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Old Airplanes Left in Elephants Shelter Get New Homes Over 100 years ago, Britains military had about 2,000 de Havilland DH.9 airplanes. The military used the planes for British bombing raids over Germany during World War I. The DH.9s were known as s

VOA慢速英语2017 旧书的新用途

A New Use for Old Books Some people are using old books to create works of art, including sculptures. 有人用旧书来做艺术品，比如雕塑。 They can change the shape of a hardcover book so it becomes three-dimensional, for example. The res

VOA慢速英语2017--A Desert Turns Green

On the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula, the desert turns green as clouds cover it like a blanket. This is the country of Oman's monsoon season. The natural event, which lasts for three months, draws hundreds of thousands of tourists with cool w

日本无惧于机器人取代人类工作

Japan Not Worried About Robots Taking Their Jobs In a factory near Tokyo, thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped, washed, and put into boxes at speeds of 1,500 cans a minute. However, there are hardly any people in sight as the cans speed thr

VOA慢速英语2017--William Taft: Heavy

VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about William Howard Taft, who took office in 1909. In some ways, the story of Tafts presidency is also a story about Theodore Roosevelts presidency. Roosevelt had been president

Native American Tribes Consider Entering Marijuana Market

Native American tribes want to begin growing and selling marijuana. They hope it will help end poverty on reservations, the large areas where many Native Americans live. However, there is uncertainty about the future of US marijuana policy. Cannabis

VOA慢速英语2017 越来越多美国人死于毒品

More Americans Died From Drugs Than Ever Before From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康和生活报道。 In 2016, more than 60,000 people died in the United States because of drugs. Tha

Calls for End of Hate, Racism at MTV Awards

This is Whats Trending Today. The MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles included performances by popular musicians of the last 12 months. A number of musicians also denounced racism and discrimination after recent violence in Charlott

Can Computer Programs Help Students, Teachers?

Junior Alvarado was worried when he began his first year at a public charter high school in Washington, DC. He often struggled in his math classes and earned poor grades in middle school. But the teachers at the Washington Leadership Academy used com

Arctic Warming Means Battles for Shipping and Riches

At the top of the world, under the ice, lies a large number of natural resources. Gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, even diamonds, sit under the ice inside the Arctic Circle. As climate change pushes the cold and ice farther north each year, dis

Houston Faces Worsening Flooding Conditions

Houston, a city in the American state of Texas, will face worsening flooding conditions as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to rain on the city. On Friday, Harvey, the strongest storm to strike Texas in 50 years, came ashore near Corpus Christi, about

研究人员利用脑细胞延缓老鼠衰老

Researchers Use Brain Cells to Control Aging in Mice It is a question people have been asking forwell-- ages. Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking for a fountain of youth. The idea is that i