Pre-Listening Vocabulary turtle: a marine-dwelling (fresh or saltwater) hard-shelled reptile; used in some regions as a generic word for turtles, terrapins, and tortoises tortoise: a land-dwelling reptile with a dome-shaped shell streamlined: feature

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Pet turtles can be unsanitary. But Chinese soft-shelled turtles really up the ante on distasteful behavior. They perform a variation on urinationthrough their mouths. Most land-based vertebrates produce urine to get rid of water-soluble toxic waste,

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Why Cashews Arent Sold In The Shell 为何腰果不带壳销售 Part of the fun of eating almonds or pecans is cracking the shell and getting the nut. But, some nuts, like cashews, are almost always sold shelled and roasted. Why arent cashews sold in

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 27 July 2006 U.N. officials say they asked Israel to stop shelling a military outpost in Lebanon hours before it was destroyed, killing four U.N. observers. Israel denies it deliberately targeted the post. -------- P

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