THIS IS AMERICA - 'Snoopy House' Finds a New Home, and Other Holiday Tales STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we talk about holiday celebrat

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

In the bowels of a mountain of frontier zone, a little boy lived in crude house, which could only accommodate five people of his household. There was not any railroad, freeway, highway or even a pub (an inn) around the mountain. His ancestors and he

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During dinner that night, Fran and the Aldens did most of the talking. Lottie was strangely quiet. When Im making my designs, I keep a bowl nearby filled with pressed flowers, Fran was telling them. And some ribbons, too, of course satin, velvet, and

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 98 The Mystery of the Runaway

Benny held out his cracked pink cup while Violet poured hot chocolate from a big thermos. Thisll sure warm me up! he said. The Aldens were sitting together on a snowy bank by the lake after a busy morning. Their day had started with a hearty breakfas

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House hunting One day Mother Bear said. This house is too little for us. Baby Bear has nowhere to play on cold days. Yes, said Father Bear. The cold winter is coming. Let's go and find a big cave. In the morning Father Bear, Mother Bear and Baby Bear

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to television. People often talk about life imitating art. But over the past few months, how many times have you talked about the news out of Washington and somebody said, this is so House Of Cards? Well, the fifth and latest

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Mr. Alden read the letter again. Then he said, Jessie, you say we dont know any more than we did. But I think we do. Right, said Jessie, laughing. I think so myself, now. We know there is something up in Maine anyway. Yes, and we know more than that,

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It seemed a long time to the four children before Joe and Alice came home. But at last they drove up to the front door in a new station wagon. Its Joe! shouted Benny. Hes got a new station wagon! He ran down the steps. Oh, Joe, why did you buy a stat

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Four lively children lived with their grandfather Alden in a big house. The childrens father and mother had died years before. Their cousin Joe lived in the big house too. He was grown up and his cousins thought he was great fun. First there was Henr

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He builds a house. He uses popsicle sticks. He uses glue. He glues one stick to another. He builds a kitchen. He builds a living room. He builds a bedroom. He builds a bathroom. He builds a garage. He adds a roof. He paints the house white. He shows

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Whitehouse.gov / Question About America's Longest River / Music by Vivian Green By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: December 27, 2002 (THEME) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC --VOA’s rad

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Congresswomen Carolyn Maloney, Melissa Bean and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all Democrats, share a house in a neighborhood near the US Capitol There are more than 430 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, but only 73 of them are women. Many of

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(八)月

Lawyers for detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is being charged with violating the terms of her house arrest and will soon face trial. The charges appear related to an American man who also faces charges for sneaking into he

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Obama, Chinese Vice President to Meet at White House In Beijing, during the month of January, current and former U.S. and Chinese officials marked the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixons 1972 visit to China that paved the way for normal rela

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Dee Dee Myers was the first woman - and one of the youngest - White House press secretaries. Now, more than a decade after her service in the Clinton Administration, Myers is focused on empowering women in the U.S. and worldwide. White House yearsNev

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The perfect home for a perfect television family is for sale. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THE BRADY BUNCH THEME SONG) UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Here's the story of a lovely lady... SHAPIRO: Yes, The Brady Bunch house is on the market

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 15 November 2007 The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House of Representatives gave his formal farewell to Congress on Thursday. Dennis Hastert presided over the House for nearly a decade, a period that included

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By Deborah Block Baghdad 09 January 2008 The U.S. military reports six American soldiers were killed Wednesday in a bobby-trapped house during a new operation in northern Iraq. The joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive was launched Tuesday against al-Qaida in t

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By Scott Stearns White House 10 October 2007 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will submit to parliament plans for a possible military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scot

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今天我们要学的词是house arrest。 House arrest, 是软禁的意思。Pakistan's government placed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for seven days, 巴基斯坦政府对前总理布托实行了七天的软禁。This is

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