Lesson Three Section One: News in Brief 1. IBM, following the lead of General Motors, announced today it's pulling out of South Africa. Like General Motors, IBM says it's selling its South African hol

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 高级英语听力

Those We Said Goodbye to in 2017 They made you cry and they made you laugh. Some united a country and others divided its people. 他们让你哭,让你笑。有些人让一个国家团结起来,有些则让这个国家的人民分裂。 Here is a

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Austria Could Elect EUs First Far-Right Leader 奥地利或选出欧盟首位极右翼领导人 Austrian voters could elect the European Unions first far-right leader in a presidential election on Sunday. Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party

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Europe is in the throes of unprecedented flight disruptions for a third day because of a growing ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland this week. At least 17 countries have shut down their airspace. Frank Browning reports travelers are scramb

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Lesson 90 Part Ⅰ Lesson 90 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Dictation: News Items 1.________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________

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Green shoots 继往开来 George Osbornes second budget was quiet but creditable 奥斯本的第二次预算报告并不高调但做法可靠 SOME people think football is a matter of life and death; on the contrary, Bill Shankly, a legendary coach,

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Renu Khator, the president of the University of Houston, is unlike most presidents of colleges and universities in the United States. For one thing, she was born in India. And she did not speak any English when she arrived in the U.S. at the age of 1

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This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Thirty percent of the teachers around the country teaching physics either dont have a degree in physics or dont have a minor in physics. Philip DiStefano, chancellor of t

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President Barack Obama at this hour is signing a bill that will provide government-sponsored health coverage to an estimated four million children. The State Children's Health Insurance Program dubbed SCHIP was approved by a 290-135 vote in the Hous

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BRUSSELS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Representatives from over 80 countries paid tribute to the fallen soldiers in the Great War at a special ceremony in Belgium on Tuesday. Heads of state and other dignitaries gathered in the towns of Nieuport and Ypres to

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MOSCOWU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in their first meeting since the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and support for rebels fighting in east Ukraine sparked the worst tensions with the West since the

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奥地利宣布斯诺登庇护申请无效 VIENNA, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The Austrian interior ministry confirmed Tuesday that American whistleblower Edward Snowden had made an asylum application to Austria, but government leaders have declared it inval

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1. Political watchers are predicting major changes on Capitol Hill and in several state capitals as voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Republicans are looking to take over control of the House and deeply cut into the Democrat majorit

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Britain could potentially leave the European Union as early as next year as Prime Minister David Cameron is allegedly already putting plans in motion to bring forward an in/out referendum by a year. 英国最早或于明年脱离欧盟。据称,英国

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Germany's economy 德国经济 Watching the wages 看工资 Germany's economy stutters, even if the fundamentals are strong 即使家底殷实,依然难逃困境 BLAMING Germanyor at least the austerity prescribed for the euro zone by Chancellor An

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Germany's parliament 德国议会 Order, order! 命令不止 Many Germans crave a less boring Bundestag, including its own president 即便是总统也渴望议院不再那么无聊 Gripped by question time 被提问时间紧抓不放 GERMANY'S parli

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The housing market 房市 Cool it 该降温了 Property prices are rising swiftly. The Bank of England may intervene 房价一路攀登,英格兰银行可能插手 BRITAIN'S housing market is like food in a microwave, says Spencer Dale, the chief e

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BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) --China is ready to help Europe deal with its debt problems, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday. But Europe must solve its own crisis and China expects the eurozone to send clear and positive signals to the world that it

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Eurosceptics 疑欧派 A cunning plan 狡猾的计划 Eurosceptics adopt an old Marxist technique 欧洲怀疑论者采用了古老的马克思主义技术 BRUSSELS-BASHING is never out of season in Britain, but the past few weeks have been unusually

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Housing 楼市 Modest plans 温和战略 The government goes back into housebuilding 政府重回地产建设 WHEN George Osborne is spotted outsideWestminster, he is very often making an appearance on a building site, wearing a fluorescent safety ja

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