THIS IS AMERICA - Getting Into the Guinness Book of World Records CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we talk about getting into

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AS IT IS 2015-06-08 Woman World War II Pilot Honored During World War II, American women pilots were trained to fly non-combat missions so that men could fly fighter planes. U.S. officials gave the women permission to fly military aircraft as civilia

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AS IT IS 2015-11-04 Major World Sports Championships Decided Two world championships were decided this weekend on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In England, the Rugby World Cup was decided. In New York, the baseball season saw its final pitch.

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BBC Learning English Weekender World Affairs Anna:Hello, I'm Anna Jones and in todays programme we re going to be talking to a BBC journalist who reports from all over the world. Mark Doyle works for the BBC World Service as a World Affairs Correspo

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Why does the sun go on shining? 太阳为何依然照耀 Why does the sea rush to shore? 海浪为何拍打着岩岸 Dont they know its the end of the world? 难道它们不知道这是世界末日 Cause you dont love me anymore 因为你不再爱我了

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Idiom: On top of the world 心满意足,幸福到极点 Hit the book: Plumb Oceanographic Cruise Fathom Vessel Cloak Perpetual Crushing Submersible Scant

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How many goodly creatures are there here! The singing words mocked him derisively. 这儿有多少美好的生灵!一那歌声嘲弄着他。 How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world 人类是多么美丽!啊,美妙的新世界 Soma distribu

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Infertility in the Developing World By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, March 22, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Development Report. A man and a woman are consi

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US Could by 2017 Be World's Biggest Oil Producer The International Energy Agency says that by 2017 the United States is likely to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest oil producer. The Paris-based energy agency said Monday in its annual forec

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FIFA defends World Cup mascot names RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- World football's governing body FIFA released a statement Friday defending its selection process for naming the 2014 World Cup mascot. Brazilian fans have been critical of FIFA'

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DAEGU, South Korea, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the world's fastest man, retained his world title in the men's 200m with 19.40 seconds on Saturday night at the Daegu world championships. I feel great. I wasn't running angry, I was runn

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2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Ten years ago, on the eve of World Population Day, a new campaign was launched to raise awareness of how int

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U.S. Senator John Kerry and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations are reported to have been mentioned as possible candidates to head the World Bank. Indra Nooyi, the chairman and chief executive officer of soft drink maker PepsiCo, is

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NAIROBI, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- World marathon record holder Patrick Makau has ruled out attacking the world record when he lines up at the Frankfurt marathon on Oct. 28. Makau, who is eying to bounce back after he was overlooked by the Kenyan authoriti

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11 NIGHT IN THE OPEN WORLD Night is a dead and monotonous period under a roof; but in the open would it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal de

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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government informed on Wednesday that only five percent of the infrastructure projects of 2014 FIFA World Cup had been completed. The projects include construction or renovation of football stadiums, s

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- World football's governing body FIFA has announced that goal-line technology will be used during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. System providers have been asked to submit bids by April with the technology set to be

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NAIROBI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Prior to Saturday, there was very little to write or say about Kenya's Philemon Rono, the Kaptagat ( Rift Valley) based distance runner. However, the beauty of Kenyan athletics is stories of rags to riches replicate each

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VIENNA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) (石油输出国家组织 )raised its forecast Monday for global oil-demand growth this year, encouraged by outlook of continued world economic recovery. In 2011

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where in the world:究竟在哪里 例句: I think we're completely lost. We've been driving around for hours and I've got no idea where in the world we are. 我想我们彻底迷路了,我们在这开车兜了几个小时但还是不知道我们究

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