Rivers Dry, Iranian Farmers Turn to Protest A small group of Iranian farmers drove their tractors to the entrance to the town of Varzaneh. The vehicles stopped next to a canal that once provided their crops, but has been dry for years. The farmers ap

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Sex sells, and here At Cowgirls Espresso in Bonney Lake business has never been better. The baristas here wear bikinis, nothing different they say than what you see at the beach. You see people, you know, out on the lake in their swimsuits and I don

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What Do You Do With Your Mouth? Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故。 People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the E

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今天学的词组是break up。Break up有分开、驱散的意思,比如匈牙利民众在纪念反苏联起义50周年之际走上街头,对现政府表示不满。当局出动警察驱散数百名抗议群众-- Police break up hundreds of pro

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UNIT 1 The Education I Received Integrated Skills Development Dialogues A. I Went to Yale University Dick Dylon is a new foreign teacher of English. Liu Lin, one of his Chinese students, is interested

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 成人高教英语教材

Signs for the recent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia promised to Unite the Right. That expression was directed at white nationalist groups that oppose the removal of a statue from a public park in the city. The statue is of General Robert E. Lee

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And in the other news of this day: a warning from Pope Francis that the Roman Catholic Church's moral authority is likely to fall like a house of cards unless it becomes more welcoming. He told an Italian Jesuit magazine that, The chur

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is due to start an official visit to the UK later on this Monday. Li Keqiang is due to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron in London. He's also been granted an audience with Queen Elizabeth II. Talks connected to economi

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I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today, 查尔斯海泽伍德:我多希望他们今天也能在这儿, so you could see at firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are. 你们就能亲眼看到他们是多么非同寻常。

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A: I want to rent this apartment. B: Im glad to hear that. A: How much are you asking? B: You will have to pay $1050 every month. A: I cant afford that. B: What can you afford? A: I was thinking $800 a month. B: Ill need you to pay more than that. A:

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今天我们要学的词组是 take part in。 Take part in指参加会议,游行,抗议等等。成千上万的美国人在华盛顿,纽约等大城市游行,抗议美国卷入伊拉克战争, Thousands of Americans took part in the protes

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The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. 这些鸡蛋所赚的钱可买回很多饲粮,庄园也就可以坚持到夏季,那时,情况就好转了。 When the

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The morning after a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, the country awoke Tuesday to learn that about two dozen buildings had burned in Ferguson, Mo., during a chaotic

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HOUSTON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Protesters against George Zimmerman's acquittal in the U.S. city of Houston entered its second day Tuesday as dozens of protesters made their way into the city hall and courthouse. Activists marched on the U.S. Federal Co

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

It was less than a year after September 11, and I was at the Chicago Tribune writing about shootings and murders, and it was leaving me feeling pretty dark and depressed. I had done some activism in college, so I decided to help a local group hang do

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BANGKOK Thailands military is organizing a public event in support of the May 22nd coup led by the armys chief. It is to occur Wednesday, following a series of small, illegal protests in the capital against the military regime that has voided the con

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important leader of the American civil rights movement. He helped unite a nation with his powerful speeches and use of non-violent protests. His 1963 I Have a Dream speech is one of the greatest in human histor

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Ⅱ.完形填空(共25小题,每小题1分:满分25分) 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从26—50各题所给的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。 People of Burhngton

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GWEN IFILL: It's an all-too- familiar story, in a new setting. This time, the city of Charlotte is on edge, awaiting a second night of protests over the police killing of a black man. The drama began with a Tuesday confrontation that sparked a night

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

resemble vt.和相似 The girl bears a close resemblance to her mother. =The girl looks very much like her mother. 这个女孩跟她妈妈长得很像。 The two cars resemble each other. 这两辆车彼此很相像。 Your writing resembles your fa

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