英语短文:Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill,

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小短文

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Unrest in North Africa and the Middle East has pushed oil prices back into the news. Prices have been rising at their fastest level since two thousand

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EXPLORATIONS - How Two Pilots Flew Non-Stop Around the World SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. It was called the last great goal in flying. It would be a flight around the world without stopping o

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Starting this Friday, the auto industry will show off more than nine hundred of its latest vehicles at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, C

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A Closer Look at the Iran Nuclear Deal 仔细复盘伊朗核交易 World powers have been working for years to limit Irans nuclear activities. But news reports often fail to provide details of the nuclear negotiations. Today we explore some of the is

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Solar Powered Plane Starts World Tour A Swiss airplane powered only by energy from the sun left from Abu Dhabi early on March 9. Its creators hope the plane will make the first around-the-world journey without any fuel. The plane is called Solar Impu

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AS IT IS 2015-04-20 Indonesia Expected to Become Asias Next Trillion Dollar Economy 印度尼西亚将成为亚洲下一个万亿美元经济体 The World Economic Forum on East Asia is taking place this weekend in Indonesias capital, Jakarta. IHS Gl

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Indonesians Protest Rising Fuel Prices 印尼人抗议燃料价格飙升 In Indonesia, rising fuel prices have led some public transportation groups to go on strike. Joko Suprapto is chairman of the Organization of Land Transport Owners in the city o

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Researchers get same yields with fewer fertilizers, pesticides Steve Baragona | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 Fossil energy use was compared among different crop rotation systems in a field experiment conducted between 2003 and 2008 in Boone Co., Iowa R

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The dress fits you like a glove. 这件衣服你穿非常合身。 The dress fits you like a glove. 这件衣服你穿非常合身。 Really I'll take it. 真的吗?我要这件。 Don't wear this matronly dress. 别穿这件主妇似的衣服。 D

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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. And I'm Bob Doughty. Winter has brought cold weather to many parts of Earths northern hemisphere. With the cold comes a danger as old as mans knowledge of fire -- death or i

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Business 商业 Carmakers 汽车制造商 Revenge of the petrolheads 燃油车赢得先机 Fossil-fuel cars are getting much cleaner, making life hard for green ones 燃油汽车越来越环保了,环保汽车日子难过了 THE Chevrolet Volt, a c

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Part 2. Green Transporation Festival. Keywords. Green Transporation Festival, oil, environment, reduce, other kinds of fuels. Vocabulary. hydrogen, propane, scooter, hybrid, ethanol. A. You are going to hear a report on green transporation festival.

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促销的目的就是要卖出产品,那么怎样才能把促销信(sales letter)写得吸引人、让人一看就对产品感兴趣呢?下面就教你促销信的四步写法,打造very attractive的促销信。 第一步:To arouse attention

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HOUSTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Chandler Parsons scored a career-high 32 points to lift the Houston Rockets to an easy 136-103 win over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in Houston. The win ended the Rockets' nine-game losing streak to the Mavericks. Ja

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第一部分 阅读理解 (75分) Passage 1 CATV is a short way of saying

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China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). 我国于周二宣布对朝鲜民主主义人民共和国禁运部分产品。 In terms of imports, China banned purchases of c

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WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pressed the Congress on Thursday to end billions of dollars in subsides handed out to oil companies each year. Today, Members of Congress have a simple choice to make, said Obama. They can

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CHICAGO, April 1 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. said on Friday that it sold 206,621 vehicles last month, up 11.4 percent from a year ago, as higher gasoline prices triggered demand for smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles. The U.S. automaker said

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本期内容: The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for just over a minute before being broke

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