VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take a look at Washington's newly opened museum of news, the Newseum. (SOUND) There's a big story breaking a

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Americans: Jobs More Important Than Terrorism Better jobs, pay and economy are the top issues for voters, a Voice of America informal study revealed. VOA listened to the questions that voters ask presidential candidates. These are questions voters as

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AS IT IS 2016-06-17 Tech Companies, Privacy Rights Groups to Fight FBI Again 科技公司和隐私权团体将再次对抗联邦调查局 Technology companies and rights groups are preparing to fight the Federal Bureau of Investigation again over pri

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AS IT IS 2016-04-17 Microsoft Sues US Government 微软公司起诉美国政府 Computer technology company Microsoft has brought a legal case against the U.S. government. Microsoft says a law that permits agencies to demand to read emails or online

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AS IT IS 2016-09-15 How Much Medical Information Must Presidential Candidates Release? 总统候选人应该披露所有的健康信息么? Recent stories about American presidential candidates have raised questions about how much candidates should s

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US Park Honors Women's Rights This year, the U.S. National Park Service turns 100. Americans 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, formed the National Park Service in 1916 to protect the wild and wonderful landscapes in the United States. President Ulysses

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剑桥雅思11出版后,很多同学都争抢做这本书感受最新的命题趋势。同学们在做剑11 听力的时候发现录音语速的确变快,填空题数量增加。下面网雅思频道就为同学们整理剑11听力中出现的词汇

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Key Sentences (重点句子) 326.Here is our contract. 这是我们的合同。 327.Please go over it and see if everything is in order. 请过目一下,看看是否一切妥当。 328.Don't you think we should add a sentence here like th

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IN EARLY 2010 opponents of a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, spray-painted NOT WELCOME on a sign announcing the new building. Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but their scrawl captured the feelings of an increasingly noisy segment of Ame

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Want to know which candidate a woman is likely to support for president? Look at her ring finger. It may sound like the start of a joke, but the fact is most married women say they'll vote for US President Bush. By nearly 2-to-1, unmarried women say

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This week marks the start of annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in China. 本周,第十二届全国人民代表大会第一次会议将在北京开幕。 The NPC is expected to vote on two key measures. 据预计,本届人

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A draft law amendment that would lower the minimum age of those who can be detained for noncriminal offenses to 14 has drawn a mixed response from experts. 最近出台的一份拟将行政拘留最低年龄降到14岁的法律修订草案,使得许多

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A. acredited journalist n. 特派记者 advertisement n.广告 . advance n.预发消息;预写消息 affair(e) n.桃色新闻;绯闻 anecdote n.趣闻轶事 assignment n.采写任务 attribution n. 消息出处,消息来源 B. back

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India's powerful lower house of parliament has passed a landmark anti-corruption bill that seeks to create an independent ombudsman with powers to investigate corruption charges against bureaucrats and politicians. The bill was passed Tuesday followi

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BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature is considering fairer recompense for farmers whose land has been expropriated, by breaking the legal compensation ceiling and covering them with a social security package. A draft amendment to the

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A relic of the Cold War era between the United States and Soviet Union could soon be an obstacle to improving trade between the U.S. and Russia, experts say. Jackson-Vanik amendment The relic in question is known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which

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1. The government will not shut down, at least for now. President Barack Obama says he will sign a stop-gap bill, cutting billions of dollars and keeping the government running for a couple of more weeks. 2. In Germany, the airport says two of its ai

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JUDY WOODRUFF: It was a historic day at the Supreme Court, at stake, the definition of marriage. Justices split the issue into two questions: Must every state permit same-sex marriage? And, if not, do states have to recognize same-sex marriages perfo

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The Senate is working overtime this weekend, trying to make some headway on its version of legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. NPR's Julie Rovner has more. Among the amendments up for consideration this weekend, is one that would

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BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Baowen was on Thursday elected chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League (CDL), a non-Communist political party with about 230,000 members. The party concluded its 11th National Congress on th

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