INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., we are in the Stewart home. Ellen is playing the piano when Philip enters the room. He has found an old horn in an upstairs closet. It was a wedding present many years ago. Tomorrow is the annivers

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 欢乐美语

A U.S. Marshal investigates a crime at an isolated asylum for the criminally insane; but not everything is what it seems to be at first in Shutter Island, the new film from acclaimed director Martin Scorcese. Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Ben Kingsley co

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

By Parke Brewer Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic confirmed his status at the world's best all-around athlete when he won the Olympic decathlon gold medal Tuesday night. Most Olympians specialize in

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--雅典奥运

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine Nobel Prizes for discoveries in science. We also will tell about progress against acqui

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(185) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

Non-count Nouns I'd like to buy some ____________. How much do you need? Let's see. Five ____s* should be enough. All right. Five____s of ________. Anything else? No, that will be all for today. *Use measure words with non-count nouns. For example: T

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Exercise is something most of us love to hate. A lot of us avoid it altogether. I do a lot of exercise, but not because I like it. I do it because it helps me stay slim and healthy. I always feel great after exercising, so there are good parts to it.

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Can I ride my horse, Mommy? Sara asked her mom. Sara loved to ride her horse. She rode her horse almost every Saturday. Okay, honey, get ready to go, her mom said. Sara was happy. She went into her bedroom. She put her pink socks on. She put her pink

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 超级简单英语阅读

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us how one little comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Should we write, He has the ball too with no comma or He has the ball, too? Well, you can write the sentence either way

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us choose better transition words. This article could make you a tad hungry, because today were comparing the art of writing to the art of making a sandwich. In fact, just for today, we might need to

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is helping us talk about two sets of words that listeners get confused: pleaded guilty or pled guilty, and use or utilize. Plead Versus Pled Mike from Georgia is transitioning from law enforcement t

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Deborah Tate The U.S. Army General investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops blamed a failure of leadership for the scandal. Army Major General Antonio Taguba, who wrote a report detai

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

By Kari Barber Thiaroye, Senegal 23 January 2007 watch Senegalese Immigration Tens of thousands of Senegalese and other West Africans left their homes and set out for the Canary Islands during the past year, hoping to find economic opportunity. The

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(一月)

US Presidential Candidates Court Youth Vote While Republicans convened in Tampa Wednesday, President Obama spoke to cheering students at the University of Virginia. Don't just chant, you got to vote! he said. Polls show Obama with an advantage among

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

U.S. and Iraqi officials inaugurated a portion of the country's new border security fence along the Iraqi-Syrian border, as efforts are stepped up to improve security before March parliamentary elections. Sunni and Shi'ite political leaders also cont

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

The opening ceremony of a China-US student exchange program has been held in Beijing at Tsinghua University. Those addressing the meetinng have encouraged the students to keep innovating and embrace the world with an open mind. The student exchange p

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 2018CRI中国国际广播电台

Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

President Barack Obama (File) U.S. President Barack Obama has summoned top U.S. intelligence and security officials to discuss security needs after last month's attempted bombing of a U.S. jetliner. President Obama had meetings scheduled Monday at th

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to make Southeast Asia his first overseas destination. Abe is expected to visit Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam later this month. The second-time premier said on Monday he meant to visit the US first to stren

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The new iPhone SE failed to impress with its sales the first weekend after its release, according to statistics from Localytics. 根据Localytics近日发布的数据显示,新机型iPhone SE上市后首周末的销售表现不佳。 The sales in t

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