听遍美国之社会新闻[6]:象牙海岸局势动荡Unrest in Ivory Coast Ivory Coast: The government says 4 more victims(1) have been found after armed men tried to take over the government Sunday. This brings the number of people killed in the attack to about 1

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 听遍美国

Paris Conference to Discuss Climate Change, Rising Oceans Some of the world's leading experts on oceans and climate change are meeting in Paris this week to discuss why oceans are rising, and where to channel scarce research funds to study the pheno

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Inflation in China has come in lower than market expectation, rising 2.7 percent in July on an annualized basis. This is the same increase seen in June. The inflation rate is well below the government's full-year target of 3.5-percent. Despite food p

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Topic 1-Passenger dragged from overbooked United Airlines flight After waiting through the boarding line, you've got your carry-on stowed and your butt firmly planted in seat 27D. At this point, you're basically guaranteed to be on the flight, right?

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第一章 练习12:形成你自己的语调 Exercise 1-12 Create Your Own Intonation Contrast Exercise 1-12: Create Your Own Intonation Contrast Write a short sentence and indicate where you think the most normal intonation would be placed. Then, c

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Stanley had just finished brushing his teeth. He noticed water flowing into the toilet bowl. That's strange, he thought. The water continued to seep into the bowl. Stanley lifted the toilet tank top. The tank was half full, but the water was slowly r

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Food prices are at their highest level since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization began keeping records in nineteen ninety. The causes

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今天我们要学的词是underwater. Underwater is spelled u-n-d-e-r-w-a-t-e-r. Underwater本意是水下的,但用在商业上可以指资不抵债。美国房屋市场次贷危机产生了许多underwater mortgage,就是指房屋按揭额超过

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Could Rising Temperatures Mean Smaller Mammals? Scientists say in the ancient past, higher temperatures meant smaller mammals. Theyre studying how a brief, but dramatic climate change event affected body size. Its called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal

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Today's steep rises in food prices, driven up by Russia's drought-devastated wheat harvest, present a worrying echo of the past for the authors of a new book. In Empires of Food, the authors say civilizations rise and fall on the backs of their food

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 17 November 2009 Monsoonal floods in Bangkok, Thailand Built along the banks of the Chao Praya river as it nears the ocean, Bangkok has long been vulnerable to flooding. Poor urban planning and careless expansion have made the

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Official inflation figures are due out today and many are expecting a big jump as everyday items become more expensive. The inflation rate is expected to increase for 1.3 to 1.7% in the June quarter. Economists believe the rising cost of fuel and ris

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Bill Shorten is preparing to sell his policy of reversal on the asylum boat turnback to ALP National Conference. Several Labor MPs have strongly criticized the opposition leader's decision to support the government's turnback policy. Bill Shorten's f

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Far-right pundits are seizing on this week's shooting at a congressional baseball practice as an example of what they say is a rise in the left-wing violence in the U.S. Experts who monitor domestic terrorism had been warning about

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LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: And finally today, we'll journey into the soulful world of Rita Ekwere, aka Ray BLK. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CHILL OUT) RAY BLK: (Singing) Oh, yeah, I told you I was trouble when we first met. But I guess you never got the message. S

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Why should the United States initiate changes in a system of which it had been the main beneficiary? Because the system cannot survive in its present form and the United States has more to lose if it is not in the forefront of reforming it. America l

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary summer solstice: the longest day of the year; the onset of summer align: to form a line with something else horizon: the line where the sky and the earths surface meet coin: to come up with a name astrophysicist: a person who

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Rice prices in Thailand, the world's leading exporter, reached a record of over one-thousand dollars a ton. The increase in rice and food prices generally will be the center of debate at a U.N. conference next week. 世界最大的大米出口国泰国

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Chinese premier Li Keqiang is suggesting more measures will be taken to maintain the economic growth amid the rising pressure on the Chinese economy. The premier made the remarks while attending a symposium in Beijing on the current economic situatio

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Topic 1-Electric Shock Therapy Treating Internet Addiction Bouncing Back Families in China have turned to unlicensed boot camps that offer to wean their children, often in their teens, from the so-called internet addiction. According to Yangtse Eveni

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