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College Admissions: Preparing to Test Your Abilities For many would-be college students, testing is the most difficult part of the undergraduate application process. Applicants sit for hours taking tests. They answer questions about a number of subje

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Broadcast: February 20, 2005 (((THEME))) VOICE ONE: Im Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And Im Doug Johnson with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Shirley Chisholm. She was an educator, activist and politician. (((THEME))) VOICE ONE

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Beside a rushing Rocky Mountain trout stream lie two American rarities: a castle and a company town in which a single company once owned every building even people's homes. The castle belonged to the man who owned the company. Built from red sandsto

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2007年VOA标准英语-Some Indians Say Proposed Canal Will Destroy Sa

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 22 September 2007 A political storm is raging over a project to build a shipping canal in southern India. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, Hindu activists say the canal will destroy a bridge they believe was bui

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Researchers say a study on the brain is shedding light on how humans process language. The research, conducted in San Diego, Boston and New York, is helping scientists understand an important part of the brain known as Broca's area. Denise Harris, 39

VOA慢速英语2012--Waste Not, Want Not

Waste Not, Want Not Next week (8/26-31) is World Water Week, and this years theme is Water and Food Security. Some 25 hundred officials, policymakers and scientists will gather in Stockholm for the largest annual meeting on water development issues.

VOA标准英语2010年-Who Says America Doesn't Have Castles?

This one's history is as colorful as its surroundings Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 07 June 2010 Cleveholm is the 42-room Tudor castle of Cleve Osgood's dreams. Cleve came from his name; holm from the Swedish word for home. Beside a rushing Rocky Mo

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The creations made by Danish company Sprout focus on things you can recycle and plant like pencils, cards and stickers. Their plantable pencils are one of their hot products. As the name suggests, plantable pencils are fitted with a small biodegradab

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