美语听力 English Cafe 333

Topics: Movie - Star Wars; the Security and Exchange Commission; shame versus pity; reading numbers aloud; to be left cold Words: trilogy prequel outer space extraterrestrial droid to harness box office security commission broker scope disclosure sha

美语听力 English Cafe 336

Topics: Ask an American - Self-publishing; intrinsic versus native versus innate versus congenital; recently versus currently; soccer Words: route agent to reject courtesy outrageous to fulfill tiresome fraught with distribution editorial support cre

美语听力 English Cafe 340

Topics: Rodney King Trial and the 1992 Riots; Dick Tracy detective stories; third world; from versus out of; to pull (oneself) together versus to get a hold of (oneself) Words: to beat bystander excessive force baton outraged to acquit riot mob curfe

美语听力 English Cafe 313

Topics: Salem Witch Trials; National Endowment for the Arts; in fact versus as a matter of fact; even versus even though; to look at Words: witch supernatural trial fit to afflict outcast to hang mass hysteria endowment grant subjective to abolish in

美语听力 English Cafe 315

Topics: American Presidents: John F. Kennedy; Great Britain versus Britain versus England versus United Kingdom; who versus which versus that; hot shot Words: to become embroiled to ram war hero convalescence stillborn retrospect close inaugural addr

美语听力 English Cafe 317

Topics: Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Detroit and the Rust Belt; to knead versus to mash; the infinitive versus gerund form of a verb (to look for versus looking for); bona fide Words: to name a replacement naive to manipulate to propose a bil

美语听力 English Cafe 310

Topics: Famous Americans: Clara Barton; The California Gold Rush; problem versus issue versus concern; cordless versus wireless; brothers and sisters Words: medical supplies front lines angel in charge of to advance victim to rush word spread to pan

美语听力 English Cafe 303

Topics: Jaws; The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Star, and the Medal of Honor; to go in versus to go into versus to get in versus to get into; overwhelming; off-kilter Words: jaw shark resort town breakthrough score suspense se

美语听力 English Cafe 305

Topics: Famous Songs: Ive Been Working on the Railroad; Burning Man; irony versus sarcasm versus satire; agreement versus contract; to fall for (someone) versus to fall for (something) Words: folk song to date back railroad to pass the time away whis

美语听力 English Cafe 312

Topics: Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters; The National Geographic Society; shade versus shadow; rarely versus seldom; every cloud has a silver lining Words: union management Teamsters mob to convict fraud bribery sentence to follow up on a lead to diffu

美语听力 English Cafe 294

Topics: American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln; to rise versus to raise versus to arise; rather than versus prefer; to tender (ones) resignation Words: humble origins log cabin itinerant teacher to fall into debt oratorical abolitionist debate to seced

美语听力 English Cafe 295

Topics: Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Bozo the Clown; kind of versus so-so versus more or less; firm versus company; to get + participle Words: odyssey concurrently plot extra-terrestrial cryogenically frozen to read lips to sneak to coincide with cl

美语听力 English Cafe 299

Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high Words: McCarthyism Red Scare to play on demagogue hearing to blacklist to change (

美语听力 English Cafe 300

Topics: American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; The Folk Tales of Uncle Remus; drug versus pill versus tablet; pronouncing ?; engagement versus commitment Words: sickly disillusioned spoils system to declare rough trust canal at odds with folk tale

美语听力 English Cafe 301

Topics: Ask an American: The value of church services; outbreak versus break out; to pull off versus to pull over versus to pull in; to act silly Words: invest church synagogue to overlook value pastor to commit suicide halo sacred demonstrable impac

美语听力 English Cafe 174

Topics: The song Amazing Grace; specialty cable/satellite channels; to slay, to kill, to murder, to slaughter; I love it versus Im loving it; dollar versus buck Words: amazing grace sin verse wretch channel cable satellite specialty cartoon package t

美语听力 English Cafe 178

Topics: Famous Americans: Sacagawea; NASCAR racing; to take its toll (on someone); you are/is; whatever versus whatsoever Words: to leave your mark on (something) expedition uncharted territory trapper to negotiate racetrack ratings to sanction serie

美语听力 English Cafe 171

Topics: America's Most Wanted; buying a first home; similar to but distinct from; on the side; a fair extent Words: wanted criminals to reenact tip resources grants down payment mortgage tax credits to shop around for real estate agent to make an off

美语听力 English Cafe 164

Topics: Naming Rights; Famous Americans: Cesar Chavez; Why Americans have middle names; future perfect tense; American versus U.S. as an adjective Words: naming rights donation connotations deal civil rights leaders migrant farm worker charismatic to

美语听力 English Cafe 167

Topics: Ask an American: underage drinking; to chalk (something) up to; fluke; quite; aint; domino effect and chain reaction Words: access consistency rebellious binge drinking DUI DWI assault date rape to model sexually transmitted disease unintende