Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary? Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reac

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The North African country of Tunisia is at the vanguard of the popular, anti-government uprisings spreading across the Arab world. Now, Tunisia is entering new phase as it seeks to build democracy from scratch. The Zarzis Youth Association is packed

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1. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband says she's been cleared to attend his shuttle launch on Friday. Mark Kelly revealed the news in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric. Giffords is recovering at a Huston hospital after a shooting rampage th

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If you ask a child playing outside at the Parkview Gardens apartment complex in Riverdale, Maryland where he or she is from, you will get many different answers. The children will name Nepal, Nigeria and Afghanistan, among others, as their homelands.

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. July is coming. Its a time to fire up the barbecue, hit the beaches and watch the fireworks. Its definitely not a time to be in the hospital. Because fa

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BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- With an Internet population larger than that of the United States and Japan combined, China saw its online shopping maintain an annual growth of 140 percent in sales since 2004, making it a powerhouse in driving up dom

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Water Crisis in US City a 'Disaster, Not Just an Emergency' Civil rights activists, politicians and residents are calling the contamination of drinking water in an urban U.S. city a disaster, not just an emergency. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recen

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New Yorkers Take Transit Woes in Stride NEW YORK Life regained some semblance of normalcy on Thursday for New Yorkers affected by superstorm Sandy, as public transportation started to come online and millions of people returned to work. But for those

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In these five spots, expats will likely be greeted with a warm welcome, a helping hand and a friendly smile. 居住在下面这五个国家的外国人会受到本地人的热烈欢迎、及时的帮助和亲切的微笑。 For many expats, finding n

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Most of the nine million residents of the city Hangzhou were actively encouraged to get out of town as security was ramped up. Factories were closed so the visiting world leaders could breathe less polluted air. Car travel in Hangzhou was restricted

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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's meteorological authorities on Saturday issued a blue-coded alert for fog in most parts of the country's central and northern provinces from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Most parts of north China, southwest Ch

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今天我们要学的词是cut back。 To cut back, 意思是减少。由于冬天客流量少,A rail service will cut back the number of trains it runs from 18 to 10, 一家火车公司决定将客运列车数量从18列减少为10列。General Mi

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The average life expectancy in Shanghai reached more than 83 years in 2016, far higher than the national average of 76.1 in 2015 and close to the world's highest of 83.7 in Japan and 83.4 in Switzerland. 2016年上海人均预期寿命超过83岁,遥

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Tickets for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have gone on sale at local shops for the first time, the organizers said. 里约奥运会主办方日前表示,2016里约奥运会的门票已在当地商店开售,这尚属首次。 Tickets, previously only

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据一项最新调查显示,北京人每天上下班花在路上的时间正在增加,而这主要是由路面上不断在增加的机动车导致的。数据显示,自2007年至今,北京市机动车增加了100万辆,到12月25日,北京市

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A New York hotel starting at $22 per night? 一家每晚22美元起的旅馆,在纽约? In a city where a chain hotel room can cost hundreds of dollars per night, that sounds like an old-fashioned New York scam. 这听起来很像是个过时的纽

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1. The first public photos of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords have come out since she was seriously wounded in last January's mass shooting in Arizona. Pictures were posted on Giffords' Facebook page and show her smiling with shorter, darker hair bu

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1. President Barack Obama says he understands the unease in India about the impact of US goods flowing into the country. He's there as part of his tour through Asia, and he also says that increased trade would be a win-win situation for both countrie

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BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- China has vowed to increase the nation's expanse of public sporting areas to 1.5 square meters per head of population by 2015, according to a five-year plan released on Monday. Under the plan drafted by the National Devel

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Raccoons Part of my job at the state fish and wildlife department is to lend equipment to residents for trapping and relocating raccoons. A man who had been successful at capturing one of the animals called to ask whether raccoons mated for life. He

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