Walk Clean Around the Hill By Darryl F. Zanuck Now that I can look back across the years, from the so-called vantage point of experience and two world wars, extensive travel and contact with many outstanding personalities, it gives me a great deal of

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Lesson 8 Funny Things Happen 趣事发生 Words: alignment n. 成一条直线;直线排列;队列;联合,联盟 alike adj. 相同的,相似的 allege v. 宣称,主张,断言 allegory n. 寓言 alleviate v. 缓和,减轻 alliteration n. 头韵 alloy n. 合金;vt. 使成合金 allude v.

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Hi story Comes to Life in LA Cemetery Each year, history comes to life at a Los Angeles cemetery where residents of the West Adams district explore their citys past. The Living History tour connects people in one neighborhood with interesting, and in

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Washington Week: Focus on Austerity America is bracing for across-the-board federal spending cuts, known as a sequester, that will automatically begin Friday. They will slow our economy. They will eliminate good jobs. They will leave many families wh

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Kenyan Political Satire Show Prepares for Electi The XYZ Show, now in its seventh season, satirizes Kenyas politicians and other personalities using puppets. No well-known figure is spared, and right now, political candidates are being lampooned in t

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Donald Trump can make conservatives nervous. They tend to like his Supreme Court nominee and his Cabinet choices. They can be wary of him when it comes to trade, the military and social issues. Yesterday, conservative speakers comp

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: One can learn a lot about another person from the books and the movies that the person likes. Spending a significant amount of time with someone is necessary to get to know their personalities an

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Charles Dickens. One of the best and most read English authors. I havent read any Charles Dickens books, so I dont know. I always kind of perceived them as being quite long and boring and too much detail. Long, boring and too much detail? Shame on hi

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Section C My Moving Experience Moving is bad — in the sense of carrying furniture, equipment and hundreds of boxes out of one place and into another. This is why you hardly ever meet nomads (游牧人

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Model 2 Leo proposed to me. Mary: Laura! Guess what! Leo proposed to me! Laura: Wow. Thats wonderful. Did you accept? Mary: Not yet. I have some doubtslike the age factor. Im really robbing the cradle here. Laura: I know hes fur years younger than yo

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V. Lets Talk Emma: Michael, whereabouts in China are you from? Michael: I was born in Beijing, but I live in Shanghai now. How about you? Emma: Im from Scotland. Michael: Oh? Whats it like? Emma: Well, the weather is pretty cold there. Actually, most

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This is a book about outliers, 这是一本谈论那些与众不同之人的书, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. 这些与众不同的男人或者女人,他们的成就超越了常人。 Over the course of the chap

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This is a book about outliers, 这是一本谈论那些与众不同之人的书, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. 这些与众不同的男人或者女人,他们的成就超越了常人。 Over the course of the chap

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Two centuries ago, blackbirds typically lived out their lives in forrest habitats. Today the birds are one of the most common avian urban species. Researchers have shown that urban and rural blackbirds already differ from one another in their songs,

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Lillian had a twin. Her twin's name was Yvonne. Although they looked alike, they were nothing alike. They had complete opposite personalities. Lillian loved art. She loved painting and drawing. She spent most of her days listening to music and drawin

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What was the difference between the As and the Cs? Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. 是什么造成A组和C组如此大的区别?特曼找了一切能想到的原因试图解答这个疑问。 He looked at their mental and physical

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The trend toward virtually indistinguishable shopping malls began about when this photo of the Meadowlane Shopping Center was taken in Anderson, California, in 1960. The United States is often called a mosaic - a savory stew of races, cultures, and p

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今天我们要学的词是 prone. Prone 形容词,更易于,更倾向于。A study finds that frequent drivers and those with neurotic and extroverted personalities are more prone to distraction while driving. 一项研究发现,经常开车的人

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We do not often talk about politics on this podcast, but today is different. Today is a special day. Our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been Prime Minister since 1997. But today he will resign. In fact, Tony Blair told us many months ago that he was

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Dialogue 1 Jingjing: Ohh, I'm craving some chocolate right now. Let's go to the store and get some. 京晶:哦,我现在特别馋巧克力。我们去商店买一些吧。 Mark: You're in luck. I just so happen to have some chocolate in my house.

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