Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

NPR 2011-05-18

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The Mississippi River at Natchez is now closed to shipping traffic. The Coast Guard made the move to avoid putting more stress on the swollen river's levees, but it also closes off the major artery for

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

AP 2011-06-05

1. President Barack Obama spent part of his day talking with House republicans. The meeting at the White House did not bridge partisan divides, but officials say it was still beneficial to sit down and talk in a non-confrontational environment. 2. Of

VOA标准英语2013--Iraq Reels Under Intensifying Political Divide

Iraq Reels Under Intensifying Political Divide Rising anti-government protests, mostly by Sunnis, have rocked Iraq since December. Many Sunnis are calling for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. They also want the release of detainee

人们为什么辞职？

Imagine that youre looking at your company-issued smartphone and you notice an e-mail from LinkedIn: These companies are looking for candidates like you! You arent necessarily searching for a job, but youre always open to opportunities, so out of cur

China to raise gasoline, diesel prices

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China will raise the retail prices for gasoline and diesel by 300 yuan (47.53 U.S. dollars) per tonne starting Feb. 8, the country's top economic planner said Tuesday. The benchmark retail price of gasoline will be lifted

滴滴快的投资印度最大叫车应用Ola

Didi Kuaidi, the Chinese ride-hailing app, has become an investor in its Indian counterpart Ola raising the stakes as Uber tries to gain a greater toehold in Asia. 中国叫车应用滴滴快的(Didi Kuaidi)已成为印度叫车应用Ola的投资者，

Groupon牵手腾讯进入中国

LOS ANGELES/SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday, bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world's most populous nation. GaoPeng.com, funded by Groupon, the Tencent (0700.HK) Collaboration(合

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今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

第25届“世界水周”论坛

Doctor Li Lailai, China Director of the World Resources Institute says sustainable supplies of water and energy are intensifying in China as human demand continues to grow. She says water conservation is becoming a critical issue. We do have a progra

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学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2894 potent

今天我们要学的词是potent。Potent形容词，意思是有效的、强有力的 。Fentanyl, a super potent synthetic drug at the center of a new overdose crisis in America, is presenting huge challenges for law enforcement officials. 处在美

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

天气因素促使粮食价格上涨

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued the latest Food Price Index, saying rising food prices last month were spurred by weather-driven concerns about sugar and palm oil supplies, a UN spokesman told rep

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EVEN people who dont normally care much for football tune in to the Super Bowl to watch the best commercials Madison Avenue can dream up. The most talked about this year was Chryslers gritty tribute to the economic revival of America and Detroit. Mor

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完形填空(以下简称完形)是一个不断解码字符编码的思维过程，出题人不断的挖空制造困难来迷惑读者，因此在阅读过程中，正确率和速度不仅受读者所掌握的基本语言要素(词汇、语法)的影响

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