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News Spotlight (5) News 1 政治 The world leaders have begun arriving in France for the G8 Summit. They will be 1) tackling a wide range of global issues, including 2) strained ties between the U.S.

NPR 2011-01-17

The prime minister of Tunisia says a new government will be announced tomorrow. The president had left the country suddenly Friday night after weeks of anti-government protests. Sporadic violence has been reported since then with gun battles today ou

NPR 2011-07-04

Thailand will soon have its first woman prime minister. Yingluck Shinawatra addressed her supporters after her party won in a landslide. Her brother Thaksin was prime minister until he was deposed in a military coup in 2006. The Swiss government conf

NPR 2009-05-04

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Crag Windham. Health officials in the United States and abroad say the expanding swine flu outbreak still appears generally mild, but infections are widespread enough that some may expect the outbreak will soon be de

英语音频杂志：山

Mountains By Richard Sidaway Here's a look at three popular mountain sports and some serious environmental problems facing mountains and the people who live on them. Snowboarding Thankfully, 'the winterstick' and 'the snurfer' never caught on as name

SSS 2009-06-05

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. When it comes to lizards' sex, size dose matter. But not in the way you might think. Because in the June 4th online issue of Journal Current Biology, sci

NPR 2011-06-15

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Fierce firefighting efforts are under way in eastern Arizona, where the Wallow Fire is now nearly 470,000 acres, making it the largest in state history. While many people have returned to their homes, A

乌鲁木齐的英文介绍

Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is located in an alluvial fan-shaped basin on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. The city opens on to the Junggar Basin in the north. In the Mongolian language, Urumqi means Beautiful Me

摇滚:On The Wing

英文歌词： Breathe and Ill carry you away into the velvet sky And well stir the stars around And watch them fall away into the Hudson Bay And plummet out of sight and sound The open summer breeze will sweep you through the hills Where I live in the

GRE熟词僻义：常见词汇的不常见意思

GRE考试词汇量大是公认的，而且在考试中经常会遇到一些熟悉的词汇，但是考察的却是该词汇的生僻意义。所以在考试前也要注意一下GRE词汇熟词僻义部分，掌握住GRE词汇意义，在考试里面取

Climate change might lead to water shortage in the Alps

VIENNA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Climate change and rising temperature in the long term can lead to water shortages in the Alps region, international experts warned Thursday at the Water-Scarce Final Conference in the Austrian eastern city Graz. The Alpi

Special Olympics open in Pyeongchang

SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 2013 Special Olympic World Winter Games kicked off in the alpine town of Pyeongchang, located northeast of Seoul, on Tuesday with a grand opening ceremony. About 3,300 intellectually disabled athletes from 110 countries

波兰副交通部长驳回高速公路丑闻

WARSAW, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk removed Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz from the position of deputy transport minister on Monday after Polish media accused the latter of holding a private meeting over a controversy-shrouded stretch

空气与雪不会阻碍北京冬奥会

Professor Gilbert Van Kerchhove from Belgium is the President and founder of a Beijing-based management consulting firm. He was deeply involved in the preparations of for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Van Kerchhove says one of the main issues leading

美国语文第六册 第104期:躺下的拿破仑

His falchion flashed along the Nile; His hosts he led through Alpine snows; 他沿尼罗河挥舞着大刀；他带领军队踏过阿尔卑斯山上的雪地； O'er Moscow's towers, that blazed the while, His eagle flag unrolled, and froze. 火焰在莫

AP 2012-07-16

1. Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky. That's according to a scathing report issued today on the scandal. The 267-page report is the result of an eight-month inquiry by former F

Breakaway Georgian Region Elects President

Residents of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia voted for a new president Friday, three years after Russia recognized the region, and another breakaway area, South Ossetia, as independent states. Three candidates are hoping to replace Presiden

经济学人286:昆虫学 有失蜂度

Science and technology 科学技术 Entomology 昆虫学 Bad beehaviour 有失蜂度 The strange case of the bandit bumblebees 熊蜂：不可思议的土匪 TO MOST people, bumblebees are charming, slightly absurd creatures that blunder through gard

瑞士南部雪崩致四人死亡

瑞士南部雪崩致四人死亡 GENEVA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least four avalanches took place on Sunday in mountain ranges of the Alps in Valais, a canton located in southern Switzerland, killing four people and injuring another. According to the

新西兰英语 333 Some earthquake facts

Here are some facts about the earthquake which struck the Canterbury region on Saturday. It measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. At first we were told it was 7.4. That would mean nearly three times stronger. Each 0.2 means double the strength. On avera