1. Authorities in Alabama are attributing the second death in the state to severe weather that hit the Southeast last week. Officials say they found the body of a 22-year old man Sunday morning. Its discovery raised the death toll in the Southeast fr

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11.The Future of The English J . B. Priestley 1 To write about the English in standard and cosmopolitan political terms, the usual Left-Centre-Right stuff, is almost always wasting time and trouble. The English are different. The English are even mor

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Putin's Popularity Rooted in Nationalism 民众对普京的认可根植于民族主义 MOSCOW Russia's economy was struggling even before it was hit with western sanctions for annexing Crimea from Ukraine. Despite the downward trend, President Vladim

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The images that often come from breaking news can be dramatic or brutal or upsetting. And that has provided inspiration for art. In Los Angeles, an exhibit at the Getty Center looks at artists' reactions to mass media, what they

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French president Francois Holland is calling the coordinated attacks on Paris claimed by the IS or hash an act of war. France will be pitilessly concerning the barbarity of the hash and use all its means in the framework of law. Holland heard through

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Colin Lowther. Voice 2 And Im Robin Basselin. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 The sound of bells. People

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【生词预览】 acquaintance 熟人, practical 实用的, extinguisher 灭火器 【笑话原文】 TheNiceWeddingGift Weattendedtheweddingofanacquaintance'sson.Becausewedidnotknowtheyoungmanorhisbride,wedecidedtosendthemapracticalhouseholdgif

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图片1 liter n. 公升 例句:The bottle holds a liter of beer. 这个瓶子装一升啤酒。 litter n. 垃圾 例句:Paul was fined for littering on the sidewalks. 保罗因在人行道上乱扔杂物而被罚款。 literal adj. 文字的,照字

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My salutation will be incomplete without expressing my deep appreciation for the strength given to me during my long and lovely years in prison by my beloved wife and family. I am convinced that your pain and suffering was far greater than my own. 如果

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I salute the United Democratic Front, the National Education Crisis Committee, the South African Youth Congress, the Transvaal and Natal Indian Congresses, and COSATU and the many other formations of the Mass Democratic Movement. 我向统一民主阵线

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Observations and research findings indicate that people in advanced industrial societies are increasingly concerned with opportunities for leisure and what they can do in their leisure time. The importance people attach to paid holidays and the rapid

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Those stars don't feel the black hole. They feel the rest of the stars in the galaxy. They don't know or care that the black hole is there. If you took the black hole away from the galaxy, they would

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Melting Poles report NASA scientists, working with 10 years of satellite data, find a dramatic thinning of ice around the edges of Greenland, and Antarctica too. satellite view of earth Using satellite

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History's being made in Cuba. Pope Benedict travelling to Havana where all eyes are watching for what could be a very rare sighting of Fidel Castro. ABC's global affairs anchor Christiane Amanpour is there for us right now. Christiane, good morning t

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US Illegal Immigrants, Mass Deportations Face New Scrutiny The U.S. government is currently reviewing orders to deport thousands of illegal immigrants in two cities, at a time of great division on the issue at federal and local levels. In the past fi

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In 'Look of Silence,' Relatives of Indonesian Genocide Victims Seek Answers 《沉默之像》印尼大屠杀受害者的亲属寻求答案 NEW YORK Two award-winning documentaries about the unreconciled history of mass killings in Indonesia 50 years

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The explosion generated a shockwave so massive it wasdetected over 15,000 kilometres away. The low-frequency waves were picked up bymonitoring stations. So it is kind of like a listening network around theworld. Thats right. Theyre not set up for fir

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 06 November 2007 United Nations officials say Congolese soldiers have obstructed food distribution to displaced families in the Democratic Republic of Congo by trying to register their own families for U.N. aid. Dozens were in

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We expect companies selling products to make them as available as possible. But now some of them are bringing back rationing. As you might expect, it's all part of a plan to make us spend more, not less. Once upon a time, goods were scarce, and hard

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今天我们要学的词是launch。 Launch, 有发起,创办的意思。巴基斯坦反对党领袖布托宣布,如果穆沙拉夫总统拒绝结束国家紧急状态,她就要在星期五发动大规模集会示威, Benazir Bhutto announced

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