◎◎◎ season ⪢⪢
A _____ is a time of the year: spring, summer, fall or winter.
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◎◎◎ century ⪢⪢
A century is one hundred years.
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◎◎◎ COVID-19 ⪢⪢
The World Health Organization names the new coronavirus first identified in China late last year _____. 2020-02-11
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○○○ dissent ⪢⪢
The protesters were supporters of Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish politician, arrested last year in Turkey. Rights groups say his arrest was part of Turkey's restrictions on _____.
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○○○ Aung San Suu Kyi ⪢⪢
A court in military-ruled Myanmar finds ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty on two additional corruption charges. Her sentences total 26 years in prison. 2022-10-12
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○○○ improve ⪢⪢
He studied hard to improve his test scores from the previous year.
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○○○ orbit ⪢⪢
It would take the planet 10,000 to 20,000 years to make one full orbit around the sun. ▲→▲
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○○○ underfloor ⪢⪢
As hard as this might be to believe, the Romans had underfloor heating in their homes 2000 years ago.
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○○○ dredge ⪢⪢
They dredge mud from the pond bottom to seal the dam. Each pond trap several inches of sediment every year. So there's plenty of it.
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○○○ monoganous ⪢⪢
Gibbons are typically _____ and his parents have been together for many years.
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○○○ leave ⪢⪢
I married my dear wife and the next day I left on a whaling ship for three years.
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○○○ Ta Prohm ⪢⪢
Colloquially known as the tomb raider temple, Ta Prohm was built almost 900 years ago. #bookmark
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○○○ coloring ⪢⪢
Her fur won't get its true adult _____ for another 5 years.
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○○○ A.D.S. ⪢⪢
From VOA Learning English, this is the education report. American language experts have chosen "they" as the 2015 word of the year. The American Dialect Society, or A.D.S., voted on the issue at a conference in Washington.
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○○○ pronoun ⪢⪢
"They" is a plural pronoun. For years, people speaking English have used it as a singular pronoun. For example, "I am meeting a friend for coffee and I hope they are not late." #singular_plural
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○○○ transgender ⪢⪢
For example, "they" is used for people who identify as transgender. When former Olympic athelete Bruce Jenner took a female identity last year, he changed his name to Caitlyn Jenner.
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○○○ Allan Metcalf ⪢⪢
A.D.S. President Allan Metcalf said " People have argued about the use of a singular 'they' for more than 100 years" and he says "100 years from now, people will still be debating it."
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○○○ Anna Matteo ⪢⪢
Metcalf says the decision for the word of the year is not based on science. Instead, he says the A.D.S. chooses from words that express the concerns and stories of the past year. For VOA Learning English, I'm Anna Matteo.
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○○○ Corona ⪢⪢
New and disturbing video tonight of an unprovoked attack on an Asian woman in Queens. You can see the 75 year old woman getting punched in the face as she walked along 57th Avenue in _ yesterday. She is now hospitalized with bruising and a facial fracture
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○○○ nebula ⪢⪢
The solar system came into being about 4.5 billion years ago when a cloud of interstellar gas and dust collapsed resulting in a solar nebula, a swirling disk of material that collided to form the solar system.
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○○○ Pluto ⪢⪢
When _____ was discovered in 1930, it was named the 9th planet of the solar system. More than 75 years later, that planetary status revoked and _____ was demoted to a dwarf planet. → revoke, demote #Greece
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○○○ Lunar New Year ⪢⪢
In Beijing, China, shops and offices reopen as the Lunar New Year holiday comes to an end. The break was extended to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. 2020-02-10
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○○○ Bangkok ⪢⪢
In Thailand, the Bangkok criminal court sentences a former civil servant to more than 43 years in prison for insulting the king, lawyers said.
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○○○ tremor ⪢⪢
Experts believe the quake was an aftershock from the massive tremor that hit the region 10 years ago.
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○○○ carry ⪢⪢
Over many years, the Colorado River has carried away particles of dirt and rock carving its path deeper and deeper into the ground.
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○○○ refine ⪢⪢
The principal refined his method of controlling students over the years. #bookmark
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○○○ look up ⪢⪢
Thousands of years ago, ancient astronomers looked up at the sky.
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○○○ convict ⪢⪢
In 2002, Brandon Elliot was convicted of stabbing his own mother to death with a kitchen knife in front of his 5 year old sister.
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○○○ epoch ⪢⪢
This era is made of smaller stages called epochs that occurred within the universe's first tens of thousands of years. #astronomy
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○○○ parole ⪢⪢
Elliot served 17 years and was released in 2019 on lifetime _.
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○○○ oppose ⪢⪢
A new study shows more than 80 percent of Japanese _____ the country hosting the Olympic Games this year.
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○○○ hustle ⪢⪢
40 years ago he went to jail for trying to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan. Today John Hinckley is a free man and now going public with his side hustle as a singer.
