Lesson Eleven Section One: News in Brief Tapescript 1. Texas Air announced today that it will buy the troubled People Express Airlines for about a hundred and twenty-five million dollars. The proposed

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This is Whats Trending Today A small shark that was stolen from an aquarium in Texas has been found and safely returned. Miss Helen is a 40-centimeter-long gray horn shark. She spends her time in a touch tank at the San Antonio Aquarium, where visito

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AS IT IS 2016-08-03 Texas Students Can Bring Guns to College 德克萨斯州学生被允许带枪上大学 The American state of Texas joined eight other states this week in giving individuals a right to bring guns to college classrooms. The Texas la

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AS IT IS 2015-11-01 International Tourists Drawn to Route 66 66号公路吸引国际游客 Shamrock, Texas is a small town 30 kilometers from the Oklahoma-Texas border. The nearest major international airport is some 140 kilometers away. Some might s

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Hello, everyone. I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com Newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Iraq's government getting rid of some thirteen hundred Iraqi police and soldiers who don't do their jobs. A government spok

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Good afternoon, from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Police in California confirm that search teams have found the wreckage of the plane Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared. Th

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THE MAKING OF A NATION #71 - John Tyler By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, July 15, 2004 VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English. (MUSIC) As we reported in our last prog

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THE MAKING OF A NATION #80 - 1850 - Compromise, Part 4 By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, September 16, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English. (MUSIC) In

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1. There have been hugs, cheers and tears throughout Chile as rescuers continue to pull trapped miners to safety. The first miner was brought up just before midnight. In all, 33 miners were trapped in the San Jose mine for 69 days. It's expected all

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HOUSTON, July 12 (Xinhua) -- A regional airport in the U.S. state of Texas has reopened Friday after a bomb threat closed the airport for a few hours, local media reported. The Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, located in Texas's northwest

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VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the states congressional districts, meaning that Texas could final

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[00:25.23]divert 攺道 [00:28.12]approach 接近 [00:31.13]be familiar with 熟悉 [00:35.09]英文原文 [00:36.92]Stormy weather diverted our Dallas-bound flight to another airport. [00:40.53]As we approached the runway, the pilot came on the inte

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HOUSTON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- One person has died in the crash of a small plane in the U.S. state of Texas Thursday, local media reported. The incident happened in the morning near a local airport in Amarillo, about 850 km north of Texas's largest cit

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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory. 华盛顿本周四,得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校

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