This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight. More than six hundred seventy thousand international students attended an American c

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十一)月

Technology Report - Golden Gate Bridge Still Shining Strong After 75 Years This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Golden Gate Bridge is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary. The bridge opened to vehicle traffic on May twenty-eigh

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【今日基础词】 Science 【Transcript】 A: Ill prepare a hundred coffins, 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself. Who said so impressive words? B: Of course our former premier Zhu Rongji. A: Really? I like him very much! B:My criticism is

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The Springfree Trampoline won the US Childrens Product of the Year Award this year. Springfree was designed by Professor Keith Alexander of Canterbury University Mechanical Engineering department. He designed it because he wanted a safe trampoline fo

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some young engineers from the United States have brought the Internet to several areas of rural Kenya. Their idea was to connect the communities to the Web by satellite. But there was a problem. Th

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A new education survey reveals that chief executives at America's largest corporations fear the U.S. could lose its competitive edge in science and technology because of a shortage of trained workers. Leaders questioned in the survey advocate greate

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Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

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From 'The Water's Edge To The Cutting Edge': Fish Skeletons, CT Scans And Engineering MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: So now it's time for a fish tale - no pun intended. Have you ever asked yourself, how can a fish as soft as a stingray crush hardshell prey? Yo

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been checking in every so often with Boyan Slat. He's the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. That's an environmental organization he founded to develop technology to clean up plastic in the ocean. Now, we spoke with Mr. Slat back in

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