Changes are taking place in Silicon Valley in California. Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive at Google. And Apple's chief, Steve Jobs, is taking another medical leave. Two years ago Mr. Jobs received a new liver. In two thousand

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(一)月

74.Good evening. Are there any messages for me? 75.Good evening, madam. At your service. 76.I asked if there were any messages for me. 77.Your name please, madam? 78.Schmidt. 79.Is that your family na

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Hello! Listen, Susan, I’m not coming home for lunch, Ok? I have a business appointment. What? Why didn’t you tell me before, then? Oh, this is the last time I’m cooking for you! Don’t be ridic

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The Editor, The Sunday Post Murdock Towers 2525 Marina Highway 42224 Washdon 23 April Dear Mr Roach, Our ref: CNS/TW/Sunday Post I am writing to you to give you due notice that I have been requested b

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The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0010:40repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. RO

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At the Schmidt family kitchen Kathy: Good Morning, Mrs. Schmidt! I see you're standing on your head again. Kim: Hi, Kathy! I'm just doing my morning yoga! You're up awfully early today. Kathy: I have to finish preparing a paper for my Western Civiliz

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 Eztalk美语会话

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We're going to talk now to the king of sting. I borrowed that sobriquet from the back cover of Justin Schmidt's new book. The book is called The Sting Of The Wild. Schmidt is an entomologist, a student of bugs, especially Hyme

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Chicken feathers are useful, and not just to a chicken. Some go into pillows, coats and other products. But countless chicken feathers go to waste. In the United States, billions of chickens are pro

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(六)月

By Sean Maroney Washington 21 February 2007 watch OnLine Information report Online Information An elite few -- newspapers, television networks, major corporations -- used to control the bulk of information. But with the spread of the Internet, more

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 September 2007 The space age began 50 years ago this October, when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, sparking a U.S.-Soviet space race. Scientists and engineers gathered at the California

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The largest cultural exchange ever between the United States and Vietnam wrapped up last month in California. Classically trained musicians from Vietnam and the United States performed together in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in March, and again in Los

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'Battleground States' Voters Head to Polls Retiree Terry Schmidt, who lives in President Obama's home state of Illinois, says he and his wife have a lot invested in this election. We don't get two or three elections to recover before it's too late fo

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United Nations talks on climate change are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight. The meeting is aimed at laying the groundwork for progress at a major climate change meeting in Mexico later this year. While many of the negotiators for

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

Financial markets around the world have responded positively after five leading central banks said they are taking new steps to tackle the financial crisis. The banks will provide extra loans in US dollars to commercial banks to make sure they have e

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, much of modern dating takes place online, often using smartphone apps. While the Internet may make getting a date easier, it is still sometimes not so simple to leave a date you don't want to be on. NPR's Allison Aubrey

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: This summer, the Trump administration decided to remove Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears. They spent more than four decades on the threatened list, and now the government says they are safe. The Mon

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Italian Museum Wants Germany to Return Painting Stolen by Nazis The director of a well-known art museum in Italy is urging Germany to return a Dutch painting stolen by Nazi troops during World War II. Eike Schmidt is director of Uffizi Gallery, a mus

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Beijing Guo'an midfielder Renato Augusto has clicked instantly with new coach Roger Schmidt barely a week into Schmidt's reign at the team. CRI's Fu Yu earlier spoke with the Brazilian player about working with Schmidt as a team, and his places on th

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Four actors in Shanghai are taking on the roles of a hundred characters in the spy thriller, 'The 39 Steps'. It's the latest stage play mounted by Shanghai-based English theater company, Urban Aphrodite, as they maintain a prolific output of seven pr

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2016年

NOEL KING, HOST: Germany is dealing with the culture shock of absorbing more than a million new immigrants who have arrived in that country in the past couple years. The German police are on the frontlines of that process. Unlike cops here in the U.S

发表于:2019-03-15 / 阅读(286) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月