Top Syrian diplomats are being told to leave the US and several other countries in a coordinated protest against Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the action follows a massacre in which the United Nations says citizens i

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Early signs point to bigger-than-usual crowds for a Black Friday, when retailers hope post-Thanksgiving Day sales catapult them into the black through the holiday shopping season. The chance to snap up huge bargains typically draws Canadian shoppers

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Winter weather is disrupting holiday travel in the southern US, where some parts are having a rare white Christmas. Hundreds of flights are canceled in and out of Atlanta. And National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Korty says the East Coast sho

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Straits are narrow passageways that connect two bodies of water.Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf with the gulf of Oman.That land,to the north?that's Iran.About 20 percent of the world's oil goes through the Strait of Hormuz.US Navy also use

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MUSICbb.mp3/MUSIC TITLENew Words/TITLE ||1immigrant|n. |[C] sb. who has come into a foreign country in order to live there |移民 ||||He is an illegal immigrant. |他是一个非法移民。 ||||A lot of Asian immigrants poured into the country. |许多

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Lesson Sixteen Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary abuse v. to treat sth. so badly that you begin to destroy it array n. an ~ of: a group or collection of things, usually arranged so

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James Knox Polk was America's eleventh President. He was born in North Carolina, in 1795. He was the eldest of ten children. His father traded in slaves and was a farmer. Studious and industrious, Polk graduated with honors in 1818 from the Universit

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Piracy - the act of robbery from ships at sea - has existed for thousands of years. It was written about by the ancient Greeks and has been written about ever since. As long as some people have moved valuable cargo in ships, other people have wanted

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Who Is Top Trump Adviser Steve Bannon? President Donald Trumps chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, has received much media attention since starting his job at the White House. Last week, Trump reorganized his National Security Council to give B

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after thousands turned out to protest the upcoming March presidential elections. I'm free, Navalny wrote on Twitter late Sunday. He added, Today has been an important day. We have shown that

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AS IT IS 2016-03-31 Fidel Castro Rejects Obamas Advice 菲德尔卡斯特罗拒绝奥巴马的建议 Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has rejected President Barack Obamas efforts to improve relations between the two countries. Castro wrote a column

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US Envoy to UN: Trump Will Strike Syria Again if Necessary WASHINGTON The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is suggesting if President Donald Trump needs to carry out more military strikes on Syria, he will. He will not stop here, Ambassador Nikk

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. One of the world's longest serving leaders announced this week that he is leaving office after just short of fifty eventful years. Fidel Castro of Cuba is eighty-one years old and in poor health. He named

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WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China on Monday held the third round of Consultations on Asia-Pacific at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The closed-door consultations were co-chaired by U.S. Assistant Secretary o

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You have her thought out to the last ring, block, and halyard, Humphrey would say, 汉弗莱说到,你把最后一个船环,最后一块,最后一条帆绳都想得细致入微, and you never even knew if you could build her. What a dreamer y

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The standard way to envision this is to imagine yourself at the center of a large carousel and tossing a ball to someone positioned on the edge. By the time the ball gets to the perimeter, the target person has moved on and the ball passes behind him

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The attack comes as a total surprise. 这次攻击完全出人意料之外 Marine Corporal Er Nightingale 海军陆战队下士厄尔南丁格尔 who was on board the battle ship Arizona described the scene: 当年在亚利桑那号战舰上服役,他

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Ask virtually any soldier taking part in Thursday's formations, and they'll tell you they're ready. After all of our training, our formations are clean, crisp and steady. All we've been doing at this point is just fine-tuning our steps to every secon

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The man convicted of the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon has apologised to the victims. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechnyan, was speaking in court before he was formally sentenced to death. Gary O'Donoghue reports. 在波士顿马拉松

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As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling; 因为我和魁魁格现在都顺利地参加了捕鲸这一行业; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disre

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