A key national home price index released today shows a rise of nearly 3% during the second quarter although the SP/Case-Shiller index is still down 15% from last year. NPR Yuki Noguchi reports. The index is a composite of monthly prices in 20 major

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1. President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri one year after a tornado devastated that town. The President spoke at a high school graduation and urged students to remember the lessons they've learned in overcoming adversity. 2. A 21-year-old man is und

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A war of words is rising between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The two leaders have been exchanging unusually personal insults as international pressure on North Korea grows. The latest examples came on Friday, when

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The Man on the Moon? In July 1969, people around the world witnessed America’s greatest achievement: NASA succeeded in landing a man on the moon, and in the effort, won its space race against the US

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By Marilyn Rice Christiano Broadcast: August 20, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (THEME) (Apollo Eleven Countdown) A rocket launch countdown.

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英国语言学家Jeremy Butterfield出版过一本书叫做A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare。他根据牛津语料库(Oxford University Corpus)中的资料,统计得到英国人最常见的10句套话。对于老外,听到这些话,

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1)be going to +v 在口语中广泛使用,表示准备做或将发生的事情。例如: Im going to buy a house when weve saved enough money. 2)be to +v 表示计划安排要做的事,具有必要的强制性意义。例如: I am to play ten

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嫦娥二号 Chang'e-2(moon probe) 神舟七号 Shenzhou VII (spacecraft) 载人飞船 manned spaceship/ spacecraft 载人航天 manned space flight 多人多天太空飞行 multi-manned and multi-day space flight 载人航天计划 manned space

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空间商业应用前景光明 Space - the final frontier. Once the purview of cash-rich governments, launching rockets into space has become increasingly commonplace as demand for communications satellites and space-based imaging services grow. Toda

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China is poised to launch the prototype of its first space lab Tiangong-1 by the end of this month. A senior official at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province has revealed that the space module will be launched either

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The most quintessential American idioms 不同的文化环境里有不同的文化习俗和传统。因此,也会衍生出一些极具本国特色的俚语表达。 Idiom: 俚语 Quintessential: /?kw?nt??s?n?(?)l/ 典型的,精髓的 #1.A piece o

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EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Soviet Successes Push U.S. to Build a Space Program From the Ground UpBy Marilyn Christiano and Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 VOICE ONE: Explorati

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31 阿波罗登月计划(一) Date=4-11-01 Title=Explorations #1947 - Project Apollo (part 1): Apollo Eleven byline=Marilyn Rice Christiano ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in special English by th

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Human life can not continue without science and technology. For many years, human society has developed with the advance of science and technology while the development of science and technology has in turn brought the process to mankind. The life we

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SpaceX announced a successful satellite launch on Sunday but failed an attempted sea-landing of a rocket booster, missing a goal that has repeatedly eluded the grasp of the Los Angeles-based rocket company. 总部位于旧金山的火箭公司SpaceX上

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BEIJING, Apirl 1 (Xinhuanet) -- An Ariane rocket launch of two communications satellites was aborted Wednesday after a technical hitch at the scheduled moment of liftoff in French Guiana on Wednesday. According to Arianespace, the Ariane 5 rocket's V

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NEW DELHI -- India is all set to launch its first indigenous defense satellite from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Friday, sources said Wednesday. GSAT-7, which weighs over 2,500 kilograms, is the country's first home-made dedicated satellite buil

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TAIYUAN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. The satellite, a high-resolution remote-sensing satellite for civilian use, was launched at

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Idiom: Rocket science ( something complicated ) Hit the book: Tip top ice cream Hemisphere Partial Marshmallow Obsess Merit Nauseam Hit and miss Stunning 7. Kiwis love their Tip Top Ice cream Kiwis claim Tip Top ice cream is the best in the southern

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Tired of Vacationing on Earth? Go on space rides for $102,00 An American space tourism company that arranges multimillion-dollar treks to the International Space Station for the ultra-wealthy has struck a new deal to offer suborbital spaceflights for

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