○○○ 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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○○○ 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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○○○ 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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○○○ 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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○○○ 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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○○○ 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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○○○ 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.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=19014
○○○ 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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○○○ 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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• 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.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=5034
◌◌◌ 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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