This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama released a progress report on the Afghan war, now in its tenth year. The five-page summary of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review says there are notable operational gains.

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Nuclear weapons are the worst thing invented by man. The day we invented them was a black day in our history. Fortunately, they have only been used a few times. We only need to read the history of what happened in Japan to understand why nuclear weap

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The US bank JPMorgan Chase says losses from risky trading in its London office have widened to nearly six billion dollars. The bank originally estimated the losses at two billion dollars when the bad trades were disclosed in May. JPMorgan says the ex

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《Love is a battlefield》由80、90年代红遍全球的摇滚女歌手Pat Benatar佩班娜塔演唱,曾创下单曲百万的销量,被列入80年代最伟大的100首歌的第30名。 歌词 We are young 我们年少轻狂 Heartache to heartac

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At Universal Instruments, we expect service to become an increasingly significant competitive differentiator as the sophistication of manufacturing processes increases. Changes in customer demographics are placing increasing demands on our global cus

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How to maximize the time 如何最大化利用时间 Keep your expectations in check 随时检查自己的期望 Are these expectations reasonable or unreasonable? For example, are you trying to go to the gym, get the kids ready for school, do laundr

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模仿文本: The radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and four other men have arrived in the United States to face terrorism charges. The five were flown out of Britain late last night within hours of the High Court rejecting their final efforts to hal

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Today,I wish to report to you that my talks with the government have been aimed at normalizing the political situation in the country. We have not as yet begun discussing the basic demands of the struggle. I wish to stress that I myself have at no

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今天我们要学的词是 inconsistent. Inconsistent 形容词,前后不一致的。U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested that continued work on weapons programs by North Korea was inconsistent with its leader's commitment to denuclearize

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南华早报:消费者在餐馆消费时经常发现他们的付款金额中有一些隐性消费项目,很多消费者在毫不知情的情况下,就付了款.而且这样的现象还越来越多. 饭店中的隐性消费 The South China Morning Pos

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David Cameron devotes the spirit of Winster Churchill as he embarks on his European campaign. The Prime Minister was entertaining Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, whose appointment he tried to block last year, to dinner at Cheq

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Smith: Time To Stand Up And Be Counted Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith says he is the standard bearer for a new generation of Labour supporters. He says he can provide a credible but radical opposition to the Conservative Government.

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China's Foreign Ministry says that some of the land reclamation on the Nansha islands and reefs in the South China Sea will soon be completed. The Foreign Ministry reiterated China's stance on sovereignty of the islands, and stressed the main purpose

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Libya's Minority Berbers Renew Equality Demands The Berber village of Yefren is remote, dry and dusty. It was also one of the cradles of last year's Libyan uprising, claiming one of the first anti-regime demonstrations, and several of the revolution'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Ammunition Hill, a site of a bloody Jerusalem battle in the 1967 war, 18 Apr 2010 On the eve of Israel's 62nd Independence Day, Prime Mi

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Malaysia holds chocolate exhibition Chocolate and candy, enough to satisfy any sweet tooth, are on show at Malaysia Genting Highlands. This comes just in time for the two-week holidays of the countrys primary and secondary schools. More than 1,000 va

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专辑《ghost》介绍: Radical Face来自美国佛罗里达的Jacksonville。本名Ben Cooper,开创新民谣风格的艺人,与Alax Kane组成Electric President并且在04年发行同名专辑《Electric President》。这张11首歌曲的《Ghost》是一张内敛中显露出音乐上的野心的作品。专辑中稍

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模仿文本: We're one of the world's biggest spenders when it comes to biscuits, forking out nearly as much on them as we do on fruit and vegetables. But should you for one moment think that things are just as they were, well, think again. Radical

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八点见!南非总统祖马被自家政党逼宫倒计时 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi Coming up: --China launches two more Beidou-3 navigation satellites --Devastated

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巧妙拒绝别人 Explain your constraints before saying no 在拒绝之前解释自己的苦衷 Rejection without giving context implies an unreasonable request or a problem with the requestor. People making a request may not understand your budget

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