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The Reading Group

The Reading Group Part 1 This programme was first broadcast in 2002. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. ANNOUNCER: Youre listening to The Reading Group from the BBC World Service. In this series we bring together liste

当代考试－TEST (5)

TERMINAL TEST Part I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes) Directions: This part is to test your listening ability. It consists of 3 sections. Directions: This section is to test your ability to give p

2013年6月英语四级写作参考范文二（文都版）

The importance of reading literature The drawing portrays a classroom scene in which a teacher is telling a student to read a piece of literary works. Undoubtedly, the picture aims at highlighting the magnitude of reading classics for young students,

Stay on Top of Your Reading

Stay on Top of Your Reading By Richard G. Ensman Jr. Thousands of pages of reading material are put in front of you each month. How can you manage to digest it all? T hey just keep coming and coming:

越说越地道英语下285-286

285. No one cares about public affairs W: Why is your dorm so dirty? M: No one cares about public affairs. W: You should arrange a scheme. M: The paper basket has not been cleaned. W: No one cares about public affairs. 286. It will be more appealing

Public Library of Science

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 13, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. Health news and other scientific information generally comes from research published in the

落下的书本 The Left Books

The London people were a little busy recently, many people went to the subway to find the surprise there. They kept searching the books that Emma Waston left there and wanted to be the lucky guys. There were many notes that writen by Emma in these bo

Reading the classics

Alice: Hello this is 6 Minute English, I'm Alice and today, I'm joined by Yvonne. Hello, Yvonne! Yvonne: Hello Alice! Alice: Now Yvonne, if I said Don Quixote, what would you say? Yvonne: Oh, it's a famous classic Spanish novel but that's all, becaus

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Notes From A Public Typewriter' Muse On Everything From Cats To Commencement

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Five years ago, a husband and wife opened a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michael and Hilary Gustafson called it Literati. And, almost on a whim, they did something that would make them famous in the town. MICHAEL GUSTAFSON: We bas

雅思口语part3遇到reading怎么办

关于reading，不论是在p1p2p3哪一个part，它都是经常会出现的问题。然而Reading helps to relax，My favorite book is ，这些梗是不是都已经滚瓜烂熟了?今天我们要谈的是阅读的变化。开始之前，你可以自

Hollande pledges to put public finances in order by 2017

PARIS, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande on Saturday reiterated his promise to reach zero deficit by 2017 via public spending cuts and growth stimulus. The path is that of achieving a balanced public finances at the end of the ma

White House Takes Gun Control to American Public

WHITE HOUSE The Obama administration is once again going to the American people to win support for one of its initiatives. The president and other White House officials are mounting a public campaign for passage of gun control legislation, evidenced

China issues first public services plan

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, has issued the first national plan for public services, the country's top economic planning agency said Wednesday. The government will intensify its efforts to improve basic public s

Nepal bans smoking in public places from Sunday

KATHMANDU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ban on smoking in public places will be enforced from Sunday with the Tobacco Control and Regulatory Act-2010 coming into effect. Those smoking in public places will be fined and civil servants will be liable to departme

Majority in U.S. supports public smoking ban

NEW YORK, July 15 (Xinhua) -- A Gallup survey released on Friday found a total of 59 percent of Americans support a ban on smoking in all public places. The July 7-10 survey among 1,016 national adults showed a change in the public's attitude toward

GRE作文高分范文

In a study of reading habits of Leeville citizens conducted bythe University of Leeville, most respondents said they preferredliterary classics as reading material. However, a follow-up studyconducted by the same researchers found that the type ofboo

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic?

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re

新西兰英语 380 15 year olds score well in reading

Each year, the OECD tests half a million 15-year old students in 70 countries in reading, mathematics and science. The results for 2009 were published this month. They showed students in Korea and Finland had the highest scores for reading literacy.

The lost art of reading

The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it. Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having troubl