SSS 2008-12-24

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Take Away English-Summer Sport 夏季运动

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The History of Beer One of the world's oldest stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is a lively tale of heroism and sacrifice from ancient Sumer. It also contains one of the earliest references to beer. In

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Munich: The Festival City How would you like to sip a glass of cold beer while sitting in the shadow of a Chinese pagoda surrounded by English gardens in the middle of a southern German city? It may s

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The new Manchu dynasty tried something different with their neighbors, diplomacy. Here in their lovely Summer Palace, they greeted delegations from all over the Eastern world. Attendance was compulsor

尼泊尔僧人参加马拉松比赛

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CNN 2012-03-14

You might have lost an hour over the weekend,I know I lost an hour of sleep.Fortunately though,we are all right on time for the start of a new week of CNN student news.Hello everyone,from CNN center in Atlanta,Georgia.I am Carl Azuz. First up,officia

E-mail地址中的@符号

That little a with a circle curling around it that is found in email addresses is most commonly referred to as the at symbol. 小写字母a外加个圆圈，这一符号常出现在email（电子邮件）地址中，通常是作为at（在）的标记。

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Rambo appears to have come of age, the gun-toting Vietnam veteran played by Sylvester Stallone finds himself in Burma in his latest film, action centers on the plight of the Karen people and the brutality of the Burmese army which is why the film has

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Geng's net is a strange tubular contraption with a closed-off end. More than a hundred fishermen make their living from the lake. Its mineral-rich waters are highly productive and there are nets everywhere. The next morning, Geng returns with his son

咖啡起源的美丽传说

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《恋爱不是游戏》 Love Is Not a Game 没有在浮沉的人海中，翻过筋斗的和尚，不能算善知识； A Buddhist monk without having experienced ups and downs in the sea of mortals will have no claim to real wisdom. 没有受过恋爱

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Hello, I'm Sue Montgomery with the BBC News. Aid agencies have warned that a humanitarian crisis in Syria caused by fighting around the northern city of Aleppo, is turning into an utter catastrophe. Thousands of people are fleeing a Russian-backed go