This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular. But there are hundreds of barns in the Midwest and other parts of the country

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(428) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen forty, as the administration of Martin Van Buren came closer to an end, there was a widespread feeling that he had not been a strong president. He seemed unable t

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about cancer. Health experts say it will soon become the world's leading killer. We also will present evidence

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VOICE ONE: Chicago, along Lake Michigan, is known as the Windy City Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week our subject is the city, Chicago, Illinois. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Chicag

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VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Half Dome in Yosemite National Park And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most famous national parks in the United States. You can find it h

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(一)月

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire. The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and elec

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Now, a VOA Special English holiday program. January first. The beginning of a new year. As far back in history as we can tell, people have celebrated the start of a new year. Today, most people celebrate New Year's Day on January first. People obser

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Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Martin Van Buren was sworn-in as the eighth president of the United States in eighteen thirty-seven. Not long after he took office, the United States suffered an economic dep

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a writer who helped influence modern culture. Her name was Susan Sontag. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was

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Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Last week in our series, we talked about the election of Martin Van Buren in eighteen thirty-six as the eighth president of the United States. Martin Van Buren Van Buren had

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burro is a small donkey. Donkeys are related to horses; both are part of the equine family. Another way people say it is BOOR-oh. The name comes from Spanish and, before that, from a Latin term f

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IN THE NEWS - China's Communist Party is celebrating its ninetieth anniversary 新闻报道 - 中国共产党庆祝建党90周年 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 China's Communist Party is

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Money, jewels and important documents may not be the only valuables placed in banks these days. Some mothers are making deposits, or really, donations, to breast milk banks. Experts say breast milk is t

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Iceb

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about the disease multiple sclerosis. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Joan Molenaar helps her husband Larry, a victim of multiple

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In far northern Mongolia, the survival of the smallest ethnic group in the country depends on reindeer. Morgan Keay, right, with members of the Tsaatan community in Mongolia An American named Morga

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Twelve-year-old AIDS activist Keren Dunaway-Gonzalez spoke at the opening ceremony in Mexico City. The Honduran girl is HIV-positive. One thousand young people from around the world attended the Inte

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A hologram is a three-dimensional image -- an image that appears to have height, width and depth. More than thirty years ago, Princess Leia gave her famous holographic plea for help in the original S

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Today we have the second of two reports explaining how to prepare fish by drying or smoking them. We talked last week about the first steps of cleaning and salting freshly caught fish. The direction

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A Blind Teacher's Vision 一个盲人老师的愿景 There are an estimated 70,000 blind children in Indonesia, according to a recent study in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The researchers found that 60 percent of the children they studied di

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