美语听力 English Café 513

Topics: Famous Americans-The Fox Sisters; Famous Songs-I'm a Little Teapot; to lack versus to be short of versus to be shy of versus to be out of; to clean versus to wash; pronouncing Wh Words: spiritualism medium spirit fake code sance cult followin

美语听力 English Café 514

Topics: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre; American PlaywrightsDavid Mamet; to atone versus to make amends versus to do penance; compassion versus empathy; to reckon Words: massacre gang reputation to retire bootlegging Prohibition organized crime r

美语听力 English Café 515

Topics: Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Famous AmericansMary Pickford; to infer versus to deduce versus to derive; to clean out versus to free up; civil disturbance versus civil unrest Words: to found Underground Railroad bureau coeduca

美语听力 English Café 516

Topics: Ask an American-Community policing; perspective versus notion versus viewpoint; to burst out versus to break out versus to explode; Don't count every hour in the day. Make every hour in the day count! Words: to mess with (someone) to pull (so

美语听力 English Café 517

Topics: Movies-Die Hard; American Authors-Emma Lazarus; in front of versus ahead of versus before; as if versus as though versus as for; to take stock Words: to be separated to give (something) another try to freshen up hostage safe cowboy to be desc

美语听力 English Café 518

Topics: American Presidents-Franklin Delano Roosevelt; to be trapped versus to be lodged; to keep it together, to keep a stiff upper lip, and as luck would have it; pardon me Words: to make a name for (oneself) to appoint administrator to run for to

美语听力 English Café 519

Topics: American Authors-Tom Wolfe; Aerosmith; to convince versus to compel; latter versus last; ultimate Words: journalist to research drama flashy streamline to hallucinate fiction bonfire unique soloist to dedicate (oneself) to be inducted to conv

美语听力 English Café 520

Topics: American Authors-Tom Wolfe; Aerosmith; to convince versus to compel; latter versus last; ultimate Words: journalist to research drama flashy streamline to hallucinate fiction bonfire unique soloist to dedicate (oneself) to be inducted to conv

美语听力 English Café 521

Topics: Famous Americans-Jackson Pollock; American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; to restrain versus to refrain versus to subside; velocity versus quickness; to have been down that road before Words: to settle to experiment landsca

美语听力 English Café 522

Topics: American Playwrights-Eugene O'Neill; The Passenger Pigeon; spare versus slender; Was I wrong! Words: boarding school to be reborn to feature sailor intermission critic to translate passenger to migrate crop to hunt to be extinct spare slender

美语听力 English Café 573

Topics: American Authors Kurt Vonnegut; Famous Songs When You Wish Upon a Star; to knock up versus to knock down versus to knock over versus to knock off; new versus brand new; give and take Words: to capture to bomb journalist technology science fic

美语听力 English Café 582

Topics: Andersonville Prison; garbage versus litter versus trash versus rubbish; downtime; pronouncing eight, height, and weight Words: Confederacy Union slavery to capture prisoner of war starvation disease skeleton war crimes to be hanged to execut

美语听力 English Café 580

Topics:Famous Americans Marian Anderson; in a heartbeat versus in a second versus in a moment; old versus stale Words: choir philharmonic to tour segregation scholarship memorial to draw attention to (something) patriotic accomplishment goodwill amba

美语听力 English Café 579

Topics:American Authors Philip K. Dick; on purpose versus deliberately versus intentionally; moderately versus sparingly; understatement of the century Words: alien science fiction lottery solar prolific alternate universe android wholesale mental il

美语听力 English Café 578

Topics: Movies The King and I; nation versus sovereign versus kingdom; to obstruct versus to hinder; fire and brimstone Words: musical governess arrogant stubborn to respect role autobiography court to exaggerate to ban to colonize classic nation sov

美语听力 English Café 577

Topics:Famous Americans Stephen F. Austin; Classic TV M*A*S*H; disability versus handicap versus impairment; recourse versus resort; to fly in the face of (something) Words: frontier economy land grant colony to negotiate contract revolution to annex

美语听力 English Café 576

Topics: American Authors James Baldwin; Famous Songs High Hopes; homeless versus destitute; odd versus odds; I'm not a has-been. I am a will-be. Words: preacher strict to base something on sexual orientation civil rights high hopes discouraged ant ca

美语听力 English Café 575

Topics: The Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 and the creation of the District of Columbia; The Hollywood Sign; next versus upcoming versus future; critical situation versus critical position; steaming Words: finances mutiny militia permanent residence to

美语听力 English Café 574

Topics: Classic TV Movies Mission: Impossible; Famous Americans Alfred Stieglitz; satisfactory versus satisfying; damaged goods and majorly unfair Words: mission trained agent force high-tech disguise to disavow to self-destruct special effects edito

美语听力 English Café 581

Topics:The John Peter Zenger Trial; tone versus hue versus tint versus shade; wherewithal; pronouncing saw, sew, sow, and sue Words: apprentice printer journal governor to rig anonymous libel trial to disbar jury amendment speech press tone hue tint