Stocks have opened mixed on Wall Street. The stock prices are down sharply on overseas markets amid new concern that Greece may be edging toward a default and that the European debt crisis might spread to that region's banks. NPR's Paul Brown joins u

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There was a man who had worked at a factory for twenty years. Every night when he left the plant, he would push a wheelbarrow full of straw to the guard at the gate. 有个男人在工厂工作了20年,每个晚上当他离开工厂的时候,他都

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On the tenth day after leaving Troy,Odysseus and his men came to an island,where the people only took lotus fruit and flowers as their food.This plant had such a magic effect on its eaters that it could make them forget their past and produce a d

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Stem 茎 A stem is a part of a plant. 茎是植物的一部分。 It helps to hold up the flower. 它帮着支撑花朵。 It also moves water from roots to leaves. 它也能把根部的水运输到叶子那里。 What is the tallest tree with the ta

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Growing Plants and Thinking Inside the Box CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about an American farmer and an unusual device he developed. For nearly twenty years, people aroun

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AS IT IS 2016-04-26 Chernobyl, Risky Still, Thirty Years Later 切尔诺贝利三十年后风险仍在 Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worlds worst nuclear accident. The effects of the disaster are still felt today.

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Growing Vegetables Without Soil Inside the Home 在家无土栽培蔬菜 Have you ever wanted to grow your own food inside your home? 你是否想过自己在家里种食物? Scientists in Finland have developed a device that may do just that. 芬兰

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AS IT IS 2016-11-28 Less Energy Now Produced by Coal in US South 目前,在美国南部,较少的能量由煤产生 Three large machines called turbines produce electricity at the Buck Combined Cycle Station in central North Carolina, near the town o

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Lesson 60 The Cabbage 第60课 卷心菜 In some sandy places near the sea the cabbage plant grows wild. We should not care to eat wild cabbages; but by growing these plants in good ground, and sowing their seeds year after year, we should get after

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36 宇宙空间文摘 DATE=6-13-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1956 - Space Digest BYLINE=Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program E

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - High-Priced Oil Raises Appeal of BiofuelsBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. An ethanol plant As oil prices cli

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HEALTH REPORT - Increasing Supplies of Malaria Drug Through Genetic EngineeringBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Malaria

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Britain's first bus powered by human waste has taken to the streets. 近日,英国首辆靠人类粪便供能的新型环保巴士正式上路。 The 40-seater 'Bio-Bus' is fuelled by biomethane gas, generated by the treatment of sewage and food wa

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Beijing's last large coal-fired power plant suspended operations last Saturday, meaning the capital has become China's first city with all its power plants fueled by clean energy. 上周六,北京最后一座大型燃煤电厂停机备用,这意味

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Epidemic prevention measures are being taken at the site of a poultry plant fire in northeastern Chinas Jilin Province, which killed 120. 前几日,中国吉林省某禽类加工厂发生火灾,120余人丧生。目前该工厂正在进行消毒防

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未来蔬菜长啥样? They look more like the brightly lit shelves of a chemists shop than the rows of a vegetable garden. 它们看起来更像是化学商店里一排排灯火通明的货架,而不是蔬菜园里的一排排菜架。 But accor

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BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Myanmar police have jointly destroyed a cross-border drugs gang and captured 11 suspects as well as more than 400 kg of drugs, it was announced on Wednesday. Sources with the Chinese Ministry of Public Securit

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Bob Schneider在德国出生于一个歌剧家庭,很小就开始学乐器。他的solo生涯展开之前,曾在许多乐队中进行表演。 这首Fairytale Of NewYork虽然是圣诞专辑中的歌曲,但是相当安静舒缓,很是何人一个

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GRE阅读复备考之类比思维。考生在做gre阅读复习过程中也可以运用类比的思维解题。在GRE阅读中绝对不少见,也就是常说的类比题。主要说下述哪一选项所述现象和原文第N行的说法比较相像

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We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite...我们正在读一本书的第一章第一行,这本书的页数是无限的 I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder th

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