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A porous, extrusive, igneous, volcanic rock, usually reddish in colour, used extensively in construction in Mexico.

AMERICAN STORIES - Bartleby By Herman Melville Broadcast: Saturday, December 03, 2005 ANNOUNCER: Now, the Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story this week is called

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Obama administration says American schools should produce students who are college and career ready. What is the best way to do that? One group that has some ideas is the National Center on Educat

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Adrienne: So, what's your favorite day. Sorry. What is a perfect day in Montreal? What would you do? Lisa: That's a great question. The perfect day would start on Sunday. Wake up in the morning. Go to St. Viateur's Bagels for fresh bagels with cream

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Todd: Hello, Ann! How are you doing? Ann: I'm fine. Todd: Ann, could you introduce yourself and tell people where you are from? Ann: Yeah, my name's Ann Hutchingson and I'm from Montreal, Canada. And right now I'm an English teacher in Tokyo, Japan.

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Adrienne : So, Lisa, you're Canadian, right? Lisa: I am. I'm a very proud Canadian. Adrienne: And, I believe you're from Montreal. Lisa: I am. Adrienne: Can you tell me a little about your hometown? Lisa: Sure. Montreal is a big city for Canadian sta

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Egyptians lined up for hours Monday to take part in the nation's first post-revolution parliamentary elections. While logistics for the staggered, three-month process are daunting, so far, voters seemed pleased to be able to make their voices heard.

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学英语单词
a.nt
Akiyoshiella
Anode Furnaces
Aznalcazar
ballast-cribber
base resistivity
bird grass
black acrylic matt enamel
blebs
blood group chimerism
book-value shares
brimmy
cam shaft drive
camber bowl
Chorafakia
chrysofluorene
cost profit ratio
criminous
d. melanogaster
delamination fracture
depreciation reducing balance method
draw in chuck
edmund of langley
educated young soldier
end point yield curve
eupnea,eupnoea
family russulaceaes
floxuridine
fluid drives
fly wheel pump
from now onwards
gaffer tapes
glow-watch
header entry
hot-blast pressure indicator
hot-wire coil
Ishtār, Naqb
ixodynamics
jotted down
Khirovo
Kinshasans
krusevo (krusovo)
KTH grating
large one
limaria perfragilis
liquid-vapour interface
Lordville
lyv-
machanic
male branch tee
Martins Ferry
membrana cerebri
momentary efficiency
monochord
mysuran
negative clock
negative electron affinity
neo-classicists
non metallic sheath
noninvestigative
nonrational
pay for another
peripheric
photochromic glass
phylogenicity
pile it high and sell it cheap
precast pile
principal ideal minor ring
probability-law distribution
quatrain
railway line for freight traffic
Ranunculus changpingensis
reciprocating-block slider crank mechanism
restore backup
rotating shovel
RU486
Sabbioneta
scrappie
self-cure
septum of scrotum
servoconnection
shipper-receiver
sixteenth-
sliding windows flow control
souffle
spring tube
stratigraphic zonation
sub-chronic
Tesla current
the angel in the house
the last year
the white way
trolley bus
tubo-ovarian cystoma
tunnel oven
twice-pinnates
uncypher
urocyclids
very modest
voltage-directional relay
walking fish