高中英语牛津版高三下学期CHAPTER ONE

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AP 2011-07-24

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NPR 2008-12-21

Much of the northern half of the nation is in the grip of an arctic air mass and is bracing for another wave of snow and ice. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports. People in western Washington State are gearing up for a Mega-storm, that description is from a lo

SpaceX's New Rocket Ready for First Flight

SpaceXs huge rocket makes its first launch this week. It will leave from the same launch pad that sent men to the moon almost 50 years ago. The rocket, called the Falcon Heavy, could be launched as early as Tuesday. When it does, it will be the most

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Remembering 2001: A Space Odyssey 50 Years Later It was 50 years ago that the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey opened in theaters across the United States. The film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, was based on a book by Arthur C. Clarke. The

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By David Gollust Washington 25 January 2006 The United States Wednesday welcomed the Palestinian elections but reaffirmed it would not deal with the radical Islamic group Hamas, which could be propell

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Callum:Hello. In recent programmes in this series, Who on Earth are we? Marc Beebys looked at some of the more obvious ways that cultures can be different from one another -the different ways we use language, or non-verbal communication, for example

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1. President Obama and Mitt Romney will both be in Ohio Wednesday， one week before early voting kicks off in the key Midwestern state. 2. Today's UN General Assembly speech by Egypt's new president will be closely watched for clues about his democr

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Apollo 11 Spacecraft Lands in Your Smartphone Back in 1969, it was the Apollo 11 crew who flew to the moon in a spaceship. School children watched it on small black-and-white televisions. When U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin step

Detroit Population Drops Dramatically in Latest Census

New census figures for the Midwest U.S. state of Michigan show dramatic population declines. Michigan was the only state in the 2010 census to lose people. Its biggest city, Detroit, once the fourth largest in the nation, is now the 18th largest. Tha

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By Sonja Pace London 06 February 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warns that the military fight in Afghanistan will be long, hard and a real test for NATO. She was speaking in London, where she held meetings with British leaders, as VOA'

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BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) called for the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in central Asia in a declaration released after the conclusion of the group's Beijing summit on Thursd

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BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, will begin its seventh restructuring attempt in the past three decades to curb red tape and reduce administrative intervention in the market and social issues. The number of ministr

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Several prominent attendees the World Economic Forum on Africa are urging governments to loosen state controls to unlock the continent's growth potential. Africa remains a mixed picture for foreign investors. Former Nigerian Central Bank Governor Cha

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In the US, Washington states aerospace industry has always been associated with industry giant Boeing, but that may be changing. A growing number of smaller businesses focused on commercial space flight are moving to the Pacific Northwest. Their numb

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Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isnt something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard. Abundance is a philosophy; it appears in your physiology, yo

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