the rarest languages in the world. Experts say over half of the world's seven thousand languag

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1. practical,实用的,实际的。 eg:We should turn our thoughts to practical matters. 我们应把思想转向实际问题。 2. means表示手段;注意这个词是单复数同型,a practical means一个有实用价值的手段(或工具)

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: with the National Museum of the American Indian opening in Washington, we look at Native American influence on the English language. RS: Linguist Marianne Mithun is author of the

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Wk 26 (25 June 1876) US Army Defeated At Little Big HornThis Week in HistoryUS General George Custer and all of his men are killed after attacking Native Americans. In 1876, US General George Custer led an attack by the 7th Regiment of the US Cavalry

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: why forgetfulness might actually help in learning a second language. RS: Ben Levy is a graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon, studying an area

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Today on Wordmaster, Rosanne Skirble takes us to a school in America鈥檚 Pacific island state, Hawaii, where students are immersed in the Hawaiian language and culture. RS: Students at Anuenue (ah-new-new) Hawaiian Immersion School in Honolulu stra

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A four-year-old girl literally stunned audiences when she spoke seven languages fluently on a TV show. 在一档电视节目中,一名四岁的小姑娘一开口就流利地说出了七国语言,让全场观众都惊呆了。 The video of Bella D

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张曼玉(Maggie Cheung)出席爱丁堡电影节时接受的英文采访。讲述了她来爱丁堡参加电影节的原因:是收到了一封题为Because的邮件,写满了她应该有此一行的原因。 This is what life is about in the

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提高新托福口语分数的8大黄金指南 新托福考试口语提高黄金指南1: Practice wherever you can and whenever you can. Any practice is good, whether you speak to someone who is a native English speaker or not。 随时随地练习托

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Puerto Rican Tainos were nearly wiped out after arrival of the Spanish Lydia Crafts | Austin, Texas 05 April 2010 Cacike Caciba Opil, a Taino chief, hopes Puerto Ricans will regain pride in their native heritage. Related Links: Tainos in Puerto Rico

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【生词预览】 inspector检查员,cordially热情地,windmill风车,compartment车厢,eyelid眼皮 【笑话原文】 German Visit A man decided to visit his brother who was stationed in Germany. He assumed that most Germans would speak E

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The number of American students who learned a language other than English decreased by about 100,000 between 2009 and 2013, according to research by the Modern Language Association. For many, taking a class in economics might seem more beneficial tha

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