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As you've probably experienced firsthand, some mosquito species have a real taste for warm, human blood. So much so that if you raise them on it the lab, they'll accept no substitute. Fortunately, I don't get major reactions at all. Brad Main is a mo

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Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us decide whether adverbs are useful or evil. No one likes feeling useless, but adverbs might justifiably feel that way. Adverbs find themselves much maligned because they're often redundant or awkwardly placed. Master

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By Jim Malone The U.S. presidential election campaign has entered a new phase, with both major party candidates criss-crossing the country in search of votes. After ceding the week to John Kerry and t

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than twenty countries have found cases of the new H1N1 influenza virus. In all around one thousand five hundred cases and thirty deaths have been confirmed. But most have been reported in Mexico an

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As voters in Indonesia prepare to go to the polls Thursday, Islamic political parties are struggling to retain support. But traditional Islamic values are still strong. Election officials prepare ballot boxes to be distributed to polling stations in

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In Africa's battle against malaria, two low-tech tacticsinsecticides and bed netshave done a decent job killing off mosquitoes. But it's mainly one species that's been affected. That's a species called Anopheles gambiae, sometimes called the African

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Todd: OK, Steven, what do you want to talk about? Steven: Hiking! Todd: Hiking! Are you a big mountain man? Steven: Yeah, yeah, I really love getting out into the mountains. Todd: What mountains have you climbed? Steven: Well, recently, I climbed Mt.

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Todd: So, Shona, you are quite fit. You like to run. Do you like to do anything else? Shona: Yeah, actually. I like quite a lot of different sports. I like to play tennis. That is like something that I like to participate in with someone else, but al

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今天我们要学的词组是phase out。Phase out，意思是逐渐淘汰、停止。The chief executive of General Motors cautioned against the growing trend of officials in China and a number of other countries of making plans to phase out sales

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