unit07 Motorism 汽车主义 The scene is a petrol station somewhere in England. A queue of cars streches back over a kilometer down the road. As vehicles move slowly towards the pumps, the air fills with the sound of the car horns. People are gettin

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 午后咖啡

Amazon wants to get more young people to consider becoming computer engineers. The American technology company this week launched a program that aims to teach more than 10 million students a year how to code. Amazon says it will pay for summer camps

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Broadcast: Jan 06, 2003 In Zimbabwe, shortages of food are being blamed for two riots in recent days. One of the riots took place Sunday, the other on Friday. Both happened because of shortages of mai

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1. face在段中用做动词,表示面临,面对。 eg:The building faces the big river. 这房子面向着大河。 eg:Their house faces east. 他们的房子朝东。 2. shortage,缺少,不足,匮乏。 eh:There is a shortage of salt in thi

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1995年1月四级作文题及范文 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Can Money Buy Happiness? You should write no less than 100 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given

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He might be feeling the pinch If you watch the news in Britain or look at a British newspaper at the moment, a term you are more than likely to come across is 'credit crunch'. It has become a bit of a buzzword , but what does it mean? Well, it's a

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Yixuan Hao is sitting in a classroom in the Burgundy area of France, with a glass of red wine in her hand. She examines the wine as she slowly moves the glass around. Next, she takes a small taste. Then, she smells it. Yixuan has been tasting and sme

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Scientists Help Insects to Help Colorado River Fish Fish need insects for food. So, healthy rivers have healthy insect populations. However, in the United States, part of the Colorado River has an insect shortage that has left many fish without food.

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Drought 干旱 A drought is a long period of water shortage. 干旱是指长期的水资源短缺。 If we have no rainfall for a long time, we can face drought. 如果我们所在的地区长时间不下雨,我们就会面临干旱。 During a dro

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

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雅思口语考试很多同学面临词穷的问题,考官问个问题,就点头答good...再问个问题还是good...一句话形容词重复多次。其实,很多同学并不是词汇量不足,很多时候是不注意积累.网雅思频道就

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Skilled labour技工Behind the scenes在幕后What a shortage of workers on film sets in Georgia says about America美国称,乔治亚州电影现场面临工作人员的严重短缺问题THE recent arrival of aliens and murderous youth in suburban

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Rich Chinese businessmen are paying thousands of pounds to go on 'wife tours' in Siberia in search of fair-skinned, blue-eyed brides due to a shortage of women in their home country. 由于祖国女性少,中国富商付出成千上万的英镑踏上

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a special day part 3: 1.what do you think the balance among study,friends,family? 2.what's the difference between study in modern time and that in 20 years ago? 3.how to relax yourself in normal tme

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It is often said by those who work in development that simply improving sanitation around the world could effect huge change. More than a third of the global population doesn't have access to clean safe toilets and running water. In the Kenyan capita

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Resort to arbitration 诉诸仲裁 Last May we bought 500 tons of red beans from you, but there was a shortage of 30 tons. 去年五月,我方从您处购买500吨红小豆,竟然短重30吨。 According to what you requested, we supplied all the

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BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Lingering drought has left more than 8.57 million people short of drinking water and huge areas of farmland parched in China, the nation's top drought-relief authority said Friday. As of Friday, droughts have affected 3.

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Near to where I live, there is a group of small houses. They are bungalows that is, they are single-storey houses. There are gardens in front of the houses, and behind them; and most of the gardens are well-kept. There is something unusual about the

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Have you come across the English expression carrying coals to Newcastle? This is what it means. For several hundred years, from the 16th century until about 50 years ago, the North-east of England was a major coal-producing area. There were literally

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爱自己Laugh in the middle of a busy day. 最忙的时候也要对自己微笑It's 3 PM on a Friday afternoon and you're desperate to leave the office. 现在是周五下午的3点,你是拼了命的想要离开。 On top of the work you have, yo

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