Improve Your Writing with Contrast and Concession For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about words that connect opposing ideas. We call these ideas contrast or concession. Some of these adverbs are but, altho

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02 Going to a Home Improvement Store GLOSSARY to fix up to improve something; to make something better; to repair something;to correct what is broken or needs to be updated * Were going to fix up the office with some new paint and furniture. home imp

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第一章 练习12:形成你自己的语调 Exercise 1-12 Create Your Own Intonation Contrast Exercise 1-12: Create Your Own Intonation Contrast Write a short sentence and indicate where you think the most normal intonation would be placed. Then, c

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One student to another: How are your English lessons coming along? Fine. I used to be the one who couldn't understand Englishmen, and now it's Englishmen who can't understand me. 一位学生对另一位说:你的英语最近学的怎么样了? 很好,我过去不懂英国人

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The United States Thursday joined European monitors in citing improvement in the conduct of Azerbaijan's presidential election, despite the huge victory margin of President Ilham Aliyev. Official figures give the incumbent leader 89 percent of the v

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China to spend massively on farmland improvement BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The government will spend 37.36 billion yuan(about 5.93 billion U.S. dollars) to improve the quality of farmland this year, the Ministry of Finance said Thursday. The fund,

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