You've probably bought groceries and seen the cashier scan an item to get its price. It works because each product has a code thats a shortcut. It prevents the cashier from having to look up each item. Well, these days, new kinds of codes are appeari

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Some 36,000 runners are expected to take part in Monday's Boston Marathon, the first since last year's deadly bombings. The number of spectators lining the route is estimated in the hundreds of thousands. South Korea's president says the captain and

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand d

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Can I help you? I'd like two kilos of eggs. What kind? Do you have the eggs with the red yolk? Sorry, madam. We have stopped selling those kinds of eggs for a week. Why? You know, red yolk is proved unnatural. It's artificial, and may lead to cancer.

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现在的网络游戏、数码产品都是些大赚特赚的行业。不过,传统的服装业也不会萧条,因为女人们只要看上了中意的衣服,不管价格。看看下面的句子是怎样描述的: Many women dont pay attention

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Katia: Hello Felipe, how are you? Felipe: Hello, Katherine, I'm fine, you? Katia: Good. Actually I'm starving and I wanted to ask you about food. What is your favorite Colombian food? Felipe: Well, in Colombia we have many, many different kinds of fo

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Whitebait is the name we give to four different kinds of very small native fish. The most common whitebait is called inanga in Maori. It is only about 5 or 6 cm long so you need quite a lot to make a meal. However, it is hard to catch and expensive t

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Boy, this is the worst weed Ive ever had, Wesley thought, even though it smelled great. Hed rolled two joints, smoked them both, and still didnt feel high. Hed heard about some super weed that gets people so high that they think theyre straight. Mayb

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Music from Los Lonely Boys / Question about Helen Keller / A new place for Cereal Lovers By Broadcast: Friday, January 21, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA. Spec

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Todd: Hello, Adrienne. Adrienne: Hi, Todd. Todd: You know Adrienne I must compliment you. You always have the nicest jewelry. Adrienne: Oh, thank you. That's a nice thing to say. Todd: Where do you get it? Adrienne: Various places. A lot of jewelry I

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Cheating on exams Nowadays, cheating is popular on all kinds of examations in the middle schools. Only a few students never cheat on exams.Most students cheat more or less. Many students don't work hard at their lessons. They are afraid that they wil

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Lightening the burden Senior middle school students were heavily burdened with all kinds of homework. Because of varies examinations, they spend about six and half hours in the class in a day. At home, about three and half hours were spent on the hom

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People get chikungunya fever when they are bitten by mosquitoes infected with the disease. For many years, the disease has been found in countries in Africa and Asia. The symptoms are increased bod

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men. Rheumatoid arthritis is considered an autoimmune disease, a disease where the body

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A dance troope performs near an outdoor FIFA-sponsored fan park in Johannesburg, South Africa There are many ways to watch World Cup action in Johannesburg. The lucky people have tickets to the matches. For others, there are numerous restaurants and

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Women might expect to need new clothes after giving birth by a bigger pair of shoes. Well, yeah, because pregnancy can actually bland them and wide them in women's feet. Ihat's going to a study in the American Journal of Physical Pedichine and Rehabl

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What's you hobby? Photography. What's the make of your camera? Olympus. Do you own your own dark room? No,I usually get my film developed at a photo studio. But I make my own enlargements. Why? Because I can make many different kinds of pictures from

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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

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Times when diseases spread throughout the world are called pandemics. The W-H-O says the next flu pandemic is likely to kill as many as six-hundred-fifty-thousand people in industrial countries. The greatest effect will likely be in developing countr

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Obama condemns Paris attacks: vocabulary Section 2: We don't yet know all the details of what has happened. We have been in contact with French officials to communicate our deepest condolences to the families of those who have been killed, to offer o

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