lPrincipal: [严厉] What do you think a school is for, Brad? Brad: Im sorry I keep disrupting (v. 使...分心) the class... Principal: You arent answering my question. Whats a school for? To educate, isnt it? To use knowledge to wipe out ignorance

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Irish voters will decide on Friday whether to end the countrys ban on abortion in most cases. Voters will be asked in a referendum whether the countrys constitution should be changed to remove current restrictions on abortion. A constitutional amendm

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题目要求: Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Post-holiday Syndrome Among Students. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 很多学生在开学伊始都会出现

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France has reported a second case of a new type of corona virus infection. 法国有报道称发现第二例新型冠状病毒。 The 50-year-old man shared a ward with the only other known case in the country, a possible sign of human-to-human trans

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HEALTH REPORT - SARS in China By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 Broadcast May 5, 2004 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Medical workers monitor s

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A family obituary in this morning's New York Times is announcing the death of the mother of Christine Brinkley at the age of 91 says:her heart never survived losing the love of her life for her husband who predeceased by seven weeks. It's very common

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Every week this summer, we'll be doing these special web shows. Today, we're talking about a story we covered toward the end of the school year: an outbreak of E. coli. That's a specific kind of bacteria. You can get it from contaminated food or wate

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A British woman who woke up with a Chinese accent after suffering a stroke is devastated - after being told the side effect is permanent. 一位英国女士,一次中风醒来后口音变成了中国腔,生活尽毁,这一副作用将伴其一生

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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about an effort to learn what happened to American pilot Amelia Earhart. We will tell about a grou

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When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood. 当你吃东西导致血糖升高的时候,胰岛素会被分泌到血液中。 It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of su

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In the time since that Atlantic Monthly story ran, 自从大西洋月刊刊载了那片文章以来, the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has tripled. 唐氏综合征患者的寿命增加了两倍。 The experience of Down syndrome peo

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Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面,我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋, perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effec

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Children can spend hours a day looking at computer screens and other digital devices. Some eye care professionals say all that screen time has led to an increase in what they call computer vision syn

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生活大爆炸第一季第七集_1: The Dumpling Paradox -Howard:Watch this, it's really cool. 看这个,真的很酷。 Call Leonard Hofstadter. 呼叫Leonard Hofstadter。 -Machine:Did you say: Call Helen Boxleitner? 您说的是呼叫Helen

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You know, like telling me that I like coffee with cream and sugar before I hardly even taste it. I mean, how am I going to figure out if thats what I like or if I just like it because you tell me I like it? But Clare, its just personal taste. You sho

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HEALTH REPORT – New Tuberculosis Drug By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. Research scientists say they have discovered a

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(straight through my heart) If you have an album coming out the next day, the last thing you wanna hear is one of your members has swine flu. But thats exactly what happen to the Backstreet Boys. Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with the swine flu. A d

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An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model. 英国有位截肢姑娘,她读书时经常被同学取笑、还有人给她起了个外号木桩腿。 如今,她已经成功战胜各

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一、针对性解释 针对性解释是作者为了更好的表达思想,在文章中对一些重要的概念、难懂的术语或 词汇等所作的解释。这些解释提供的信息具有明确的针对性,利用它们猜词义比较容易。

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在英语学习中,我们自然会遇到许多生词。这时,许多人立即翻阅字典,查找词义。其实,这种做法是不科学的。它不但费时费力,而且影响阅读速度。事实上,阅读材 料中的每个词与它前后

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