Task 2: When was music first sent down a telephone line? So you think downloading music from the Internet through a phone line is a really cool modern thing? Not so. In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill Filed a patent on the instrument for transmitting music ele

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The answer to the riddle is one, Benny called back as he rounded the corner, racing for Shadowbox. And Buttercup has the number one on her bell! You think the answer to the riddle has something to do with Buttercup? Violet asked, running right behind

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What are you thinking, Violet? Jessie asked. I have a hunch the next clue is right here in the house. But, Violet, Benny protested, the arrow was pointing to the tree house. Remember? Thats true, Benny, Violet said. But the name of the tree house is

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VIIIA Swimming Pool at Last THE BOXCAR CHILDREN were so tired that they slept until ten oclock Sunday morning. When they woke up at last, they hurried through breakfast and went to work on the swimming pool. Well make a dam across the brook, said Hen

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World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the stron

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We have to save all of Venice? said Jack. That's abig responsibility. What do we have to save Venicefrom?Well, if Neptune's going to help us, it must havesomething to do with water, said Annie. Yeah, like the water that's flooding the alleys, saidJac

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Broadcast: Feb 04, 2003 In the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster, the U.S. space agency, NASA, must continue to operate, even as its employees struggle to deal with overwhelming emotions surroundi

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Switching from night and day So enchanting and wish such grace Wasting my time and myself Im degrading 白天黑夜交错 如此妖娆婀娜 蹉跎着岁月又蹉跎了自我 So many stray ahead but I stay confident Out of the darkness you can be fre

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One of the world's most popular romantic novels, first published in 1847, has been made into more than 25 feature films and television adaptations. The latest to take on the Charlotte Bronte classicJane Eyre is American director Cary Joji Fukunaga wi

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A species of frog has been found alive on a farm in Australia more than 30 years after it was thought to have become extinct. Environment officials have said a thriving population of yellow-spotted bell frogs has been found in a remote creek in New S

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Alexander Graham Bell 亚历山大-格拉汉姆-贝尔 Can you imagine living without a telephone or a cell phone? 你能想像没有电话或手机的生活吗? Until 1876, people didn't have phones. 直到1876年,人类才有了电话。 Many s

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DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two And we answer a question about the inventor of the telephone. B

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California Developing Warning System for Water Quality at Beaches 加州开发水质预警系统 LOS ANGELES The current drought in California means less water runoff from cities and cleaner ocean water for beachgoers. Some beaches, however, are stil

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[00:00]P:And you'd be coming from... [00:02]J:Oxfordshire. [00:03]P:Whereabouts in Oxfordshire? [00:04]J:Darlington. [00:05]P:That rings a bell. Wasn't there a Lord Darlington? Some sort of Nazi, got us in the war, they said? [00:12]J:I'm

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In 'The Eagle Huntress,' A Mongolian Girl Sets Out To Prove Her Elders Wrong play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:42repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or updat

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Part Zwei OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Let's meet our next two contestants. Nick Pappas, you are a content manager for a comedy website. NICK PAPPAS: That's right. EISENBERG: Nice. What do you think we need to laugh more at? What do

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今天我们要学的词是staple。 Staple, 做为名词,指必不可少的东西。 Rice is a staple in the region, 米饭是这个地区居民的主食。 Hot dogs are a staple for barbecue parties in the summer, 热狗是夏天烧烤餐会不可缺

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所谓加减联想,就是对一个生词加上或减去一个联想单位,从而变成一个熟悉的词。我们可以用这个熟词、参与加减的联想单位,以及生词的中文意思三部分构成一组联想单位来进行记忆。 例如:smother (v. 窒息)这个词,经观察发现后半部分mother是熟词妈妈,前面是字母s,

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NOEL KING, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Noel King. DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene. Nicole Kidman has been pretty busy. She is currently starring in three movies, as the queen of Atlantis in Aquaman, as a supportive mothe

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Topics: Woodstock; Walter Reed Army Medical Center; a lot versus a load of; indicate versus signify; Hispanic versus Spanish Words: to be billed as concert-goer hippy mud bell-bottoms documentary flagship veteran wounded in battle rehabilitation negl

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