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The northeastern United States continues to clean-up, repair and re-build in communities hit by Hurricane Sandy.Many people ignored warnings to leave their homes for emergency shelters.Often, this was...

美国东北部继续清理、修复和重建受飓风桑迪袭击的社区。许多人无视离开家园前往紧急避难所的警告。通常，这是因为他们的宠物或牲畜。收容所很少允许动物进入。这个问题几乎出现在所有的洪水、大型野火和地震中。克里斯托弗·克鲁斯告诉了俄勒冈州的努力，告诉...

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For Luma Mefleh the Fugees were like a family. Luma grew up in Jordan, in the Middle East. She came to the United States for school. After she finished university, Luma did not know what she wanted. S...

对Luma Mefleh来说，难民就像一家人。卢马在中东的约旦长大。她来美国上学。大学毕业后，Luma不知道自己想要什么。她尝试了许多工作，搬到了许多不同的地方。最后，她搬到了格鲁吉亚。但她仍然感到不满意。直到有一天，她看到一群孩子在街上踢...

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On July fourth, seventeen seventy-six, the Second Continental Congress,meeting in Philadelphia,approved the Declaration of Independence.The new country, the United States of America,was at war with it...

1776年7月4日，在费城召开的第二届大陆会议批准了《独立宣言》。新国家美利坚合众国与其前殖民统治者英国交战。然而，并非所有前殖民地的人都同意宣布独立的决定。没有人确切知道有多少美国人仍然忠于英国。马萨诸塞州政治领袖约翰·亚当斯认为，大约三...

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Shamsoun Dikori was born in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan in the early 1980’s. He remembers his home as a beautiful place. It was filled with fruit trees and grass fields. As the oldest of six c...

Shamsoun Dikori于20世纪80年代初出生在苏丹中部的努巴山脉。他记得他的家是个美丽的地方。里面种满了果树和草地。作为六个孩子中最大的一个，Shamsoun也有一个庞大而充满爱心的家庭。“我妈妈关心每个人。她总是想给她的孩子最好...

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Each fall,people travel to Vermont to see the colorful autumn leaves.In winter,people come to ski and snowboard in the mountains.In the warmer months,they go on river-rafting trips and camp and enjoy ...

每年秋天，人们都会去佛蒙特州看五颜六色的秋叶。冬天，人们来山上滑雪和滑雪板。在温暖的月份，他们会去漂流和露营，并享受其他户外活动。佛蒙特州只有大约60万人。这使其成为美国人口第二少的州，仅次于怀俄明州。而且这个州不仅人口少。佛蒙特州是美国五...

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“My wife and I decided to go out to eat Japanese food. But I was not satisfied. The cook used too much oil on the first part of our meal. And then the fish was not fresh!” These are the words of a ...

“我和妻子决定出去吃日本菜。但我不满意。厨师在我们用餐的前半部分用油太多了。然后鱼就不新鲜了！”这是一个美国人的话。他在一家餐馆吃了一些日本菜。但他对食物很不满意。他觉得这不是真正的日本人。许多日本人会同意他的观点。食物在日本非常重要。一些...

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The year was seventeen seventy-five. Colonists in Massachusetts had fought battles with British troops in the towns of Lexington and Concord.War had not been declared.But citizen soldiers in each of t...

那一年是1775年。马萨诸塞州的殖民者曾在列克星敦和康科德与英国军队作战。战争尚未宣战。但13个美国殖民地的公民士兵都准备战斗。谁打算把殖民者组织成一支军队？这是第二届大陆会议代表5月在宾夕法尼亚州费城开会时面临的第一个问题。代表们决定，这...

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Obesity means that someone weighs so much that their health is in danger. They are at risk from heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In Tonga, celebrations like the one with the cooked ...

肥胖意味着一个人的体重太重，以至于他们的健康处于危险之中。他们有患心脏病、高血压和糖尿病的风险。在汤加，像煮猪这样的庆祝活动可能会导致人们体重增加很多。但汤加人只在特殊时候吃这种食物。然而，他们其余时间吃的食物也是一个大问题。他们通常吃进口...