时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2008年(九)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


A listener in Poland recently sent us an e-mail. Slawek Loboda writes: "There are many American universities and colleges that provide long distance education to the world. The trouble is that each university says that it is the best. After an hour of searching and reading what they have in their offer, one gets a headache. You simply don't know whom to trust and what to choose."


Slawek goes on to say, "I have been listening to VOA for years and I would trust you if you made an interesting program about American universities for foreigners. Is there a university that you could recommend?"


Well, choosing a school is an individual decision. But we may be able to help inform that decision.


Slawek's letter happened to come at just the right time. It gives us the perfect opening for not just one program, but a series -- our Foreign Student Series. We update the series every two years to provide fresh information for anyone interested in higher education in America.


The United States has more than four thousand colleges and universities to choose from. They come in all sizes -- from a few hundred students to enough to populate a city. And students may not even have to be in the United States to take classes. Some universities have campuses 1 in other countries. And, as Slawek pointed 2 out, many programs are offered over the Internet.


Over the coming weeks, we will talk all about the American system of higher education. Our reports will take you inside some of the nation's colleges and universities. We will explore programs of study and report on student life. We will talk about financial aid and employment 3, and about admissions 4 tests and English language requirements.


We will also explain the process for becoming an international student in the United States. And we will talk about how the terrorist 5 attacks of September eleventh, two thousand one, changed some of the rules.


Many of the subjects in our Foreign Student Series are based on your questions and suggestions. So keep them coming! Send e-mail to special@voanews.com, or click on the Contact Us link at voaspecialenglish.com. Or write to VOA Special English, Washington, D.C., two zero two three seven U.S.A.


In case you miss any of the programs, our Foreign Student Series will be archived at voaspecialenglish.com.


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Steve Ember.



n.(大学)校园(campus的复数形式)
  • University campuses are often the bellwether of change. 大学校园往往引领变革的新潮。
  • Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China. 体育在美国大学比中国大学突出得多。 来自互联网
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
n.雇用;使用;工作,职业
  • A large office requires the employment of many people.一个大办事处需要雇用好多人员。
  • The state of employment in this city is improving.这个城市就业状况正在改善。
n.准许进入( admission的名词复数 );入场费;入场券;承认
  • a need-blind admissions policy 不考虑经济能力的录取政策
  • He's the Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan. 他是Michigan大学的新生注册主任。 来自辞典例句
n.恐怖主义者,恐怖分子
  • Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪,我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
  • The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。
学英语单词
actual forest
addictive consumer behavior
advest
alkalic
antifreeze liquid
antiqued
atmospherology
audiorange
Avu, L.
back waters
basic lead acetate solution
breakdown lights
Brottes
called subscriber held lamp
cath-
cedar gum
Cellulone
certifiably
chain mode
closing bid and asked price
co-domini
common business oriented language (cobol)
conjugate acids
constrained game
crann
defending lawyer
derivative income
detective stories
displease at
double jointed swivel
downgrader
Dragout
dropped egg
dual frequency code
eastern ground snakes
einstein's formula for specific heat
ekho
epiglottidectomy
etiolated plant
femaleness
fluoroamino acid
fracture phenomena
Fremont test
frixory
glicondamide
go hard
gorodzinsky
have nothing on someone
hoedjiesbaai (hoetjes b.)
home stability
imprevalence
in satisfaction of
inclinator dorsalis muscle
interactive test controller
Irgoyē
keytodisk
kinaesthesias
lacteprene
liaoningensis
literal pool
live working zone
luckesen
lyophobicity
Marshall,Thomas Riley
mercury drain off
mesitonic acid
murdrum
Namoi River
noncontextualized
North, C.
observing tube
Onosma glomeratum
ontoanalysis
pesticide-free
petroleum expansion
plum duffs
polypurines
potential phasor
povvos
psoriasis nummularis
rifle-green
ring vortex
safety ring
Sakaraha
salt heap
seadog
sequential retrieval
splayed searf
splicing loss
steelwire
sulcus interdemius
super-expensive
superstylish
terrestrial geomorphology
thankas
toponymist
trapping class mark
unclouded
valve-lifting plunger
white box
woollypod vetch
wooly