A key national home price index released today shows a rise of nearly 3% during the second quarter although the SP/Case-Shiller index is still down 15% from last year. NPR Yuki Noguchi reports. The index is a composite of monthly prices in 20 major

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1. President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri one year after a tornado devastated that town. The President spoke at a high school graduation and urged students to remember the lessons they've learned in overcoming adversity. 2. A 21-year-old man is und

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A war of words is rising between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The two leaders have been exchanging unusually personal insults as international pressure on North Korea grows. The latest examples came on Friday, when

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The Man on the Moon? In July 1969, people around the world witnessed America’s greatest achievement: NASA succeeded in landing a man on the moon, and in the effort, won its space race against the US

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By Marilyn Rice Christiano Broadcast: August 20, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (THEME) (Apollo Eleven Countdown) A rocket launch countdown.

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英国语言学家Jeremy Butterfield出版过一本书叫做A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare。他根据牛津语料库(Oxford University Corpus)中的资料,统计得到英国人最常见的10句套话。对于老外,听到这些话,

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AS IT IS 2016-08-11 Vietnam Moves Rocket Launchers into South China Sea 越南在南海岛礁部署火箭发射器 Officials say Vietnam has moved mobile rocket launchers to several islands in the South China Sea. The move is likely to raise tensions

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1)be going to +v 在口语中广泛使用,表示准备做或将发生的事情。例如: Im going to buy a house when weve saved enough money. 2)be to +v 表示计划安排要做的事,具有必要的强制性意义。例如: I am to play ten

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嫦娥二号 Chang'e-2(moon probe) 神舟七号 Shenzhou VII (spacecraft) 载人飞船 manned spaceship/ spacecraft 载人航天 manned space flight 多人多天太空飞行 multi-manned and multi-day space flight 载人航天计划 manned space

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You will only hear this on Storynory because its top secret. Natasha exclusively reveals that before Bertie was turned into a frog, he worked as a secret agent. He was sent by his father, the king, on a mission to a far away kingdom called Wales. His

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空间商业应用前景光明 Space - the final frontier. Once the purview of cash-rich governments, launching rockets into space has become increasingly commonplace as demand for communications satellites and space-based imaging services grow. Toda

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Todd: Jonathan we are talking about conspiracy theories. What about the one where the sound? That when the rocket lands, they have actually audio of the rocket landing and you can't hear the rocket engine, and the rocket engine should be making a rea

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18 物理学家、火箭专家戈达德罗伯特 DATE=3-21-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1944 - Robert Goddard BYLINE=Staff VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VO

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'Cause really I'm a psycho.因为我真是个疯子 You know I am a psycho,你知道我是个疯子 I told you I'm a psycho, psycho, psycho, psycho,我告诉过你我是个疯子,疯子,疯子,疯子 psycho, psycho...疯子,疯子 You know I'

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low Earth orbit 近地轨道 lunar module 登月舱 lunar rover 月球车 main landing field/ primary landing site 主着陆场 manned space 载人航天计划 manned space flight 载人航天 manned spaceship/ spacecraft 载人飞船 Milky Way 银河系

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讲解 Todays key word is Musk Musk 麝香 Musk is a substance with a strong smell which is used in making perfume. Here is an example: Musk is used for perfumes and stimulant(兴奋剂). 麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。 今天我们要说的这

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Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, announced last Wednesday morning it planned to send one of its spaceships to Mars by 2018, the most ambitious goal set to date by the burgeoning private space travel industry funded by billionaires instead of gover

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JERUSALEM Israels military offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is continuing for a fifth day, and there has been no let up in the Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel. In all, at least 53 Palestinians have been killed, including 24 civil

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BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have decided to reschedule the launch of the Tiangong-1, an unmanned space module, due to the failed launch of an experimental orbiter, a spokesperson with the project said Thursday. The decision to del

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Still less could we send up a shipload of space cowboys to do the job for us, as in the movie Armageddon; 我们更不可能发射一飞船警察去为我们干这个活儿,就像电影《善恶大决战》里的场面那样; we no longer possess

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