[听力原文] In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the last Thursday of November to he observed as a day of thanksgiving.
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清教徒们在旷野建造房屋，漫长的冬季到来前他们储备过冬的农作物，他们同印第安邻居友好相处。
[听力原文] The Pilgrims built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors.
[听力原文] In 1621, after a hard first year, the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish, which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke-cured over fires.
[听力原文] Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations—Canada,Japan,Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil.
[听力原文] The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. And when it is complete just after the turn of the century, the station will represent a move of unprecedented scale off the home planet.
[听力原文] It is good manners to say "Thank you" to a person when he has done something for us. It is also good manners to give up our seat on a bus to old people and pregnant mothers.
[听力原文] In Asian countries, it is considered very rude when younger people call elder people by name without following a title. In America, no matter younger or older, people can call one another by their first name when they know each other a lot.
[听力原文] In Burmese schools, nobody calls their teachers' names, they just use "teacher", and even when they have to use the name in the third person, they need to call "Teacher Mr./Ms. " before their names.
[听力原文] If a person stands with both hands on his hips, he is taking up an unfriendly pose to the Burmese people. For the Americans, it is a common, natural pose, not associated with hostility.
[听力原文] Manners mean "a person's way of behaving towards others or social behavior". Since different countries have different cultures, good manners of different countries are not the same.
[听力原文] Standing with folded arms is a pose of humility and obedience for Burmese people. On the other hand, for the Americans, it looks ready to fight or disrespectful.
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这将协助那些企业建立一个更加牢固、信息更加灵通的防线，使其计算机免受攻击。
[听力原文] This will assist individual companies in providing a stronger, better-informed first line of defense against computer attacks.
[听力原文] The FBI announced on Friday the completion of a program that seeks to combat cyber crime by encouraging companies to share information about Internet attacks they have experienced.
[听力原文] If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bytes.
[听力原文] The Isle of Man, controlled by Norway during the Middle Ages, came under English rule in the 14th century. It is largely self-governing and has its own legislative assembly and systems of law. Britain is responsible for its international relations and defense.
[听力原文] Many children grow up with only one parent (usually their mother). As a result, they lack guidance and are often surrounded by drugs and violence. With little or no support at home, they look for security and a sense of belonging elsewhere and often end up joining a gang.
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这样的年轻人常常感到游离于主流社会之外，对公民责任漠不关心，这些都不足为怪。
[听力原文] It is not surprising that youth like this feel alienated from mainstream society and do not even care about civic responsibilities.
[听力原文] If parents lived a difficult childhood full of hardships, their attitudes and their expectation are likely to be very different from those of their children who lived in a more comfortable world with more economic opportunities.
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中国军方官员说，数千名部署在西藏高原协助抗震救灾的军队和武警部队所面临的最大困难之一是高原反应。
[听力原文] Chinese military officials say that one of the biggest difficulties facing the thousands of troops and armed police deployed to assist in earthquake relief on the Tibetan plateau is altitude sickness.
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酒精会令你夜里频繁醒来，会减少深度睡眠，还会令你比往常早醒。
[听力原文] Alcohol can cause you to awake frequently in the night, reduce the amount of deep sleep you get, and cause you to wake up earlier than usual in the morning.
[听力原文] The overall effect of alcohol is that you end up feeling tired the next day. And thus you might be tempted to use alcohol to fall asleep the next night and the night after that and so on.
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在酒精作用下人选出的食物一般都是不是很好。
[听力原文] The food choices you make under the influence of alcohol are generally not very good.
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一个不争的实施就是睡眠障碍常会成为重新酗酒的元凶。
[听力原文] And it's an established fact that trouble sleeping is also one of the major triggers of relapse among recovering alcoholics.
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酗酒康复者常常入睡难，且易醒．这是努力戒除酒精依赖的人所遇到的严重问题。
[听力原文] Recovering alcoholics have difficulty both falling asleep and staying asleep, and this is a serious problem for people who are trying to recover from alcohol dependence.
[听力原文] Children who spent three or more hours a day watching TV, playing computer games, or chatting with friends—aside from time in school or time spent doing homework—were classified as sedentary.
[听力原文] At IBM's annual meeting with investors Wednesday, an insider said the technology giant would double its earnings to at least $20 a share by 2015.
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IBM预计在5年内，其巨大的服务业务将占营业利润的38%，从去年同期的41%有所下降。
[听力原文] In five years, IBM expects its giant services business to account for just 38% of operating profit, down from 41% last year.
[听力原文] Amazing news for lazy people; sleep makes you smarter. Not studying, reading or revising, just sleeping, although the other three won't hurt either.
[听力原文] percent of financial services sales agents are reported to be happy with their jobs. That could be because some of them are clearing more than $90,000 dollars a year on average for a 40-hour work week in a comfortable office environment.
[听力原文] The Beijing auto show is one of few global auto shows that all major Japanese car makers are attending even as they have limited their budgets for such events amid the tough business environment.
[听力原文] A number of "seven billionth" babies are being honored around the world. The Philippines was chosen as the first country to celebrate the symbolic birth—feting a baby girl born late Sunday in Manila.
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退伍军人节是为纪念于1918年签署的停火协议，该协议标志第一次世界大战战事终结。
[听力原文] Veterans Day commemorates the date in 1918 when the cease-fire agreement was signed that ended the battles of World War One.
[听力原文] A newly graduate in Beijing rented three 7.5-square-meter rooms in west Beijing and turned them into eight capsules, very small rooms, most of which measure 2.4 meters by 0.72 meter.
[听力原文] The Beijing auto show, which starts Friday, will feature almost 1,000 car models, including 95 "green" cars, in a 200,000-square-meter exhibition area and will seriously disrupt traffic on the outskirts of Beijing for a few days.
[听力原文] The sun makes me feel good. In fact, ultraviolet (U.V.) rays stimulate the production of endorphins, the feel-good brain chemical, like exercise does.
[听力原文] Parents and teachers who catch their children lying "should not be alarmed—and their children are not going to turn out to be pathological liars", says Dr. Lee, who has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying.
[听力原文] Planes may crash on take-off, on landing, or on approach. They may hit a mountain, or be hit by lightning. They may overrun the runway, or collide in midair with another plane.
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我想借此机会向总督强调我们的报告，并与您分享我们有关电信和信息基础设施在经济发展中的角色的观点。
[听力原文] I would like to take this opportunity to highlight our report to the Governor and share with you our view on the role of telecommunications and information infrastructure in the economic development.
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