VOA慢速英语2014 韩国学生对高考倍感压力

South Korean Students Stressed Over College Entrance Exam 韩国学生对高考倍感压力 This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. More than half a million South Korean students in their final year of high school recently took the univers

万花筒 2011-11-24&11-26 直击韩国高考

And now for the last look. Those of you who watched our recent Education Special saw the exhausting study habits of South Korean students. The culmination of that pressure was last week when almost 700 000 South Korean high school students took the t

【英语时差8,16】重空气

Heavy air on this Moment of Science. Here's an oxiny question: does air weigh anything? At first it might seem preplexing, on the one hand, air just seems floating, I mean, to say something is as light as air is to say its weighlessness, is isn't? Bu

英文书摘精选 Why Do Changes In Air Pressure Cause Ear Pains?为何气压变化导致耳朵痛?

On airplanes, cabin pressure changes during takeoff and landing to help passengers breathe easy at high altitudes. These changes in air pressure may make adults ears feel a little funny, prompting a few yawns to equalize the pressure. But for babies,

重要的考试 The Important Test

I will finish my middle school life soon, before I graduate, I need to take part in a very important test and it will decide which high school I will be in. I am so nervous now, I want to do my best and go to the ideal high school. My mother told me

2007年VOA标准英语-ASEAN Facing Credibility Test Over Pressing Bur

By Ron Corben Bangkok 08 January 2007 Residents take photos in front of the International Convention Center (CICC) main venue of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in the central Philippines city of Cebu, 10 Dec 2006 As the le

Lesson 155 - TIGHT-LIPPED / TIGHT WITH SOMEONE

Tight-lipped Tight with someone 今天我们再给大家讲解两个以 tight 这个字为主的习惯用语。我们要先给大家介绍一个你们经常会用到的一个字,那就是: tight-lippe

VOA标准英语2009年-World Powers Step Up Pressure on Iran

By Paula Wolfson Washington 27 September 2009 Top Obama administration officials say Iran will come under extreme pressure to disclose its nuclear intentions when envoys from Tehran sit down on Thursday in Geneva with representatives of the United S

VOA标准英语2010年-Gulf of Mexico Oil Well Remains Shut A

U.S. officials say a cap on a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have a small leak, but they say there are no plans to remove the cap from the well. Engineers are carefully studying the well for any evidence of problems. Engineers spot

VOA标准英语2010年-Test on Gulf Oil Well Underway After T

A workboat pulls boom into place alongside the Pacific Responder oil skimming vessel in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, 14 Jul 2010 BP has restarted a pressure test on a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico to prepare for an effort

原版英语对话：Blood Pressure(3)

A: Have you been feeling OK lately? B: My coach wants you to check my blood pressure. A: Has anyone ever told you that you had high blood pressure? B: I dont have any symptoms of high blood pressure. A: People with high blood pressure seldom know the

Successful flight for China's first jumbo airfreighter

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- China on Saturday conducted a successful test flight of its first domestically made jumbo airfreighter. The Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter which can perform various long-distance air trans

Lesson 154 - RUN A TIGHT SHIP / SIT TIGHT

To run a tight ship To sit tight 今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语里一个关键的字就是: Tight. Tight 就是「紧」的意思。这个字有的时候具有好的含义,但也有

英文歌曲:I Need Air

I Need Air Magnetic Man Electrify my body And you're makin' me feel Like I'm so electric Everything you do is makin' me Blow Blow Blow Don't know what to do about it Can't see how I'd live without it All I wanna do is just Know Know Know You suffocat

英闻天下——329 China's Labor Market Still Faces Tight Pressure

Figures from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reveal that this year, an estimated 25 million people will be looking for jobs. The employment market pressure is still big. In some labor intensive industry concentrated areas, like Gu

Sleep tight:（晚上） 睡个好觉！

Sleep tight:（晚上） 睡个好觉！ 不知从何时起，Good night（晚安）竟成了情侣们晚睡前开心入眠的安心丸。不过，也有朋友说，睡个好觉更中国化、更比晚安来得亲切。呵！有点较真儿抠字眼了

In the air

Matt and his wife lived in the country. Matt was very stingy and hated spending money. One day a fair came to the nearby town. Let's go to the fair, Matt, his wife said. We haven't been anywhere for a long time.Matt thought about this for a while. He

美国习惯用语:320 thin air; come up for air

今天我们要讲的习惯用语都有air这个词。大家都知道air是空气。早在十七世纪，意大利科学家伽利略发现空气似乎没有实质却有重量。后来人们进一步发现高山顶上的空气要比海平面上的空气

Pressure

A 104 year-old woman was being interviewed by a reporter: And what do you think is the best thing about being 104? the reporter asked. She simply replied, No peer(窥视）pressure.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Drug Test Spurs Frank Talk Between Hypertension Patients And Doctors

NOEL KING, HOST: There is an uncomfortable irony at the center of treatment for high blood pressure. High blood pressure itself often doesn't make people feel that bad, but the medicines used to treat it can make people feel lousy, so some people don