VOA标准英语2013--South Africa Struggles to Reduce Road Fatalities

South Africa Struggles to Reduce Road Fatalities Driving while intoxicated It's an ordinary Friday night in Soweto, a township in the south of Johannesburg. The officers in charge of taking blood samples to measure alcohol levels can barely keep up w

NPR 2011-01-01

A storm system is generating a series of apparent tornadoes, the latest reported in the Midwestern and Southern US. In the tiny Missouri town of Sunset Hills just outside St. Louis, Mayor William Nolan describes being stunned by the damage. It's incr

NPR 2011-03-23

The sound of heavy anti-aircraft fire booms in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi are defiantly responding to US-allied air strikes. NPR's David Greene is in Tripoli, where he says Gaddafi backers are out despite

赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第44期:天摇地动！

(Taipei, June 14, CNA)At 9:17 PM last night,a massive earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan. （中央社台北六月十四日电）昨天晚上九点十七分的时候，台湾地区发生震度达李氏6.3级的大地震。 It

NPR 2011-04-06

The budget standoff in Washington is weighing on negotiators as a government shutdown draws near. Hours after meeting with Congress's GOP leadership, President Obama made an unexpected appearance at the White House daily briefing, apparently frustrat

悬崖边的疯狂：骇人的新潮流

A face peers over the edge several hundred feet above me. It is a grown man gripped by a morbid elation as he looks down on a sheer drop to the rocks, the beach where I am standing and the sea. 一个成年男子站在几百英尺高的悬崖边缘往下

2006年VOA标准英语-Holiday Traffic Fatalities Decline in South Afr

By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 December 2006 Authorities in South Africa say traffic fatalities on the nation's roads have declined during the December holiday period in comparison with last year. They credit the drop to a program of road checks, dri

AP 2010-02-04

1. The Senate has rejected a plan aimed at tackling the federal deficit. The plan didn't get the needed 60 votes. The vote came hours after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office predicted a $1.35 trillion deficit for this year. 2. The brother

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As the number of Chinese people owning private cars is expected to continuously rise as a result of their growing wealth, greater awareness of the traffic rules and stronger enforcement of them are urgently needed to reduce incidents of dangerous dri

中国的道路和工作场所似乎变得越来越安全

GOING by the numbers, Chinas notoriously hazardous coal mines have become less perilous in recent years. InJanuary the government said that 538 people had died in mining accidents in 2016, a mere 11% of the death toll a decade earlier. The total numb

约旦报告猪流感病例

AMMAN, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian Health Ministry said Sunday five fatalities were reported from the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu since the beginning of 2015, the state-run Petra news agency reported. Deifallah Lozi, the ministry's sec

VOA标准英语2012--Kenyan Driving Schools Aim to Decrease Road Fatalities

Kenyan Driving Schools Aim to Decrease Road Fatalities Like so many other teenagers around the world, 19-year-old Martin Otieno Jr. cant wait to get his drivers license. He shows all the characteristics of a first-time driver - hands gripping the ste

法国新内阁赢得信任投票

PARIS, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- France's reshuffled government headed by Prime Minister Manuel valls on Tuesday won the confidence vote of the National Assembly, but lost a large majority of 289 seats needed to pass sensitive reforms. The new cabinet was

意大利地中海救出三千难民

Italy's coast guard says the navy has rescued 3,000 migrants off the coast of Libya after responding to requests for help from more than 20 vessels. 意大利海岸警卫队说，意大利海军响应20多艘船只发出的求救请求，在利比亚沿

泰国酒驾司机将被送往太平间工作

Drink-drivers and repeat traffic offenders in Thailand could be sent to work in hospital morgues under a new plan by the authorities to try to put a stop to carnage on the countrys roads. 为减少致命交通事故，泰国政府出台新计划，拟派

上海禁止外来活禽进入

SHANGHAI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai authorities on Saturday started banning all live poultry from other parts of the country from entering the city after temporarily closing three markets to battle the H7N9 bird flu. The authorities will launch in

Israel 'understated' Gaza deaths

A new report says more civilians were killed in Gaza than Israel admits An Israeli human rights group says many more Palestinian civilians were killed in the Israeli military's campaign in Gaza than the army admits. B'Tselem said detailed research w

【饥饿游戏】45

I continue running until the woods have hidden me from the other tributes then slow into a steady jog that I think I can maintain for a while. For the next few hours, I alternate between jogging and walking, putting as much distance as I can between

TED演讲:如何在核袭击中生存(9)

And what happens is -- this is -- I'm going to show you now some fallout plumes. 接下来将要发生的－这是－我现在要向大家演示放射性坠尘。 Within 20 minutes, it comes straight down. 在20分钟内，坠尘直线下落； Withi

PBS高端访谈:纽约的街道要如何才能变得更加行人友善?

HARI SREENIVASAN: How is it possible that we're sitting in Times Square? What happened here that you made you think you could build this? JANETTE SADIK-KHAN: Well, Times Square had been a tangle of traffic for almost 200 years, since it was first cre