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Item Eight. Vocabulary. popularize. A number of big chain stores in China are trying to popularize cotton shopping bags to reduce the amount of plastic ones being thrown away. However, the China Youth Daily reports that the cotton shopping bags are n

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Item five. Vocabulary. catalogue. This time of the year, Americans spend lots of time shopping for the holiday gifts for their family members and friends. Many people visit a lot of stores in large shopping centers to buy their gifts. Others order go

Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit12:Dictation item(10)

Item 10. Vocabulary. eclipse. One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement because time and movement cannot be separated. A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes, for time a

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Item three. Vocabulary. Canadian, Mexican. America's national road system makes it possible to drive coast to coast. From the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west is a distance of more than 4,000 kilometers. Or you could drive

Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit12:Dictation item(1)

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Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit12:Dictation Item(3)

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Step by Step 3000 第2册 Unit12:Dictation Item(1)

Step by Step 3000. Book Two. Unit 12. Dictation. In this unit, you'll hear 11 items for dictation. Each item will be presented three times. Write down every word you hear. Item One. Vocabulary. abuse, innocent, mitigate, trauma, equipped, Judith Wall

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今天我们要学的词是big ticket item。 Big ticket item, 意思是大件商品。 Electronic medical records systems are a big ticket item for hospitals, 安装电子病例系统对医院来说是一笔很大的开支。 I usually wait until Bl

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