This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. The first lady showed the young ga

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(三)月

John: OK darling, got some pizzas, potato chips, hot dogs and lots of cheese! Kelly: Oh John, I thought we said we would start eating right! Remember? Our new healthy lifestyle? Thats all junk food! John:Hrumph! Right, so what did you get? Kelly: Wel

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今天我们要学的词是popularity。 Popularity, 是有声望,得人心的意思。法国选民对萨尔科奇总统感到不满。His popularity has fallen sharply for a second successive month, 他的民众支持率连续第二月大幅度下降

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Our colleague Julie McCarthy has spent years now ranging across India, and we get to follow along. India is a world of its own - the largest democracy, second only to China in population. And also, Julie found a remarkable source

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The human species is about to change dramatically. That's the argument Yuval Noah Harari makes in his new book Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow. Harari is a history professor at Hebrew University in Israel. He expects we will

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: This seems big. Scientists say for the first time they have clear evidence that the chemical building blocks of life exist on Mars. So is this the moment we can say there is life on the red planet? Well, NPR's Joe Palca says not y

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Organic Pollutant s Yes,eating organic foods is a great way to reduce the amount of pollutant s in your body, but you cant entirely escape pollution, no matter where you live. Persistent organic pollutant s , or POPs, are everywherein our food, soil,

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A Smooth Wake 平静的尾流 (A smooth wake on today's moments of science) Female: Donne and I are on a fantacy cruise . The sun has set and were standing on the rear deck. Look at the reflection of the moon. Male: You might expect a ship's wake

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 20 December 2007 Espresso drinkers are losing what critics praise as one of the world's best certified organic robusta coffees. The government of Kerala state has refused to extend the lease on the land where the rare beans

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By Jessica Berman Washington 19 March 2008 For the first time ever, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered the presence of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere around a planet outside our solar system. While astronomer

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今天我们要学的词是 buck the trend. To buck the trend 意思是逆潮流而进。The Mac has bucked the trend of declining PC sales for quite a while. 就在个人电脑销量下降的时候,苹果电脑的销量很长一段时间来却能逆

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