2002年冬奥会将在盐湖城举行
05 2002年冬奥会将在盐湖城举行
DATE= 2-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC 1 #806 - (1)Utah Olympic Park
BYLINE=George Grow
ANNCR:
(Start at 1'05")The Two-Thousand-Two Winter Olympic Games will begin in February of next year. They will be held in and around Salt Lake City, the (2)capital of the western American state of Utah. Shep O'Neal tells us about one of the main sports areas built for the winter games.
HOST:
The Utah Olympic Park is high in the Wasatch Mountains, about forty kilometers east of Salt Lake. It is about two-thousand-two-hundred meters above sea level. The (3)mountains receive an (4)average of seven- and-one-half meters of snow each winter.
The Utah Olympic Park (5)extends over one-hundred-fifty hectares of land. The Park has five areas for ski jump (6)competitions. In warm weather, (7)skiers train on (8)special man-made jumps.
An Olympic-size track has been built for bobsleigh and (9)luge competitions. It is one of only three such tracks in North America. The track is close to the ground and has fifteen turns. Its path is (10)similar in shape to the land.
The Utah Olympic Park will hold four major (11)events during the Two-Thousand-Two Winter Games. They are the Nordic skiing, (12)bobsleigh, luge, and (13)skeleton 2 competitions. The skeleton event has not been seen at the Olympics since Nineteen-Forty-Eight. Officials expect it to be extremely popular next year. Athletes competing in the skeleton slide down the track on a luge sled. But they lie on their stomachs instead of their backs.
The Utah Olympic Park can hold about twenty-thousand people to watch the ski jumping event. It can hold about fifteen-thousand people to see the other events. The Utah Olympic Park already is used for national and international competitions. It also (14)operates as a (15)training center for the competitors. And, young people who wish to join the United States national teams train there.
The Utah Olympic Park is open to the (16)public during the summer and winter months. Everyone is welcome to watch the athletes train and compete against each other. Visitors also can try some of the Olympic sports. This includes going down one of the ski jumps or riding on the bobsleigh or luge track.
介绍奥兰治海岸学院
DATE=2-23-2001
TYPE=Special English (17)Feature NUMBER=7-21961
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Foreign Student Series: Part 23, Orange Coast College
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from (18)Vietnam. Nguyen Hanh Thao asks about Orange Coast College.
(19)Orange (20)Coast College is one of the largest (21)community colleges in the United States. It is in the southern California town of Costa Mesa. Orange Coast College offers more than one-hundred programs to train students for jobs. Students usually graduate after two years. Orange Coast College also prepares students to continue studying at a four-year college or university.
College officials say foreign students who want to attend Orange Coast College must earn a score of at least five-hundred on the written Test of English as a Foreign Language. Foreign students must also be tested in English and (22)mathematics when they arrive at Orange Coast College. Each student has an adviser 3 to help choose which classes to take.
Classes for one year at Orange Coast Community College cost about three-thousand dollars. Housing 4 and food cost another seven-thousand dollars. Orange Coast College does not provide housing for its students. However, its International Student Center helps foreign students find American families in the (23)area with whom they can live. The International Student Center also helps foreign students prepare any necessary (24)documents, choose (25)activities and plan for (26)trips.
More than twenty-two-thousand students (27)attend Orange Coast College. More than one-thousand-two-hundred are from outside the United States. They are from seventy-four different nations. College officials say about half the foreign students are in work-training programs. The others are preparing to attend a four-year college or university. Most are studying (28)business or (29)computer science.
You can learn more about Orange Coast College by using a computer. The address is www.occ.edu. Students who use a computer can get similar information about any American college by typing the college's name into a computer search engine. Click on the name from the list provided 5 and the college's (30)web (31)site should appear.
简介戴尔 埃文斯
DATE=2-23-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Dale Evans
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
American western actress and singer Dale Evans died earlier this month. She was eighty-eight years old. She is best remembered as the wife of "The King of The Cowboys," Roy Rogers. She was known as "Queen of the West." Dale Evans also wrote books and music. Shirley Griffith tells us about her.
ANNCR:
The real name of Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith. She was born in Texas and raised in (32)Arkansas. She started singing after high school.
In Nineteen-Forty, she got a job singing on a national radio show. Then she moved to California and acted in movies. Dale Evans and Roy Rogers appeared in a movie together in Nineteen-Forty-Four. They married three years later. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (33)appeared in thirty-five movies together.
They also recorded more than four-hundred songs. Dale Evans wrote some of them. Here she sings a (34)religious song she wrote, "Get To Know The Lord 6."
((CUT 1: GET TO KNOW THE LORD))10'47''
Dale Evans also wrote more than twenty books. The most (35)popular was "Angel Unaware 7". It was about their daughter Robin 8, who died before she was two years old.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans appeared on a popular children's television program in the Nineteen-Fifties, "The Roy Rogers Show." Many Americans still remember Dale and Roy singing their theme song at the end of each show. Dale Evans wrote it. We leave you now with that song, "Happy Trails."
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- The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
- The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。
- A long illness made a skeleton out of him.长期的卧病使他骨瘦如柴。
- Her notes gave us just the bare skeleton of her theory.她的笔记只给我们提供了她的理论的梗概。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- 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。
- Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.如果天气良好,我们的假日将过得非常愉快。
- I will come provided that it's not raining tomorrow.如果明天不下雨,我就来。
- I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
- How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊,竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾!