英语听力：VOA双语新闻—纽约同性伴侣迫不及待举行婚礼

Homosexual couples in New York are being married for the first time after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law permitting same sex marriage in the state last month. But such marriages, though now legal in New York, remain controversial. 美国纽约州的

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—民调显示美国人厌倦阿富汗战争

The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years. 美国已经开始按计划逐步从阿富汗撤军。在此之前，美国公众对

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—美国马里兰州的克伦普顿拍卖场

The search for a bargain and the hope for an unrecognized treasure draws hundreds of people to a tiny East Coast town each week. 美国马里兰州克伦普顿镇有一个经营了50年的克伦普顿拍卖场。每个星期都有不少人慕名前去寻

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—索马里人道救援面临困境

The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food supplies. But the countryside is still a war zone contr

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—埃及人对奥巴马讲话褒贬不一

Reaction to President Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East has prompted some initial mixed reactions in Egypt. While plans for economic and development aid are being welcomed, hopes for a more consistent stand on regional unrest and a new approac

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—奥巴马将就中东局势发表讲话

U.S. President Barack Obama has made outreach to the Muslim world a signature of his presidency. He tries again with a speech Thursday, but recent events may have made his audience less receptive. 美国总统奥巴马就职以后曾向穆斯林世界发

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—老挝周六举行国会选举

Laos goes to the polls Saturday to elect representatives to its legislative branch, known as the National Assembly. The small, Southeast Asian nation is a one-party communist state and the candidates are determined by the party. 老挝本周末举行国

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 7、苹果公司在乔布斯之后将何去何从？

When Steve Jobs died Wednesday, the business world lost a marketing genius - one of the world's most creative and successful innovators. Jobs, who is credited with rescuing the company he founded and turning it into one of the world's most valuable c

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 8、消费者寄希望于乔布斯身后的苹果公司

From communications to entertainment, Apple products have profoundly changed the way people around the world obtain information and use technology. The man that led Apple through its evolution was Steve Jobs. Apple has been so successful in selling i

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—利比亚前朝官员越境尼日尔无力防阻

Niger says it needs help policing more than six million square meters of desert along its border with Libya. Some members of the former government in Tripoli have fled south to Niger, including one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons. 尼日尔官方表示，他

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—埃及人再度集会要求加快改革

Several thousand people gathered in Cairos Tahrir Square for another protest after mid-day prayers Friday, but the numbers were nowhere near the million-man march some activists had called for, or the tens of thousands who came out last Friday. 7月1

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—不满政府行动迟缓埃及抗议活动再起

Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see as its former glory. Tension rose in Egypt Tuesday wi

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—纽约时报：巴基斯坦逮捕中情局线民

A report in Wednesday's New York Times quotes unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Pakistan has arrested five people, including a Pakistani military official, accused of passing information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency prior to la

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—共和党竞选人批评奥巴马和经济

Following their first major presidential debate, Republican White House contenders have made it clear they intend to make the 2012 U.S. presidential election a referendum on President Barack Obama's handling of the domestic economy. Political analyst

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—移民家庭实现美国梦

Matilda Cuomo - wife, mother, teacher and former first lady of New York State - has perhaps had the most far-reaching impact as founder of Mentoring USA, which has trained volunteer mentors for more than 5,000 schoolchildren nationwide. 玛蒂尔达.科

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—帕内塔在美参院军事委员会作证

The Senate Armed Services Committee has held a hearing on President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta. Panetta, the current Central Intelligence Agency Director, was warmly received by the panel, but faced

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—奥巴马向军人致敬，并宣布军方高层人事变动

The president began his day by hosting a breakfast at the White House for Gold Star Families - those who have lost loved ones in war. 这一天,总统首先在白宫举行早餐会,宴请那些获得金星奖的家庭，也就是那些在战争中失去

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—利比亚非洲移民生活在恐惧之中

Human rights organizations say tens of thousands of African migrants in Libya have been displaced from their homes and jobs by months of fighting between forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi and the transitional authority that opposes him. M

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—纽约市加强警戒准备纪念9/11十周年

Americans on Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. New York City is preparing for a day of observances. New York police are imposing massive security for the Sunday ceremony with both Presid

英语听力：VOA双语新闻—就业市场疲软严重冲击非洲裔美国人

President Barack Obama is proposing several measures his administration says will create millions of jobs and stimulate the sluggish economy. The nation's high unemployment rate has hit minority groups in the United States especially hard. Nearly thr