Pre-Listening Vocabulary valour: worthiness; bravery jailer: the manager or owner of a prison execute: kill outlaw: to disallow sainted: to be named an official saint Valentine Comes From The Word Valour- Valentine是由Valour演化来的 The word Va

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I When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punc

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He selected Friday, August 17th, for his appearance, and spent most of that day in looking over his wardrobe, ultimately deciding in favour of a large slouched hat with a red feather, a winding-sheet frilled at the wrists and neck, and a rusty dagger

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WASHINGTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Three-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt won the men's 100-meter at the Diamond League Oslo meet Thursday in 9.79 seconds, 0.06 second ahead of Asafa Powell. Bolt hasn't lost since failing to defend his gold at the 2011 D

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Usain's Bolt's epic run on Sunday night to lower the 100m world record to its current mark of 9.58 seconds is even more impressive when you look further into the statistics(统计). If he could maintain that speed over the whole 100m, with a flying

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Tender Is the Night - Book Three by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 4 The Divers would return to the Riviera, which was home. The Villa Diana had been rented again for the summer, so they divided the intervening time between German spas and French cathed

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