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  正在非洲访问的美国务卿希拉里.克林顿在刚果(金)会见大学生时,有学生问及奥巴马对中非关系的评论时,由于翻译错将奥巴马总统说成了克林顿总统,这位女国务卿表现出少有的激动.



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  Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and the first lady of the United States......who’s around here somewhere....      I have come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women in this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us here.     I know that for many Americans watching
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  Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double this nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years. We’ve also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history, an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in medicine, in science and technology. We will soon lay down thousands of miles of power lines that can carry n
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This is a joke from a friend in USA. I think it should be shared with friends.  It was already late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky he couldn’t tell what the winter was going to be
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  My fellow citizens, I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. 同胞们： 今天我站在这里，因为我们所面临的任务而感到谦卑, 因为你们给予的信任而万分感激,永远
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What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them— that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer
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   Jan. 20, 2009 WASHINGTON - My fellow citizens, I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.
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 七.借英美文学知识和影视作品,提高英语教学质量         优秀的文学作品往往都是最佳的语言和文化载体, 所以学习语言总少不了学习优秀的文学作品, 通过欣赏优秀作品去体会语言的最佳境界, 通过文学作品去了解英语国家的文化. 我们必须看到, 文化的导入和影响对语言学习有着重要的意义. 只有掌握了目的语所承载的文化才能真正掌握该语言的精髓, 应用起来才能做到得心应手.   
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六. 课堂语言要风趣幽默,贴近生活             随着教育理念的转变, 英语教学法也放生了根本性的变化----由语法教学法向功能教学法转变. 因为英语是一种交际工具, 其功能就是交流思想, 所以我们在教学时间中要逐步淡化语法教学, 突出它的实用功能. 既然是"工具", 那么就有" 在用中学 " 的特点. 老师也就少不了举些例句作示范. 这是我们应该根据学生的心理特点, 选择他们比
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  Mouse Story A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and is wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head an
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