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抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:03:33

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原来大家都这么有定力啊，我这心里的小鹿刚刚飞扬起来又被拉回来了。。。好吧，那我也潜心修炼把。。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 fox0923 (2011/7/17 21:32:50)</div> 
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                   哈哈，fox，我们都是没有定力才要闭关，fallacy“同时当因果” 哈哈。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 daisyの小夢想 (2011/7/17 22:37:08)</div> 
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 这个fallacy不应该是因果倒置么~哈哈~来贴下文章就接着闭~

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:08:38

【速度2-10】 58s 2 51s 4 3 自由阅读35s 【越障2-9】6:30 慈善的艺术 一、美国成功地遗传了有钱就做慈善的"血统"，从Bill gates到Mark。。 但是慈善面临一个问题--慈善很难做到有效，甚至还make things worse。 巴菲特说做慈善比赚钱更难。 二、介绍了其中一本关于做慈善的书的作者--MM。他说他是唯一一个通过自己 努力赚取的钱来亲自做慈善的人。他积累了很多经验，体会到做慈善真的很 需要做到有效，举了NGO的例子--捐了钱给NGO反而使得NGO无法得到政府的 资助，导致得到更少经费。然后又提到了三本慈善书的另外两个作者。 三、改变慈善现状的途径 MM认为慈善家做慈善要不仅凭自己的感觉，还要靠智慧，follow both heart and head。 说了几本慈善书的作者提出了6个使慈善更高效的其中两个特别的策略 1. 改变社会政策，无论全球的还是local的。这一点Bill Gates做得比较好。 2. 把慈善组织联合起来 四、解释了为什么做慈善比赚取更难。用了一个比喻，赚钱就像伸手去摘近 在头顶的果子，而做慈善会遇到很多困境。 五、MM认为要measure好goal和progress。

daisyの小夢想 · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:09:06

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原来大家都这么有定力啊，我这心里的小鹿刚刚飞扬起来又被拉回来了。。。好吧，那我也潜心修炼把。。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 fox0923 (2011/7/17 21:32:50)</div> 
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                   哈哈，fox，我们都是没有定力才要闭关，fallacy“同时当因果” 哈哈。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 daisyの小夢想 (2011/7/17 22:37:08)</div> 
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  这个fallacy不应该是因果倒置么~哈哈~来贴下文章就接着闭~<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 抓抓sandra (2011/7/17 23:03:33)</div> 
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                   是啵~！啊啊。

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:18:59

计时1 Europe's Economic Problems Linked to Rise inSuicides A study says morepeople are killing themselves in Greece and other countries affected byeconomic troubles in Europe. David Stuckler, a sociologist at Britain'sUniversity of Cambridge, co-wrote the report. DAVID STUCKLER: "For themost part, the countries that have been more severely affected have experiencedgreater rises in suicides -- Ireland, Spain, the Baltics -- reaching up tosixteen percent in some of the worst affected countries, like Greece." Suicide rates in Europe hadbeen decreasing. But then the international banking crisis hit in two thousandeight. The study looked at reportsfrom ten European countries from two thousand seven and two thousand nine. Nineof the ten countries had a five percent increase in suicide rates between twothousand seven and two thousand nine. In Ireland the increase was thirteenpercent. The study found that suiciderates have not increased in countries where governments have helped get peopleback to work. Examples include Sweden and Finland. DAVUD STUCKLER: "Wefound that just giving money to people who have lost jobs to replace theirincome did not appear to help. Instead, giving people a reason to get out ofbed in the morning, a hope in terms of searching for a good, meaningful jobseemed to be the most beneficial to helping people cope." The findings appeared lastweek in the Lancet medical journal. Greece is suffering the costsof a huge public deficit. For over a year, the government has cut spending andincreased taxes in an effort to improve its finances. (255 words) 计时2

avlos Tsimas is a journalistbased in Greece. He recently made a documentary about the increase in suicides.

AVLOS TSIMAS: "Weinvestigated the case of a small businessman from Herakleion in Crete, who tookhis car, loaded it with tins of petrol, and first shot himself and then putfire to the whole car."

avlos Tsimas says somepeople commit suicide in a public way, like the businessman in Crete.

AVLOS TSIMAS: "We foundout that people killed themselves in a very dramatic and sometimes a veryviolent way, which maybe means that they are trying to make their suicide astatement, want the whole world to understand how badly they feel, how hopelessthey have felt." He says Greeks who killthemselves are mostly men. And he says the number has gone up most on theisland of Crete.

