How do you measure a chickens happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? Or by how much time it spends cleaning itself? To find the answers to these questions, researchers in Canada are putting 16 kinds of chickens through a series physical and me

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(195) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. Im Avi Arditti. And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we report on caffeine and two popular drinks: tea and coffee. We tell about a study that found black tea is better for your health

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Crop circles 麦田怪圈 Strange fruit 意外的收获 The costs and benefits of rural mysticism 乡村神秘主义的收入与支出 Jul 7th 2011 | HONEYSTREET, WILTSHIRE | from the print edition Farm life, but not as we know it 不为人所知的农

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Principia's production was not without drama. To Halley's horror, just as work was nearing completion Newton and Hooke fell into dispute over the priority for the inverse square law and Newton refused to release the crucial third volume, without whic

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72 罗格当选奥委会主席 DATE=7-21-01 TITLE=IN THE NEWS #490 - Olympics BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson (Start at 01'06

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ECONOMICS REPORT - OPEC and Oil Prices By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, April 09, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, the Organization of the Petroleum

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. More than three billion people are at risk from indoor air pollution because of the heating or cooking fuels they use. Most live in Africa, India and China. They use biomass fuels like wood, crop wa

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近期欧洲频繁遭遇恐怖袭击威胁,出于安全方面的考虑,英国近日宣布禁止外国游客参观伦敦地标建筑大本钟,本国游客参观需向所属选区的国会议员提交书面申请。大本钟管理员表示,这项

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When Canadian scientist Christopher Charles discovered six years ago how badly Cambodians were suffering from anemia, he decided to try and solve the problem. Unfortunately, tried-and-tested methods such as iron supplements and iron-rich diets didnt

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cable n.缆,索;电缆;电报 calculation n.计算,计算结果 calculator n.计算器,计算者 calendar n.日历,历书;历法 campaign n.战役;运动 campus n.校园,学校场地

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A credit card with a constantly changing security code is being launched in an attempt to combat fraud. 英国将推出一种具有不断变化的安全码的信用卡,以打击诈骗行为。 The three numbers on the back of the card will be repla

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US federal election law requires all candidates to report each campaign donation to the Federal Election Committee (FEC). These filings offer insight into who is willing to put their money where their vote is. 美国联邦选举法规定,所有候选

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The shah of Irans last home before fleeing his country in 1979 was a huge property in the Alborz Mountains a place no Iranian ever dreamed of visiting. Today, a visit costs them around $1. The Niavaran Palace now welcomes the public to see the life t

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月

For Safeena Husain, who runs Educate Girls, the process was as satisfying as the results. 对于女孩教育行动的创始人Safeena Husain而言,该项目的进程和结果一样令人满意。 Instead of having to send tedious reports to a donor

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下面是2014年英语六级作文预测范文:传统文化消失,请各位考生多积累一些范文中的关键词汇和经典句型。 On the Losing of Traditional Culture 1. 现在许多传统文化正慢慢消失 2. 传统文化消失的原因

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当选美国总统的特朗普在竞选期间多次批评苹果公司,认为其把大量的制造外包给中国企业,导致了就业岗位的流失。而据日本经济新闻最新报道,苹果正在和两家代工厂联系,考虑在美国建

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A: Last month, we only had 40 hits on our site. Our products and prices are good, but the problem is that no one knows about our website. B: If we want to get this internet business off the ground, weve got to do something fast. A: We nee

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Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born in Texas in 1981. She grew up singing and dancing and quickly developed the qualities that would make her an international superstar. Her talents were discovered by her dance teacher while she was a church choir soloi

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Brexit Could Bring Economic Problems to EU Countries Workers at the Pedrosa Rodrigues clothing factory in Portugal are worried that something 2,000 kilometers away could endanger their jobs. Sales to Britain make up about half of this family business

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We have fallen down again tonight我们今夜再次遭遇坎坷 In this world it's hard to get it right在这世上总是难于正途抉择 Trying to make your heart fit like a glove致力于追随心声 What it needs is love, love, love所需要的就

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