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EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #16: Where To Live?
By Nancy Steinbach


Broadcast: Thursday, December 16, 2004


This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.


We continue our Foreign Student Series. Today, we discuss where to live once you are admitted to an American college or university.


Housing 1 policies differ. Some schools, for example, require students to live in a dormitory, at least for their first year.


Dormitory buildings may have a thousand students, or just a few. Some are organized into suites 3. Suites have several bedrooms, a common living area and a bathroom. Six or more people may live in one suite 2.


Other dorms have many rooms along a hallway, usually with two students in each room. A large bathroom may serve all the students on one floor.


Many students say dormitories provide the best chance to get to know other students. And they generally cost less than apartments or other housing not owned by the school.


Most universities have some separate dorms for males and females 5. Usually, however, males and females live in the same building. They may even live on the same floor and share the same bathroom. But usually they may not live in the same room unless they are married.


At many schools, male students can join fraternities and female 4 students can join sororities. These are social organizations. But members may also be able to live at a fraternity and sorority house.


Edward Spencer is the associate vice 6 president for student affairs at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Mister 7 Spencer says it is important to understand the rules of the building in which you will live.


He advises students to ask some questions before they decide about their housing. For example: Does the school provide any special kinds of food that the student may require? Are there private bathing areas in the dorms? Will the school provide a single room if a student requests one?


Mister Spencer says some universities take special care to help foreign students in their housing. Virginia Tech, for example, changed its policy against candles in dorms. This way candles can be lit for ceremonial purposes. The university also keeps several dorms open all year. That means foreign students have a place to stay during vacation times.


Our Foreign Student Series continues next week. All of our reports are online at voaspecialenglish dot com.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.



n.房屋,住宅;住房建筑;外壳,外罩
  • Do you think our housing sales will turn around during this year?你认为今年我们的住宅销路会好转吗?
  • The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来,房屋的销售量日趋减少。
n.一套(家具);套房;随从人员
  • She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
  • That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。
n.套( suite的名词复数 );一套房间;一套家具;一套公寓
  • First he called upon all the Foreign Ministers in their hotel suites. 他首先到所有外交部长住的旅馆套间去拜访。 来自辞典例句
  • All four doors to the two reserved suites were open. 预定的两个套房的四扇门都敞开着。 来自辞典例句
adj.雌的,女(性)的;n.雌性的动物,女子
  • We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
  • The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。
n.雌性动物( female的名词复数 );女人
  • The male birds are more colourful than the females. 这种鸟雄性比雌性更加色彩艳丽。
  • The males in the herd protect the females and the young. 兽中的雄性动物保护雌性动物和幼崽。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.(略作Mr.全称很少用于书面)先生
  • Mister Smith is my good friend.史密斯先生是我的好朋友。
  • He styled himself " Mister Clean ".他自称是“清廉先生”。
学英语单词
aftercastles
augaptilids
ball of thumb
basis patellae
Beccari's membrane
behavio(u)ral geography
binding clasp
bloocher
Brachytome
by good luck
cation
ceol
clearspans
clge
closeth
cold reduction department
combined sound
commacerate
common frog
comprehensive abilities
contravariant tensor
Copthorne
counterdrains
croat
crown of a double bottom
Customs Declaration for Entry of Goods
date night
dead oil
Difene
differential gear mechanism
Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
drell-yan process
extrinsic tinnitus
Finnan
fuel metering pump
GA-TB
garden-path sentence
gonocyte (renner 1916)
health physics log ratemeter
high tension current transformer
hoist the flag
home folks
homocitric acid
infinite input impedance amplifier
infrasonic frequency
lampoons
lauryltrimethylsilane
lithophaga canalifera
Lobopetalum
log paper
made-to-measure
mahes
make havoc with
manufacturing expense in process account
maximum J condition
medenica
merchant shipping
Moyynty
multiple point recording potentiometer
myhth
Nederlands Norm
nitrosulphophenol
nuwefontein (kotzesrus)
oligosemic
on one's fence
oophoromalacla
opsiuria
over-arching
oxdic horizon
paraphenylenediamines
penny black
physical system time
pluralisme
pontocythere subjaponica
post liming
postnatal molt
private property
profit employed in the business
rapulana
razi
receive text file
Rolls-Royce PLC
schizosaccharomyces formosensis
snittier
snowed
space occupying sign
space-alien
spellable
ST_doing-and-achieving_ways-of-achieving-things
Stigler
successional replacement
Sun King
supplementary ordinances
takes leave
teagardens
Tetrahydrocolumbamine
trimannoside
ulcus serpeng eorneae
ventricle hook
vilnas
wire-tapping
Yield curve strategies