AVLOS TSIMAS: " ...where social and family life is more traditional, more patriarchic. The fatherof the family has to be respected as a figure of great strength. And when theeconomic problems arise, when jobs are lost and businesses are closed down, itis this despair because of the loss of respect, the loss of self-esteem, andthe fact that the person feels that his life no longer has meaning, that drivesthem to this kind of act." And that's the VOA SpecialEnglish <a href="http://www.51voa.com/Health_Report_1.html" target="_blank">HealthReport</a>. For more health news, go to 51voa.com. I'm Jim Tedder. (238 words) SOURCE: VOA special English <a href="http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/Europe-Suicide-42399.html" target="_blank">http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/Europe-Suicide-42399.html</a> 计时3 Billie Holiday, 1915-1959: The LadySang the Blues SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm ShirleyGriffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm SteveEmber with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week wetell about a person important in the history of the United States. This week,we tell about Billie Holiday. She was one of the greatest jazz singers inAmerica. (MUSIC:"God Bless theChild") SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: That wasBillie Holiday singing one of her famous songs. She and Arthur Herzog wrote it.Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singingexpressed her experiences and her feelings. STEVE EMBER: Billie Holidaywas born Eleanora Fagan in nineteen fifteen in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parentswere Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. They were young when their daughter wasborn. Their marriage failed because Clarence Holiday was not at home much. Hetraveled as a musician with some of the earliest jazz bands. Sadie Fagan cleaned people'shouses. But she could not support her family on the money she earned. So shemoved to New York City where the pay was higher. She left her daughter inBaltimore with members of her family. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: The younggirl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star,Billie Dove. Billie Holiday loved to sing. She sang and listened to musicwhenever she could. One place near her home had a machine that played records.The building was a brothel where women who were prostitutes had sex with menfor money. Billie cleaned floors and didother jobs for the prostitutes so she could listen to the records. It was therethat young Billie first heard the records of famous black American bluesartists of the nineteen twenties. She heard Bessie Smith sing the blues. Andshe heard Louis Armstrong play the horn. Both musicians had a great influenceon her. （306 words）偶尔来个长的挑战一下~ 计时4 STEVE EMBER: Billie Holidayonce said: "I do not think I'm singing. I feel like I am playing a horn.What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tuneto my own way of doing it. That is all I know." Here is Billie Holidaysinging a popular song of the nineteen thirties, "More Than YouKnow." (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: BillieHoliday had a tragic childhood. When she was ten, a man sexually attacked her.She was accused of causing the man to attack her and sent to a prison forchildren. In nineteen twenty-seven,Billie joined her mother in Harlem, the area of New York City whereAfrican-Americans lived. Billie's mother mistakenly sent her to live in abrothel. Billie became a prostitute at the age of thirteen. One day, sherefused the sexual demands of a man. She was arrested and spent four months inprison. STEVE EMBER: Two years later,Billie's mother became sick and could not work. Fifteen-year-old Billie triedto find a job. Finally, she was given a job singing at a place in Harlem wherepeople went at night to drink alcohol and listen to music. For the next seventeen years,Holiday was one of the most popular nightclub singers in New York. She alwayswore a long white evening dress. And she wore large white flowers in her blackhair. She called herself "Lady Day." SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In theearly nineteen thirties, a music producer, John Hammond, heard Billie Holidaysing in a nightclub. He called her the best jazz singer he had ever heard. Hebrought famous people to hear her sing. （278 words） 计时5 Hammond produced Holiday'sfirst records. He got the best jazz musicians to play. They included BennyGoodman on clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Roy Eldridge on trumpet and BenWebster on saxophone. They recorded many famous songs with Billie Holiday. "I Wished on theMoon" is one of them. (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: In the latenineteen thirties, Billie Holiday sang with Artie Shaw's band as it traveledaround the United States. She was one of the first black singers to performwith a white band. But racial separation laws in America made travel difficultfor her. During this time, a new nightclub opened in the area of New York calledGreenwich Village. It was the first club that had both black and whiteperformers. And it welcomed both black and white people to hear the performers.The nightclub was called Cafe Society. It was here that Billie Holidayfirst sang a song called "Strange Fruit." A school teacher namedLewis Allan had written it for her. The song was about injustice and oppressionof black people in the southern part of the United States. It told about howmobs of white men had killed black men by hanging them from trees. Many people objected to the song. It was unlike any other popular song. But itwas a huge hit. Here is Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit." (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In thenineteen forties, Holiday started using the illegal drug heroin. Soon her bodyneeded more and more of the drug. It began to affect her health. （257 words） 自由阅读 In nineteen forty-seven,Billie Holiday was arrested for possessing illegal drugs. She was found guiltyand sentenced to nine months in prison. When she was released, New York Cityofficials refused to give her a document that permitted her to work in anyplace that served alcoholic drinks. This meant Holiday no longer could sing innightclubs and jazz clubs. She could sing only in theaters and concert halls. Ten days after her releasefrom jail, she performed at New York's famous Carnegie Hall. People filled theplace to hear her sing. This is one of the songs she sang at that concert. Itis called "I Cover the Waterfront." (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: In nineteenfifty-six, Billie Holiday wrote a book about her life. The book was called"Lady Sings the Blues." A friend at the New York Post newspaper,William Dufty, helped her write the book. A few months later, she was arrestedagain for possessing illegal drugs. But instead of going to prison, she waspermitted to seek treatment to end her dependence on drugs. The treatment wassuccessful. That same year, she performedher second concert at Carnegie Hall. Here is one of the songs Holiday sang thatnight. It is called "Lady Sings the Blues." She and Herbie Nicholswrote it. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: BillieHoliday's health was ruined by using illegal drugs and by drinking too muchalcohol. Her last performance was in nineteen fifty-nine. She had to be led offthe stage after singing two songs. She died that year. She was only forty-four.But Lady Day lives on through her recordings that continue to influence thebest jazz singers. (MUSIC: "You Go to MyHead") STEVE EMBER: This SpecialEnglish program was written by Shelley Gollust. It was produced by Lawan Davis.I'm Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'mShirley Griffith. Our programs are online with transcripts and MP3 files at51voa.com. And you can find us on Facebook and YouTube at VOA Learning English.Join us again next week for <a href="http://www.51voa.com/People_in_America_1.html" target="_blank">

