EXPLORATIONS - Wiley Post: The First Pilot to Fly Around the

EXPLORATIONS - Wiley Post: The First Pilot to Fly Around the World Alone By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 ANNOUNCER: Now the VOA Special English program, Explorations. Today S

经济学人:丘吉尔的多面人生(下)

Visiting Cuba in 1895, during its war of independence from Spain, he travelled unperturbed through some of the island's most dangerous territory while writing for the Daily Graphic. 1895年，丘吉尔到了正在为脱离西班牙统治而战斗的古

Lesson 18 Is It Near the Post Office?

Mary: Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to the train station, please? Jack: Sure. It's only three blocks down the street. Mary: Is it near the post office? Jack: No. It's next to the fire station. Mar

情景英语口语100主题 023post office邮局

023 post office Words Post office parcel letter send stamps airmail surface mail registered mail envelop counter philately postman/woman deliver(y) letterbox queue Phrases Send a parcel Seal an envelop Weigh a parcel Check the weight Pay postage Sur

新目标初中英语七年级下--Unit 1 Where's the post of

Unit 1 Where's the post office? [00:44.93]SECTION A activity 1b.Listen and circle the places you hear in la. [01:31.95]Activity 2b.Listen and fill in the blanks with the words in the box. [01:40.44]1.The library is ____the video arcade and the superm

85. Post Haste

My husband asked me to go to the post office to mail his resume in anticipation of a job interview. He instructed me to send it the fastest way possible. Struck by the urgency in his voice, I grabbed

全球首条太阳能公路在法国投入使用

France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road. 法国近日开通了号称世界首条的太阳能电板公路。 The 1 km stretch of road in the small Normandy village of Tourouvre-au-Perche is paved with 2,880 solar pane

32. 12 Post Cards

My teen-age daughter was preparing to return home after having visited her grandparents for a few weeks one summer. Her grandfather gave her 12 post cards .

VOA标准英语2008年-Kenyans Continue to Flee Ethnic Post-Election V

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 January 2008 United Nations aid agencies have begun the first of three interagency missions to areas affected by violence in Kenya this week. The aim of these missions is to get an accurate assessment of the needs of hundred

2006年VOA标准英语-Lawmakers Offer Conflicting Assessments on Iraq

By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office re

超强台风“海燕”重创菲律宾

超强台风海燕重创菲律宾 A powerful typhoon that caused massive destruction and hundreds of deaths in the Philippines is now churning towards Vietnam. Weather forecasters say Typhoon Haiyan could make landfall in the country on Sunday. Vietn

克里与普京讨论与乌克兰的合作

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Sochi. Kerry, who has also held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, says his discussions with Putin have been frank and productive, adding that the US and

中国财政部长:不关心评级

Lou Jiwei made the remarks Friday in Washington in the wake of the recent downgrading of China's outlook by two U.S. credit rating agencies. He says the outlook fails to reflect the real picture of the Chinese economy. We have just published the data

中国为小微企业减税

Small and micro-sized companies in China are seeing their corporate income tax cut by half. Chinese tax authorities have announced companies with annual incomes of less than 200-thousand yuan are going to see their rates cut down to 10-percent. The t

More gov't subsidies for rural medical insurance system

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will raise its subsidies for rural residents' medical insurance in 2013, Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced on Monday. Under the new rural cooperative medical program, the annual government subsid

你应该给自己的11个承诺

你应该给自己的11个承诺 1. I will accept everything I am, and everything I am not. Self-worth comes from one thing: thinking that you are worthy. So be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be somet

VOA双语新闻2008年：Ethnic Post-Election Violence

United Nations aid agencies have begun the first of three interagency missions to areas affected by violence in Kenya this week. The aim of these missions is to get an accurate assessment of the needs of hundreds of thousands of people displaced by p

经济学人:澳大利亚最大金融机构正在受审 (2)

They also boosted risky mortgage lending, since brokers' earnings were linked to the size of the loans they sold. 他们还宣传存在风险的抵押贷款，因为经理人的收入和他们销售的贷款额度相挂钩。 Financial regulators wer

超越恐惧

When I was told last year that my 2－year－old son had an illness that threatened his life, I tried to strike a bargain with fate――I would do anything, I would trade my old life away, if only he would get better. We learned that our son would n

经济学人249:美国下任国防部长 量身定做

America's next defence secretary 美国下任国防部长 Fit for purpose 量身定做 Ashton Carter is well-qualified to lead the Pentagon, if he is allowed to 阿什顿卡特完全够格统领五角大楼，前提是他通过提名 More hawkish tha