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美语听力练习素材:缅甸突发军事政变

Source: 恒星英语学习网    2021-02-03   English BBS   Favorite  

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Myanmar's military has staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover was a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy Myanmar has made following five decades of military rule.

President Joe Biden is set to meet with a group of 10 Republican senators who've proposed $618 billion in coronavirus aid. That's about a third of what he's seeking. The Republicans propose slimmer benefits, including $1,000 in direct payments to individuals earning up to $40,000 a year, or $80,000 for couples.

The latest winter storm to wallop the Northeast shut down vaccination sites and snarled other pandemic-related services in many states that could see as much as a foot of snow by this evening. A nor'easter developing off the mid-Atlantic coast is expected to bring heavy snow and strong winds through tomorrow.

And a four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station's power grid is finally wrapping up. A pair of NASA astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Monday to install the last battery component. It's the second spacewalk in five days for Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover.


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