By David Byrd The Olympics returned to their ancient home while two Greek sprinters left the Games in disgrace Wednesday on Day five of the competition at the Athens Olympic Games. Russia's Irina Korz

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--雅典奥运

Special Olympics Athletes Meet International Friends LOS ANGELES The Special Olympics are under way in Los Angeles, California, with athletes from 165 countries taking part in an event that gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to pa

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(七月)

The Army That Saved The Olympics In 1964, at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, a lack of snow threatened the Games. It was the mildest Austrian February in decades, and thousands of Austrian troops were called into action to make sure that t

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT -February 15, 2002: Olympics Doing Harm in Salt Lake? By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Officials at the Olympic Games taking place in Salt Lake Ci

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Although the opening ceremonies are on Friday, Olympic competition begins Wednesday with the start of the women's football (soccer) tournament. At the Beijing Games in China, VOA's Jim Stevenson has this preview. Goalkeeper Hope Solo reaches for bal

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By Steve Schy Washington 05 May 2008 The United States Women's National Softball team has won every gold medal since the sport was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Atlanta Games. They have dominated international competitions like the Pan Ame

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Winter Olympics Open in Sochi 冬奥会在索契开幕 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Millions of sports lovers are thinking about just one thing right now -- the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Close to 2,900 men and women are set

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The Beijing Olympics will finish Sunday. But, even before the end, residents and foreign spectators are giving the event high marks for excitement and organization. Mike O'Sullivan spoke with visitors to one of China's most famous attractions, the G

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Bengt Walden of the United States competes during a men's singles luge training run at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, 13 Feb. 2010 Watch: Related report by Kane Farabaugh Windows Media As the first day of competition at th

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In Rio's Favelas, Hoped-For Benefits From Olympics Have Yet To Materialize AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Brazil's favelas or shantytowns were celebrated during the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games as the birthplace of a lot of Brazil's culture. Well, t

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Robin Basselin. Voice 2 And Im Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 It was August 3rd, 2012. Hu

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The Beijing Olympics ended on the same high note as it began. The opening and closing ceremonies were amazing, finishing with a large display of fireworks that went on and on. During the Games, everything worked well too. That included the accommodat

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The Vancouver Olympics ended on Sunday and it could not have been a much better finish for host country Canada, which won the final gold medal. This was an Olympics that began on a sad note after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a young luge athlet

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Including the start of the Olympic football tournament two days before the Opening Ceremonies, the Beijing Olympics have reached the halfway point of scheduled competition. VOA's Jim Stevenson has this preview of the action Friday, which is highligh

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By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 01 October 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledges Thursday, 01 Oct. 2009 to do his utmost to bring the Olympics to Tokyo in 2016 as he prepared to go to Copenhagen for the big vote The International Olympic Committ

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Jack opened his eyes. Warm sunshine streamed intothe tree house. We sure don't need the flashlight here, he said. Look, Morgan gave us clothes like the ones wewore in Pompeii, said Annie. Jack looked down. His clothes were similar to the ones he'd wo

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 汪培珽儿童英文分级书单《神奇树屋》

The young woman smiled at Jack and Annie. How did you learn to read and write? Annieasked. I taught myself, the woman answered. She wrote a poem and brought it to me, saidPlato, because I have written and told people that Ithink Greek girls should go

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Jack opened his eyes. It was so dark he couldn't see anything. He felt his clothes. He was wearing his T-shirt andjeans again. The leather bag had turned back into hisbackpack. Hello, said Morgan le Fay. Her voice came fromthe corner of the tree hous

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Professor Gilbert Van Kerchhove from Belgium is the President and founder of a Beijing-based management consulting firm. He was deeply involved in the preparations of for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Van Kerchhove says one of the main issues leading

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As China's athletes are busy preparing for the games, one man who believes Rio will provide the platform for Chinese athletes to succeed is two-time Olympic gold medalist Chen Yibing. The retired gymnast will be in Brazil as a commentator and gave an

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