A man was enjoying his day with friends at Torontos High Park the other day when one of them noticed something strange swimming in the water. No one is quite sure how the 80cm alligator-like creature found its way to the pond, but its figured that pe

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

The Miser 吝啬鬼 A miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch h

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 牙牙学英语

一对夫妇在公园里散步,发现一对年轻的男女坐在一条长凳上,动情地接吻。 你为什么不那么做呢?妻子说。 亲爱的,丈夫回答说,我还不认识那个女子呢!

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英文笑话

Scientists Find No Evidence of Yeti For decades, a large creature called a Yeti has been talked about in Western popular culture. It has appeared in films, cartoons, video games and more. 几十年来,西方流行文化一直提到了一种名为雪人

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

AS IT IS 2016-07-28 Ice Bucket Challenge Results in ALS Discovery 冰桶挑战捐款帮助发现致病基因 This is Whats Trending Today: Do you remember the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014? Just in case you do not, here is a little history. Two years

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鲁比在另一世界是被外婆严格管教的小红帽,和彼得相恋,偶然机会与白雪结识。小红帽为了爱情去杀狼而发现狼可能是彼得。白雪为了让小红帽约会而假装她骗外婆,被外婆发现,白雪将实

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 童话镇

Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system. 研究人员如今相当确定,太阳系中存在着第九颗行星。 Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times th

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

大学英语四级考试中的阅读理解文章的体裁主要有三类:叙述文、说明文和议论文。 1、叙述文 叙述文一般以讲述个人生活经历为主,对于经历的陈述通常由一定的时间概念贯穿其中,或顺序

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本期内容: From Friday, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is making its video streaming service available in the mainland. The part-sport, part soap-opera joins a long list of sports eager to tap into a new customer base. Industry-watchers say

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stand sb up 爽某人的约;让某人空等一场 How dare you stand me up! 你怎么敢爽我的约! You stood me up last night. 你昨晚放我鸽子了。 A:We're through. 我们结束了。 B:Why? 为什么? A:Why?Isn't it obvious?First,you

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 跟艾米莉一起学口语

I don't think love is about changing or saving a person. I think it's about finding the person who's already the right fit. 语音讲解 单词发音 change vt.改变;交换 finding n.发现;裁决;发现物 fit vi. 符合,配合;适合;合

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读

True or False 对还是错 A high school teacher was giving a true/false test. He was strolling up and down the aisles surveying the students at work. 一个高中老师正在给学生们做一次是非题测验。老师自己则在教室里来回踱步

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Dismounting to assist her, Walcott discovered that the horse had turned a slab of shale that contained fossil crustaceans of an especially ancient and unusual type. 沃尔科特跳下马来扶她,却发现马将一块页岩圈了个身。页岩里有

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

A bizarre new dinosaur with bat-like wings has been discovered by a farmer in China and is now helping to shed new light on the evolution of flight. 中国的一名农民之前曾发现了一种长着蝙蝠翅膀的恐龙化石,现在有关该化石的

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

PERTH, Australia/KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Australian ships have picked up acoustic signals while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The underwater detection represents an important

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(265) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research traced the professional activity of 5,000 men in Indonesia for seven years. 国家经济局在一项历时7年的研究中,追踪记录了印度尼西亚5000名男性的职业历程。 By the end,

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

人类发展已经造成地球资源的紧张,但是约翰罗克斯特伦提醒我们,人类科学技术进步也使我们认识到这一切,并随之改变这种行为。他的研究发现了9大地球界限通过这个发现可以指引我们保

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲视频集

Hello, I am Marion Marshall with the BBC news. Billions of dollars have been wiped off stock markets around the world because growing concern about plunging oil prices and fears about economic slowdown. In New York, the Dow Jones Index close 1.5% dow

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

Indonesian Aviation officials say the Trigana Air flight lost contact with ground control at 2:55 PM local time on Sunday as it flew from the regional capital Jayapura to the town of Oksibil in Papua, in the easterm part of Indonesia. Director Genera

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The Golden Key 金钥匙 In the wintertime, when deep snow lay on the ground, 冬天的时候,厚厚的积雪覆盖着大地, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sled to fetch wood. 一个穷孩子迫不得已坐上雪橇外出捡柴。 After he

发表于:2019-03-10 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读