澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-03-15

The Federal Opposition is demanding the government inspect all homes insulated under its failed scheme. More than one million homes have been insulated under the program. But the government's paying for just 200,000 of them to be checked. The Opposit

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Adults can have a tough time learning a new language. Some opt for language immersion, in which the person spends all their time reading, listening to and speaking the new language. Now research reveals that immersion students do indeed learn the new

俚语口头禅:birthday suit

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经济学人267:梦想之地,哈佛商学院

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Students Get Motivation Straight From the Top

Students Get Motivation Straight From the Top It is a common complaint of students: What they are learning does not have a practical use. The quickest way for students -- or anybody for that matter -- to lose motivation when learning is to think that

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The judge in the New York City trial of accused terrorist Ahmed Ghailani has moved to insulate jurors from all news and information related to terrorism. Proceedings at the Ahmed Ghailani trial began Monday with a discussion led by Judge Lewis Kaplan

英语博客：Spectating at sporting events.

Grab your baseball hat or something else that will keep the sun out of your eyes, your sunglasses, a blanket, and a chair that isn't too hard. It's time to be a spectator. It's the season. You'll see these people, parking in the parking lot of a base

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The fridge is one of your homes biggest energy hogs. Better insulation can make refrigerators much more efficient. And a panel encasing a vacuum is one of the best insulators known. But vacuum-insulated panels are too pricy for widespread use. Enter

60秒科学:Language Immersion Impedes Access To Native Tongu

Language Immersion Impedes Access To Native Tongue A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that students learning a new language in a total immersion environment had reduced access to their original language. Steve Mirsky reports Adults ca

The Blue Suit

A woman went into a funeral home to make arrangements for her husband's funeral. She told the director that she wanted her husband to be buried in a dark blue suit. He asked, Wouldn't it just be easier to bury him in the black suit that he's wearing?

VOA常速英语2008年-Language Immersion Programs Help American Stude

By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington 05 March 2008 The United States is a nation of immigrants with cultural connections around the world. Such diversity helps to spark interest in foreign language immersioninstruction in public schools. Kent Garden Elem

神机！iPhone6 Plus落海2个月仍能正常使用

After dropping your phone into the ocean, it's safe to assume you've lost all hope of recovering your precious gadget. But after nearly two months, one lucky kayaker who dropped his phone into the water off the coast Santa Cruz had his phone returned

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CANBERRA, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Australia's University of Newcastle (UON) on Friday announced the establishment of a scholarship program supported by China's Jack Ma Foundation. Jack Ma Foundation will give US$20 million (AU$26.4 million) to fund a firs

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【英语语言学习】父爱如山

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thirty years ago, Ted Conover wrote Rolling Nowhere: Riding The Roads With America's Hobos, an account of his time hopping freight trains across America. Asa, his teenage son, read the book last year, and asked his father if he'd s

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If you visit upland areas of Britain places like the mountains of Scotland, or Wales, or the Pennine Hills in northern England you will see a lot of sheep. Many of the sheep are in places where there are no walls or hedges to keep them in their field

英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable1111 - 你的职业出光棍吗？

Topic1 Most seniors in Beijing exclude in-laws from willsNearly 7,000 elderly citizens in Beijing have registered their last wills and testaments at a welfare center since last March. According to the China Will Register Center, nearly all of them ex

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I was walking along the South Bank in London the other day with my client and home stay student, Martine when I realised that there were more foreign languages being spoken than the English language! Of course, the summer season has started which mea