Where Are the Tallest Buildings in the World?

Skyscrapers look like their name: They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky. With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and h

Zimbabwe Releases 1)Inmates to Relieve Prison 2)Overcrowding

Broadcast: Jan 02 2003 Zimbabwe has released more than 10 percent of its prison population in a post-Christmas 3） amnesty, following repeated complaints from human rights groups and the justice mini

英语听力—环球英语 1421 Beautiful Buildings of Brasilia

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A building stands against a bright bl

Programs Let Inmates Earn University Degree While in Prison

In 2012, Rena Sard was sentenced to five years in prison at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. She was 47 years old. I didnt have five years of my life to wasteSo, every chance that I had to do something that was productive, something tha

CCTV9英语新闻：Egyptian students torch two buildings on university campus

By CCTV correspondent Yasser Hakim A student was killed Saturday and many more were injured as two buildings were torched in clashes between security personnel and students at Egypts Al Azhar University. Students supporting the outlawed Muslim Brothe

2007年VOA标准英语-Burmese Artist Shows Prison Era Creations in Lo

By Suzanne Chislett London 29 August 2007 The southeast Asian nation of Burma is famously secretive. A military government has run the country since the army put down anti-government riots in 1988. The opposition party leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sp

Packages explode at U.S. state government buildings

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Two packages detonated（爆炸） on Thursday at two government buildings in the U.S. state of Maryland, but caused no serious injuries, state authorities said. One package detonated at the Jeffrey Building in Annapoli

VOA标准英语2009年-Historical Buildings Fast Disappearing in

By Jessica Golloher Moscow 27 October 2009 Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has seen a dramatic surge in new construction, especially in cities like Moscow. New buildings and businesses are typically welcomed in any neighborhood, especiall

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英语小达人 201 In Prison vs. at Work

In Prison vs. at Work 蹲监狱和上班 IN PRISON... You spend the majority of your time in an 8x10 cell. 在监狱里 你大部分时间待在8x10大小的牢房里。 AT WORK... You spend most of your time in a 6x8 cubicle. 上班时 你大部分时

Prisons

Broadcast: May 5, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: Crime in the United States has decreased in recent years. One problem now is what to do about crowded prisons. I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with Steve Embe

Prison University Gives Inmates Hope

A college education is out of reach for most state and federal prisoners. Californias San Quentin is one of the few prisons in the country that offers college-level courses. Jody Lewen has run the facilitys college program for over a decade and she's

Prison restaurants

Prison restaurants(监狱餐厅) NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome to this weeks 6 Minute English. Im Dan Walker Smith and today Im joined by Callum. Callum: Hi Dan. Dan: Now today were talking about a new re

China to boost construction of green buildings

BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has established a goal of having green buildings account for 30 percent of new construction projects by 2020, according to an official document released Sunday. The document, which was jointly release

新西兰英语 339 Which buildings survived the earthquake?

The Canterbury earthquake on Sept 4th was unusual because no one was killed. It is the only city in the world which has experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake without any deaths. Part of the reason for this is our building code. New buildings have to

Buildings collapse after subsidence in S China

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Two buildings consisting of six shops collapsed Monday afternoon after subsidence in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, the municipal government has confirmed. At around 4:40 p.m., subsidence occurr

2016年CRI Official Removed after Illegal Dismantling of Hospital Buildings in Zhengzhou

A large excavator arrived at the No.4 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University on Thursday morning and began demolishing the buildings of the radiological department and mortuary, while the work of the clinic was still going on and patients and do

2016年CRI Hospital Buildings in Zhengzhou Demolished Illegally

A large excavator arrived at the No.4 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University on Friday morning and began demolishing the buildings of the radiological department and mortuary without any advance notice. Dozens of young men wearing camouflage coa

Buildings reglazed after meteorite strike in Russia

MOSCOW, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Most buildings damaged by Friday's meteorite fall in Russia's central Urals Region have been restored, and educational institutions will operate as usual on Monday. Xinhua reporters saw in the hardest-struck Chelyabinsk Re

新西兰英语 468 School buildings not safe from earthquakes

Two schools have closed buildings because engineers said they would not be safe in an earthquake. Last Friday Golden Bay High School in Nelson closed one classroom block. It was built 60 years ago, before the 1973 earthquake standards for buildings.