VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA IN VOA Special English. Today we tell about jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Shirley Horn performing in 2003 Shirley Horn was considered one

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

The next morning after breakfast, the children went to the kennel to help Jason bathe the dogs. But they were surprised to find the building locked up tight. When they knocked on the door, there was no answer. Jason must not be here yet, Henry said.

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The knocking on the caboose door grew louder and louder. Who can that be? Henry asked as he went to open the door. Oh, its Al! Come right in! Al said, I came to invite you to dinner at noon in our work-caboose. What fun! said Benny. Are you going to

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Combating wildlife trafficking is a priority for the United States, said Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission to the African Union, Jessica Davis, at a workshop on illegal wildlife trafficking held recently in Addis Ababa. 打击野生动物贩卖是美国

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The government has bounced back in the opinion polls this morning, with two separate survey showing Labour closing the gap on the Coalition. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recorded a 7%-jump in personal popularity, while Labour is level with the Co

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In JACKSONVILLE, a judge declared a mistrial on the charge of muerder for Michael Dunn, who was accused in the shooting death of African American teenage, Jordan Davis in a dispute over loud music. NPR's Greg Allen reports, the jury found on guilty o

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The Nautilus passed over these lush, luxuriant depths with tremendous speed. 诺第留斯号极端迅速地驶过。 Near evening it approached the Falkland Islands, whose rugged summits I recognized the next day. 到了晚上,它走近福克兰群岛

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As the son of actor and director Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood naturally gravitated towards two of his father's greatest passions, film and jazz. Kyle eventually settled on a career in jazz, but that he still finds time for both. Kyle Eastwood discov

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At Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, scientists are working to find clues about how the human brain processes memories. Their laboratory test animal is not a chimp or a dog or a rat animals that we know can remember things it is the com

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VOA's weekly science and technology radio magazine Art Chimes | Washington, DC 12 March 2010 Related Links IPCC InterAcademy Council Kidney donor health (JAMA) Scripps Florida APA Help Center Cornell nanotextiles lab Preserving Digital Worlds (Univ o

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Republican Senator John McCain has not stepped foot in the Capitol this year. His brain cancer treatment and related health problems have kept him back home in Arizona. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis reports McCa

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The writer Charles Frazier used to think he'd said enough about the Civil War. He wrote an acclaimed Civil War novel that became an Oscar-winning movie. CHARLES FRAZIER: After Cold Mountain, I never thought I wanted to write abou

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美国防部削减开支 承包商面临破产 The U.S. budget cuts known as Sequestration are projected to reduce government spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years. The cuts are already being felt by U.S. defense contractors. 美国最近启动了自

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377.The Confederate States of America. 377.美利坚同盟国 The next step was for these states to join together to form a confederation. 这些州下一步要聚集在一起组成一个联盟, This work was done by a convention of delegates chose

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JEFFREY BROWN:Next: An emergency room doctor returns to Newark and grapples with pressing public health issues. Ray Suarez has our conversation. RAY SUAREZ:Dr. Sampson Davis is the fifth of six children in his family. He was raised in Newark, N.J., i

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December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969Vio

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December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969,V

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December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969,V

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Its a really long way to go for coffee, but the coffee these scientists are looking for you wont find at your local cafe. This is a rare wild relative that grows in the jungles of Sierra Leone. Coffee has 124 of these cousins across tropical Africa a

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Fannie Drumwright Davis Robinson was an esteemed civic figure in Detroit. She was married to her teenage sweetheart, came up from the segregated South, lived in a fine red-brick colonial house where she cared and cared well for the

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