CNN 2011-08-30

Well, the winds are just really strong right now. The rain has just become a stinging rain. It's been going on for hours but it really picked up as the eye makes its way here. Last update about an hour or so ago, the eye is like 80 miles away from Na

Tropical Storm Frances Hits Northwest Florida

By Jim Teeple After crossing the Florida peninsula and coastal portions of the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Frances struck the Florida panhandle. Frances, an extremely slow-moving storm caused heavy

As Egypt Builds New Capital, What Becomes of Cairo?

Cairo, Egypts capital, is one of the largest cities in Africa and one of the best known in the world. For more than 1,000 years, it has stood on the banks of the Nile River, the longest in the world. The Pyramids of Giza sit close to the citys southw

VOA慢速英语 2008 0422b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: A shark swims above a diver during a feeding demonstration at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006 And Im Shirley Griffith. This week,

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US, France Increase Troop Strength in Haiti Capital

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美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-12

1. A day of remembrance around the country. President Bush laid a wreath at the Pentagon for victims of the 9/11 attacks in the afternoon, and stood with first responders in New York in the morning. 2

美联社新闻一分钟 AP NEWS 2007-10-30

1. University of South Carolina officials say the school is doing what it can for the teachers and friends of the victims of a deadly beach house fire.Six of the seven college students killed in Sunday's fire were South Carolina students. The other w

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-25

1. A Florida boy who was abducted at gunpoint in this Tampa Bay area neighborhood is safe. But the gunman is still at large. The 13-year-old was taken to a remote farm area and police say he was able to untie his hands and walked to get help. The gu

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-02-24

1. The Anna Nicole Smith's circus is picking up sticks and moving to the Bahamas. Friday, a Florida judge handling the paternity suit surrounding her daughter doubted he had jurisdiction over the matter as the baby was born in and still lives in the

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By Valer Gergely Washington 23 April 2008 Kazakhstan enjoys a booming economy fueled by the country's oil revenues. As Valer Gergely reports, the country's new capital, Astana is not only one of the fastest growing cities in the world, but has also b

VOA常速英语2007-Tropical Storm Noel Kills 22 in Caribbean

By Brian Wagner Miami 30 October 2007 Officials in Dominican Republic say at least 16 people have died in flash floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Noel. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports the storm is continuing to drop heavy rains as it

VOA常速英语2008年-Residents Flee Chad Capital

By Kari Barber Dakar 04 February 2008 U.N. officials say thousands of Chadians have been fleeing the capital N'Djamena to neighboring Cameroon after two days of heavy fighting between rebel groups and government forces. Kari Barber reports from our W

VOA常速英语2007年-Somali Capital Empties as Residents Flee Renewe

By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 11 November 2007 Several neighborhoods in the Somali capital, Mogadishu are virtually deserted as residents flee to avoid fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents. From the Ethiopian capital, Addis A

VOA常速英语2008年-Bodies, Debris Litter Capital of Chad After Reb

By Nico Colombant Dakar 06 March 2008 Government troops were able to fight back a second rebel advance on Chad's capital recently, but as VOA's Nico Colombant and Tatiana Mossot report, residents of N'Djamena are finding life is not the same anymore.

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1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I': What can I say? 2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech: The man arrived. He sat down. Suddenly Mary asked, Do you love me? 3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and

AP 2010-07-16

1. Police say a domestic dispute led to deadly gunfire at a fiber optics company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They say a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself. 2. Undersea robots have been lo

2007年VOA标准英语-UNHCR Says Thousands Fleeing Somali Capital

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 August 2007 The U.N. refugee agency reports between February and May, more than 400,000 civilians fled the Somali capital Mogadishu. This was sparked by heavy fighting between the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Govern

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【模仿句子】 But first after pounding Haiti and Cuba, Hurricane Matthew is heading in a northwesterly direction towards the United States. It is expected to move across the Bahamas and reach the east coast of Florida by Thursday evening. 概况：