1. Pope Francis drew hundreds of thousands of Catholics to his mass in Mexico on Sunday. The mass was expected to be the biggest of the Pope's 5 days trip to the country. 2. President Barack Obama says he plans to fulfill his constitutional responsib

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2016(二)月

美国国会就枪支控制法加紧行动 Three months after a tragic mass shooting at a U.S. elementary school brought the nation to tears, lawmakers are starting to move ahead with various proposals to curb gun violence. But the slow progress in W

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Topics: The Massie Trial; concept versus content versus context; whereas versus while; [month]+[date] versus [date] of [month] Words: to flag down to rape evidence to frame verdict hung jury to confess to be outraged lynching temporarily insane to te

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Wk 12 (19 March 2003) American-led Forces Invade IraqThis Week in HistoryIraq is invaded in order to destroy weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons are found. In 2003, forces led by the USA invaded Iraq without the backing of the United Nations

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The massive earthquake that struck Chile in February 2010 might have shortened Earth's day by 1.26 microseconds, according to calculations by a NASA scientist. An EarthSky Facebook friend asked us how. And the answer is for the day to get shorter, Ea

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模仿文本: It's nine years since Libya announced it was giving up any attempt to develop weapons of mass destruction. Shortly afterwards inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, were sent to Libya to try to make sure their plans real

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By David McAlary U.S. astronomers have made a finding they say increases the chance that distant stars may harbor planetary systems like our own. They have discovered two planets the size of Neptune e

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美联社,新闻一分钟,Pope,Germany,Catholic,1:The Pope wraps up his final day in Germany with a Mass for a million young people, and announces the Rome Catholic Church's next World Youth Day will be in Sydney, in 2008. 2.Israeli bulldozer s wor

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By Deborah Tate Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer says Iraq had no stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion. The Bush administration cited

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Subways Loudest Transit Option in NYC In a report in the American Journal of Public Health performed in New York City, subways were the loudest mass transit option, with potentially hearing-damaging noise levels. Steve Mirsky reports. [The following

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IN THE NEWS - Chief Weapons Inspector Report on Iraq Weapons By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, January 31, 2004 David Kay This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Former chief U

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今天我们要学的词是layoff。 Layoff, 裁员。美国劳工部公布的数字显示,The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers rose last month to tie a record set in March, 美国雇主大规模裁员,上个月被裁减人数增加到跟三

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Drumbeats called the faithful to what is left of Port-au-Prince's main cathedral for a somber Mass Sunday, the first since the devastating earthquake. The Cathedral, once a symbol of hope for Haiti now lies in ruins and parishioners are vowing to reb

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isolated adj. 孤立的 jurisprudence n. 法学 lander n. 登陆者 latitude n. 纬度 launch n.v.发射(导弹、火箭等) layperson n. 外行 lichen n. [植]青苔,地衣 locale n. 场所 LR=

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During their evolutions, on such occasions, the dense mass which they form exhibits a beautiful appearance, 在变幻多端的队形中,麇集鸽群的靓丽色彩令人击节赞叹。 as it changes its direction, now displaying a glistening sheet

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Whilst waiting for dinner at Youngs inn, at the confluence of Salt River with the Ohio, 在当地青年旅馆就餐前的闲暇期间,在盐湖与俄亥俄州一处接壤地带, I saw, at my leisure, immense legions still going by, with a front r

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词汇畅谈(Vocabulary Build-up):mass 口语训练营(Everyday English):英语情景对话:与新邻居初次见面 语法天地(Grammar Talk):形容词的后缀(1)

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5. It looks terrible. 看起来很难吃。 还能这样说: It is awful. It is disgusting. 应用解析: terrible还有别的意思:可怕的,吓人的;令人敬畏的,极度的,严重的。 例如:Your room is in a terrible mass. 你的

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BMI stands for Body Mass Index, and it's a way to estimate whether or not an adult is over or under weight for his or her height. No equipment is necessary. You can figure out your BMI at home with a calculator. You multiply your weight in pounds by

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本期内容: Uber, a ride-hailing service, and Volvo, * carmaker owned by Geely of China, announced a non-exclusive alliance to develop self-driving cars. Uber plans to deploy around 100 autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh in the coming months. Ford

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