单词：contractions
n. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
n. a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
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Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough,
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Sorry,there is not text temporarily, Please help tingroom to look for it! 如果您能找到更好的听力原文，请发贴到听力原文收集区，您将会获得10到30积分的奖励! Thank you！
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Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an apostrophe. The apostrophe shows the reader where letters have been remove
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A man spoke frantically (疯狂地）into the phone, My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!Is this her first child? the doctor asked. No! the man shouted, This is her husband!
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A new trend has been popping up all over the world--on mobile phones! SMS messages are becoming as common as telephone calls because they're fast, cheap and fun. Here are some tips on using SMS, or Short Message Service, to get your message across in
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Were all familiar with contractions. Plenty are signalled by an apostrophe and others dont hide their origins with any notable ingenuity such as Im, youre, theyll etc. But some everyday words have dispensed with markers of their shortenings, to the e
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Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reasons for Intonation Depending on the situation, a word may be stressed for any of the following reasons: New Information Opinion Contrast and the word Can't 1. New Information It sounds like rain. Rain is the new informatio
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