GRE词汇精选 24

[00:06.40]illegitimate illiberal illicit illiteracy [00:14.88]adj.不合法的 adj.气量狭窄的 adj.违法的 n.文盲,缺乏教育 [00:23.35]illiterate ill-omened illuminate illuminating [00:32.54]adj.文盲的 adj.不吉利的 v.启发;照亮 ad

2007年VOA标准英语-WHO Says Polio Eradication Within Grasp

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 February 2007 The World Health Organization held Wednesday a meeting in Geneva to devise strategies aimed at finishing the job of eradicating polio worldwide. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva tha

联合国对海地捐赠达100亿美元

The international community has pledged a total of $9.9bn (?6.5bn) in immediate and long-term aid to earthquake-hit Haiti at a UN donor conference. The $5.3bn (?3.5bn) of support over the next two years exceeds the $4bn requested by the Haitian gover

翻硕考研常见词汇（七）

1.人类免疫缺陷病毒 Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) 2.三陪 girls who provides illegal sexual services, esp. prostitute 3.人身意外保险 personal accident insurance 4.三十而立 A man should be independent at the age of thirty.At thir

温馨:卷福写给圣诞老人的一封信

12月7日是英国国家书信日（National Letter Writing Day），鼓励大家回归传统书信。今年的这一天，卷福本尼迪克特?康伯巴奇给圣诞老人写了一封信 本身英国就有浓厚的文学传统，2013年出现了一个

CNN 2010-02-05

PHILLIPS: All right. Let's talk about how your stimulus money is helping or not helping across America. We're going to the local level here, talking with three mayors. The mayor of Laredo, Texas, Raul Salinas, also Mayor James Baker of Wilmington, De

VOA标准英语2012--India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication

India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication International reaction To help India celebrate one year since its last reported case of polio, U.S. Health Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius, came to administer oral polio vaccine to Indian children

VOA标准英语2012--Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication

Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication The WHO-sponsored World Health Assembly ended recentedly in Geneva, Switzerland, with the announcement of a new strategy to wipe out the polio virus forever. Organizers said global polio eradication has s

VOA标准英语2012--Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost

Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost Staff Benda Bilili, a group of eight former street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, are singing their signature song Polio. Four of the musicians are disabled polio victims. They sing about the disease that dr

VOA常速英语2007-Polio Eradication Effort Faces Funding Shortfall

By Carol Pearson Washington 24 October 2007 October 24th is World Polio Day. Since 1988, national governments, public health organizations and civic organizations have slashed the number of polio cases by more than 99 percent. But now the eradication

VOA常速英语2007年-WHO Says Global Polio Eradication On Track

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 December 2007 The World Health Organization says the most infectious type of polio could be eradicated worldwide by next year, leaving only one more strain of the disease to be tackled. WHO, which began its global polio erad

男子结婚要开文盲证明才能领证?

The 58-year-old groom, surnamed Zhu, was officially wed to his wife, surnamed Zhang, on Monday afternoon at the Chang'an district civil affairs bureau, where Zhu claimed they had been denied certificates weeks earlier because he couldn't read or writ

VOA标准英语2010年-USAID Polio Eradication Director Says

In the early 1950s a worldwide epidemic of polio was in full swing. In the United States alone, 58,000 cases of this highly infectious and crippling disease were reported in 1952. Vaccines - which can prevent, but not cure polio - halted its spread i

VOA标准英语2010年-Adult Illiteracy Threatens Nashville E

One in four American adults cannot read or write well enough to function on the job and in everyday life Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 04 May 2010 Volunteer tutors at the Nashville Adult Literacy Council work individually with adult learners. One in

VOA常速英语2008年-Guinea Worm Eradication Target Set for 2009

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 04 April 2008 The global campaign to eradicate the debilitating Guinea worm disease continues, with hopes for eliminating it by 2009. Four countries ended transmission of the disease in 2007. Gilbert da Costa attended a cere

卷福给圣诞老人手写了一封信：文采感人！

Dear Father Christmas, 亲爱的圣诞老人： So my friend has asked me to write to you... I have to confess it's been hard to know what to say. Mainly because like most adults I feel preposterous asking anything of you because our time with you is

英语美文：生活的一课

For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the store, the school and the church. Then, I met, or rathergot to know, the lady who threw me my first lifeline. 差不多有一年，我都泡在家、店铺、学校和教堂里。然后我遇到了，或

Dominican swimmer named U.N. Goodwill Ambassador

SANTO DOMINGO, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has appointed Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz as Goodwill Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals, the UNDP said on Wednesday. We constantly need more hands to he

世界名人简介 第154期: 乌戈·查韦斯

Hugo Chavez served as President of Venezuela from 1998 until 2013.He was very popular in his country and was re-elected twice.His policies focused on helping the poor in his country.He used the nation's oil wealth to fight poverty and illiteracy.He w

Higher Education Returns to Southern Sudan

South Sudan continues to move on after its successful independence referendum, announcing that its universities will reopen in mid-May this year. The souths universities need a lot of work before opening. Like most things in southern Sudan, its unive