Americans have always been interested in their Presidents&am
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Before the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914
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Getting your children to study can be a little like getting
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If you saw another kid ride her bike too fast around a corne
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The Children’s Book-show Competition is a chance
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When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business
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I’d like to give you some advices on how to learn Chinese we
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Stephen Hawking, who is the most famous physicist语法填空
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The following diaries were written by an Australian boy name
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Mary was seven years old. Her parents recently moved to a ne
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阅读理解 How to Be a Winner
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Chuck Wall teaches management and human relations
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Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature
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The war was the most peaceful time of my life.
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The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard
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Foreign attacks on U.S.soil
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More and more pupils are giving teachers presents
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I began working in journalism (新闻业) when I was eight. It was
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What makes one person more intelligent than another
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