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16 At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. Im eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. Im a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and va

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Transcript: For thousands of years the Maasai people in Kenya had no doubts about their relationship with the lions who shared the land with them. They were enemies. The lions wanted to kill the tribes livestock and the Maasai had to protect the anim

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary accustomed to: used to tirelessly: without tiring; for long hours surge barrier: man-made protection built to keep the sea from flooding onto the land valve: a device that opens and shuts; changes the direction of fluid Nethe

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This is Kenya's Masai Mara, one of Africa's great natural wonders, filled with a wonder of life. But these days political unrest has scared away many tourists. And fewer visitors means less revenue to protect the animals that live here. The nearly 6

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At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. Im eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. Im a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and valuab

Immigrants Learn New Customs in New Lands

Over 1 million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015. Most were fleeing struggling economies and war in places like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and East Africa. Many of these people arrive in new countries and expect life to become easier almost immediatel

VOA标准英语2014--Drylands Vulnerable to Climate Change

Drylands Vulnerable to Climate Change Researchers warn that the worlds drylands are being severely affected by climate change. They say that could harm the livelihoods and food security for billions of people. Scientists describe the projected effect

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By Paul Sisco Washington 25 July 2007 At the beginning of the 20th century there were more than a million lions worldwide. Today there are less than 30,000 in the wild. The remaining lions are increasingly threatened by habitat loss, hunting, and era

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Education Report - Rescuing Masai Girls From Early Marriage This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Priscilla Nangurai of Kajiado, Kenya, retired as a teacher in two thousand five. Today, at the age of sixty-two, she could be living a quiet

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Marathon Attracts Sports Tourists to Kenyas Masai Mara It's called The World's Wildest Marathon, and it drew more than 1600 athletes from around the world to a Kenyan game reserve last week. This was the third running of the Masai Mara Marathon - and

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers

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This is Kenya's Masai Mara, one of Africa's great natural wonders, filled with a wonder of life. But these days political unrest has scared away many tourists. And fewer visitors means less revenue to protect the animals that live here. The nearly 60

2006年VOA标准英语-World Intellectual Property Organization Seekin

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 December 2006 Pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars from top-selling drugs. But, the communities that harbor the traditional knowledge and genetic resources from which these drugs are made, reap few benefits. Th

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 16 October 2006 An international campaign to draw attention to the huge agricultural potential of the Sahel drylands of Africa is gaining ground, with a recent workshop in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The campaign seeks to

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Typhoon Damrey lands in E China

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来自空中的钻石 捡到就归你

A diamond worth ?12,000 was shot into space this morning - and whoever finds it when it lands back on earth gets to keep it. 今天早晨一颗价值1万2千英镑的钻石被送入太空，在它落地后，谁能找到它，它就归谁。 A diamon

Russian manned spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan

MOSCOW, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft with three crew members onboard has landed in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, said the Mission Control Center (MCC) outside Moscow. The spacecraft(宇宙飞船) undocked from the International Space

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In Kenya, in August, 今年8月，在肯尼亚 I went to visit one of the V-Day safe houses for girls, 我参观了一个专门为女孩开设的V日安全避难所 a house we opened seven years ago 那是我们7年前设立的 with an amazing woman