There's a disturbing side to the diamond trade--- the traffic of conflict diamonds, otherwise known as blood diamonds. This is Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the West African coast, a country still emerging from ten years of war. During tha

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Not one of the Aldens moved. They watched the man on the bus station steps. What was he going to do? Henry motioned to Jessie and Violet. He wanted them to stay where they were. He whispered to Benny, Come with me. Benny nodded and tiptoed behind Hen

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Making Local Food More Nutritious About one in three people worldwide eats food that fills them up but lacks protein, vitamins and minerals. Health experts have a name for this situation: hidden hunger. It can lead to weakness in the bodys natural de

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Lesson 79 parent 父亲 My poarents used to live in South America 我的父母曾经住在南美洲, and I used to fly there from Europe in teh holidays. 所以假期里我常从欧洲乘飞机到他们那里。 After marriage he still lived with h

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U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing plans to make more credit available to America's small businesses. The president is shifting the focus of the government's financial(金融) industry bailout from big businesses to small entrepreneurs and com

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1. President-elect Barack Obama says part of his job will be to review all government spending, looking at places to cut back. Obama is vowing to get rid of programs that are no longer useful or exist thanks to the power of politicians. 2. Three you

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AS IT IS 2016-10-01 Report: Smoking May Permanently Damage Genetic Material 报告称吸烟或永久性损伤你的遗传物质 Here is another reason to not light up a cigarette. Smoking can permanently damage your genetic material, according to a n

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It's March 15th, I'm Carl Azuz. You're tuned in to CNN Student News! We've got stories on sports and technology coming up. But we start today in Japan. In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in that country, one of the many major concerns is

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It didn't sink in at first. I continued to stare at him blankly as the words one by one clicked into place in my head like a ghastly puzzle. 起初,我没有立刻领会他的话。我继续茫然地盯着他,那些话一个字一个字地输入我

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barter, ['bɑ:tə] v 以物换物,易货贸易(不以钱作为交换物)=swap=truck 【例】Farmers bartered rice for machinery 农民们用大米换机器。 【记】读:巴特尔(中国国家篮球队队员)。他来买你的东西可

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Technology activists are appealing to tech companies and their leaders to build a future in which the effect of machinery on humans is lessened. Some workers have long feared that machines are coming to take away their jobs. Robots now are doing more

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US Navy Gives Women Permission to Let their Hair Down The United States Navy is giving female service members more choices with the shape and look of their hair. The Navy has approved changes to let servicewomen wear a ponytail or have other hairstyl

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WUHAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Mayors of four provincial capital cities in central China on Saturday signed a strategic partnership agreement vowing a coordinated effort in building the Central China Economic Belt. According to the Wuhan Consensus, the c

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普遍教育 general education 普及教育 universal education 企业管理系 Department of Business Administration 启发式 elicitation method (of teaching); heuristic method 启发学生独立思考的能力 to help develop the ability of the st

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被动式: 当不定式的逻辑上的主语是不定式所表示的动作的承受者时, 不定式一般要用被动形式. It is an honour for me to be asked to speak here. She hated to be flattered. He wanted the letter to be typed at once. This

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英语四级语法基础知识: 被动式:当不定式的逻辑上的主语是不定式所表示的动作的承受者时,不定式一般要用被动形式。 It is an honour for me to be asked to speak here. She hated to be flattered. He wanted

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A Closer Look at the Iran Nuclear Deal 仔细复盘伊朗核交易 World powers have been working for years to limit Irans nuclear activities. But news reports often fail to provide details of the nuclear negotiations. Today we explore some of the is

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Many Life Forms Discovered Deep under Antarctic Ice 南极冰层下发现许多形式的生命 Scientists from the United States say they have found fish and other aquatic creatures living under icy waters in Antarctica. They made the announcement af

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AS IT IS 2015-11-06 Pakistan Victims Call for Help from Rubble Using Mobile Phones 巴基斯坦被困人员利用手机求助 Workers at a collapsed Pakistani factory begged for rescue and called for help on mobile phones Thursday. One of the trapped

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A furious father destroyed his daughter's car after catching her in it with a boy. 在追到自己的女儿和一个男孩儿驾驶的汽车后,一名暴怒的父亲竟然砸毁了该汽车。 Mike Card used a large digger to wreck the Audi A4 afte

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