Lesson Three Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary approval n. official permission bond n. a written document in which a government or c

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 现代大学英语精读

Richard Schlesinger : These well-known , well-heeled defendants became captains of industry on their way up and may have helped create a cottage industry as they went down. David Novak : Nobody likes

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Hello to you, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. CNN affiliate KGO reports police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case. Media reports say police are pl

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_____________1___________ and I feel I no longer oppose a threat. I like what youve done with this place. Sadly, its starting to feel like home in here. 3, 2, 1, Go! This is not how I imagined prison to be at all. A women I knew a long time ago came

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Hi everyone, I'm Asien Namdar at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta, here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Senators are in the middle of more debate on the big economic recovery plan. They are back on the Senator Floor after working late

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Cairo's Tahrir Square pulsates with the chants of tens of thousands, as NPR's Corey Flintoff reports, all hoping this is the day President Hosni Mubarak resigns. The mood in the square was determined and almost jubilant with many protesters convinced

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1. President Bush wants Press Secretary Tony Snow to stay strong, now that his cancer has returned and spread to his liver. The discovery was made while Snow was having surgery to remove a small growth. He battled colon cancer two years ago. 2. In M

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1. Barack Obama has chosen his running mate, but he's not telling anyone just yet. The announcement is expected via text message at any moment. Obama plans to have his new running mate start campaigning with him Saturday in Springfield, Illinois. 2.

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AS IT IS 2015-01-05 Prisoners Work to Protect the Planet 囚犯致力于保护地球 The United States has the largest prison population in the world. More than 2 million people are jailed. China is second with about 1.7 million. In some U.S. prisons

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February 17th, 1992In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives his series of life sentences for his grisly string of murders. Dahmer had admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he had mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few yea

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今天我们要学的词是trim。 Trim, 动词,有削减的意思。 The local school district plans to trim $2 million from its annual budget, 当地校区计划将年度预算削减两百万美元。监狱开销给美国各州带来沉重的财政

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今天我们要学的词儿是routine。 Routine是常规的意思。Routine checkup是定期体检。Routine conference是例行会议。我们应该把锻炼变成日常生活的一部分,可以说 We should make exercise a part of our daily rout

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Prison overcrowding 监狱人满为患 win for dignity 为尊严而战 The Supreme Court orders California to make its prisons more humane 最高法院要求加州监狱更加人性化 May 26th 2011 | LOS ANGELES | from the print edition Not that unu

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LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Ronnie Lee Gardner became the third person in Utah and the United States to have been executed by a firing squad when he was put to death by five marksmen on Friday morning, a local newspaper reported. The killer, 49,

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注释: denounce [di5nauns] vt. 公开指责 disturbing [dI5st:bIN] adj. 烦扰的 accountable [E5kauntEbl] adj. 应负责的,有责任的 sexually [5seksjuEl] adv. 在性方面 humiliate [hju(:)5m

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今天我们要学的词是eleventh hour。 Eleventh hour, 第11个小时,指最后时刻。 An eleventh hour deal, 最后一刻达成的协议。美国政府距离权力交接只剩下大约一个月了。 The Bush administration is pushing throug

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second, limited accountability is consistent with the buyer beware principle that permeates our laws of contracts and torts, as well as our notion in civil procedure that plaintiffs carry the burden of proving damage. in other words, the onus should

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A squirrel, merrily leaping on the branches of an oak tree, accidentally missed its hold and fell upon a lion who lay at the trunk, basking in the shade. His Majesty awoke in anger, and, raising his shaggy mane, displayed his terrific teeth to the tr

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本期内容: The United Arab Emirates agreed to take in 15 inmates from Guantnamo Bay, reducing the number held at Americas c**troversial offshore prison to 61. Barack Obama wants to close the facility, which has housed almost 800 suspected terror

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雅思写作犯罪类话题并不是每年的高发类题型,但是根据2015高频的趋势来讲,2016年雅思写作犯罪类有望打破记录,那么对于犯罪类话题,你做好准备了吗? 首先我们先看一下历年雅思写作的出

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