This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid hypothermia and other cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia i

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(329) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember, and today we bring you music for the New Year. (MUSIC) T.J. MacDonald, left, and Stacey Fox, both of Syracuse, New York, welcoming 2008 in Times Square in New York City In the Unite

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(447) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

Millions of Americans will celebrate Christmas on December twenty-fifth. It is the most widely celebrated religious holiday in the United States. For the past few weeks, Americans have been preparing for Christmas. I'm Bob Doughty. Shirley Griffith

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People can get sick if they eat food touched by floodwaters. Floodwater may contain human and animal wastes, and other pollutants like agricultural and industrial chemicals. The University of Iowa

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. American officials say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will join talks on Zimbabwe this week at the United Nations. The State Department says the Security Council has failed to take meaningful

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. An individual, a company and an industry were all in the news this week for reasons unrelated except for the idea of dishonesty. Bernard Madoff was arrested last week The individual was seventy-year-old Be

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Winter in many places means ice skating, sledding and snowball fights. But unless someone is prepared, outdoor fun can also mean frostbite and hypothermia. Today we talk about how to stay warm, dry and

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations says forty million more people around the world went hungry this year, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization show

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Wintry conditions are returning to the northern part of the world. Winter brings cold weather and, with it, a danger as old as man's k

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every day, more than two thousand children worldwide die from accidental injury. Each year, as many as three million children are saved from one leading cause of child deaths -- drowning. Yet survivors

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Anchovies swim above the glass dome of the Monterey Aquarium And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have wanted to explore the world under the sea. Such a

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Microfinance is becoming a big business. It started as a way to provide very small loans to people in developing countries so they could begin to move themselves out of poverty. A few hundred dolla

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This is Steve Ember with a VOA Special English holiday program. (MUSIC) A scene from the movie ''White Christmas,'' starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney Music fills the air. Colorful lights shine brightly in windows. Children and ad

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. We look back at this year's bad economic news in the United States. Economic growth was expected to slow in two thousand eight. Housing prices had been falling in the United States since two thousand

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Today we present a special program on Christmas traditions in the United States during the first half of the ninetee

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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

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of America's largest media companies has sought protection from its creditors in bankruptcy court. The Tribune Company owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and other

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dengue fever is sometimes called break-bone fever. It produces intense pain in the muscles and joints and behind the eyes. People get severe headaches. There are no cures, but most people recover, thoug

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new study says almost forty percent of China is losing soil because of wind and water erosion. The Chinese government recently announced the results of a three-year study. The study was the large

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we take some of the stress out of learning which words to stress in American English. RS: We turn to Lida [lee-da] Baker. She's an instructor at the American Language Center at

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)