By Jill Moss Broadcast: September 22, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. Literacy, by its most basic meaning, is the ability to read and write. The United Nati

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a backseat driver 解析:字面意思是坐在后排的驾驶员。本来坐在后排的驾驶员应该是乘客,但是有时候乘客多嘴,告诉司机怎么开车。后来人们就把这样的人说成是坐在后排的司机,比喻多嘴多

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Working With the IT Department Whenever I have a technology problem at work, I try to solve it myself. Its not that I know a lot of about technology. In fact, the opposite is true. Im pretty much a computer illiterate, but I still try. Why do I bothe

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UNICEF: Conflict, Disasters Leave 59 Million Young People Illiterate Almost 60 million young people who live in countries affected by conflict or natural disaster are illiterate, the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF, said this week. 本周,联

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Malaysian Leader Calls for Economic Development in Muslim World 马来西亚领导人为穆斯林经济发展呐喊 Malaysian President Abdullah Badawi says the Muslim world should do more to improve

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How do you make governments have literacy a priority? Because if you look at Africa, you look at Asia and so many other places around the world, governments have to struggle with so many other things. There's Corruption, there's... How do you do it?

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一个英语单词可分为三部分:前缀(prefix)词根(root)后缀(suffix)。位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀,可以改变单词的意思。 fore- 表示前面,预示 forecast = fore + cast(扔) 提前(把消息

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A couple in Guangdong was detained for booking train tickets online and selling them for 10 yuan extra to migrant workers who want to return home for Spring Festival. But migrant workers say they feel sorry for the couple. Last year China's railway s

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乌戈拉斐尔查韦斯弗里亚斯(Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras,1954.7.28-2013.3.5),委内瑞拉政治家,曾任第52任委内瑞拉月创建第五共和国运动,同年12月当选总统。2007年成功连任。2011年被查出身患癌症。

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An ignominious end 可耻的下场 Professor randall, an illustrious volcanologist, pursued his discipline with a passion that went well beyond ordinary scientific enquiry. He even had to park his car out in the street, as his garage was stacked up to th

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Hugo Chavez has been the President of Venezuela since 1998. He is very popular in his country and has been re-elected twice. His policies focus on helping the poor in his country. He uses the nations oil wealth to fight poverty and illiteracy. He is

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A legislation in the country's parliament to set the minimum age for marriage at 17 has been languishing for a year Heather Murdock | Sanaa 01 February 2010 In many parts of Yemen, it is customary to marry girls as young as 10-years old. About a year

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新德里的街头儿童出版报纸 Newspapers occasionally write about the plight of children living in the streets, but a group of homeless kids in India's capital New Delhi is putting together their own monthly publication with stories about thei

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C 在after之后一般用过去完成时态: After the will had been read there were angry exclamations. 遗嘱宣读完之后,激起了一片愤怒的?时刻回顾更为过去的动作时,要用过去完成时。如果有两个这样的动作:

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There are signs that a possible solution in Washington, not over the governmentshutdown, we are talking about a proposal on the US debts ceiling. On Thursday,republicans in the US House of Representatives said they would propose raisingthe debts ceil

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One in four American adults cannot read or write well enough to function on the job and in everyday life Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 04 May 2010 Volunteer tutors at the Nashville Adult Literacy Council work individually with adult learners. One in

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四、教育状态词 1、Billy didn’t go to school and he was illiterate.比利没有上过学,是个文盲。 2、Although the family was poor, they still did their best to afford their son to go

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A couple in Guangdong was detained for booking train tickets online and selling them for 10 yuan extra to migrant workers who want to return home for Spring Festival. But migrant workers say they feel sorry for the couple. Last year China's railway s

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The US and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding to minimize the risk of theiraircraft coming into accidental contact in the skies above Syria. It comes after severalinstances in which the US accused Russia of unsafe and unprofessional con

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