本单元是关于Tim 泄露了秘密的对话 Tim: So how was the cinema for you two love birds? Alice: How many times do I have to say this? that wasn't a date! Tim: Whoa, easy tiger! Hey this'll put a smile on your face. Guess who our landlord is? Alice: How

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CHAPTER 7 Baked Beans and Chowder Henry went to the store to get the paper. He nearly bumped into the Cook boy coming out. The angry look on his face kept Henry from even trying to say hello. Whats up now? Henry wondered. Then he forgot about the boy

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beans are a popular choice for home gardens. Specialists at the University of Illinois Extension say bush beans need the least work. The plants do not need supports to stand. Green bush beans used

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It was a cold night. The moon was bright and round. The wind blew cold through the window. Jim got up from his couch and closed it. Jim was shivering because it was cold. He rubbed his hands together. Jim went to the kitchen. He wanted to make coffee

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【情景再现】 公司给Catherine和她的一位同事分配了一个项目,是关于将要研发的新产品。该产品的上市很可能让竞争对手无立足之地,会给公司带来巨大利润。一天,他们和另一位朋友去喝茶

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CHAPTER 5 Food At Mikes loud voice, everyone looked ahead. There were two old huts. The family started to walk toward them. Mike got there first. All broken down, he said. No good after all. Lars said, Yes, they are broken down, Mike. But I wouldnt s

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089 The city mouse and the country mouse A city mouse and a country mouse were distant relatives. The country mouse wrote a letter to the city mouse. How are you, my city cousin? Come visit us sometime. The city mouse in his best suit visited the cou

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Full of Beans 飘香老咖啡 In 1895, a man named Luigi Lavazza purchased a little grocery store in northern Italy for about US$20. Today, over one hundred years later, Luigi Lavazza S.p.A is the irrefutable leader of the espresso market in Italy, b

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The Flatulence Taxby John O'Neill A flatulence tax on cattle and sheep, Another rip-off to make us all weep. Preserving the ozone at any expense, It's all propaganda that doesn't make sense. Abandon the flock and abolish the herd, When it comes to su

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We are fascinating new study tonight on taste. It's not hard to figure out why so many of us loathe ogling lovely chocolation. That's easy. But there is new science tonight and when we find some food irresistible and others impossible to swallow; lik

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Ethiopia is considering legal action against coffee exporters who withheld beans from the market in response to unfavorable market conditions, causing a drop in the country's revenue. Officials are hoping prosecution of a few big exporters will send

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专家评定埃塞俄比亚最上等咖啡 International coffee experts travel the world to find the best tasting cup.They keep coming back to Ethiopia, where importers like Morton Wennersgaard say the climate produces quality coffee beans. 国际咖啡

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I'd arrived in Egypt, the upper Aswan Dam was built in 1960's and generated electricity, provided reservoir of waters for farms and control flooding along the Nile, the result of rainy season in Ethiopia. Before the dam, heavy floods could decimate t

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico almost three weeks ago, it caused much destruction across the island, including the small agricultural sector. By some estimates, 80 percent of crops were destroyed. NPR's Merrit Kennedy repor

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, this is big news, big news, if you eat ice cream. There is a global shortage of natural vanilla. Prices for vanilla beans are sky-high. NPR's Dan Charles reports. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Gerry Newman buys vanilla by the gallon.

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That was beautiful. That's a good explosion right there. Yep. Explosion number 755, a perfect example of the rapport of C4. I bet my family's glad they let me borrow that china. Next in the A to Z, it's F, for food, glorious food. Now that you can te

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 20 December 2007 Espresso drinkers are losing what critics praise as one of the world's best certified organic robusta coffees. The government of Kerala state has refused to extend the lease on the land where the rare beans

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今天我们要学的词是vegan。 Vegan是最严格的素食主义者。Vegans don't eat meat, dairy products or eggs - in short, no animal products, 肉、奶制品或鸡蛋都不能吃,简而言之,凡是跟动物沾边的食物一律不吃。

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今天我们要学的词staple food。 Staple food, 是主食的意思。美国人刚刚过完Thanksgiving 感恩节。 On the Thanksgiving dinner table, turkey is a staple food, 火鸡是感恩节餐桌上的主食。 Besides turkey, sweet potatoes

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Confectionery manufacturers must be marvelling at their chocolate box balance sheets in the middle of the economic downturn. That's because sales of chocolate products are up. Chocoholics have pushed one UK company's profits up 25%. In Syria, one of

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