Dairy farmers are having a tough time during the recession because of the high Kiwi dollar. Last year, the dairy company Fonterra paid farmers more than $7 for a kilo of milk solids. This year they will probably get $5.20. They will know next month h

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A year on, and senior Government ministers are still having to defend their decision to replace Kevin Rudd with Julia Gillard. The Prime Minister will mark her first anniversary in the top job at a Labor Party conference in Perth today. The Oppositio

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年

Julian Assange is calling on the United States to end its witch hunt against Wikileaks. The Wikileaks founder has made his first public statement since taking refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London two months ago. He's also called for the release of B

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Lesson 115 Television Day: Captain Cook TV Commentary: The great explorer, Captain Cook, set out from England in 1768 in his ship, Endeavour. He wanted to explore the South Pacific. After he had sailed round the two islands of New Zealand, he travell

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 朗文3L看听学英语第三册

Hi, this is Bridget Grace from New Zealand, one of the sports presenters of the Beijing Hour at China Radio International. It will be my first Chinese New Year in China, so I'm looking forward to seeing all the fireworks. What I love about the year o

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Last week was the final session for Parliament before the elections on November 8th. During the session last week, MPs who were retiring gave their farewell speeches. One well-known National MP, Katherine Rich, decided to retire from Parliament as sh

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Another New Zealand dairy product exported to China has been found to have excessive levels of nitrates. Lactoferrin powder, a multifunctional protein produced by New Zealands second largest dairy company Westland Milk, was temporarily banned from be

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AS IT IS 2016-04-07 Helen Clark Reaches for Top UN Post 前新西兰总理海伦克拉克竞选下一届联合国秘书长 Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says she is a candidate to become the first woman secretary-general of the United

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The owner of a school bus is in police custody following a deadly accident in the city of Penglai in Shandong. 11 kindergarten children, along with the buses' driver, were killed after a truck loaded with sand crashed into the school bus. Three injur

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2014CRI中国国际广播电台

Chinese writer Cao Wenxuan, who won the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Prize, has left China for New Zealand to receive the award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to children's literature. The award granting ceremony is scheduled to take

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星级典句: 第一句:Do you have any direct flight to New Zealand? 你们有没有直飞新西兰的航班? A: Do you have any direct flight to New Zealand? 你们有没有直飞新西兰的航班? B: Sorry, we don't. I don't think you can

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While the Iceland volcano has brought flights to and from parts of Europe to a stop, even New Zealand is affected. First, AirNZ has cancelled all flights to Los Angeles, Shanghai and Vancouver because these flights continue to the UK. AirNZ flies to

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A month ago, senior doctors in New Zealand hospitals said they would go on strike at the end of March to get more pay. It now looks as though they will not go on strike after all. The Minister of Health, David Cunliffe, has worked hard in the last mo

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A report to the government suggested that New Zealand could allow parents to choose the sex of their children who are born using IVF (in-vitro fertilisation). This is a process where the egg from the woman is fertilised by sperm from the man outside

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Saturday was a golden day for New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics. New Zealanders won two gold medals, a silver and two bronze medals. The first medal was won by the rowing twins, Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell. This is their second Olympics go

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could become law later this week or early next week. This scheme is a plan to cut greenhouse gases by making businesses pay for their carbon dioxide emissions, that is the CO2 which they put into the air. There will

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Monday, the present government had to open the books before the election to show how much money the country has. Just as we expected, it was bad news. Last year the books showed the government had more money than expected but things are very diffe

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A big increase in the number of Chinese tourists driving on New Zealand roads has prompted authorities to launch a series of high-profile road safety campaigns to warn about the dangers of driving in foreign countries. As CCTV New Zealand corresponde

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2016年

Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this evening, Authorities in New Zealand are launching a formal probe following the discovery of a potentially-deadly bacteria

发表于:2019-03-05 / 阅读(159) / 评论(0) 分类 The Beijing Hour 新闻纵贯线

Today, a memorial service was held for students and teachers from an English Language school who died following the earthquake on Feb 22nd. Their school was on the fifth floor of the CTV building which collapsed, killing 71 students and 9 teachers. 2

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(251) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语