Fewer Kids Living in US Suburbs When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind? Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket fences? All valid images, but youre forgetting something that is - or was

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(二月)

滴水不漏的逻辑,智慧,与公共卫生怪胎眼镜,Elizabeth Pisani揭开了当今政治体系中,种种妨碍资金有效防止HIV蔓延的不连续性问题。她的对高危人群的研究从监狱中的瘾君子到柬埔寨街上的性

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:罪与罚

A company in China is now requiring their employees to tune in to the state-run news broadcast at noon every day or else their salary will get deducted every single time they miss a program. 国内某家公司现在要求公司员工每天中午必须观

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Guinea, Sierra Leone Still Have Ebola 几内亚和塞拉利昂等国埃博拉依旧在蔓延 The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is still not over. Health officials continue to report cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Liberia was declared Ebola-free on

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(六月)

休斯顿城市扩张导致野生动物失去家园 Houston, Texas, and its surrounding suburbs are growing fast and sprawling out into natural forest areas that are the habitat for many species of indigenous wildlife. Local leaders as well as enviro

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2013年8月

巴基斯坦开始遏制小儿麻痹症病毒蔓延 Pakistan is moving quickly to try to contain the polio virus after the World Health Organization imposed international travel restrictions on anyone coming from the polio endemic country. Health wor

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The government guidelines released on Monday are aimed at tackling problems associated with urbanization and the growing city sprawl in rural areas. A key aspect of the guideline calls for roads in newly built communities to be opened up to the wider

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1. Where is your company? 你们公司地点在哪里? 2. Where is the interview happening? 面试在哪里进行? 3. Could you please tell me the address? 你能告诉我地址在哪里吗? 4. What is the site of your hotel? 请问贵酒店地址

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 面试口语脱口而出

Tony / Mozambique speaker I would say, maybe children are spoiled, because I remember when I was younger, like we had to work hard if we wanted to get something from our parents. Or even the stories you hear from your parents, they're basically used

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模仿文本: Half of us live in one of the world's great urban sprawls, the concrete and glass habitats we create for ourselves. Our cities have spread and replaced wildlands, and they roar and blaze with the energy from fossil fuels. They're colo

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary temple: a religious building where people gather to worship metropolis: a large, heavily populated city urban sprawl: the uncontrolled growth of a city erosion: the gradual loss of ground surface depletion: the using up or em

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 趣谈英语

今天我们要学的词组是scramble。 Scramble有急忙,仓促的意思。 比如学校在开学前仓促训练新教员, The school scrambled to train the new teachers. 立法人员在最后期限到来之前仓促讨论提案, Legislators

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Vocabulary ?congestion too many people or cars which means they cant move easily ?urban sprawl city spread out too much ?infrastructure water, sewage, electricity, transport etc ?metropolitan city ?submissions write your opinions and send them to the

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

He liked how it felt too, pulling himself up a wall stone by stone, fingers and toes digging hard into the small crevices between. 他很喜欢攀爬时那种一石高过一石,手脚并用,聚精会神的感觉。 He always took off his boots an

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》

Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo Spreads The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement Friday that it is raising its assessment of the public health risk from Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak from high to very hig

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Largest Wildfire in California History Still Growing The largest wildfire in Californias history continues to grow.Hot and windy conditions have tested firefighters across the state. 加州史上最大的山火仍在蔓延。炎热多风的天气状况

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月

加里斯拉金医生用了十年多的时间在非洲防治结核病、霍乱和艾滋病等传染病。回到美国后, 他以为自己已经从残酷的传染病死亡中脱身。当他开始认真研究枪支犯罪时,他发现暴力的蔓延模

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:罪与罚

Experts: Little Risk of China Stock Turmoil Spreading 外国专家:中国股市动荡风险蔓延 While Chinas recent stock market chaos has pushed down stock and commodity prices in other nations, the impact on the global economy may be limited. Som

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(七月)

GWEN IFILL: Despite new pledges of aid, international leaders provided downbeat assessments of the current battle against Ebola. The head of the World Bank said the international community community had quote failed miserably in its initial response.

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Will Young Will Young,他是英国一个名为Pop Idol(流行偶像)的节目获胜者,从此红透全英国!因为他不但有英俊的外表,更有迷人的声线和扎实的唱功!他开始唱歌之后陆续推出三张单曲唱片,全部都是一上榜就登上单曲榜冠军位置,而且全部都蝉联数周冠军!第一张是Anyth

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