VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Northern Lights seen near Palmer, Alaska last year And I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we will tell about the mystery of the aurora borealis, bet

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(九)月

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American officials are preparing for Israel and the Palestinians to restart direct peace talks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the plans on Friday in Washington. HILLARY CLINTON: I've invited

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. No one wants a pilot to make a mistake. This is why flight crews are trained in teamwork and communication. Now a study finds hospitals that trained their operating room teams had a lower rate of surgica

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Ancient Mayan Artwork, Calculations Discovered Xultun was the largest city in the ancient Mayan empire in Central America, where, at its height, an estimated 90,000 people lived and worked among pyramids, inscribed monuments, water reservoirs and spo

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The video-sharing website YouTube has taken hundreds of videos of a Yemen-based cleric from its site because it says they incite violence. 21, Roshonara Choudhry, was given a life sentence Wednesday in Britain. In May of this year she stabbed a Briti

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The building schedule 建筑进度表 A: I see there are some workmen on the site When is the building work due to start? A:我看到在现场有些工人。本建筑工程什么时候开工? B: Well, it'll take three weeks to demolish the old buil

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Invitation to the Business Wedding Event 商务婚礼邀请函 陈豪在北京的ABC美国公司工作。他中午吃饭在餐厅找到美国同事Amy。 (Office ambience) C: Amy,能找到你,太好了。 A: Will you join me? C: 好啊,我正好有

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Olympia , the site of the ancient Olympic Games, is in the western part of the Peloponnese which, according to Greek mythology , is the island of Pelops

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In this Business English Podcast lesson, we're going to look at the language of presenting your products and services to potential clients in informal situations. 在本节课中,我们来看看在非正式场合中向潜在的顾客介绍自己的产

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There are many different kinds of sites. We often speak of construction sites, a site where something is being built such as buildings, roads, bridges, airports, and so on. But a site can also be a completed structure, like a factory or even sometime

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The language were going to study in this episode will be useful for anyone who needs to host visitors. No matter whether we are giving journalists a demonstration of a factory, or introducing potential customers to our work site, or giving government

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Two Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt alongside Australian Peter Greste have walked free after being pardoned. Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were each sentenced to three years jail in August, but they have been among 100 prisoners released

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If George Washington really had chopped down a cherry tree, he would have done it here. And if he ever threw a stone across the Rappahannock River, then this is the spot. Both childhood stories have found their way into the legend of George Washingto

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Israeli archeologists have discovered a rare, well-preserved, 1800-year-old figurine in Jerusalem. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the two-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard .Archeologists believe it was use

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For more than one thousand years, Babylon was one of the worlds most celebrated cities, where King Nebuchadnezzar II is believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The ruins of the ancient Mes

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Well that long-awaited Vista operating system will be available to consumers starting at midnight tonight. CompUSA, Best Buy and Circuit City are among the stores that will have extended hours tonight so that you can be the first on your block to ins

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EDUCATION REPORT - December 5, 2002: Foreign Student Series #12 Financial Aid By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series of reports about how foreign s

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(453) / 评论(0) 分类 教育与新闻

Cameras were flashing at this recent Constellations concert in Atlanta. And the morning after, fans who wanted to see what has everybody else got, could go to a new website thats helping to hit the right note. It is called Recreate Mynight and it con

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A mourning ceremony was held near the site where the Eastern Star cruise ship overturned Monday on the Yangtze River. At least 432 were killed in the disaster, and 10 people are still missing. A mourning ceremony is held for 406 deceased people on th

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Todd: Now Jason, you're an artist. Jason: That's right, yep. Todd: What kind of artist are you? Jason: I draw all sorts of things, but mostly I like to draw on the computer, using photoshop. Todd: Oh, really. Jason: Things like that. Todd: OK, was it

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