This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last month, America's biggest bank, Citigroup, agreed to sell five percent of its shares to the government of Abu Dhabi. The deal, worth seven and a half billion dollars, was another example of growi

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(十二)月

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Pumping oil in Bahrain When we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to mind first may be the Middle East. But petroleum development takes place worldwide. Nigeria, for example, is the large

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美国天然气前景乐观 美国天然气产量剧增,不仅降低了燃料价格,还促使很多项目改用天然气来代替污染严重得多的石油,不少公司开始使用天然气作为运输燃料。 While many Americans want to red

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Lesson 113 Part I Warming-up Exercises Spatial Relations: A Foodstuff Store Score: ____ Lesson 113 Part Ⅱ Lesson 113 Part Ⅱ Frozen Foods Exercises: Ⅰ .___________________________________________

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After almost reaching $80 a barrel in July, oil prices have dipped below $64, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is worried about further price drops. At a meeting in Vienna, the cartel of mostly mideastern oil-producin

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[00:04.36]We have a lot of questions about this mad cow disease. 我们对疯牛病有很多的疑问 [00:06.36]Kowalcyk: If you recall the case where Oprah was sued 要是你还记得肉类生产行业 [00:09.72]by the meat industry 因为奥普拉(美

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The numbers calling for President Hosni Mubarak to resign in Egypt keep growing in central Cairo. More than a quarter million people now estimated to be overflowing from Tahrir Square. Thousands more are rallying outside Cairo. NPR's Corey Flintoff m

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1. The head of Iraq's Al Qaeda terrorists group has a new videotape message to the world posted on the Internet. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi mock s the US military and says any government formed in Iraq will

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Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made of it. In the 1850's Samuel M. Kier,

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black tide 黑潮 英文释义 Ocean pollution (especially used for petroleum spilled from a wrecked ship carrying oil) 例句 When the huge oil tanker hit the reef, the disaster caused a black tide that harmed most of the nearby seacoast and ruined

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Contessa Brewer: Joining me to discuss how the damage from Katrina could affect the economy, from Washington is David Wessel, deputy bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. David, nice to see you tod

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Economics Report - Why Oil Continues Its Climb Unrest in oil-producing nations and the weak dollar are causes of the increase in oil prices. But increasing demand has not been met with new supplies. Transcript of radio broadcast: 08 May 2008 This is

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Tuesday is Earth Day. On April twenty-second, nineteen seventy, millions of Americans took part in activities to bring attention to the environment. Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin had ca

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AS IT IS 2016-09-06 Water Pollution Puts Over 300 Million at Risk 超过3亿人面临水污染风险 More than 300 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are at risk of life-threatening diseases such as cholera and typhoid. The reason: Poll

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以下是短文写作中使用率最高、覆盖面最广的基本句式,每组句式的功能相同或相似,考生可根据自己的情况选择其中的1-2个,做到能够熟练正确地仿写或套用。 1.表示原因 1)There are thr

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Science and technology 科学技术 Going underground 向地底进军 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 旨在向人们揭示更多地球碳信息的项目 The Deep Carbon Observatory 深碳观测站 A world still full of secrets

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - High-Priced Oil Raises Appeal of BiofuelsBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. An ethanol plant As oil prices cli

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By counting back through these layers and measuring the amount of lead in each, he could work out global lead concentrations at any time for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. The notion became the foundation of ice core studies, on which much mo

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British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t

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Zhao Qianyi, 18, a freshman at Jilin University, feels lost without his computer, on which he connects with family and friends, watches videos and even does homework. 作为一名来自吉林大学的大一新生,18岁的赵谦一(音译)因为不

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