[00:14.11]Canada Becomes a Nation [00:17.39]Before Canada became a nation [00:22.75]in 1867, the area of North America [00:26.80]that now composes Canada was [00:29.09]a large expanse of widely [00:31.50]scattered communities of [00:33.36]British and

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Topics: Movies Titanic; The Ford Motor Company and the Model T; holiday versus feast versus celebration; impunity versus retaliation versus notoriety; to think of versus to think about Words: maiden voyage iceberg to sink fictional flashback architec

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BBC News. Weeks after Emmanuel Macron became President of France, his political party has gained an absolute majority in Parliament. The centrist La Republique En Marche is on course to win well over 300 seats. However, turnout was projected to be a

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02Dealing with Unhappy Employees GLOSSARY to get stuck with (something) to be forced to do something that is unpleasant or boring; to have to do something that one doesnt want to do * Why do I get stuck washing dishes every night? complaint something

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Tariffs don't work: U.S. retailers tell Trump U.S. retailers on Friday urged President Donald Trump to reign in his threat to slap tariffs on an additional $100 billion of Chinese goods, warning that a trade war would be disastrous for the U.S. econo

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Nick Simeone Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has made a surprise visit to Iraq, meeting with American troops and touring the prison where Iraqis were abused by American soldiers. With no advance wor

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Greenspan Predicts US Job Growth Soon Barry Woods U.S. central bank chief Alan Greenspan told a congressional committee Thursday that the United States must resist protectionism . Mr. Greenspan told t

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Good morning, from the CNN center here in Atalanta, I am Melissa Long, it is a Thursday morning, it is the 15th of October , here's a look at some of the stories making news this morning. Now that the Senate Finance Committee has approved its massiv

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1. Bargain hunters [/b]crowd stores, seeking deals and items from cashmere to flat-screen TVs, as a holiday shopping season officially begins. 2.With fanfare , Palestinians open the Gaza-Egypt border,

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1. The winners of the record-breaking Powerball jackpot step forward Wednesday to claim their prize. The eight co-workers from Nebraska will each receive about 22 million dollars before taxes. 2. Conc

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By Carrie Giardino The leader of the northern rebels in Ivory Coast is traveling to South Africa to meet with President Thabo Mbeki to discuss the peace process in the world's number one cocoa-produci

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This is AP News Minute. Efforts to broker a peace deal in Ukraine are gaining momentum. Leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine annouced 4-way talks are scheduled for Wednesday. The aim is to revive the frequently violated September peace plan

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AS IT IS 2016-03-08 N. Korea Threatens Nuclear Strike, US, S. Korea Begin Drills North Korea has threatened a preemptive nuclear strike as the U.S. and South Korean forces began their largest joint military exercises ever. The yearly military drills

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Jordan Feels Pressure to Take Sides on Syria With growing political and economic unrest at home, the last thing many Jordanians want is conflict with neighbor Syria. The interests of Jordan dictate that Jordan does not interfere, said political analy

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Negotiators from the United States and China have been trying to avert an all out trade war, And among those closely watching this - winemakers here in California. In the past decade, U.S. wine exports to China rose 450 percent. B

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肯尼亚恐怖攻击后军方戒备森严Victims of the devastating terrorist attack that left 148 people dead last week in Garissa, Kenya, are trying to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.上周在肯尼亚加里萨大学发生的恐怖攻

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主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

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In this image taken from video, a police officer approaches the vehicle containing a car bomb, which stands with the door open and the police officer reaches down to lift one of the red canisters on the roadway at New York's Times Square, New York, 0

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MOSCOW, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he saw no reason not to sign into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by U.S. foster families. The controversial bill, nicknamed the Dima Yakovlev Act, has been pa

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The United Nations is ramping up the pressure on North Korea. The Security Council has overnight approved tough new sanctions against the rogue nation, in retaliation for last month's nuclear test. Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told us Ch

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