Jump the Gun (to be hasty) Denise was planning on telling her grandparents that the doctor said she was going to have twins, but when her dad found out he jumped the gun and told them before Denise co...
This is a communications 1) seminar. Ah, I 2) tricked you. If I would have said, “this is a communications seminar,” how many of you would have 3) showed up? Yeah that’s what I was afraid of, tw...
Interviewer: OK, I want to pursue this area for just a minute, because I’m wondering whether or not, either of you or both of you have the experience in recent days where the same people who regarde...
Think of your mind as a 1) reservoir in which you have been storing up potential power. You will now learn to 2) release that power in precise quantities and specific directions. This is the essence o...
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my 1) infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more 2) explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be...
The moon shone down on the lake like a spotlight. It was a warm summer evening, and I found the night sky, with its 1) glistening stars, relaxing to watch. Five of us were sitting on the dock, wishing...
环球趣闻 A new Rand Institute study suggests obese Americans spent more for their health care than smokers do. Obesity adds almost $400 a year and smoking just 230. 兰德机构一项新的调查表...
听力练习 Part 2: Listen to the news carefully and then fill in the brackets with the correct answer to each question put forward in the tape. 1. A.100 B.30 C. 300 D. 8 2. A. Westminster Abbey B. S...
1 As the US Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares to arrive in Israel, the country’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected pressure from Washington to end the military offensive in the West Ba...
I’m trying to control myself So please don’t stand in my way I’ve waited for the longest time This is what I wanted in my way *Move over, move over There’s a 1) climax coming my way Move over,...
When you think of the islands, you probably picture beaches and palm trees and green golf courses. But many American citizens and companies see 1) a different kind of green there, money. This week, th...
Being a super power, it’s not possession of nuclear weapons, it’s not having a large armed forces, it’s not having higher tech equipment than anyone else, if there’s one thing that defines bei...
Cheerleaders - what do you think when you hear that term? Good-looking girls waving 1) pompons? And what about male cheerleaders? 2) Geeky guys jumping around with 3) megaphones? Well, cheerleading is...
I do, of course like people to enjoy my work, no question about it. The 1) durability of the idea, the 2) relevance of its durable, it’s more important to me. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not...
In the film version of his life, John Nash’s character played by Russell Crow, sees people who really aren’t there. The real John Nash, like most 1) schizophrenics, did not imagine people, he hear...
