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An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made

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Many people associate nursery rhymes with reading happy stories to children, or remember being children themselves and chanting them while they play. 许多人把童谣和读欢乐的故事给孩子听联系在一起，或者想起自己的孩提时代

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A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was lookin

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每个星座都有自己的性格特征，同时，他们也有着各自不同的饮食习惯。下面来分别看看每个星座在吃的方面有什么特点吧。 白羊座ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Always on the go and ready to rush off to the nex

The Oil Painting

An elderly woman decided to have her portrait painted. She told the the artist.... .....Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets(绿宝石手镯）, a ruby（红宝石） broach, and gold Rolex（劳力士手表）. But y

Can Thai Royalty Stop the Violence?

By Brent Hurd Violence continues to escalate between Buddhists and Muslims in southern Thailand in the wake of a government action that killed scores of Muslims. Civic leaders fear still more bloodshe

VOA标准英语2008年-US Oil Companies Finding More Oil in Old Fields

The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues

Rights Group Rebukes Angola for Alleged Missing Oil Revenues Leah Krakinowski A leading human-rights group says the Angolan government cannot account for more than $4 billion in missing oil revenue ,

每日一词【765】royalty：专利使用费，著作版税

今天我们要学的词是royalty。 Royalty专利使用费，著作版税。Record labels and online radio stations reached an agreement on new royalty rates after a two-year battle, 经过两年的激烈争论，唱片公司跟网上广播电台在音

Oil Conference Discusses Price, Higher Demand

More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly

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CCTV9英语新闻：Global oil prices hit new lows since spring 2009

The global oil markets experienced another blow on Monday, with prices hitting their lowest in five and a half years. US crude at one point hit below $50 a barrel, while Brent dove under $53. This was related to the latest signs of oversupply. Russia

BP discovers new oil in Gulf of Mexico

HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico found

Iran denies crude oil to Greece: local media

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran has refused to deliver oil to Greece in Persian Gulf, the local Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic refused to deliver a shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to one of the refineries in Greec

Saudis Set to Boost Oil Production

Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

经济学人:1MDB:巨大的金融丑闻(2)

Last July investigators at America's Justice Department said they thought that this ruse had allowed conspirators to liberate more than $1.3bn from 1MDB's coffers 去年七月，美国司法部的调查人员表示，他们认为这个诡计让阴谋家

英语博客：Oil change at Oil Can Henry's.

I got a phone call from my husband the other day, Hey babe, can you take the car to get the oil changed please? It's overdue. As he works forty-five minutes from town, he rarely has time to run those errands back in Wenatchee, so he gets his secretar

Oil rises on tighter supply outlook

NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday as supplies tended to be tight on new Iran sanctions and production problems in North Sea. There was news on Thursday saying that the Obama administration expanded sanctions on Iran, in an eff

CCTV9英语新闻：Greek oil tanker bombed in Libyan port of Derna

Greece has condemned an attack carried out by a Libyan warplane on a Greek-operated oil tanker chartered by Libya's national oil company, saying it had contacted the U-N envoy for Libya and the E-U about the incident. The attack took place on Monday