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Topics: Labor Day, charitable organizations in the U.S., safety vs. security, clutch vs. grip vs. grab Words: labor to barbecue muscular telethon to raise money to pledge money poster child charity tax exempt raffle rummage sale safety security to cl

美语听力 English Cafe 49

Topics: Labor Day, charitable organizations in the U.S., safety vs. security, clutch vs. grip vs. grab Words: labor to barbecue muscular telethon to raise money to pledge money poster child charity tax exempt raffle rummage sale safety security to cl

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Topics: After school activities, ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, nude vs. naked vs. bare, anything but Words: athlete coach tournament yearbook orchestra marching band speech debate choir ethnic nude naked bare anything but to contradict

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Topics: Business cards in the US, nationalities in English, dry-eyed, killer app Words: title fax logo pin drawing nation dry-eyed tears killer app

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Topics: Graceland and Elvis, Boston, to have a leg up on someone, flat out, seeing eye dogs, to trip up Words to commit a crime criminal overdose estate landmark New England nickname to have a leg up on someone flat out blind to guide sight impaired

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美语听力 English Cafe 43

Topics: Obesity, greeting people in the United States, terrific, finally vs. eventually Words: to gain weight to hit (a certain age) overweight oversized obesity appetite to go on a diet a firm handshake cheek to hug to slap someone on the back to no

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Topics: Wills and estates, No big!, primordial soup, trouble vs. problem vs. issue vs. situation, answer vs. response vs. reply, though, device vs. gadget vs. gizmo vs. contraption Words: will estate to inherit heir to cut someone out of a will to co

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Topics: Dates for dogs, Me, too!, Something 101, Im game, to hover over, travel vs. trip vs. journey, up to vs. until, Word up! Words: to bound into play date a dog of (something) to be pampered empty-nesters Me, too! (Something) 101 to be game to ho

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Topics: Famous Americans - Nikola Tesla; the Three Stooges; king versus royalty; in an attempt to versus in an effort to; accuracy versus precision Words: telegraph to resign patent x-ray remote controlled photographic memory eccentric mad scientist

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Topics: Ask an American Bilingual seniors; to keep in store versus to store up versus to reserve in store; which; think about versus think of Words: functional basis advantage to activate cognitive control efficiently senior bilingual magnitude subje

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Topics: Movies - Patton; The Eagles; to swear versus to promise versus to vow; nice to come home to; enclosed versus attached Words: general monologue troops to defy orders to distinguish (oneself) outspoken fallible score to take it easy to peak to

美语听力 English Cafe 398

Topics: American Authors - Ayn Rand; Adirondack Park; to get versus to gain versus to obtain; to have (someone) do (something) versus to get (someone) to do (something); giving an apple to a teacher Words: screenplay fountainhead triumph collectivism

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opics: American Presidents Warren G. Harding; wet versus muggy versus humid; intense versus intensive; such a Words: to make a bid fence sitter isolationism normalcy campaign telemarketer corruption graft veteran to hold true to disarmament affable w

美语听力 English Cafe 396

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美语听力 English Cafe 395

Topics: The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer; Famous songs: Little Bunny Foo Foo; science of versus knowledge of; good versus not bad Words: cookbook recipe a wide spectrum of cuisine hand motion to scoop up to bop goon poof moral play on words hare s

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Topics: The rise of home shopping; Mammoth Cave National Park; quick versus fast; tremendous versus enormous; basic needs Words: catalog to take off to showcase line allure customer base bricks-and-mortar store cave mammoth extinct lantern to mine to

美语听力 English Cafe 393

Topics: American Movies The Manchurian Candidate; blue laws; expression versus term versus idiom; What name do you go by?; en masse Words: thriller prominent to brainwash assassin to incriminate sleeper agent nightmare to commission blue law Sabbath

美语听力 English Cafe 399

Topics: Famous Playwrights David Henry Hwang; patent medicines; to get to versus to have got to; weird versus strange; to thumb a ride Words: preeminent trilogy fresh off the boat to branch out librettist misnomer cure panacea exotic swamp medicinal