This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Rod Blagojevich This week, the governor of the American state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested on federal corruption charges. The case includes accusations that he tried to sell an appointment to

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

4. American women was ______ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle. A. ignored B. neglected C. refused D. denied ignore 忽视 ignite 点燃 neglect 忽视,忽略 collect 收集

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks. He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than two

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Kenyan Political Satire Show Prepares for Electi The XYZ Show, now in its seventh season, satirizes Kenyas politicians and other personalities using puppets. No well-known figure is spared, and right now, political candidates are being lampooned in t

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Burma is now preparing for elections at the state, regional and national level. But the country's much-criticized election laws prompted the main opposition party to opt out, leaving many activists disheartened and disgruntled. This is how Burmese, p

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Hey kids, shake it loose together, The spotlight's hitting something That's been known to change the weather. we'll kill the fatted calf tonight So stick around, You're gonna hear electric music, Solid Walls of sound. Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you

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This is AP news minute. 1. President-elect Donald Trump is set to hold a news conference in New York on Wednesday, the first since he was elected. It comes amid substantiated reports about supposedly damaging information about Trump collected by Russ

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Truman Wins the Election of 1948 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. HARRY TRUMAN: I want to say to you, for the next four years, therell b

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Egypt's President-Elect at Home in His Village Just a few months ago, the idea of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's first post-revolution leader seemed remote at best. But in Edwa, his home village in the eastern Nile Delta, no one seemed to doubt this native

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New US Congress is Most Diverse in History Capitol Hill is daunting for any first year legislator, but imagine maneuvering it in a wheelchair. Representative-elect Tammy Duckworth lost her legs when a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into her Blackha

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Tomorrow, Donald Trump will be briefed by intelligence officials on Russia's alleged cyberattacks. Now, Trump has dismissed the agency's conclusions, even questioning their competence. And as NPR's Mara Liasson reports,

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Missing masterpieces of materialize in reflective relief from a lack of light. Those stories are coming up today on CNN Student News but we're starting with election results and some votes of note from Tuesday. This man, Bill., is set to be the next

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Chinese President Xi Jinpinbg meets with Carrie Lam, Chief Executive-elect of the Hong Kong SAR, on April 11th, 2017 in Beijing. [Photo: gmw.cn] Carrie Lam, Chief Executive-elect of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), said that bolster

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今天我们要学的词是light-bulb moment。 Light-bulb moment, 电灯泡时刻,可不是当电灯泡的意思。 A light-bulb moment is when you have a sudden realization about something, 电灯泡时刻是指你突然醒悟的那一瞬间。 P

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Russia says it will recognize election results held in eastern Ukraine by anti-government rebels. But Washington warns the elections are illegal, and violate the international commitment to which Moscow agreed last month. The self-declared republics

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This is AP news minute. 1. A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand's south island, killing at least two people, causing damaged buildings and infrastructure, and prompted emergency services to warm people along the coast to move to a higher ground t

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This is AP news minute. 1. President-elect Donald Trump is set to hold a news conference in New York on Wednesday, the first since he was elected. It comes amid unsubstantiated reports about supposedly damaging information about Trump collected by Ru

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In Bhutan's landmark elections that ended a century of absolute monarchy, the party widely perceived as most loyal to the monarchy won by a landslide. 不丹历史性的选举结束了长达一个多世纪的世袭君主制。被广泛视为对王室最

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今天我们要学的词是 recount. Recount 作为名词,有重新计算的意思。Green Party candidate Jill Stein raised $4.8 million to push for an election recount in three key states won by Donald Trump. 绿党候选人斯坦恩集资480万美

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HARI SREENIVASAN: A new flurry of high-level announcements today from the Trump transition. They include a new ambassador and a new leader for small business interests, and the incoming president himself has picked up another honor. Lisa Desjardins h

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