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Nineteenth-century life had dealt the ten-year-old London 1) lad a bad hand. While his father 2) languished in debtor’s jail, painful 3) pangs of hunger 4) gnawed at his stomach. To feed himself, th

CNN 2010-04-17

In central Florida an eleven year old girl woke up in her own bed this morning and that's reason to celebrate, that's because she had actually vanished into an alligator infested swamp area on Friday only to be found yesterday alive and well, it's an

【电影预告片填空】家园

The universe is a pretty big place. The funny thing is each of us who live here occupy our own little world. Take the case of Tip, an ordinary girl with a mom who loves her and a cat named Pig. Now she never imagine that a million miles away was a lo

小王子 第12期:小嫩苗

Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince livedas on all planetsgood plants and bad plants. 原来，在小王子的星球上就象其他所有星球上一样，有好草和坏草； In consequence, there were good seeds

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The notion seemed to delight the prince. Send a dog to kill a dog! he exclaimed. Winterfell is so infested with wolves, the Starks would never miss one. 王子听了这主意似乎很高兴。叫狗去杀狗！他叫道，反正临冬城里多的是狼

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Signs for the recent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia promised to Unite the Right. That expression was directed at white nationalist groups that oppose the removal of a statue from a public park in the city. The statue is of General Robert E. Lee

Fall Armyworms on March Across Africa

A species of armyworm has spread to over 20 African countries and threatens Africa's main food crop -- maize. The warning comes from the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Joseph Huesing works as an advisor to USAID. He sus

SSS 2009-08-11

Its been called the vine that ate the south. Kudzu grows so fast it can completely cover a cabin in the woods in a couple of days. The invasive plant takes over another 150,000 acres every year. Which costs another $6 million to control. But plant pa

SSS 2011-08-10

Invasive species get a bad rapbut we humans are usually to blame for their spread. Take Japanese stiltgrass, an invasive that arrived from Asia nearly 100 years ago as a packing material for porcelain. When it creeps into forests, it forms dense carp

SSS 2012-02-09

This Scientific Americans 60 senconds science. I'm Cythia Graber. This will just take a minute. How did the zebra get stripes. One theory holds that stripes help confused predators. But stripes might be primarilly to protect zebras from ferocious ins

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It's a nightmare come true when you've got a cockroach infestation in your house. 家里蟑螂横行简直是梦魇。 It can drive you crazy, cause sleepless nights and cause a lot of damage. 它们到处搞破坏，已把你逼疯，令你夜不能寐

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在雅思考试听力部分，不少考生反映听力听不清。不是音质效果不好，而是自己听不懂，或者语速太快，或者很多词汇不懂导致听不明白，这时，大家又该如何做听力题呢?莫要慌，今天小编为

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It's as simple as something that nobody knows that her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes on the feet of a queen of the hearts of the cards and her feet are all covered with tar balls and scars It's as common as something that nobody knows that her b

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-06-18)

1. President Barack Obama toured the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle Tuesday, vowing to fight the oil spill with (quote) everything we got. The president spoke in Pensacola to wrap up a two-day visit to the Gulf Coast before returning to

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And I was living in a basement apartment, I had no money, I had no heat, no air, I had a mattress on the floor and the apartment was infested with fleas. And I was soul-searching, I was like, why is she suddenly gone, and there are fleas here? I don'

Slain Chinese students identified by U.S. officials

LOS ANGELES, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Two Chinese students who were slain during an early-morning shooting Wednesday were identified by officials from the University of Southern California (USC) and the authorities are still looking for a lone suspect. T

【英音模仿秀】悲情印第舰

模仿文本： Today we're taking you back to the last days of the Second World War when a US warship was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Pacific Ocean. The sailors who survived the sinking spent four days adrift in shark-infested waters. Loel D

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She commanded her handmaids to prepare her a bath. 她吩咐女仆为她准备沐浴。 Doreah built a fire outside the tent, while Irri and Jhiqui fetched the big copper tub, another bride gift, from the packhorses and carried water from the pool. 多

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Science and technology. 科技。 Parasitology 寄生虫学 The risks of global worming 全球防虫的危险 Widespread use of anti-parasite drugs is reducing their value 广泛使用抗寄生虫药物正在降低其疗效 Safely grazing? 正在安全