Lesson 15: Fifty pence worth of trouble 五十便士的麻烦 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Did George get anything for his fifty pence? What? Children always appreciate small gifts of money

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A report in the journal Science announces the finding of the oldest known human-fashioned threads, left in a cave by the Caucasus mountains about 34,000 years ago. Cynthia Graber reports. We humans love to decorate things. We wear flashy clothes, ti

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补充: FAQ - An acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs are online documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. Federal Excise Tax - A 3% tax mandated by t

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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Charles Kao, of Standard Communications Labs in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs in New Jersey. Kao figured out how to transmit light over long distanc

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For a long time, conventional wisdom said that we should drink eight glasses a day. 长久以来,一般观念都认为我们每天要喝8杯水, That estimate has since been fine-tuned. 但这个数据已被重新调整过。 Now, the consensus i

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