KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Houston is known as an energy capital, but it's actually a large corporate center, too. The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey will shut down the city's economy and leave plenty of long-term damage as well. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

A womans activist group based in Fresno said it is probably not going to protest as it had planned. The group, called Boobs not Bombs, occasionally rallies throughout the state to protest such things as environmental destruction, equal rights for wom

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Like other U.S. states, California is expecting a record voter turnout in Tuesday's election. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports that there were long lines at many polling stations across the country. Ted Cohen Los Angeles voter Ted Cohen says he was gla

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Review Exercise 9: Ignorance on Parade CD 4 track 8 Now, let's dissect a standard paragraph, including its title, as we did in Review Exercise 1. Firstinthe boxes in the first paragraph, decide which is a descriptive phrase, which is a set phrase, an

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Review Exercise 10: Ignorance on Parade Explanations. CD 4 Track 9 Here, go over each topic, point by point. 1. Two-word phrases, intonation and phrasing a proton from a crouton? (contrast) Well, you're not the only one. (contrast) Arecent nationwide

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必背句型: A:What's the important step in China's justice reforms? 中国司法改革的重要一步是什么? B:It is an important step to replace the rule of men with the rule of law in China's justice reforms. 以法治代替人治是中国司法

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By Sabina Castelfranco Khartoum 14 March 2008 With just one month to go before a scheduled nationwide population and housing census ahead of 2009 general elections in Sudan, U.N. officials and regional leaders are confident they will succeed. But the

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1. Police in New York have made a major drug trafficking bust at JFK Airport. Eighteen people including at least eight airline workers have been charged with helping to smuggle heroin and cocaine through the airport. Most of the drugs came from the D

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Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have marched in locations across the country to demand a stop to a wave of killings, abductions and shootouts. James Blears reports from Mexico City. Thousands hold up lit candles at the main Zocalo square in Mexico

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The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mixture of ethnic groups in republics of the former empire. Their common language, Russian, expanded at the expense of native languages, which former Soviet republics are seeking to revive. Ukraine is

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America's founding fathers decided that a count of all the country's inhabitants should take place every 10 years. The 2010 census is now underway, and people all over the country are being asked to provide information about themselves. This year's c

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Law students from Florida AM University go door to door offering help to homeowners facing foreclosure. The law students from Florida AM University are going door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods to educate residents about property foreclosures an

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Strikes continue in France and the country is bracing for another day of demonstrations next Thursday over a new retirement reform bill that the country's Senate passed on Friday. President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to sign the bill into law soon.

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By Tony Budny Washington 01 October 2007 U.S. law enforcement officials last week announced their largest crackdown ever on performance enhancing drugs. The nationwide raid calls attention to what officials say are the dangers of steroid use among pr

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump's revised travel ban is set to take effect just after midnight. Before it does, immigrants - immigrant rights activists are asking courts across the country to block the order again. The measure signed by the pres

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Bankcard owners in China should take precautions now. If your bank account was opened any time before June 30th, 2007, you will have to go through an identity verification process when doing business at banks, as all the financial institutions are fo

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今天我们要学的词是walkout. Walkout 做为名词,有罢工,罢课的意思。Students from around 3,000 schools took part in a nationwide walkout to protest Congressional failure to address gun violence. 全美各地约3千所学校的学生

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 March 2006 Maroufa, 4, receives polio vaccination in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March. 5, 2006 Afghan volunteers are vaccinating millions of children in a nationwide ant

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A Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) supporter dances during an indefinite nationwide general strike by Maoist in Kathmandu on 2 May 2010 Nepal on Monday faces a third consecutive day of disruption of civic life as a nationwide strike called b

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今天我们要学的词儿是anniversary。 Anniversary是周年纪念,周年纪念日的意思。生活中有些日子是绝对不能忘记的。比如说 wedding anniversary, 结婚纪念日,再比如anniversary of his death, 指某人的祭日。

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