Education Report - Program Helps Students Express Themselves with Creative Writing This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For almost ten years an organization called Eight Twenty Six has been helping students in the United States become be

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Millions More Children to Receive Vaccines More than one million children die each year from severe diarrhea and pneumococcal disease. Today (Tuesday), the GAVI Alliance announced an expanded campaign against the two leading killers of children world

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Paying tribute to The Beatles is a time-honored tradition for many of today's pop and rock artists. But one recent tribute comes from a band which specializes in jazz and funk. New York trio Soulive, featuring Neal Evans on Hammond B-3 organ, his bro

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Bringing up a sensitive topic Can I talk to you for a minute? Can I ask you something? Do you mind if I ask you something? I need to talk to you for a minute. I have to tell you something. There's something I need to tell you. There's something I thi

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President Bush Meets with Representatives of American Businesses on the Economic Rescue Package THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the job creators who have joined me here today to talk about the state of the economy and the need for the House of Repres

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Grammar Girl here. I'm on vacation this week, but before I left I updated one of the early episodes that I took down a few months ago. I hope you enjoy this new and improved version. Today's topic is addictive versus addicting, and we'll get to use a

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Smaller Fingers Mean More Sensitive Fingertips A study in the Journal of Neuroscience finds that people with smaller fingers have more sensitive fingertips, probably due to a higher concentration of touch receptors in a given area. Cynthia Graber rep

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 30 August 2006 watch Touchable Science report Glenn Mills is part teacher, part scientist, and part inventor. We think you'll enjoy what he calls his touchable science. Inventor Glenn Mills Meet Glenn Mills. For nearly 5

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Kachin Rebels Live in Limbo as War with Burma Drags On Four hundred Kachin refugees get regular donations of food and other aid at a Catholic-run camp. The youngest were born while in the camp, enlarging families that fled fighting between the Burmes

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(四月)

New Ebola Vaccine Proves Effective in Mice U.S. scientists have developed a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus which has the potential to remain potent after years of storage. Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known. It kills about nine o

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Pentagon Weighs Type of Arms to Give Syrian Rebels They are options that Pentagon planners have been working on for almost as long as the conflict in Syria. With Assad's forces gaining ground and confirmation they have used chemical weapons, the U.S.

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Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge in the sturdiest

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A: How may I help you? B: I would like to return an item. A: What are you returning? B: I want to return this cellphone. A: Is there a problem? B: It's broken. A: What exactly is wrong with it? B: The phone turns off by itself. A: That's fine, but do

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今天我们要学的词是intrusive。Intrusive, 有侵犯的意思。美国机场加强安检,包括全身扫描和拍摸式搜身,引起很多乘客不满。不过,美国运输安全管理局负责人说, New rules requiring 'intrusive' pa

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Sylvia: How would you like to take my sister, Donna, to the movies this weekend? Youd be doing me a favor. Joon: Why? Whats wrong with her? Sylvia: Nothing is wrong with her! She just broke up with her boyfriend of four years and shes down in the dum

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Iraq's Parliament has passed a law that removes restrictions that prevented many members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from serving in government posts. President Bush quickly hailed the move as an important step. 伊拉克议会通过了一项法律

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Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 19, 2004 A new map released by the Modern Language Association shows which languages are spoken where in the United States. According to the MLA map, a 33-square-kilometer area south of Los Angeles is one of the mo

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今天我们要学的词是decisive。 Decisive, 是决定性的。A decisive victory, 决定性胜利。A decisive moment, 关键时刻。He controls the decisive vote, 他掌握着关键性的一票。His final shot won the decisive game for his te

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Maine Schools Give iPads to Kindergartners Many adults, who would be thrilled to be able to afford an iPad, might be surprised to learn there's a program in Maine which gives them to kindergarteners as part of a new learning initiative. At Sherwood H

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

今天我们要学的词是, incentive。 Incentive, 是刺激、优惠的意思。Tax incentive, 是税收方面的好处。The government uses tax incentives to encourage savings, 政府利用税收方面的优惠鼓励民众储蓄。 The rising

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