I went on a vacation last week, and I needed a way to get around the area, so I rented a car for the trip. I contacted a car rental agency and asked them about the types of vehicles they had available. As it turned out, I rented an SUV (sports utilit

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 节日—Holidays

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Anne Muir. Voice 2 And Im Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Aurlie Spadone knows all about

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

The universe is a pretty big place. The funny thing is each of us who live here occupy our own little world. Take the case of Tip, an ordinary girl with a mom who loves her and a cat named Pig. Now she never imagine that a million miles away was a lo

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英文电影预告片填空

One of the most____ kinds of cars in the United States is not____ a car at all. It is a____ of a car and a___. It is called a sports utility____ or SUV. Some people____ these vehicles. They say SUV use too much___ and increase air____. They also say

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 听听测测

Tim: You gonna ask me questions or no? Todd: Yeah, actually...I'm just gonna ask you random stuff. OK. So, Tim, you want to talk about road trips! Tim: Yeah, I wanna talk about road trips. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语访谈对话

Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. The United States is a big country with many, many roads. Many, if not most, of Americans depend on motor vehicles to get from place to place. It goes without saying that, when talking or writin

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(345) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Tim: You gonna ask me questions or no? Todd: Yeah, actually...I'm just gonna ask you random stuff. OK. So, Tim, you want to talk about road trips! Tim: Yeah, I wanna talk about road trips. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

When I need gas for my car, I pull into a gas station right around the corner from my house and use my gas card. Years ago, full-service gas stations were very common. The gas station attendant would put gas in your car, check the oil level in your e

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 社会—In the Community

On the first day of my forced sabbatical, I noticed a car driving down Nassau Street with a large spherical device extending from its top. It looked like the pasts vision of the future. I assumed it was part of some meteorology or physics or even psy

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

33 阿波罗登月计划(三) DATE=4-25-01 TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1949 - PROJECT APOLLO, PART 3 TYPE=SPECIAL ENGLISH FEATURE BYLINE=MARILYN RICE CHRISTIANO ANNCR: EXPLORATIONS -- A PROGRAM IN SPECIAL

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 科技之光

While Google and others try to develop a a self driving car, toy maker Mattel has revealed a very different approach - letting a cricket drive. 就在谷歌和其它商家研发无人驾驶汽车的时候,玩具制造商美泰公司展现了它的独

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

在美国驾驶的一些规则: ①警车在你车后闪着红灯,就是叫你要停车,你必须把车停在马路右侧. ②闪着黄灯,就是叫你让路,你得赶快让道或靠边让警车先行通过. ③被警车拦住时,最好坐在座位上打

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

China automaker BYD has signed up international celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio as brand ambassador for its new energy vehicles. The agreement runs through 2017. 近日,中国汽车制造商比亚迪正式签约了国际名人莱昂纳多迪卡普里奥,

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Jaguar has already unveiled plans for eye-tracking cameras that can prevent you from falling asleep at the wheel. 捷豹推出了眼球追踪摄像头的计划,它能防止你在方向盘上睡着。 And now its latest patent wants to use this tech

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I. Road and Traffic 公路和交通 Approaching end of motorway 即将驶出高速。 Avoid the jams. 避免交通堵塞。 Dangerous bend 弯道危险 Diverted traffic 交叉路口 Entry to motorway 高速入口 Left junction 左交叉口 Look left

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Official figures from the Ministry of Transportation show emissions from car exhaust account for 31 percent of the country's total air pollution. In an effort to bring that figure down, the central government has been supporting a series of subsidies

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Chinese Want Electric Cars, Americans Not So Much Citizens of which country are most likely to buy or at least consider purchasing a plug-in vehicle than any other nation? According to a recent survey conducted by Ernst Young's Global Automotive Cent

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

NASA has unveiled plans for its next-generation, post-Shuttle spacecraft to carry humans into earth orbit and beyond. The state-of-the-art, four-astronaut capsule, called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or MPCV, builds on earlier designs for the Orion

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

There are plenty of different ways to protect your car from theft, but one owner of a Volkswagen Transporter van decided to protect it in a novel way by covering the new vehicle in rust-like vinyl to make it look like a hunk of junk! 咱都知道要给

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

FRANKFURT WHETHER or not Apples secretive car project ever leads to an actual automobile, the technology company has already had a profound effect on the vehicle business. 法兰克福不管苹果公司藏而不露的汽车研发项目未来是否真的

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