Chinese Tourism to US Expected to Grow 中国人赴美旅游预计将大幅增长 SAN FRANCSICO San Francisco is a major stop for Chinese visitors, and an agreement between China and the United States, announced in Beijing this month, promises to dra

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十一月)

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it is time for StoryCorps on this Friday. Today, two Vietnam War veterans who lost touch after the war. Kay Lee was a combat medic from San Francisco. John Nordeen was a soldier from Seattle. They were bot

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I can't believe I made it into San Francisco, at long last! This morning, I went to the airport to catch my 10 a.m. flight. I got there early to go through security. The folks at the TSA can really slow things down sometimes. Since I had an electroni

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lesson/ddmybkMy interview is today. It is with a marketing company. It is a large corporation with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. It also has satellite offices across the U.S. and in Europe. I'm not sure if this would be the right fit for me,

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A cloud of dust billowed around Jack. He couldhardly breathe. He couldn't see. But he could hearAnnie coughing. Jack opened his mouth to dust filled his throat. Jack! Between coughs, Annie shouted his name. Jack!I'm here! he said hoarsely. I think I'

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By Liu Enming San Francisco, California 12 October 2007 The Golden Gate Bridge -- the iconic gateway to San Francisco Bay -- has withstood 70 years of rain and shine. A marvel of engineering, it is also sadly a site where people commit suicide by thr

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Wal-Mart is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit. A lower court ruling allowed a class-action case to move forward. It involves more than 1 million current and former female employees of the world's

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By David Byrd Washington 12 January 2006 2006 Winter Olympics US Postage Stamp The U.S. Postal Service has dedicated a new stamp to commemorate next month's Olympics in a ceremony in Colorado Springs,

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By David Byrd Washington 08 August 2007 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has passed Hank Aaron for the Major League Baseball career home run record. But the achievement is under a cloud because of allegations of steroid use. As VOA's David By

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Joplins hits during the 1960s included Ball and Chain, Piece of My Heart, and Me and Bobby McGee. Transcript of radio broadcast: 12 July 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Pat Bodnar. VOICE TWO: Janis Joplin And I'm Bob Doughty with People in America in VOA Specia

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Also: Hear about the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. And listen to music about crime and punishment from some famous performers.Transcript of radio broadcast: 19 June 2008 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special E

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A pair of unlikely league champions begin their duel for Major League Baseball supremacy Wednesday night in San Francisco, as the National League champion Giants host the American League's Texas Rangers at ATT Park (8pm EDT). Neither team was expecte

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Probably only one or two Americans in a hundred could tell you the name of the nation's toughest, seemingly most escape-proof prison. It's the Marion federal penitentiary in Illinois. But for the better part of three decades, from the mid-1930s to 19

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's stay here in California, which is one of more than 20 states where marijuana is legal in some form, which, of course, means people can be exposed to marijuana on the street. So what about secondhand smoke? Is that a conc

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia has returned with a new season. And this week, they're investigating the way we look at reality - whether we can ever really see it and how we often have very different views of the same reality, which naturally

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Local education officials in China have suspended trips to overseas summer camps in the home city of the two teenage girls who died in the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco recently. This decision has sparked hot debate on the frenzy surro

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On Monday, an earthquake in China measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred along a fault where south Asia pushes against the Eurasian Landmass, smashing the Sichuan Plain into mountains, leading to the Tibetan highlands. In 1989, the Loma Prieta E

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By Savita Patel San Francisco, California 21 February 2008 A suburb of San Francisco, California was recently the kitty capital of the world as hundreds of cats came together at the 24th annual Tails and No Tales Cat Show. The two-day event was a fel

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By Paul Sisco Washington 01 August 2007 At the bank, the airport, paying a toll --Americans know they are probably being watched and have come to expect it. Increasingly, surveillance cameras are becoming even more commonplace. Paul Sisco reports. Su

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Topics: American Cities: San Francisco/Bay Area; the ACLU; using back to refer to the past; failure versus error versus mistake Words: image strait bay living expenses steep cable car liberal costume civil liberties litigation to lobby to infringe up

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