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○○○ Demeter ⪢⪢
Every year, before the ancient Greeks sowed their seeds of grain, they celebrated _____ , the goddess of agriculture. #Greece
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○○○ shover ⪢⪢
That's when the dogs' owner runs out and pushes the big bear there off the wall with her own 2 hands. The bear shover is Hailey Morinico and she's just 17 years old.
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○○○ Abdullah II ⪢⪢
In Jordan a state security court sentences two former officials to 15 years in prison for involvement in a plot against King Abdullah II.
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○○○ help ⪢⪢
When Samuel was 11 years old, his father died and he began working to help support his family. #pillow
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○○○ humiliate ⪢⪢
And here they are the new rulers of Afghanistan taking over the presidential palace, a humiliating end to 20 years of American leadership in a faraway land. 2021-08-17
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○○○ rust-colored ⪢⪢
700,000 years ago, a rust-colored rhino roamed the vast open highlands of Siberia and Central Asia.
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○○○ wild ⪢⪢
And 700,000 years ago the world was only a few degrees cooler than it is now, which is why at the time the range of the woolly rhinos was restricted to the cold wilds of Siberia.
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○○○ resolution ⪢⪢
At New Year, I made a list of resolutions to help me have a better year.
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○○○ condemn ⪢⪢
The judge condemned the criminal to 5 years in prison.
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○○○ Kamila Valieva ⪢⪢
There is a mystery still swirling around the Russian figure skating team. That is 15 year old phenom _____ who could face disqualification after reportingly testing positive for a banned heart medication.
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○○○ from ⪢⪢
Its wood was dark from many years on the wild oceans.
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○○○ aim ⪢⪢
The class aims to graduate next year.
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○○○ 2022.03.07 ⪢⪢
The United Nations estimates more than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine in 10 days, the fastest such displacement in 20 years. →fleet
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○○○ swing ⪢⪢
Debt swings occur in two big cycles. One takes about 5 to 8 years and the other takes about 75 to 100 years. While most people feel the swings, they typically don't see them as cycles because they see them too up close - day by day, week by week. #economy
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○○○ age ⪢⪢
The woman is 85 years of age.
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○○○ ago ⪢⪢
Christopher Columbus lived many years ago.
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○○○ confrontational ⪢⪢
China has gotten overly confrontational over the years.
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○○○ Queen Elizabeth class ⪢⪢
In the last 4 years, the B-21 bomber program has received over 11 billion dollars in funding that's more than enough funding to build both the UK's most advanced Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.
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○○○ tournament ⪢⪢
I hope we win the _____ this year.
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○○○ would ⪢⪢
Why then does the map on the ceiling show the position of the stars as they would have appeared around four hundred years earlier than that.
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○○○ backbone ⪢⪢
Though introduced 30 years after helicopters were a part of the U.S. air fleet, the CH-47 Chinook became the backbone of numerous major operations carried out by the military.
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○○○ Pazyryk ⪢⪢
It's the Pazyryk rug and it's 2,600 years old. #bookmark
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○○○ hard ⪢⪢
He had a hard face with lines on it from years of sun and wind.
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○○○ Aegean Sea ⪢⪢
Ancient Greece was born on the shores of the _____ about 4,000 years ago. #Greece
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○○○ feed ⪢⪢
Every 9 years, Minos would _____ 7 young men and women from Athens to the Minotaur.
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 1646 - 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz did similar work just a few years later, independently of Newton, and it is actually his notation that we still use today.
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 1643 - 1727 Isaac Newton
Galileo had already discovered some years prior that the distance traveled by a falling object is represented by a function of time. Newton wondered how one could calculate the velocity of the object at any particular instance during the fall.
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 1202 Leonardo Fibonacci
Fibonacci asked himself how many pairs of rabbits originated from a single pair in one year. Each pair of rabbits will produce exactly one more pair of both sexes per month which in turn would be fertile from the second month after birth.
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 Predicting the Future 1
(1) Future facts "I will turn 33 next year." (2) Prodictions based on your opinion "I believe my team will win tomorrow." (3) time and conditional clauses "He'll probably call if he gets stuck in traffic." "When you get home will you make dinner?"
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 03 Rates of Change
Galileo had already discovered some years prior that the distance traveled by a falling object is represented by a function of time. Newton wondered how one could calculate the velocity of the object at any particular instance during the fall.
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 In between years
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◌◌◌ Bitcoin
The online magazine wired.com reported that the bitcoin was worth about 434 dollars as of January 6. The company Juniper Research says there were 1.3 million users in 2015. It estimates there will be 4.3 million users by the end of the next year.
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 Companies That Didn’t Exist 10 Years Ago
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 05 Liber Abaci - Leonardo Fibonacci
Fibonacci asked himself how many pairs of rabbits originated from a single pair in one year. Each pair of rabbits will produce exactly one more pair of both sexes per month which in turn would be fertile from the second month after birth. #math
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 In between years
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 But not for long!
By about 450,000 years ago, global temperatures had dropped by about 6 degrees Celsius and stayed there for thousands of years.
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 1961 Patrice Lumumba
But public support for Lumumba was so high that they couldn't put his opponents in power. What followed was 4 years of political chaos.
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