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Topics: Saturday Night Live; Howard Stern and shock jocks; using to in who, what, where, when, why questions; state of the art; ways to say good job! Words: live cast celebrity sketch news anchor current events big break controversial shock jock offe

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Topics: Famous Americans: Annie Leibovitz; home shopping cable channels and celebrity product lines; come versus go; via versus through Words: portrait the arts big break to be named chief celebrity channel cable host product line affiliated with nam

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Topics: American Cities: San Francisco/Bay Area; the ACLU; using back to refer to the past; failure versus error versus mistake Words: image strait bay living expenses steep cable car liberal costume civil liberties litigation to lobby to infringe up

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Topics: Ask an American: childhood obesity; besides vs. furthermore vs. moreover; wink-wink; thrill Words: to be doing veggie grass-fed organic salad bar to line up to segue processed food refined high fructose corn syrup whole food with an eye in th

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Topics: Famous Americans: Amy Tan; Americans with Disabilities Act; to take convincing, full-fledged, dude Words: descent to fight to give (someone) the silent treatment promise life-changing event expectation act disability to enact discrimination a

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Topics: American Cities: Albuquerque; Survivor Reality TV Show; yet; differentiation versus distinction; so near and yet so far Words: desert to settle to occupy Old West outlaw folklore hot-air balloon reality television stranger shelter reward alli

美语听力 English Cafe 288

Topics: Prohibition; Famous Americans: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Im sorry versus I apologize; green thumb; elbow grease; to be screwed Words: Prohibition temperance to ban underground to bootleg moonshine speakeasy legal realism to defer to dissent

美语听力 English Cafe 325

Topics: Movie: Bonnie and Clyde; Community Supported Agriculture (CSA); to cut (someone) loose versus to set (someone) free versus unrestrained; adjectives versus who phrases; words used to describe computer touch screens Words: to take liberties tab

美语听力 English Cafe 324

Topics: Stephen Foster and his songs; ish suffix; California casual; If it be your will Words: preeminent minstrel camptown to bet nonsense rendition posthumously dewdrop to lull dreary weary copyright California casual if it be (ones) will

美语听力 English Cafe 327

Topics: Famous Americans: Lucille Ball; The Great Depression; hermit versus loner versus introvert; other than versus rather than; Et tu, Brute? Words: to have no future as B-movie stardom rerun pioneering fondly look-alike depression crash to stimul

美语听力 English Cafe 338

Topics: Famous Americans - Ansel Adams; Ben Jerry's; to find out versus to figure out versus to seek; too constructions; dummy versus idiot Words: from that point on to develop portfolio inspiring gift shop yummy correspondence course ice cream parlo

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Topics: American Presidents - Herbert Hoover; knock-knock jokes; awful versus terrible versus terrific; initials in nicknames; that ship has sailed Words: starvation Great Depression to backfire tariff relief effort to memorialize dam lighthearted kn

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Topics: Ask an American - Historic court case on gender equal rights; incident versus accident; to throw good money after bad; adding shm- before another word Words: just to have faith in to right the wrong trial court appeals court Supreme Court per

美语听力 English Cafe 342

Topics: Movie - Apocalypse Now; getting your child into a private school, K-12; relating to versus related to; down with (the king); to qualify Words: apocalypse to be set in renegade to command mission horror napalm triumphant ambitious transcript p

美语听力 English Cafe 332

Topics: Famous Americans: Michael Jordan; the Quakers; tag questions; the derivation of okay; to learn versus to study Words: draft fan slam dunk to leap MVP to be inducted to endorse to be traced back to to persecute to swear to generalize worship o

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Topics: Ask an American: Online money management; dont worry versus dont bother; not only; to move/get past a feeling; pronouncing wool versus wall Words: to calculate to allocate to withdraw to accrue interest infographic personal finances to pay of

美语听力 English Cafe 330

Topics: American Authors: Toni Morrison; Homeboy/Homegirl Industries and Father Greg Boyle; screw versus bolt versus nut; to kidnap versus to abduct; to sharpen (ones) axe Words: African American experience to long social convention homeboy gang prie

美语听力 English Cafe 319

Topics: Famous Americans: T.S. Eliot; log and log in/log on; explanation versus interpretation; pronouncing consonant clusters Words: distinguished disillusionment New England to break from pedantic vulgar erudite to breed essay critic a product of (

美语听力 English Cafe 304

Topics: American Presidents: Bill Clinton; Louisiana Voodoo; articulation versus enunciation versus pronunciation; to start versus commence; I believe you versus I believe in you Words: governor fiscal responsibility to mar affair to impeach to lie u

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Topics: Ask an American: Health effects of city living; how do you say versus what do you call; rsum Words: to play out urban well-being poverty incidence bottom line in-house depressed substance abuse return on investment bike lane to think outside