8. Mystery as Big Ben falls Silent for an Hour The chimes of Big Ben were silenced for over an hour on Friday night but the cause remains a mystery, an engineer said today. The Palace of Westminster's 147-year-old clock, considered to be one of the m

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 听美文故事记6级单词

Revamp Clothes Parts修改服装部位之情景对话对话1C: The length is rather on the short side. 长度有些不够。 S: We'll let it down for you. 我们把它放长好了。 C: It seems a little too narrow across the shoulder. 肩部看起来稍

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Instead,I was ivory-skinned,without even the excuse of blue eyes or red hair,despite the constantsunshine.I had always been slender,but soft somehow,obviously not an athlete.I didn't have the necessary hand-eye coordination to play sports without hum

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American Elec. Reliability Corp. explains why the nuclear plant shut down in Florida. A: As far as we know, Turkey Point is going through the normal procedures for a safe and controlled shutdown. That's what always happens with nuclear plants when t

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Colonel Gaddafi has told America's ABC that his people love him and would die to protect him, but the world is getting increasingly impatient with the Libyan leader. The European Union has joined the United Nations by approving sanctions against his

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In JACKSONVILLE, a judge declared a mistrial on the charge of muerder for Michael Dunn, who was accused in the shooting death of African American teenage, Jordan Davis in a dispute over loud music. NPR's Greg Allen reports, the jury found on guilty o

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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quality control 品管 basic testing 基本測試 We did all the basic testing during development. 我們在研發時做過所有的基本測試。 batch n. 一批 We need to double the random-sample number to ten per batch of 100. 我們隨機抽樣必

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Fireworks marked the beginning of the Vancouver Olympics on Friday with a large display that could be seen across the city. They were launched as the Olympic show went on with grief and a closing glitch. The climax called for the cauldron to be lit b

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Stock markets were volatile Friday, one day after a massive plunge and bounceback on Wall Street. U.S. President Barack Obama says regulatory authorities are evaluating Thursday's wild swing. Speaking to reporters in Washington Friday, Mr. Obama bill

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This is AP news minute. 1. Bill Cosby was back in court for a hearing in his felony sexual assault case. His lawyers are hoping to suppress several days of testimony Cosby in the accuser's lawsuit a decade ago, as well as a secretly recorded 2005 pho

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Voters, including Tamils displaced by the civil war, decided whether to extend the tenure of the incumbent president or replace him with his former top military chief. Steve Herman | Colombo 25 January 2010 Policeman giving instruction to voters at p

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可穿戴相机有助美国警察执法 Houston Chief of Police Charles McClelland supports the use of body cameras, but he said they also present problems. 休斯顿警察局局长查尔斯麦克兰德支持为警员配备可穿戴相机,但他表示

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The battle over screen time for families - that's what we're exploring this week in All Tech Considered. (SOUNDBITE OF ULRICH SCHNAUSS' NOTHING HAPPENS IN JUNE) KELLY: Apple recently became the latest company to announce they

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While most of us rely on Google maps to get us where we're going, some are using the service to search for locations from thousands of years ago that we might have forgotten, like ancient pyramids. A satellitearchaeologicalresearcher from North Carol

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It's the worst one-day sell-off on Wall Street since after the 9/11 attacks. Stock prices plunged today across the board and around the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 416 points at the closing bell and at one point it fell un

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1. Barack Obama received thunderous applause as he walked on stage in Chicago after receiving enough votes to become America's first African-American president. Obama told supporters his campaign victory is the answer for those who still have doubts

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Just as humans understand the shape of oursurroundings by how light reflects off objects, batsuse reflections of sounds they produce insteadwhat's called echolocation. But despite theirexcellent sensing abilities, one type of obstaclevexes the animal

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Patrick never did homework. Too boring, he said. He played hockey and basketball and Nintendo instead. His teachers told him, Patrick! Do your homework or you won't learn a thing. And it's true. Sometimes he did feel like an ignoramus. But what could

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The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has told the BBC that his military is close to defeating the Islamist group Boko Haram. Mr Buhari said the militants could no longer mount conventional attacks against government forces or centers of popula

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