2021-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign many executive orders and to propose legislation to Congress in the early days of his administration.The actions are widely considered an at

2021-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Moving from one house to another is a difficult process. It is even more difficult for workers at the White House on Inauguration Day.On Wednesday at 12 p.m., Joe Biden will be swo

2021-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American political leaders are pushing for schools to reopen this winter as teachers started to receive COVID-19 vaccines. But others are concerned that they may not be ready.Last

2021-01-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The 2020 Australian Open was one of the year's few international sporting events not changed by the coronavirus pandemic.The tournament took place in January 2020, before internat

2021-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is VOA news. Via remote, I'm Liz Parker. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detained Sunday in Moscow. The opposition leader was taken into custody during his first time back

2021-01-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Chinese officials urged people to avoid traveling home for the Lunar New Year observance to prevent spreading the coronavirus in rural areas.China reported its biggest one-day jump

2021-01-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study suggests that identical twins are not exactly the same genetically. Identical twins are two babies that come from the same fertilized egg.Scientists in Iceland examined

2021-01-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

When you consider his background, Joe Biden is not unique among past presidents. But perhaps that is why he won the election in November. It was his third try.Biden first ran for p

2021-01-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Maple and oak trees with branches full of seeds at the end of summer got American plant expert Lee Reich thinking about how trees grow.He remembers how, a few years ago, he decided

2021-01-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The ice cream company Ben & Jerry's is entering the pet food business for the first time with frozen treats for dogs. The treats, called Doggie Desserts, will be available for sal

2021-01-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should bring fundamental change to American policy on human rights and allow criminal investiga

2021-01-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is VOA news. Reporting by remote, I'm David Byrd. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday made Donald Trump the first U.S. president ever to be impeached twice, formal

2021-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hundreds of thousands of people normally attend a new American president's inauguration. But the first day of Joe Biden's presidency will be very different.Because of the coronav

2021-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study shows a link between bad technology and higher stress levels of employees.Researchers from American computer company Dell Technologies led the study. Dell partnered wit

2021-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Farmers were digging among fruit trees on a farm on Mexico's coast when they found a big surprise: a stone statue almost two meters tall.The female statue may represent an influen

2021-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

There is a famous picture of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. seated for a ride on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.The year was 1956 and King and other activ

2021-01-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Chicken farmers in several Asian nations are battling severe bird flu outbreaks.The largest number of influenza cases is in Japan and South Korea. In those countries, 20 million ch

2021-01-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A cat that many believed was killed along with its owner in a huge mudslide has been found three years later. A mudslide is a large mass of wet earth that suddenly and quickly move

2021-01-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood is filled with restaurants and other businesses that are now closed. Nearby, Broadway theaters are also dark because of COVID-19 suspe

2021-01-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.On this program we take a closer look at common words and expressions in the English language.Today we will talk about h

2021-01-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Last August, The University of Southern California, known as USC, became involved in a dispute over language that appeared widely in U.S. and Chinese news stories.It started with a

2021-01-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Norway aims to discover new resources beneath the sea, but its push into mining has raised environmental concerns.Norway could license companies for deep-sea mining as early as 202

2021-01-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

As the world accepts a Twitter without @realdonaldtrump, the big question is: "Now what?"Major technology companies have long been accused of giving President Donald Trump special

2021-01-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Anyone who loves to read loves a library. The sight of thousands of books organized on shelves; the smell of old books mixed with new ones; the sound of a librarian silencing a noi

2021-01-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Several groups representing scientists and doctors have expressed concerns over India's vaccine approval process.The concerns come after India approved a vaccine by Indian drugmak