The cost of cigarettes has increased by 40% since 2010. The cost will increase by $1 a year for the next four years to $20 a packet of 20 cigarettes. Will this make smokers quit smoking? Probably not, says a Treasury report, because smoking is addict

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Bluff oysters are now on sale in fish shops and supermarkets, if you can afford them. They cost $26 a dozen which is just over $2 each. Bluff oysters come from the clean, cold waters of Foveaux Strait in the far south of New Zealand. The boats go out

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New Zealands scientific base in the Antarctic, Scott Base, has now lost the sun. On Tuesday, the sun was up for 39 minutes then it set at 1.10pm. The team of 14 people who stay at Scott Base for the winter, will wait four months now until they see th

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Cities throughout New Zealand held services to remember soldiers who died in the First World War and later wars. Most services were held at dawn because this was the time that New Zealand and Australian soldiers fought at Gallipoli. This was a terrib

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Todd: Hello can you say your name please? Kate: My name is Kate. Todd: Ok Kate where are you from? Kate: Im from New Zealand. Todd: Oh are you from Auckland? Kate: No, Im from Wellington, the capital city. Todd: Oh Wellington is the capital? Is it in

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语访谈对话

SUVA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Some 300 diabetes patients(有耐心的 ) undergo amputations every year in Fiji and the trend is worrying the authorities. This is according to research carried out by the country's Physiotherapy Associations which sho

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In America, prestige speaks with a British accent. Friendliness, however, sounds a lot like you. 在美国,人们觉得英音高大上,而美音则显得友善。 Record a variety of people reading the same passage aloud speakers from different r

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SYDNEY, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Work is good for health while long term work absence, work disability and unemployment can make us miserable(悲惨的), according to a consensus statement from the Australian and New Zealand doctors on Wednesday. The Aus

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Todd: Hello can you say your name please? Kate: My name is Kate. Todd: Ok Kate where are you from? Kate: Im from New Zealand. Todd: Oh are you from Auckland? Kate: No, Im from Wellington, the capital city. Todd: Oh Wellington is the capital? Is it in

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

雅思听力提高方法:灵活利用关键词 一、 关系词的定义和分类 关系词,即体现句子之间关系的词或词组。也有不少人称之为信号词,或者是连接词。不管在雅思听说读写四门中的任何一门都

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语

Two road rules changed at 5am today. The first one is that traffic turning right must give way. The second one is at a T intersection. Often there is a Give Way, or Stop sign at these intersections so there is no problem. However, if there is no sign

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Another fishing ship is in trouble in Antarctica, in the Ross Sea, 3,700km south of New Zealand. The ship is the Jeong Woo 2, a Korean ship. It had a crew of 40 men from different countries. They were fishing for toothfish. Fire broke out early this

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The Norwegian sailor, Jarle Andhoy with three other men, sailed to the Antarctic illegally. One of the men is a New Zealander. They did not have permission from the Norwegian government or from New Zealand. They wanted to know what happened to the bo

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Four men were arrested yesterday and charged with internet piracy of movies and TV shows. Their website MegaUpload was a file-sharing website, with 50 million hits daily. It was based in Hong Kong. One of the founders of the website, a man who calls

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Most primary schools finish today although a few finished yesterday or the day before. High school students finished earlier. Junior high school students Years 9 and 10 usually finish school in the second week of December while senior high school stu

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Two rating agencies, Standard and Poors (S P) and Fitch downgraded New Zealands credit rating from AA+ to AA. This is the first downgrade in 13 years. A credit rating gives some idea of whether the economy is stable and whether the government can pay

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Tomorrow is ANZAC Day, a day when New Zealanders and Australians remember soldiers who died in Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. See April 25th 2008 . 1915 was during the First World War. ANZAC Day, however, is a day to remember all New Zealand soldiers

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Another New Zealand SAS soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the second one in a month. He was Lance Corporal Leon Smith, from Wellington, aged in his mid thirties. He is the 4th New Zealand soldier to die in Afghanistan. SAS means Special Air Ser

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

First, listen to June 25th 2011 for background to this story. The Emperor Penguin found near Wellington six weeks ago is now well. He has been called Happy Feet which is the name of a dancing penguin in a movie. He was taken to Wellington zoo when he

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Christchurch City Council has been unable to buy any insurance because of the risks of more earthquakes. From today, if there is another big earthquake which causes damage to underground pipes, there will be no insurance to repair them. The city has

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语