VI. Furthering Listening and Speaking Task 1: A Birthday Present Mary: David, how did your mom like the dog you gave her for a birthday gift? David: Oh, Mary, she was delighted. It licked her hand and wagged its tail and she was hooked. Mary: What di

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kleptomania /ˌkleptə'meɪnɪə/ The millionaire who was caught shoplifting was found to be suffering from kleptomania. -- insane impulse to steal ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌ n. 盗窃癖 那个因逛街

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Bored at work? Try suing your employer. 工作感到无聊?那就起诉你老板吧。 That's what Parisian Frederic Desnard is doing. He has taken his former employer Interparfums to court because his job was too boring. 巴黎的弗莱德里克登纳

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Millions Suffer from Epilepsy 数百万人患有癫痫 From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Jim Tedder. Today we will tell about the brain disorder known as epilepsy. Many people do not understand epilepsy.

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Football fans around the world are riveted to World Cup action in South Africa, where key opening matches have sparked revelry, mania, and colorful, elaborate expressions of national pride. Every four years, football fever infects the world, and 2010

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Brain's Speech Center Finally Talks In a study in the journal Science, researchers analyzed the inner workings of Broca's area, long known as the brain's speech center, in pre-op brain surgery patients. Cynthia Graber reports In 1865, Pierre Paul Bro

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