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抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:25:55

As Ivory Coast Recovers, One Region is Stuckin a Cycle of Hate At first, Honorie Guei was simply relieved she had survived thepost-electoral violence in Ivory Coast. But after 14 weeks in a crowded refugeecamp in the west of the country, the 31-year-old market trader has begun todespair. "If we are working in the fields,our sweat cleanses us," Guei says, gesturing at the thick, hilly foreststhat dominate the landscape in the western region of Moyen Cavally. "Butall of us living here together, people are dying every day." She ispreparing to attend two funerals today, the latest victims of a choleraoutbreak in the camp. She worries, she says, that it will be her funeral next.<a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2063134,00.html" target="_blank">(See images from the battle forthe Ivory Coast.)</a> Guei is one of around 30,000people who sought shelter in a Catholic churchyard in the western capital ofDuékoué when civil conflict engulfed much of Ivory Coast in December. Fourmonths of violence ensued, as former ruler Laurent Gbagbo refused to concededefeat in a run-off election to his rival, Alassane Ouattara. These days, stores are reportinga brisk trade for the first time since April, when Ouattara's troops, with helpfrom French and United Nations forces, pulled a still-defiant Gbagbo from his bunkerin the presidential palace. On the back of the newly installed president'scan-do attitude, new businesses are springing up across the commercial capital,Abidjan. But as the rest of Ivory Coast sets off on the road to recovery, thewestern region lags behind, threatening to stall progress down the line.<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2062728,00.html" target="_blank">(See "In Ivory Coast, asAbidjan Is Ransacked, Where Is Gbagbo?")</a> Long an ungovernable tinderbox ofethnic tensions, the west was wracked with brutal fighting trigged by thedisputed elections. Potent xenophobia peddled by Gbagbo's government againstnortherners with migrant roots — who form the bulk of Ouattara's support base —was exacerbated by land disputes in the resource-rich and fertile region.Pro-Gbagbo militias, mainly from the southern ethnic tribes such as the Guéré,held sway in the region for over a decade and had complete impunity as theyregularly clashed with northerners. As the rebels allied to Ouattara sweptsouthwards to join forces with insurgents in Abidjan, the tables turned. OnApril 2, human-rights groups revealed three mass graves in Duékoué, in totalcontaining the bodies of up to 1,000 civilians — predominantly from the Guérétribe. Ouattara has since appointed thedisparate rebel groups who backed him to the role of the national army,effectively legitimizing warlords who grew rich from racketeering andsmuggling. Although many Ivorians feel the president's hand was forced, sincehe owes his ascension to the rebels, his naming the head of the former rebelmovement as army chief left even some supporters worried. In other quarters,the move provoked intense anger. "We've no homes to go tobecause the rebels burnt our village," Guei says. "It's an insult tous that warlords are now sitting at the president's table. If I were a man, I'dhave picked up a gun and started another rebellion myself." Another Guéréwoman nearby recounts how she was forced to sing and dance for pro-Ouattara fightersas they hacked off her husband's feet; yet another survived by hiding in thebush for four days. At checkpoints — made out of piles of dead bodies — thewomen were harassed and stripped of all their belongings. Men were sometimessummarily executed. But not everyone sympathizes withthe plight of the families strewn across half a dozen refugee camps in thedistrict. "For years we were subject to daily terror by Gbagbo'ssupporters, who had complete immunity, just because we are northerners,"says cocoa farmer Kareem Ouedraogo, whose parents settled in Duékoué fromBurkina Faso. "Now they know how the other half lived."<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071044,00.html" target="_blank">(See if Ivory Coast's Presidentcan heal the nation's wounds.)</a> The mutual suspicion andresentment is shared by many, and highlights the major obstacles reconciliationefforts must surmount. At a local community meeting in Duékoué on July 6, anannouncement of plans by non-governmental organizations to build a new villagefor Guéré survivors was heckled down. Building a new village, one northernvillage chief explains, would lead to segregation. "When our parents hadtheir homes destroyed, we were forced to rebuild them with our own hands. Itshould be an eye for an eye before we start talking reconciliation," headds. And there are other problems. A200-km-long porous border with Liberia, itself recovering from back-to-backwars, makes the area difficult to police. In a region awash with weapons, thenumber of armed robberies on the already notorious roads have shot upwardssince Ouattara's soldiers took power, residents from both sides of thepolitical divide agree. With no formal census for the new army, manypro-Ouattara civilians have simply donned combat fatigues and picked up guns. "Insecurity in the regionhas increased lately, but that's why we are also increasing patrols," asoldier at one of the periodic, bullet-ridden checkpoints in the area says. Inthe past two weeks, 14 deaths and dozens of injuries have been recorded at thelocal police station, he adds.<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2062935,00.html" target="_blank">(See the result of grislystandoffs in Ivory Coast.)</a> Ouattara has said that he'spresident for all Ivorians, irrespective of tribal divisions. Meanwhile, aheadof potentially explosive legislative elections, the government has pledged toinstall eight military bastions across the two districts that make up thewestern region. But questions remain as to how effective these attempts toinstill calm will be and whether the politics of ethnicity can be overcome."Right now, those at the top want peace," says Guei. "But thoseat the bottom are only concerned with revenge." SOURCE: TIME <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082855,00.html#ixzz1SNPLuzYz" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082855,00.html#ixzz1SNPLuzYz</a>

