1. Mourners streamed into a Kalamazoo church for a special Sunday night pray service to help residents cope with the shooting rampage that rocked the western Michigan community. The service came a night after authorities say a 45-year old man fatally

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2016(二)月

Lesson Nineteen Short Conversations Read aloud the concersation two times, and then listen to the tape without looking at the text. Rodney The Litter Bug Rathbone: What is going on here? Officer? Rodney? What is this? Rodney: I don't know. I was just

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Even as the first day of autumn hovers over American shores, traces of summer linger. So, every year at this time, nearly half a million people step forward to help, to volunteer in an international coastal cleanup and the results can be staggering.

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The ocean is our planet's life-support system, but it's getting clogged with trash. Discarded beverage bottles, plastic bags and cigarette butts kill countless seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles each year. But each September, on the third Satu

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

New York Bay Cleanup Focuses on Hindu Ritual Items The sound of gentle waves and the call of wild shorebirds are normally all you can hear on the shores of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, an oasis of nature just a few kilometers from the bustling urban

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The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public health. An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf o

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So, every year at this time, nearly half a million people step forward to help, to volunteer in an international coastal cleanup and the results can be staggering. In the last couple of years alone, an average of 8 million pounds of trash is collecte

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Huge Device Aims to Capture Pacific Oceans Plastic Garbage Engineers have launched a huge garbage collection device to gather plastic material floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The plastic makes up what is called the Great

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By Joe Bavier Abidjan 28 October 2006 More than two months after hundreds of thousands of liters of toxic waste were dumped in Ivory Coast's main city, a massive cleanup operation is nearing completion. Waste removal experts work to remove hazardous

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

1. The space shuttle Endeavour is on its way toward the International Space Station. Endeavour lifted off this morning just after 4 a.m. in one of the shuttle program's last scheduled missions. (The) pre-dawn launch was the last one in darkness if th

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(二月)

Clothing Company Ties Sales to Ocean Cleanup Volunteers and company employees keep that promise by descending upon temporary garbage dumps that contain just about everything youd find in a typical landfill. But instead of the trash being properly dis

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The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public health An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf of

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Protest Cleanup Also Aims for Wall Street Cleanup Anti-Wall Street demonstrators in New York City have pre-empted the official cleanup and potential dispersal of their protest by cleaning up the park where the action is taking place themselves. And t

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本期内容: CleanupcontinuesinChina'seasternFujianandZhejiangprovincesfollowingdeadlytyphoonMeranti'slandfallThursday,buttheregionisalsoonthealertastyphoonMalakasapproaches. 随着强台风莫兰蒂在周四的登陆,中国东部省份福建和浙

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The Nigerian government has launched a one-billion dollar project to clean the creeks of Ogoniland from oil pollution. The area in the Niger Delta is at the heart of the country's oil producing region. But for some, money is clearly not the answer. O

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The Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Gansu province is the location of major tributaries of both the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. In recent years, local governments have been working to restore the local environment to protect the h

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今天我们要学的词是 cleanup. Cleanup名词,意思是清理。The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 21 sites that need immediate and intense cleanup. 美国环境保护署公布了一份名单,名单上的21个地点需要立

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今天我们要学的词是wreak havoc。 Wreak, 动词,在这里是造成的意思,havoc, 指混乱破坏,连在一起,to wreak havoc, 意思是造成严重破坏。美国东岸很多地区周末遭遇暴风雪天气。 The blizzard conditio

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Few things exercise green sensibilities more these days than marine plastic litter. 如今没有什么能像海洋塑料垃圾那样更能唤醒人们的环保意识。 The detritus looks unsightly when it washes up on beaches, and cruel when it chok

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been checking in every so often with Boyan Slat. He's the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. That's an environmental organization he founded to develop technology to clean up plastic in the ocean. Now, we spoke with Mr. Slat back in

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