It's been a record setting day for the healthcare.gov website as last minute choppers rushed to sign up for health insurance, but NPR's Juli Roberner reports late comers are getting a one day reprive if they want coverage to start on Jan 1st. At 5 pm

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

From NPR news in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.There are reports of major flooding in parts of the south after a severe storm system went through several states this week. In Alabama, residents in the town of Alba have been told to move to higher

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Lesson Thirteen 听力部分 Dialogue Completion: Listen to the tape repeatedly and try to complete the following dialogues, using the exact words or phrases that you hear on the tape. B Man: A ____ ago today in _______________ after the __________,

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 王强口语 第二册

It was a big win for Russia in the new Team Figure Skating Competition at the Olympic Games in Sochi today. NPRs Robert Smith reports on the results. Team Russia took the skating gold. In fact, it is the first gold medal the home country has won so f

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump has touted the idea of teachers carrying concealed guns in classrooms. The response has been sharply divided. But it's already happening in a handful of states, including Ohio. From WCPN Ideastream in Cleveland, Ann

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The movie Battle Of The Sexes takes its title from a tennis match that helped define the 1970s - Bobby Riggs versus Billie Jean King. The match drew an enormous audience. More than 90 million people watched it on TV. It was widel

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. Now, in Helsinki yesterday, Presidents Trump and Putin also embraced restarting stalled arms control talks. For all the bad blood between the U.S. and Russia, those two nations still inspect one another's vast nuclear a

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Fortunately, Europe had the benefit of the social safety net. It held down European growth rates in good times, but it served its purpose in the downturn and the recession in Euroland turned out to be less severe than expected. Now that the fears of

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 财富精英励志演讲

As millions of Americans welcome in 2011 with celebrations and fireworks, U.S. politicians are greeting the new decade with some familiar promises. 随着数百万美国人以庆祝活动和烟火表演迎来2011年,美国政界人士正在用一些熟

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Growth of 6.7-percent in both the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters has most observers now suggesting the Chinese government stands poised to meet its full-year growth target of between 6.5 to 7-percent. The analysis released along-side the new figures from

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The advent of smartphones, social media and other technologies have altered the way people interact with each other. Just watch a group of people out for a meal together, on their phones texting people who arent there. Technology may also be poised t

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What was the difference between the As and the Cs? Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. 是什么造成A组和C组如此大的区别?特曼找了一切能想到的原因试图解答这个疑问。 He looked at their mental and physical

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Laurie Kassman Top U.S. officials say the terrorist group al-Qaida is poised to hit the United States sometime during the next several months. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft says authorities are

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(374) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--国际时事

今天我们要学的词是brink。 Brink, 是边缘的意思。The company is on the brink of bankruptcy, 这家公司濒临破产。North Korea cut off dialogue with South Korea on Thursday, claiming the peninsula was on the brink of another war, 北

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

One moment of authentic genius was enough here in Belo Horizonte to defeat 19-minutes with extraordinary courage, effort and organization. Iran, the country whose socks reportedly shrank in the wash and whose preparations were largely derailed by pol

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

Kevin Rudd is poised to revamp Labour's asylum seeker policy. The prime minister has said he's looking to tighten refugee processing rules. And he's flight to ever seek the changes to the refugee convention. The Australian Navy has rescued another 12

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Statistics from the World Bank show that, completing 26 business regulation reforms in the past 15 years, China ranks No. 3 in the East Asia and Pacific region in its efforts to improve the domestic business environment. The country is only surpassed

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NOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas. The first ended in that moving scene at the coral cemetery, which left a profound impression on my mind. 这次海底旅行的第二部分现在开始了。第一部分在珊瑚墓地动人的

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Topic1 Beijing to pass toughest smoking banBeijing will pass its strictest smoking control law this week, banning smoking in all indoor public places and eliminating smoking rooms at airports. The Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

What motivates you? 是什么激励着你工作? What motivates me is seeing a clear path to advancement at a company in an exciting and growing field. 能够激励我努力工作的是,公司所在领域总是令人兴奋且不断发展着,在这

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