2020-04-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Today we know Antarctica as an extreme environment containing ice and snow. But new research provides evidence that the area was very different in the past.The evidence was found i

2020-04-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Millions of Americans are staying home to prevent spreading the coronavirus. As a result, they have turned to technology to do business and to talk to family and friends.However, s

2020-04-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

American politicians and doctors are debating whether to use the drug hydroxychloroquine against the new coronavirus. The drug has been used to treat some COVID-19 patients in the

2020-04-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The new coronavirus crisis has launched a very large, unplanned experiment with online learning in the United States. And it has created problems for schoolchildren with limited in

2020-04-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Concern is growing about a possible outbreak of the new coronavirus in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Officials warn that containing the disease among the more th

2020-04-07 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

Six executives of the Houston-based CITGO Petroleum Corporation have spent more than two years in detention in Venezuela without any evidence of wrongdoing presented against them.

2020-04-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care at a London hospital 11 days after announcing he had COVID-19.Johnson was admitted to St. Thomas' Hospital Sunday night,

2020-04-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Technology and medical experts are dismissing a theory linking the new coronavirus to 5G wireless equipment.Officials in Britain have blamed the theory for leading to the destructi

2020-04-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Tiffany Pinckney remembers the fear she felt when the coronavirus she suffered from made it very difficult to breathe. So, when she recovered, the New York City woman became one of

2020-04-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.The world is experiencing a major health crisis.As the new coronavirus spreads, many countries are limiting their c

2020-04-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Want to see Chance the Rapper play jokes on Hollywood stars? Enjoy a new action movie starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz? Or would you like to watch a six-minute version o

2020-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

More than half of Africa's 54 countries have closed their land, air and sea borders to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Aid organizations fear the restrictions may stop or del

2020-04-06 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The world's busiest land border has fallen quiet. Restrictions meant to contain the spread of the new coronavirus have stopped millions of Mexicans from making daily trips north t

2020-04-06 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Researchers have identified a new bacterium that feeds on polyurethane, a kind of plastic that is difficult to recycle or destroy.Scientists say the discovery could help reduce a f

2020-04-06 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

It took Viktery Zimmerman only two days to find ways to connect with friends and family. She and her husband are stuck inside their home in Chicago, Illinois, as ordered by the sta

2020-04-06 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

When Kang Qiang looks out the window of his 20th floor office on the Cambodian coast, he sees heavy equipment used to create high-rise buildings. But there is no sign of anyone ope

2020-04-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

On the streets of Belgrade, heavily armed Serbian soldiers walk the streets. The army guards a large complex of buildings that have been turned into a temporary hospital. The build

2020-04-05 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.In human history, the spread of infectious diseases to mass numbers of people is not uncommon. Pandemics, historians say

2020-04-05 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

More than 82,000 people have volunteered for New York's reserve force of medical workers to help people infected with the new coronavirus.Health officials say the force includes r

2020-04-05 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Older people remain most at risk of dying from the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19. The majority of people who get COVID-19 have minor or moderate sickness. But "majority" does n

2020-04-05 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

In Baltimore, Maryland, the news came during Act 1 of Puccini's "La Rondine."Johns Hopkins University students were performing their final dress rehearsal of the production at the

2020-04-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Jacob Kunthara's wife and three adult children had never seen him without the mustache he wore for 45 years. But the spread of COVID-19 and the restrictions it brought to public l

2020-04-04 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Americans are finding themselves with a never-before-seen shortage of paper and cleaning products, such as disinfectants and hand sanitizers.Traditional cleaning products simply ca

2020-04-04 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Lauren Beukes is a writer who likes to tells stories about power between men and women. Her new book "Afterland," will tell the story of a disease that kills almost the entire male

2020-04-04 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

This week we answer a question from Viola in China, who writes:Question: I'm following your program all the time and I love it so much. I desperately want to learn about the meani