VOA慢速英语2010年-United States Releases Results of 2010

This week, the United States Census Bureau released its official count of the nations population. It said the population, as of April first, was three hundred eight million, seven hundred forty-five thousand, five hundred thirty-eight. The population

国家地理-2008-03-15 Antarctic Ocean Creature 南极深海的神秘生物

Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctic said on Tuesday they collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms from the murky depths. Australian experts taking part in an international program to take a census of

2008-12-29 南极臭氧层空洞面积创新高

Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg have published the first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals near the tip of the Antarct

原版英文小故事 15. Learning English

According to the 2000 US Census, 39 percent of people who live in California do not speak English at home. In Las Casas, a city in southern California, 79 percent of residents speak little or no English at home or at work. To combat this problem, Las

英语听力：自然百科 南极臭氧层空洞面积创新高

Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg have published the first comprehensive inventory of sea and land animals near the tip of the Antarcti

VOA慢速英语2009年-IN THE NEWS - Obama Presses Case for Healt

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Barack Obama went before Congress and the nation to better explain his health care proposals. He said they would provide security and stability to people who have insurance, and make i

2007年VOA标准英语-Two Years After Katrina, New Orleans Slowly Rec

By Greg Flakus Houston 29 August 2007 Two years ago Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast of the United States, devastating a wide area from Louisiana to Alabama, with an especially tragic outcome in the city of New Orleans, where a surge of water

VOA标准英语2010年-Doctors in America in Short Supply

Data from the US Census bureau, found that doctor's hours declined while at the same time their incomes dropped 25 percent between 1995 and 2006 In the U.S., doctors are known for working extraordinarily long hours, seeing patients in the office and

VOA标准英语2011--Charities Struggle to Cope With Rising U

Charities Struggle to Cope With Rising US Poverty Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than 46 million Americans now live in poverty. Thats the highest amount on record since the agency began tracking poverty rates in 1959. Additionally,

VOA标准英语2011--Future US Senior Citizens Face Big Chang

Future US Senior Citizens Face Big Changes Analysts at the U.S. Census Bureau have a provocative forecast for America's population in 2050, when today's 25-olds will be knocking on the door of age 65. If projections hold, not only will there be more

VOA标准英语2009年-American Workforce Getting Older, Working

By Steve Mort Orlando, Florida 28 October 2009 The American workforce is getting grayer. And the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the number of workers between 65 and 74 years old will grow by more than 80 percent between 2006 and 2016.

VOA标准英语2009年-South Sudan says It 'Will Respect' Interna

An official of the South Sudanese government says despite its displeasure with the verdict, the semi-autonomous southern government will fully honor Wednesday's ruling in The Hague that redrew the boundaries of the disputed Abyei area. The decision

VOA标准英语2013--New York Speaks Your Language, No Matter What It Is

New York Speaks Your Language, No Matter What It Is With hundreds of languages and dialects spoken from around the world, few cities are as diverse as New York. New York is the capital of the world, where we live together in peace, said Ernesto Arias

美国国家公共电台 NPR Some Towns Treat Bikes As Trendy, But In Reading, Pa., They're Tools

Some Towns Treat Bikes As Trendy, But In Reading, Pa., They're Tools play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0000:00repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your F

科学美国人60秒 SSS Arctic Pollinator Faces Uncertain Future

The Greenland High Arctic is a bare, sparse place. Rather than tall trees, it has tundraground hugging vegetationand rugged, Lord-of-the-Rings-style vistas. Well I don't know, it's not exactly New Zealand, but kind of similar landscape. Mikko Tiusane

VOA双语新闻：美国拉美裔人口显著增长

Recently released data from the 2010 U.S. census shows significant growth in the nation's Hispanic population. And nowhere has that growth been more dramatic than in the southwestern state of Texas, the state with the biggest overall population incre

英伦广角 2013-05-11 移民改变人口构成 英国白人成少数名族

The makeup of many areas in England and Wales is changing.Almost half of people of ethnic minorities now living in areas where white British people are the minority.One of those areas is the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. People that live here are

新西兰英语 289 Samoan Language Week

Talofa This week is Samoan Language Week. We need to remember that Samoan is the third most common language in New Zealand, after English and Maori. A large number of Samoan people live in New Zealand. We have a census every five years and the last c

英语杂谈：102 Domestic and Global Migrants

Expatriates in China will join the country's sixth national census starting November 1st and answer eight questions on their basic information, which will not include income and religious affiliation. Besides, the some 6 million trained census takers

VOA常速英语2008年-Palestinian Population Grows by 30 Percent in P

By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 11 February 2008 For the first time in a decade there is a new accurate census of Palestinians living in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem Bureau. The new census