Taboo topics in American(part one) One of the recurring questions that my students in China often ask is:What are the things they shouldn't talk about with Americans?Taboo topics tend to make people feel uneasy.Every culture has these off-lim

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Scientists say they have solved a mystery about the Zika virus. They think they've figured out why the virus became a global threat all of a sudden and started causing severe birth defects. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, the

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Pass the 21st Century Cures Act (December 3, 2016) 通过21世纪治愈法案(2016年12月3日) Hi, everybody. On the first day of my administration, I promised to restore science to its rightful place. I told you we would unleash American innovation

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The American Academy of Pediatrics says all children should be tested for autism by the age of two. Ryan Taylor was diagnosed with autism in 2004; he is shown with his father, Craig, at their home in Co

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we have the second in a series of reports about the group of disorders known as learning disabilities. Different ones affect reading, writing, listening, speaking or working with numbers. The m

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Thousands of homeless people in the Indian capital are among the hardest hit victims of the citys air pollution, which becomes worse in winter. Living on the streets, homeless individuals cannot escape from pollution, such as dust from building proje

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Topic Overview概述 This topic covers depression in adults. For information on depression in young people, see the topic Depression in Childhood and Adolescence. For information on depression followi

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Millions of Americans are too ashamed to get help for illiteracy ...to a problem that affects millions of Americans and yet is something of a silent epidemic, that's because the people affected are often hesitant to seek help. The problem is illiter

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Millions with Mental Health Get Little or No Treatment 数百万有心理健康疾病的人们得到很少或没有得到治疗 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. The World Health Organization reports that hundreds of mil

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Science and Technology 科技 Finding new antibiotics: The 48 uses of dragon's blood 寻找新抗生素:巨蜥血的48种功效 Komodo dragons could be the source for a new generation of antibiotics 科莫多巨蜥可成为新一代抗生素的来源

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Next: changes to the so-called bible of psychiatry and what it means for diagnosis and treatment. This weekend, the American Psychiatric Association released a revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often

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HEALTH REPORT - Tuberculosis and Women By Karen Leggett Broadcast: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis kills about two million people a year. The inter

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EDUCATION REPORT - Teen Taught by Mom Wins Top Science Competition By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, December 15, 2005 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Education Report. A sixteen-

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A recent research says that two-fifths of freshmen at Peking University, one of the most prestigious universities in China, thought of life as meaningless. 据最近一项研究显示,作为中国最有声望的大学之一的北京大学,其五分

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在新六级的考试大纲中明确写出简答题和选词填空是或考题型,即每次考试考哪一道题都是不确定的,但是从改革之后的几次考察情况来看,大家或者也能感觉到哪 一道题会重要些,从2006年

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So in his kitchen -- he was standing there with his wife, Judy, and his bodyguard Sean 话说在厨房,他正和妻子Judy站在一起,还有他的保镖Sean and I said, You know how I said in my email that you might have a special brain anomaly

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This story starts: I was at a friend's house, 故事的开头是这样的:我在一个朋友家里 and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders. 在她的架子上有一本《DSM手册》,就是《精神

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Before she tried to kill herself by jumping from her dormitory building a year ago, no one knew Xing Hua (name changed for privacy), a 22-year-old economics postgraduate from Wuhan, was suffering from depression. She narrowly escaped death, but suffe

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Worry less 少担心 Worrying about that big test is normal, as is worrying about that possible job promotion, but when you begin to worry excessively, it can become a real problem. 担心重要的考试很正常,担心可能的工作升迁也是一样

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This year's Sleep Day is marked in China, with a theme titled Good Sleep, Fly High and Dream Big. Dr. Han Fang is the chairman of the Chinese Sleep Research Society. He explains why China has such a theme to celebrate World Sleep Day: The theme of Wo

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