Health authorities on Taiwan say they're looking into 42 suspected human infections of the H7N9 bird flu. However, no cases have yet been confirmed on the island. Doctor Pei Chun-Zhan is with the Taiwan Center for Disease Control. The virus cannot tr

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Detroit has become the largest US city ever to file for bankruptcy. The move came after an emergency manager couldn't get creditors to sign on to a restructuring plan. The largest city in the State of Michigan is saddled with more than 18-billion-US-

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The book as story 书的内容 characterization 描述 dialogue 对话 setting 环境 period 片段 description 描述 message 信息 plot 情节 The book as object 书的对象 cover 封面 jacket 护套 blurb 导语 review 评论 binding 关联

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Their teeth were recurved which means they start to point backwards and they were also very blade-like and had serrated edges. 它们的牙齿后弯曲,这意味着它们开始指向后方,它们也是很像利刃边缘呈锯齿状。 Three tons

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Work on 'Game Theory' Wins Nobel Prize for Two Economists By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, October 14, 2005 I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Robert A

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A: Hello, Nicole here. Who's calling, please? B: Hey, Nicole. It's Richard. I'm pretty sure you know why I'm calling. A: Yes, a dollar gets a dime that you're calling about the rent. B: Nicole, for the second month in a row, your rent is late. A: I t

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A: Hello. This is Nicole. B: This is Richard. Let's not play games. You know why I'm calling. A: Oh, not again! You're calling about the rent. B: Yes, your rent check is late, just like last month. A: What happened to my grace period? B: Why would th

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Grammar Girl here. Many parts of the world are moving from daylight-saving time (also called summer time) to standard time this week, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about the phrase daylight-saving time and time in general. Most usage g

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考试日期: 2012年10月13日 Reading Passage 1 Title: 农村旅游(20110226老题) Question types: 段落信息配对题;完成句子;Summary 文章内容回顾 关于农业旅游业带来的各种影响和应用,比如随着农业旅游

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Surveys of American teenagers find that about half of them do not get enough sleep on school nights. They get an average of sixty to ninety minutes less than experts say they need. One reason for this

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: As you approach the monumental age of 30,the awkward transitional period of your life becomes nothing more than a distant memory. 当你来到了30岁的里程碑,这个尴尬的过渡时期,你

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A: Hi, this is Nicole. B: Nicole, it's Richard. You know why I'm calling. A: Yes, I know. It's the rent, isn't it? B: Yes, just like last month, your rent is overdue. A: What about my grace period? B: Are you getting Alzheimer's? There is no grace pe

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Lesson Nine. Remember what Maria and Steven said about his visit to the doctor's office. Hello...Steven,where have you been? I've been at the doctor's office. At the doctor's office?You're still there? Yes,I've been here forever. How long have you be

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73 鲍威尔希望能促成中东和平谈判重新开始 Powell Aims to Move Beyond Mideast Cease-Fire David Gollust State Department 26 Jun 2001 15:37 UTC Secretary of State Colin Powell leaves Tues

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From 1933 to 1941, Shanghai took in around 30,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust in Europe. And this week, a group of Jewish refugees and their descendants are attending an international conference about this period of time and revisiting the

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今天我们要学的词是hazing。 Hazing, 是捉弄新生或是新成员的意思。美国马里兰大学的一个兄弟会不久前被校方解散。The fraternity was reportedly involved in hazing, 据说这个兄弟会有捉弄新成员的传统。

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BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai said his movie The Grand Masters was filmed to capture the beauty of Chinese people in a period of disorder and confusion. In an interview with Xinhua, Wong said the movie showed how the m

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For complex organisms, the average lifespan of a species is only about four million yearsroughly about where we are now. 对于复杂动物来说,一个物种的平均寿命只有大约400万年大致相当于我们人类迄今存在的时间。 Ex

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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called for greater African involvement in Zimbabwe's crises. The Movement for Democratic Change leader added his voice to growing calls for a transitional authority in his country. 津巴布韦反对党

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5. Is it the only reason why you don't hire me? 这是你们不雇用我的唯一原因吗? 还能这样说: Is just the reason ou reject me? You don't accept me just because this reason? 应用解析: hire有雇用、短期租借的意思; l

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