THIS IS AMERICA - Social Scientists Rethink City Living SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you why an economist has written a

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(255) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Work In The Countryside Many university graduates now volunteer to work in the countryside. It is reported that once hundreds of university graduates competed with one another to work as a village leader in Beijing. Many factors have contributed to t

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With box office revenues rising 30 percent last year to 2.7 billion U.S. dollars, China has now edged out Japan to become the second-largest film market in the world following the United States. Film industry insiders believe new movie screens, which

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Topic1-Most Business-friendly Cities A newly-established think-tank has come up with a ranking of Chinese cities with the best business environment. First-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are among the top five, but the devil is in

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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The police department of the United Arab Emirates city, Dubai, has begun to use supercars (Lamborghini Aventadors) as patrol cars. An Aventadors price is around 400,000 dollars, has a 700hp (horsepower) engine and and a top speed of 350km/hr (kilomet

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Section B Green Spaces in Cities Where do children play? Years ago, any open field, any vacant lot, any group of trees — these were the places where children played. As families left family farms, s

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20Then the Lord said to Joshua: 2Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, 3so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of bloo

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Together, Sister Cities Build Friendships and MoreBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, September 04, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Atlanta is a sister city t

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Todd: OK, Hello! Raphael: Hello! Todd: Can you say your name please? Raphael: Yeah, sure. My name is Raphael ThibaultTodd: Thibault! Raphael: Yeah! Thibault! Todd: OK, and that's your last name? Raphael: Ah, yeah, it's my last name, but it's a first

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Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, ranked as the country's most congested city during the first quarter, followed by Beijing and Hangzhou, a traffic congestion report showed last Wednesday. 上周三发布的一份交通拥堵报告显示

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Zhang Hengde is a forecaster with the National Meteorological Center. The highest level can be expected on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Heavy smog will be seen in central and south Beijing, central and west Tianjin, central and north Hebei, north S

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U.S. President Barack Obama is urging Congress to extend a law set to expire in July that would prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. Obama said in his weekly Internet and radio address Saturday, In America, higher education cannot b

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巴西启动媒体宣传反对使用可卡因 RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Justice Ministry on Thursday launched a nationwide media campaign against the use of crack cocaine, said state news agency Agencia Brasil. The campaign ai

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The Allies bombers will destory Dresden 盟军轰炸机将摧毁德勒斯登 an important center of comunication for the German armies on the east front 这是德军在东线的重要通讯中心 and one of the bigest industrial city in the Reich 以及

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Bangkok has the worst evening rush hour traffic in the world for a second consecutive year, according to GPS manufacturer TomTom. 根据GPS制造商TomTom的数据分析,曼谷已经连续两年成为全球晚高峰最堵的城市。 The results we

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Now, as we pull down here, we still have a whole set of creatures living on the surface of the planet. 现在当我摧毁这里的时候,在这个星球上其实还居住着一系列的生物, There are all these different dynamics going on here.

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The role of Migrant Workers Directions: Migrant workers (外地民工) have made a great contribution to be prosperity of cities. In this part, you are to write within 10 minutes a composition of no less than 150 words about The Role of Migrant Worke

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BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- China has nominated 311 counties or county-level cities in a program to pilot reform of the country's public healthcare facilities, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. The national initiative includes 83 counties

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With the quick development of second and third-tier cities, more and more jobs are emerging in urban areas. This provides students with a wider choice of work locations. 随着二、三线城市的快速发展,城区就业机会越来越多。这使得

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