HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about advertising /P Play some music from Thievery Corporation /P And report about Saint Patrick's Day. Saint Patrick's

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(三)月

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Web site FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man in Ohio. Jerry Miller wondered how farmers could meet new people who understa

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Women students talk with their teacher at Kabul's University in Afghanistan Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten thousand poor

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Do You Watch for the Game or the Ads? 是电视节目还是广告? Out of the eight most-watched programs in U.S. television history, only one was not the Super Bowl football game. Can you guess which television program that was? Well give you the an

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AS IT IS 2015-11-09 Facebook Launches More Mobile App Facebook推出更多移动应用程序 Facebook is launching a news mobile app called Notify with subscription content from media partners like the Washington Post and Vogue. The Notify app lets u

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Lesson 25 Do Advertisements Play a Positive or Negative Role in Our Society? Text People Change Their Attitudes towards Ads One night, when television began broadcasting a boring TV show, I said to my wife, The programme is even less interesting than

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语教程(Oral Workshop)--高级

李华跟Larry一起去吃晚饭。今天我们要学两个常用语: squared away和temporary fix. LH: Larry, 怎么样,今天上班忙不忙? LL: Oh it was a bit stressful. I had a relatively large report due that I was too busy to start unti

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A hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception 它是一种催眠状态下的认知失调,在此状态下,人们被强迫放弃自己的认知, in place of the officially dictated version of

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独立写作题目: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should take several different kinds of job before they take a career in a long term. 托福独立写作范文: Todays economy is diverse and full of opportunities.

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Should widespread advertising be strictly limited in modern society? Some people claim that widespread advertising in the modern society has a harmful effect on young people. Therefore, advertisements should be strictly limited on TV, radio, the inte

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小编导读:是什么让作家成为作家?这个问题听起来好像挺绕的不过,成为作家的一个原因大概就是被那种主宰故事发展的力量所吸引吧!其实我们的人生何尝不是这样?我们总有主宰它的力量~

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The gas station nearest my house happens to face a strip club. It is apparently a very successful strip club, as they could afford to install a LCD screen on their roof that might be visible from the Space Station. It's certainly visible from the gas

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定冠词限定名词时主要表示特指,针对TOEFL应注意以下几点: (1) the和可数名词单数连用,表示一类人或物,如: the fern(蕨类), the wallflower (2) 序数词之前必须用the,如: the first woman, the ninete

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And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, 常常,我们对一个成功人生的想象, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. 不是来自我们自己,而是来自他人。 They're sucked in

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we talk about Junk English.RS: Thats the title of a new book. Author Ken Smith spent six months immersing himself in the language of popular culture. He found a lot of it junk, i

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Men find averagely shaped women more attractive than fashion models and Playboy centrefolds, claim scientists. Researchers found that men preferred the shape of ordinary women, equivalent to dress size 14, than so-called super-attractive models, acco

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

At a local supermarket, two women push half-filled grocery carts. The ladies are good friends, but they couldn't be more different. One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create culinary masterpieces from scratch. The other is a training superv

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

So Jobs and Wozniak were invited to have a meeting with, as his impish business cards read, Regis McKenna, himself. 于是乔布斯和沃兹尼亚克获邀去拜访 麦肯纳,本人--他的名片上就是这么写的。 This time it was the normall

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Not long ago, YouTube star Michelle Phan wowed the beauty products market when she succeeded in setting up a personal cosmetics brand by just uploading makeup tutorials to YouTube. To this day, her success is hailed as a testament to the power of the

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Business 商业 Love, Korean-style 韩式之恋 Two's company 两个人的专属网络 The world's most exclusive social network 世界上最专一的社交网络 SOUTH KOREANS take romance seriously. Lovers are expected to swap sweet nothings many t

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