时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(下)-发展与科学


英语课


Broadcast: August 18, 2003
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.
One of the biggest problems in developing 1 countries is hunger. An organization called Heifer International is working to improve this situation. The organization sends needed farm animals to families and communities around the world.
An American farmer, Dan West, developed the idea for Heifer International in the nineteen-thirties. Mister 2 West was working in Spain where he discovered a need for cows. Many families were starving because of a civil war in that country. So Mister West asked his friends in the United 3 States to send some cows. The first Heifer animals were sent in nineteen-forty-four.
Since that time, more than four-million people in over one-hundred countries have had better lives because of Heifer animals. The organization provides families a chance to feed themselves and become self-supporting. It provides more than twenty kinds of animals, such as sheep, goats, pigs and cows. In one recent year Heifer International helped more than thirty-thousand families in forty-six countries.
To receive a Heifer animal, groups must first explain their needs and goals. They must also make a plan which will allow them to become self-supporting. Local experts usually provide training. The organization says that animals must have food, water, 1)shelter 4, health care, and the ability to reproduce 5. Without them, the animals will not remain healthy and productive 6.
Heifer International also believes that groups must pass on some of their success to others in need. This belief 2)guarantees that each person who takes part in the program also becomes a giver. Every family that receives a Heifer animal must agree to give that animal's first female 7 baby to other people in need. Families must also agree to pass on the skills and training they received from Heifer International. This concept 8 of “passing on the gift” helps communities become self-supporting.
You can learn more about Heifer International and how to request an animal. You can write to the organization at Heifer International, Post Office Box eight-zero-five-eight, Little Rock, Arkansas, seven-two-two-zero-three, U-S-A. Or you can visit the group's Internet web 9 site at www.heifer.org.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss 10. This is Steve Ember.


注释:
1) shelter [5FeltE] n.身避处,庇护所
2) guarantee [7^ArEn5ti:] vt.保证,担保



1 developing
adj.发展中的
  • Transport has always been the key to developing trade.运输一直是发展贸易的关键。
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
2 mister
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”。
3 united
adj.和谐的;团结的;联合的,统一的
  • The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
  • The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
4 shelter
n.掩蔽,掩蔽处,避身处;庇护所,避难所,庇护;vt.庇护,保护,隐匿;vi.躲避
  • We took shelter from the rain in a cave.我们在一个山洞里避雨。
  • Trees are a shelter from the sun.树木可以遮挡阳光。
5 reproduce
v.生育,繁殖,复制,重做
  • The machine can reproduce a key in two minutes.这机器能在两分钟内复制一把钥匙。
  • The picture will reproduce well.这照片会印得很清楚。
6 productive
adj.能生产的,有生产价值的,多产的
  • We had a productive meeting that solved some problems.我们开了一个富有成效的会议,解决了一些问题。
  • Science and technology are part of the productive forces.科学技术是生产力。
7 female
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。
8 concept
n.概念,观念,思想
  • A small baby has no concept of right and wrong.婴儿没有是非概念。
  • He was asked to define his concept of cool.他被要求说明自己关于“酷”的定义。
9 web
n.网,蛛丝,蹼,织物,圈套,卷筒纸;vi.生蹼,形成网;vt.织蜘蛛网于,使落入圈套
  • The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
  • You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网?
10 moss
n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
学英语单词
adolescing
agricultural year
air-compressor piston ring
allspice trees
anchor deck
architectural shingle
autonomasia
barber pole
bismarck creek
cable turning station
calicine
casein sodium
cellular plastic
chilling sensitive
cold mercerizatoin
Colossae
conjugate hyperbola
constructional materials
corn syrups
cost,insurance,freight inland waterway
Cowles
crack a prospect
craked
cutter location
cybercowboys
database session file
diplochasma sauteri
do-it-yourselfer
double-majored
drug-induced asthma
electric double refraction
elegiac meter
ethylene oxide addition polymer
evaluators
field expedient
force coefficient
gamma-rays therapy
genus cyclopteruss
guilelessly
hatch money
HDRSS
Hialeah Gardens
highly-parallel computer
Idris I
incoming call wire grouping key
indigenous sound
informal justice
investigability
iris tigridia bunge
issuer key exchange key
keep fowls
Kimilsungism
kotors
lacavas
lecroy
line per minute
Linux Virtual Server
liquid oxygen loading controller
Long Islander
Manglietia patungensis
micro sequencer
microscope with photography attachment
N-benzylpiperazine
netheravon
nightchurr
Nihon shoki
nitrosoethylurethane
nominal horse power
non-ens
nonominoes
origin year
Otzweiler
overornament
pace method
peridiverticulitis
phil.
pistilligerous
plant-label
polarity separation technique
pre-rehearsal
precedure
pregant
preparatory study
put a sock in it
sale-goer
sea-girts
sec-octyl acetate
seed furrow
shear off someone's plume
sheyanne
Silesian furnace
sodium magnesium sulfate
spatterdock
stellaria infracta maxim.
submarine armour
tenia of thalamus
third bases
Torulaspora
unixtodos
Vogels-Berg
with all the stops out
wood studs construction