Oil giant BP will shell out 4.5 billion dollars to resolve charges related to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The company has agreed to plead guilty to 14 charges, including obstruction of Congress. NPRs Carrie Johnson reports individual executives will fac

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AS IT IS 2015-12-05 Tension Increases Between Turkey-Russia Over Syria 土耳其俄罗斯紧张关系升级 Tensions continue to rise between Turkey and Russia as both sides increase their military power at the Turkish-Syrian border. 随着土耳其和

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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More Powerful Men in Media Accused of Sexual Abuse Well-known men in media and entertainment continue to be publicly accused of sexual wrongdoing. Two of the latest are Charlie Rose and Glenn Thrush. Rose is a longtime American reporter and televisio

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Nepal rescue efforts continue to save lives 尼泊尔救援继续拯救生命 Four more people were rescued from wreckage in Nepal on Sunday, more than a week after a powerful earthquake hit the country. Police said one of those rescued was a 101-yea

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To be sure, I would like them to remember how I always wanted them with me wherever I went, how I always tried to put them before everything else. But there are also challenges in their lives. Because my kids are stalked by paparazzi, they can't alwa

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今天我们要学的词组是dismiss。 Dismiss有解散的意思, 比如学校因为暴风雪而提前一个小时放学了,School was dismissed one hour early due to a snow storm. Dismiss在法律上是驳回,不予受理的意思。 美国联

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From a grilling on one war to a personal appearance of the heart of another, Gordon Brown touched down in Helmand to meet British troops says the vow about whether he deprive the military of resources raged at home. If he thought this worldwind trip

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accommodate, afford, furnish 这一组动词都有“提供”的意思。 accommodate v.提供住宿、房间;适应,迎合,迁就。 This hotel can accommodate up to 500 guests.这家饭店可供

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本期内容: The US Federal Trade Commission is reported to be investigating Facebook after allegations that 50 million users' private information was misused by a political consultancy firm. Cambridge Analytica (CA), hired by the Trump campaign i

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This is AP News Minute. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday. The meeting comes amid sharp accusations surrounding the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week. Fans of a German foo

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says it's essentialthat air crash investigators in Ukraine have the security they need to do their work. His statement comes amid growing anger over the anti-government forces restricting access to the crash site and

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has announced that a gesture of good will he's withdrawing all lawsuits against individuals accused of insulting him. Almost 2000 prosecutions for insulting the president have been approved in the last two yea

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(Christy的上诉由于证据不足被法官驳回,这时意想不到的来了个大反转:刚刚趾高气扬步出法庭的Mr. Mckeon因强奸罪被法警铐走) 法官的原话有所删减 accuse [ə'kjuːz] v. 指控, 控告 accusation [kjuː'

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模仿文本: The British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has admitted that some of its top Chinese executives broke the law in what the Chinese authorities claim is a half-a-billion-dollar bribery scandal. The company is alleged to have paid

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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was born into a political family in 1947.Her father was president of the Philippines during her teenage years. 格洛丽亚马卡帕加尔阿罗约1947年出生在一个政治家族。阿罗约年少时,她的父亲是菲律宾

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The South Korean military says North Korea fired another missile off its east coast into the sea just as president Obama hosts the summit in Washington on global nuclear security. The missile launch was the latest in a series carried out by Pyongyang

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Topic 1-Who is Tolerating Plagiarism? Guo Jingming is one of the most controversial published authors in China. He has dominated the writer's rich list in recent years and is considered the most popular writer of youth literature in contemporary Chin

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本期内容: The Chinese telecom firm ZTE said the American governments probe into its trade practices may result in criminal and civil liabilities. American authorities imposed trade curbs as they investigated alleged violations of trade sanction

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Members of the lower house of Congress in Brazil are voting on whether to approve impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff. With nearly half of votes cast, her opponents are leading by a wide margin. The opposition must win two thirds

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