This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Dave Irvine-Halliday in Mexico More than one and a half billion people around the world live without electricity. Finding better ways to bring light to the poor is the goal of researchers like David

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

Bush loyalists are taking the offensive today in response to a book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. In it, he claims the administration relied on, what he termed, an aggressive political propaganda campaign instead of the trut

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AGRICULTURE REPORT – January 15, 2002: Growing Wheat By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Studies show that there will be nine-thousand-million people in the world by t

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ECONOMICS REPORT - The Falling Value of the Dollar By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 02, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The falling value of the dolla

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On January 20, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people will gather in Washington, D.C to attend the inauguration on the steps of the Capitol Building. Eight years ago, Barack Obama, th

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The Cambodian government has ordered a limit on interest rates on small loans. The decision comes before local elections are set to take place in June. The 18 percent limit on the microfinance industry interest rates takes effect on April 1. Microfin

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'Burning Man' Art Comes to Smithsonian The Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., is exploring the art of the yearly Burning Man event held in Nevada. The show, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, opened March 30. The Renwick is part of the Smithson

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Are We Safer Without Pilots in the Cockpit? 如果驾驶舱没有飞行员的话,我们会不会更安全点呢? Last month, 150 people were killed when Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps. Officials say the co-pilot flew the airpl

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AS IT IS 2015-03-29 Could Drones Help Save Rhinos in South Africa? 无人机真的能拯救南非犀牛吗? Since 2008, hunters have illegally killed more than 3,000 rhinos in South Africa. The International Union for Conservation of Nature warns tha

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Young Cameroon Engineer Invents Cardiopad Cameroon is experimenting with Africa's first mobile system to send a cardiac, or heart signal over a wireless network. The system will give much needed medical assistance to heart patients in rural areas. Ca

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Long ago there lived a merchant Abdullah. He was very rich, but he was very greedy. One day he loaded his forty camels with costly spices to sell in a far away city in Arabia. He sold all the spices there. He halted in an inn to have lunch on the way

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AS IT IS 2013-12-29 What Is Next for the Future of Cars? Welcome back to As It Is. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. Today we are talking about the future. More specifically, about the future of cars and driving. VOA reporter Mike OSullivan visited the Los Angele

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Halloweens Real Horror? Its High Cost! Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. On we tell you about a robot made with the help of medical technology. Then, it is all about Halloween. How much will the holiday cost America

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1. dissolution /ˌdɪsəˈlu:ʃən/ -- act of loosening or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin; destruction When President Lincoln took office, the Union faced imminent dissolution. 当林肯总统就职时,北军就面临着迫切

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1st Corinthians 哥林多前书_1Co_03 1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly--mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3You are still worldly. F

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Researchers who compared peer-reviewed articles to the Wikipedia pages for the 10 most costly medical conditions in the U.S. discovered incorrect information on nine out of 10 pages. Dina Fine Maron reports 研究人员对比期刊论文和维基百科

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AS IT IS 2013-11-11 Fighting Corruption in South Africa 南非与腐败作斗争 Hello there, and welcome to As It Is, VOAs daily show for people learning American English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we hear from Anita

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The owner of technology company Google has reported progress in its plan to offer Internet service to rural areas around the world. Googles parent company, Alphabet, calls the plan Project Loon. Its goal is to increase access to the billions of peopl

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Climate change has had a number of effects on cities around the world, including rising sea levels. And, this has become an especially big problem for coastal cities. City officials must now prepare for higher tides on their coasts. The American city

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I, Tonya Reexamines One of America's Biggest Sports Scandals Not long ago, Steven Rogers was watching a film documentary about Tonya Harding, an American figure skater in the 1990s. As he watched the film, Rogers thought about social class, abuse, ma

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