裤裤melo · 发表于 2011-7-17 23:52:51

1-6速度~ 找了很久的1-5速度木有找到就做的1-6~ 昨天偷懒了木有做。。。不是有事。。。就是偷懒了~~~ 明天周一了~打起精神来！！！ 计时1 55s 计时2 1:12 3行 计时3 53s 计时4 56s 计时5 1:06s 2行

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-18 01:03:03

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啊~~~我一读快。。就在念单词。。。根本就没反应过来句意了<img src="/static/legacy-emoticon/106.gif" emoticon="[em:106]" alt="" /><img src="/static/legacy-emoticon/106.gif" emoticon="[em:106]" alt="" /><div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 bblythe (2011/7/17 13:04:03)</div> 
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我有时候也会这样，感觉就是在狂扫，没有读很懂。。所以还是要辅以杨鹏长难句啊~~~

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-18 01:03:16

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我是来刷屏的…… 呵呵~   这几天都玩疯了。回归回归了~~<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 ccmoom (2011/7/17 12:49:22)</div> 
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 速速归来吧~~~噗~~~~

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-18 01:04:18

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哇哇哇，我哭。。为什么每次我在活跃的时候，大家都在睡觉。。可恶的时差。。真希望在国内和大家一起复习总比我这里单枪匹马的强啊~~<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 fox0923 (2011/7/17 4:22:44)</div> 
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虎摸虎摸~~也就是你的下午大家才在睡觉哈，不寂寞不寂寞~嘿嘿~<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 抓抓sandra (2011/7/17 8:23:22)</div> 
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 嘿嘿。。。有了你们的支持就开心多了。。。加油加油，给自己放了一晚上的假，明天要回到复习状态了。。（不过好像还有个约）。。不争气的材料。。<div style="text-align:right;">-- by 会员 fox0923 (2011/7/17 13:14:27)</div> 
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 嘿嘿。。总之尽量保持复习的连贯性咯，有时候换换心思放松放松也挺好的，别让蓄积的冲劲散了就好~

抓抓sandra · 发表于 2011-7-18 01:15:10

【速度2-10】 哎哟哟daisy选的第一篇好欢乐~~ 1行，65s 60s 50s 55s 2行，74s 自由阅读：37s 【越障2-9】7:01 1. 表面上美国的慈善事业发展得很好，特别是有bill gates和buffet这样的人总是愿意进行慈善捐款etc。但是慈善事业存在着ineffectiveness的问题。 2. 提出有时候慈善捐赠不仅不会解决问题，反而还会加重社会问题。 3. MM写了一本书提出改善慈善事业的建议。其中有两个主要的propose：1）政府政策应该更支持鼓励慈善事业；2）慈善家应该更多地联合起来。 今天一整天语法+逻辑，到做阅读的时候都1:00多了嘎。。越障就不细写了。。最近越障有点偏离了训练的轨道了，看的时候没有认真思考全篇结构，到了看完才想。。明天赶紧开始纠正。。

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