Web www.englishdaily626.com   [ Movie Reviews | Common Sentences | Glossary of Correct Usage | High School Vocab | Questions & Answers | Sample Letters ] [ Movies Lines | Advertisements | Words Differentiation | Common Errors | Songs | Links ] <<Prev Train your ear Next>>     TOEFL Vocabulary   English Daily Conversation   Learn grammar by example   Learn American idioms       855.mp3 In a message of condolence, President Barack Obama is remembering former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has contributed to a strong and vital relationship between the United States and South Korea. Roh had been caught up in the corruption ___1___ and jumped to his death while he was hiking near his home. The mother of a four-year-old boy who drowned in Portland, Oregon is accused of killing the boy by ___2___ him and his seven-year old sister off a bridge into the river below. 31-year-old Amanda Jo Stott-Smith has been taken into custody and her seven-year-old daughter has been hospitalized. Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to the Kennedy Space Center for the second day in a row. Despite a ___3___ forecast for Sunday, NASA has decided to wait out the bad weather rather than try to land the shuttle in California. One day after freed U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi returned to the United States. She picked up a prize of the Cannes Film Festival. Saberi won a special jury prize for a script she co-wrote which is about ___4___, imprisonment and Iran's underground music scenes.       Answers   1. scandal - reports about actions or events that cause shock and disapproval 2. dumping - to get rid of something unwanted 3. dismal - sad and without hope 4. censorship     800   801   802   803   804   805   806   807   808   809   810   811   812   813   814   815   816   817   818   819   820   821   822   823   824   825   826   827   828   829   830   831   832   833   834   835   836   837   838   839   840   841   842   843   844   845   846   847   848   849   850   851   852   853   854   855   856   857   858   859   860   861   862   863   864   865   866   867   868   869   870   871   872   873   874   875   876   877   878   879   880   881   882   883   884   885   886   887   888   889   890   891   892   893   894   895   896   897   898   899   900   901   902   903   904   905   906   907   908   909   910   911   912   913   914   915   916   917   918   919   920   921   922   923   924   925   926   927   928   929   ( Nov 20 ) Train your ear 1       Common English mistakes   Ancient Chinese stories   Learn English Proverbs   American Slang expressions

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