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Are you a good tipper? You're out to dinner. The food was delicious and the service was fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip - why? The answer may not be as simple as you think. 当你在外面吃饭的时候,食物可口,服务周到,于是你

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

A new report finds a combination of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale. It urges governments to fund universal health care to end these inequities. The report, which was commissioned by the World Health Organization, is

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

Of course, in this century, uses for drones go far beyond war, to include surveillance, exploration, photography, racing. And one young inventor is hoping that smart drones will be able to navigate dangerous places, avoiding obstacles while searching

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年6月

Double Star Chapter One If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman. It is a logical necessity. His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among th

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 跟希哥学英语

150 enough is enough Betty Glover was in a militant mood as she approached to Brian, her husband of 25 years. Your idea of what you call our happy matrimony has been nothing but a mirage, a figment of your minimalist imagination. The amount of money

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 胡敏托福词汇记单词

(WA) Did you know you can catch a mood? A bad mood isn't spread by a virus like the flu is, but it can be contagious. Moods sort of drift from person to person unconsciously --- slight, unintentional signals carry the mood. You've probably experienc

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 托福听力短文

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Yahoo Inc. on Monday announced that it has acquired IntoNow, a startup company whose technology can let users almost instantly recognize TV content and share favorite programs with their friends. IntoNow has built

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

NB: This is not a word for word transcript Stephen: Hello I'm Stephen. Alice: And I'm Alice. Stephen: And this is 6 Minute English. This week we're talking about social networks. In the past few years, social networking websites like Twitter and Face

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

Part 12 - Business socialising This programme was first broadcast in 2001. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. In this programme we join Carmela and business English expert David Evans, for the last in theseries of Bus

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(532) / 评论(0) 分类 英语讨论

This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. When is an ant like a piece of fruit? When its infected by a parasite. Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered t

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(二)月

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Are smarter people drown to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation cre

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

ECONOMICS REPORT - Social Security, Part 2 By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, February 04, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. One out of six Americans receive money fro

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

托福阅读文章常见题材思路及词汇 TOEFL阅读有一些常见高频题材,这些题材下面会有经常考到的固定词汇和思路,整理出来供大家分享。 生物类: 迁徙动物migrate 群居动物 social animal 独居动物

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Science and technology 科学技术 Mimicry 模仿 The first sparrowhawk of spring 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE r

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Science and Technology Mimicry The first sparrowhawk of spring 科技 模仿 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE resembl

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Science and Technology Mimicry The first sparrowhawk of spring 科技 模仿 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE resembl

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Killer Whale Culture Revealed By Mimicking Us Killer whales, also called orcas, are like dolphins and belugasthey all have a wide vocal repertoire. But orcas also have uniquedialects among different pods. Which suggests the animals can learn new and

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年科学美国人2月

Mimicry in Plants Plant adaptations can be remarkably complex. Certain species of orchids, for instance, imitate female bees, other plants look and smell like dead animals, and still others have the appearance of stones. These strange adaptations to

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

复习新托福阅读最好了解一些常考的托福阅读考试背景类型,尤其是学科分类,对于备考新托福阅读非常有帮助。 生物类 群居动物 social animal 独居动物 solitary solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude独特

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(230) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

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

发表于:2019-02-27 / 阅读(253) / 评论(0) 分类 趣谈英语
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-hippus
3-methylchromone
aeriductus
Al Jayb
Almetyevsk
anchoritically
annual growth rate
arginine vasotocin
asthmaticus
astrogeodetic theodolite
barnet har.
beach wagons
beautifully-designed
bid-ask prices
Birds' Wedding
buttress-thread
Caete
carbonized oven
clinchings
cloud-chamber photograph
cocoboloes
combustion control systems
condicio impossibilis
conjugate approximation theory
control rod shroud tube
draughtspeople
EDTA infusion test
epaule
evitts
family expenditure survey
follow'd
frontier orbital
genus Coffea
gidget
gleditsia rolfei
GM_economic-or-economical
gnophomyia brevicellula
Gordian III
ink-vapour recording
insurance company address
isomintlactone
kendal effect
knowledge based assumption
kreegers
kussel
lambrecht hygrometer
liability and responsibility
luster-mottling
make no doubt of it
malomaxillary
malt residue
meander cusp
microwave optoelectronics
mink encephalopathy
mycosis hyperkeratosa
nature inspection
non cash assets
Oberkirch
ocean energy farm
oil packing
on-site emergency plans
orbital velocity
parallel-averted photography
penetrate into
phenones
physalla physalis
plethories
political cost
put up the banns
recausticizer
refertilize
rerationalizing
return of premium
roadside bomb
rubber mouthpiece
saxist
shop weld
shuttle die
solution-focused therapy
Spitsbergen Bank
stamaty
stepholidine
sticktoitive
strew
table type low and medium speed centrifuge
tanumafili
temperature-difference quotient
text book
Tokyo National Museum
transovarial
Tredemide
tricapability
Ugamak Strait
unprotruded
unregretted
up-to-the-minute
VLF communication
Volborthella
water-resource
weenis
white-light speckle method
Xerxes I