This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Think of your family or friends. How well would those relationships work without trust -- or with a broken trust? Tiger Woods considers a difficult shot from deep grass during the 2009 U.S. Open Recently, F

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

A showdown in the Lone Star State over history and how it's taught. Here is CNN's national correspondent Gary Tuchman. The people on the Texas Board of Education are not professional historians but that doesn't stop them from controversial and confid

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EDUCATION REPORT – April 11, 2002: Better Teachers By Jerilyn Watson This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The Bush administration is trying to improve teaching in American public school

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Bill Gates has made many contributions ...ur... throughout the last 25 or 30 years, most of all, of course, the Windows Operating System, which more than 90% of all computers in the world use today. H

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[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:00.44] If Only I Had Known... 假如当初我知道就好了 [00:05.80]Thomas Carlyle lived from 1795 until 1881. [00:12.69]He was a Scot essayist and historian. [00:16.09]During his lifetime he became one of the world's g

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Frances Wood SUN 5 DEC 2010 Writer and historian Frances Wood joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.

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attraction n.吸引力;诱惑;吸引人的事物 Wealth and fame hold no attraction for Tom. 名利对汤姆毫无吸引力。 Chris could barely conceal his attraction to Melody. 克里斯很难隐藏自己对美乐蒂的爱恋。 Her greatest a

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U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview with the Washington Examiner this week, wondered, Why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out? The United States fought the civil war from 1861-1865. The war began after 11 south

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VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about George Washington. He was the first president of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1797. But he had many other accomplishments, too. He owned thousands of hectares

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This is Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, in the United States. It is a federal holiday. That means most federal offices are closed. The holiday honors the first visit to America by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus though

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Delta Blues: The Birth of American Music I look at blues as the way of life its a story, a story told with music. That voice belongs to Jimmy Duck Holmes, a blues musician. He is sitting on an old chair in a dark corner of the Blue Front Cafe playing

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: 2006 Labor Day parade in Detroit, Michigan And I'm Barbara Klein. Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first. But the United States has its workers holi

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we will tell about the new United Nations report on climate change. We will also tell about an ancient burial

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Belittle Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Todays word is belittle. It was first used by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Many years ago, a French naturalist, the Count de Buffon, wrote some book

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John Adams: The Nation's Second President 第2任总统 约翰亚当斯 Do you recognize that song? It is the opening to the show The Addams Family. But today we are talking about a different Adams family one from the history books, not the televisio

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Columbus Day: Some Love It, Others Not So Much 哥伦布纪念日--有些人爱,有些人不以为然 This is Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, in the United States. It is a federal holiday. That means most federal offices are closed. The h

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21. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. 【分析】简单句。句首介词短语withoutothers作条件状语,其中the ability后跟不定

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the t

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Historian Compares Terror Attacks to Pearl Harbor Greg Flakus Washington 11 Sep 2001 20:13 UTC Some perspective on the terrorist attacks was 1)provided to VOA ' s Greg Flakus by best-selling author an

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. 我不知道成功之道,但却知道失败之路的大门向人人敞开。 Bill Cosby, American comedian 比尔.科斯比,美国喜剧演员 Many a man has fin

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