VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Each year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington honors performers for their lifetime of work. This year the

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十一)月

Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years. Both sides felt the pressure of the costly strug

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Information wants to be free, the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future. Net neutrality is the idea that every

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By Alan Boswell Nairobi 29 September 2009 The author of a recently released report says that the international community needs to do more to prepare itself for the likely scenario of a return to conflict in Sudan. Senior U.S. officials are meeting T

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Happy Thanksgiving (感恩节快乐) 感恩节历史: 在欧洲受到迫害的这些人到了美国大陆,因为天气很冷没东西吃,而当地的土著邀请他们来家中共享食物,所以美国人才设立了这个节日感谢当时

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Peter Devereaux, you know what we used to call you? The november man. 'Cause after you pass through, nothing lived. Peter, you need to look at this. It's Alice. She's in trouble. She has information on the agency that they'll kill to keep secret. If

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VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: ''Revolt on the Amistad,'' silkscreen print by Jacob Lawrence And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., you can see a colorful and expres

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we answer a listener question from China about American lawmakers And we play music from singer Regina Spektor's latest album ... But first, we visit the natio

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell how some storms might help to prevent large earthquakes. We will tell about the winner of the two thousand nine

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Ethiopian scientist was named on Thursday as the winner of the 2009 World Food Prize in an event at the U.S. State Department. Ejeta, a faculty member at Purdue University in the Midwestern U.S. state of Indiana, was honored for his work on drought

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Burma's fellow members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have expressed deep disappointment over opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's extended house detention. As Western governments call for tougher sanctions, political analysts in the

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Islamist militants in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, launched a pre-dawn raid on African Union peacekeepers Friday, triggering fierce fighting that killed more than 20 people. Meanwhile, government-led military efforts to take control of insurgent-h

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The United Nation's World Food Program says rogue members of Somalia's extremist al-Shabab group attempted to raid its compound late Sunday in the Somali town of Wajid, about 300 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu. World Food Program spokesman, Peter

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped up her Africa trip in Cape Verde with talks that included how best to respond to this month's constitutional referendum in Niger. Niger's president is changing the constitution to extend his time i

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By Tom Rivers London 05 October 2009 Three U.S.-based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. . Elizabet

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One year ago, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of another small opposition party, signed a political agreement that led to the formation of a unity government. Its purpose was to

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By Scott Bobb Harare 16 October 2009 Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during a press conference in Harare, 16 Oct 2009 Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says his Movement for Democratic Change is disengaging from the ZANU-PF par

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is meeting with Burma's top military ruler, General Than Shwe. He is urging the general to release political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L)me

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By Alisha Ryu Near Galkayo, Somalia 06 October 2009 The United Nations is warning that years of drought and conflict are pushing many regions of Somalia toward a new cycle of hunger, devastation, and human suffering. Worse than ever Rotting carcass

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I said that I would tell you about Guy Fawkes and why 5 November is the traditional day for fireworks in England. The year was 1605. Two years earlier, the old Queen, Elizabeth I, had died. She had ruled England for 45 years. She died unmarried and w

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