When I was a kid, I used to love the commercials put out by the Keebler Food Company for their various types of cookies. If you grew up in the States in the 70s, 80s or 90s, you know that Keebler Cookies are made by elves who live and work in a hollo

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UNIT 1 PART ONE Talking about Oneself 1.A.(Male)In some ways,i'm a typical Japanese teenager. I go to a public high school and wear a umiform, just like everyone else. I go to school five and a half days a week -- I get Sundays off. I have interests

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It's Not Worth a Hill of Beans! 一文不值 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 这里是美国之音慢速英词汇掌故节目。 In the early days of human history, people survived by hunting wild animals, or gathering w

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At the sight, several men dropped their sticks and tried to run. 看到这个情形,几个人扔掉棍子就要跑。 Panic overtook them, and the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard. 他们被惊恐笼罩着

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Growing an Agritourism BusinessBy Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Agricultural tourism is when people visit

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Why Farm Aid Has its Critics and SupportersBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Aid to farmers has b

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这个技巧的原理其实很简单,那就是我们不断地向外国人提问,然后从外国人的答复中寻找两人的共同点,一旦找到两人的共同点,即可进行深入的交谈。

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High food prices have pushed an estimated 44 million more people into poverty in the past year, according to the World Bank. France says taming food price volatility is one of its major goals as current head of the Group of 20 leading and emerging ec

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我们今天要学的习惯用语都有buy这个词。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: Buy a pig in a poke。Poke在这儿解释口袋。Buy a pig in a poke是个很古老的习惯用语,至少有五百年的历史了。它来自一个滑头的

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香港潮流品牌CLOT领军人物陈冠希在这次于洛杉矶进行的简短采访中,向大家描述了自己是从什么时候接触到街头文化和潮流,品牌和联名的设计灵感,以及2010年自己主理的品牌CLOT和店铺JUIC

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【生词预览】 pupil学生,incubator孵化基地,beforehand之前 【笑话原文】 Visiting a Chicken Farm One day, a teacher took his pupils to a chicken farm to pay a visit. When they came near the incubator, a chick just got out of its e

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Lesson 6 eReport 第六课 英文扎记 September 12 9月12日 Let's Go Shrimping! 去钓虾啰! Shrimp fishing, or shrimping, is a popular activity in Taiwan. 钓虾在台湾是很受欢迎的一项活动, It's a fun and easy way to catch a meal

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It was interesting as well while we were out on the farm, there were thousands of trees I think out on the farm, so we saw lots of different insects and little animals as well. The most exciting thing I saw was a red back spider, because the red back

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美政府关门给农业丰收蒙上阴影 POLO, ILLINOIS Just one year after a catastrophic drought damaged vast areas of farmland in the Midwestern United States, farmers heading to the fields to harvest one of the best crop yields in years have be

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建议一: 避免空洞的单词和词组 1. 在托福写作考试中,一些空洞的单词或词组根本不能为句子带来任何相关的或重要的信息,完全可以被删掉。比如下面的句子: When all things are considered, yo

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I like hens. When I was a child, my grandmother kept hens. When we visited her, we could help her feed the hens. We thought she had hundreds of hens, but actually I think she had 40 or 50. They lived in hen houses in her garden, and during the day th

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She wasn't getting enough sleep. She blamed him. She wanted to sleep in the other bedroom. He said, You can't do that. Married people should sleep in the same bedroom and in the same bed. She said, Not if one of them sounds like a farm animal. He pro

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今天学的词组是take a toll。 Take-a-toll意思是由于天灾、疾病、事故等造成的损失。 最近有报道说,在加拿大西部,人工养殖的鲑鱼把一种寄生虫散布到附近海域,导致野生鲑鱼大量死亡,Para

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there goes the neighborhood - gretchen wilson I was born in the country on an old farm road Worked hard for a livin' but i stilled stayed broke Everything i had was either borrowed or loaned Except my mobile home I started pickin' and a-grinnin' and

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妙招一:避免空洞的单词和词组 1.一些空洞的单词或词组根本不能为句子带来任何相关的或重要的信息,完全可以被删掉。 比如:When all things are considered, young adults of today live more satisfying liv

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