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The 4th of July is America's birthday bash . This summer ritual of picnics, parades and pageantry celebrates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the most cherished document in our history. It declared an end to England's c

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Todd: OK, Ann, you spent quite a bit of time in Australia recently so why don't you talk about that? Ann: I really liked living in Australia. I was an international student and I studied education at the university of Sydney. And living in Sydney was

unit18 The Myth of Superwoman 女超人的神话

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By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 05 May 2006 watch Hydro Power report For a long time, hydropower was considered the original renewable energy resource. In many countries, hydropower represents a high

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I was lucky enough to discover a book called, The Introvert Advantage (How To Thrive in an Extrovert World), by Marti Laney, Psy.D. I feel like someone has written an encyclopedia entry on a rare race of people to which I belong. Not only has it expl

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Bad news you arent going to reach your goals. Why? Unfortunately, there are many reasons. We set goals all the time. But, often, we do not reach them. 坏消息：你没达成你的目标。为什么？不幸的是原因有很多。 我们总是在设定

2006年VOA标准英语-Rice in Sydney For US-Japan-Australia Secu

By David Gollust Sydney 15 March 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice deplanes after touching down in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, March 15, 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is

The Myth of Passion

The Myth of Passion Passion has somehow become a funny thing. At first its commonly defined as a love you have for something ; something you kind of do during your free time. But today, passion goes beyond that. With all the buzz on lifestyle design

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In it are the stories of how many times I've had to reinvent a self from the ruins of my choices, 书里讲述的是我如何在人生选择的废墟中重生的故事。 the stories of how my seeming failures were really just weird-ass portals to so

2007年VOA标准英语-Sydney Turns Off Lights for 'Earth Hour'

By Phil Mercer Sydney 01 April 2007 Difference of switching many of the city's lights is shown in this combo taken one week apart in Sydney, on 24 Mar 2007, above, and 31 Mar 2007, below Parts of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, plunged into near da

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We think we know what to eat: less red meat and more fibre, less saturated fat and more fruit and veg, right? Wrong, according to a controversial new book by nutritionist Zoe Harcombe. 我们总自以为知道该吃些什么：减少牛羊肉这些红色

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Romulus, so the myth goes, founded Rome. 这则神话说罗穆卢斯建立了罗马城。 They even had a date for it, 753 BC, and would later count the years from that date as the Greeks did from the Olympiads. 人们甚至说出建城的年代：公元

VOA标准英语2008年-Thousands Greet Pope in Sydney

Hundreds of thousands of people have greeted the Pope on his official arrival for World Youth Day in the Australian city, Sydney. The pontiff has praised the Australian government for apologizing to the country's indigenous people for past injustice

摇滚:Wish You Were Here——by Pink Floyd

英文歌词： So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees

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We can probably all recount at least a dozen weird and alarming things parents, teachers, and older siblings told us about our eyes when we were kids. For instance, we'd be permanently cross-eyed if we didn't stop making those faces at our brother or

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【原文】 Where Do Rainbows Come From? Throughout history, rainbows have been a source of mystery and legend. Rainbows are also important symbols in a number of cultures around the world. In the Old Testament of the Bible, for example, God shows N

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Smoking doesn't keep fat off A new Australian study debunking the myth that cigarettes keep weight down is a further warning about the dangers of smoking, an anti-smoking body says. A new Australian study debunking the myth that cigarettes keep weigh

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary ingest: to eat or drink tell apart: to distinguish a difference between people and things hind: back non-toxic: not poisonous resemble: to look alike mimicry: a survival technique where one species evolves to resemble another