Will we see the zombie, too? asked Benny. Jake said its just an old story, said Jessie. But he said he saw it, said Violet. Ive seen zombies in the movies, too, said Henry, but theyre not real. Henry put his hand on Bennys shoulder. Its a good story

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Cyprus Crisis Burns Russian Investors For years, construction companies in Cyprus lured Russians to invest in the Mediterranean island. Over the last decade, 40,000 Russians moved to Cyprus. They now make up five percent of the population. The lure,

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泰缅边境毒品贸易创新高 According to a new United Nations report, seizures of illegal methamphetamine drugs around the world last year reached a new high, in response to the growing supply and demand of the illegal drugs in East and Southea

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Record high prices of gold have failed to dent its consumption in India the world's largest market for the precious metal. 黄金价格一再飙升并没有削弱印度民众购买力。印度是贵金属黄金在全球最大的市场。 R.K. Garg, 5

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75 million people, that's how many in the eastern U.S. has some risk of severe weather yesterday. That's what's first up this Wednesday on CNN Student News. Parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee were raked by suspected tornadoes. The storms ki

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Seven years ago, when I was visting Germany, I met with a n official who explained to me that the country had a perfect solution to its economic problems. Watching the U.S. economy soar during the '90s, the Germans had decided that they, too, needed

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Catch of a Lifetime一生的收获 He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his familys cabin. On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening. Then he tied on a small silver lure and p

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Now, should a library be a quiet place to read a book or a lively centre where you can hang out and drink coffee? And can it be both? Author Tracy Chevalier who is also chairman of the Society of Authors, told More4 News she is worried library is sac

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1. President Bush says he doesn't expect the violence in Iraq to abate anytime soon. He says he expects heavy fighting to continue for the next few months with more American and Iraqi casualties. 2. The head of the UN nuclear agency says he agrees w

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1. For the second straight day, the Lebanese army and militants clashed in Tripoli. The military says the militants have ties to al-Qaeda. It's the worst eruption of internal violence since the country's civil war ended in 1990. 2. The number of peo

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Applebee's announced this month that more than 130 of its restaurants will close by the end of the year. The reason - millennials. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The casual dining chain rebranded itself in the past few years as a modern ba

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True Traveling The future history books might record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a birds-eye view of the world or even less i

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The 165 major national projects cover several areas including technological innovation, industrial upgrades, infrastructure construction, environmental protection and the overall improvement of people's livelihoods. We attach a lot of importance to p

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In Africa's battle against malaria, two low-tech tacticsinsecticides and bed netshave done a decent job killing off mosquitoes. But it's mainly one species that's been affected. That's a species called Anopheles gambiae, sometimes called the African

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文本: Will probably not. Sooner or later they would have noticed that the top of the head is sliced off, scooped out, like a boiled egg of breakfast, to hold sacrificial offerings. And then they would have remembered stories of Rome told about th

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The Siren Song of the Spotted Katydid A lonely male cicada scrambles through the top of a tree in eastern Australia. He chirps and then pauseslistening. Hes hunting for a mate. He chirps again and he hears itthe tell-tale click of a receptive female.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Some perspective on these early reports and what it says about the economic health of the American consumer. We turn to Jerry Storch. He has his own advisory firm. He's a veteran of the retail industry, including as former chief execut

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今天我们要学的词是rebate。 Rebate, 是部分退款的意思。美国总统布什上星期宣布,The tax rebate will start going out on Monday, 星期一开始退还税款。The first rebates will be directly deposited into people's bank a

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Time is running out now for the two Australians on death row in Bali.Indonesia has confirmed that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be moved from their prison this week for execution on an island off Java.Their lawyers are pushing ahead with thei

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Two recent cases of fake tickets issued by Ctrip.com have aroused a storm of criticism among Chinese netizens. A passenger, named Fu Jingnan, was denied a boarding pass by an airline at Tokyo airport on Thursday, because his ticket from Tokyo to Beij

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