儿童故事集：Sifu Meets The Monkey

Hello, This is Richard, and Im here with a story about somebody we havent heard from for a while -Theo, the crime-fighting monkey. His first story, long, long, ago was called The Monkey who loved Chocolate. Since then hes escaped from the zoo and bec

儿童故事集：The Missing Bunny

This is another slightly crazy chocolate story and is the companion to The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate. It continues our Zoo Stories series featuring Theo the Monkey though you have to be patient and wait a bit for Theo to enter the stage. Story by Be

儿童故事集：The Vigilante Monkey

The adventures of Theo the Monkey take a new turn as he determines to break out of the zoo and take up the fight for what is right in the city. Mr Grabber, the keeper of the monkeys cage, has a new scheme which on the face of it seems to be for a goo

儿童故事集：Theo and the Monkey Cops

This is the third part in our mini-series about Theo the monkey. In the previous episode a boy called Neet and his kung fu teacher, Sifu, were waiting for Theo to turn up for a martial arts class. While they waited, Sifu related a chinese legend abou

儿童故事集：动物园

This chocolate-crazed story should get you in the mood for an Easter-egg hunt. Look out for a surprise-guest appearance from a famous fluffy animal dear to the hearts of chocolate-lovers everywhere. Jim is one of the very few boys on earth who doesnt

儿童故事集：The Zoo That Bit Back

Theo, the star of our popular story The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate, returns for a new escapade in which the animals at the zoo face a major threat to the comfy lifestyle in the form of Mr Shingles, the new chief zoo keeper. Mr Shingles does not belie

儿童故事集：The Thieving Monkey

Theo the monkey is not as bad as people say. Perhaps hes a bit naughty, but he means well. Still, when a new keeper, Mr Grabber, is put in charge of the monkey cage, he selects Theo to help him do something bad. At first, Theo thinks its all a game,

【英音模仿秀】卡索拉帽子戏法

模仿文本： Let's begin though with English Premier League football, Arsenal are up to fifth in the table after a 5-2 victory at bottom club Reading. Spanish international Santi Cazorla hit a hat-trick while Theo Walcott also scored, having play

2007年VOA标准英语-Recovery Effort Continues at Collapsed Minneapo

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2006年VOA标准英语-World Bank-IMF Meetings End in Singapore

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2007年VOA标准英语-Kenya Acknowledges Proliferation of Light Weapo

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 19 July 2007 Kenya's attorney general acknowledged Thursday that his country has seen what he called an astronomical proliferation of light weapons such as assault rifles and pistols. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the

VOA标准英语2010年-Pope Apoligizes for 'Generations' of S

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's square at The Vatican, 17 Mar 2010 Pope Benedict has written to Catholics in Ireland to apologize for the sexual abuses carried out by the clergy in that country ov

VOA标准英语2009年-Astronaut Armstrong Remembers Historic Apo

The first man to set foot on the moon has hailed the space race of the 1950s and '60s as an example of peaceful competition between rival superpowers. Legendary U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke at Washington's Air and Space Museum Sunday on the e

美国国家公共电台 NPR Heart 2 Sizes Too Small? Mr. Grinch, See Your Cardiologist

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新西兰英语 628 Stars over Tekapo

Tekapo is a special place. This small town has a big observatory at Mount John, 1000m above the town. It has six telescopes including New Zealands biggest telescope with a diameter of 1.8m, built with Japanese money. The observatory is operated by th

英语博客:Story time part 5, a Black history

It was dark by the time Thomas Black got home that night. He had lingered in the workshop, putting final details on cabinetry and tables. He had needed the time to be alone, and to digest Theo's words. He was disturbed by her account of the Whitcome

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In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m

Napoli beat Chelsea 3-1 at home

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VOA标准英语2010年-30-year-old Pakistani American Charged

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英语博客(A cup of English):087 Story time part 4, Theo.

After Thomas Black discovered the Whitcome grave, the church bell incident loomed large in his mind. He had been ready to dismiss the event entirely, but now he felt as though there was an intruder in the village, a prankster perhaps. Whoever it was,