Florida Seniors Split on Medicare Debate The Republican Party's 2008 presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, has been campaigning for Mitt Romney in southern Florida. He says new leadership is needed to reduce the more than one-trillion-dollar f

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十月)

The chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch has blamed unnamed individuals at the News of the World tabloid for covering up phone hacking. He also says he panicked when he heard of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking case and should have closed down t

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年

Ukrainian Town Cut Off by Fighting Struggles to Survive KRASNOHORIVKA, EASTERN UKRAINE In eastern Ukraine, villages cut off by military front lines are on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. Ukraine's Kyiv government can't seem to get supplies in sup

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(四月)

Mothers and babies have been in the news this last week. First, Statistics New Zealand announced a slight increase in the birth rate and secondly the Capital and Coast District Health Board (which has hospitals in the Wellington area) is worried abou

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Study Finds Support for Charter Schools Growing in US A new study published Tuesday has found increased support for charter schools and private school voucher programs. The study suggests that Republican Party support for these programs had a strong

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月

President Obama is calling todays talks between US officials and Iranian diplomats concerning the countrys disputed nuclear program a constructive beginning, though the president also said Iran must match its promises of cooperation with deeds. And

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

Five months after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, Texas, the island city on the Gulf of Mexico below Houston is struggling to recover. The economic slump in the nation as a whole has made the task more difficult, but many islanders are determine

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(二月)

Airlines Try In-Flight Pitches to Raise Revenue A number of U.S. airlines are in financial trouble. Several have merged or will do so soon. Just about all of them are charging fees for checked bags, and selling, rather than giving away, whatever food

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(二月)

We have limited funds, so we have to make a choice whether we feed people or we feed livestock In addition to lost crops and possessions, many survivors of Pakistan's floods lost their livestock. Surviving farm animals urgently need food and medical

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(九)月

Mexico Authorities Free 275 Trapped In Forced Lab Bioparques de Occidente is a tomato sorting and packing company in the municipality of Toliman in the western state of Jalisco. The management finds workers to get the tomatoes ready for export in nea

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(六月)

南苏丹持续冲突引发粮食危机 Since the separation of South Sudan in July 2011, the Republic of Sudan's economy has spiraled downward. 自从2011年7月南苏丹分裂以来,苏丹共和国的经济开始不断低迷。 The loss of 75 per

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(一月)

Oxfam Warns of South Sudan Hunger Crisis 乐施会警告南苏丹会出现饥荒 Oxfam International says a massive and rapid surge in aid is needed for South Sudan. Otherwise, it says, millions of people are at risk of what it calls catastrophic lev

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(五月)

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is going to be speaking to the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC in Denver today. And her appearance drew hundreds of protesters who marched yes

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Trump's Pick For Education: A Free Market Approach To School Choice AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Now we're going to take a look at another one of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks. The president-elect wants Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education. DeVos i

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Giving a family a school voucher doesn't guarantee a child a better education. We're about to hear how Milwaukee's African-American community has been struggling with this. The city has the nation's longest-running publicly funde

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

In pockets of excellence across this country, we are seeing what children from all walks of life can, and will achieve, when we set high standards, have high expectations when we do a job of preparing them. Instead, it's because politics and ideolog

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 美国总统每日发言

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 August 2007 The World Food Program and U.N. refugee agency are appealing for $20 million to help tens of thousands of Burundi refugees return home after years of exile in Tanzania. They warn that food rations for Burundians

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

上次我们已经讲了两个由paper这个词发展而来的习惯用语,今天我们继续讲两个。千百年来人们书面交流必须依靠纸张。不论是报章杂志还是书籍文件用的都是纸。纸的功劳不可抹煞,然而近年

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could announce his new cabinet as early as today as he prepares to revisit key policies. Former minister Simon Crane and Kim Carr are both tipped to make a comeback. The new cabinet meets next week and is expected to discuss

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年

How can you tell if someone's lying? The answer is, they're probably not. Traditional economics says that people are rational beings who will lie if it's to their advantage. A recent university study has shown that, actually, we're pretty honest - es

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版