2016-12-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a historic visit to Pearl Harbor in the American state of Hawaii.Abe went there on Tuesday with President Barack Obama.The two le

2016-12-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The year 2016 was filled with stories about or involving personal technology.New products and services kept us wondering what technology will be like in the future and how it might

2016-12-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Workers recently lined up outside a camp in northern India to open bank accounts.The line formed at a traffic stop in the center of Gurgaon, in Haryana State.One of the workers was

2016-12-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Relations between India and Pakistan worsened in 2016.This worries world leaders. The South Asian neighbors have fought several wars and each has nuclear weapons.The two countries

2016-12-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Editor's Note: This week, we revisit one of the most popular Education stories of 2016.In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you tips about how

2016-12-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

2016 was an exciting year for science and space exploration.Scientists reported earlier this year that Albert Einstein was right: there really are such things as gravitational wave

2016-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President Barack Obama has declared much of U.S. waters in the Arctic Ocean and some areas in the Atlantic Ocean permanently unavailable to oil and gas drilling.The Obama administr

2016-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.We should all let the sunshine in as much as possible – and not just because it makes us feel good. Exposure

2016-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Eleven million people worldwide travel to other countries for low-cost medical treatment. This kind of travel is known as “medical tourism.”Experts say people spend hun

2016-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The ride-sharing company Uber has removed its self-driving cars from the streets of San Francisco, California.The action came after a dispute between Uber and state officials over

2016-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In the United States, the inauguration of a new president is one of the nation’s biggest ceremonies.Military officials plan the event using a 12-by-18 meter map of Washington

2016-12-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Malawi has launched a testing center for humanitarian drones.The project is intended to explore the best ways to use drones to transport medicine and blood samples.Malawi’s g

2016-12-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Pictures of the planet Mars show a rocky, lifeless scene. It is hard to imagine plants or animals could ever exist there. But scientists continue to look for evidence.NASA, America

2016-12-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Moki, Tan and Jannies were babies at the close of the American war in Vietnam in the 1970s. Their mothers were Vietnamese. Their fathers were American soldiers. In one way or anoth

2016-12-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Last month, a student at Ohio State University ran into people with a car and stabbed them with a knife. The victims survived, but police shot and killed the attacker, Abdul Razak

2016-12-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Welcome to Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program.This week we continue learning about cold weather expressions with the story “Mystery at The Ice Castle Inn

2016-12-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Strong writing is one of the most important skills for any college student.Many non-native English speakers have no idea what professors in the U.S. expect from a college paper.A c

2016-12-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Japan says it will increase coast guard resources in the East China Sea to help defend islands it controls that are also claimed by China.The government plans to raise overall coas

2016-12-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The suspected driver in the deadly truck attack at a Christmas market in Germany was shot and killed Friday by police in Italy.The 24-year-old Tunisian man, Anis Amri, was killed d

2016-12-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature.The foundation is based in the state o

2016-12-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The year 2016 will be remembered for a long time by sports fans around the world.The Summer Olympic Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Major sports leagues celebrated cham

2016-12-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Editor's Note: We are pleased to share a traditional holiday story with you, The Gift of the Magi. You can read along and listen or watch the video.One dollar and eighty-seven cen

2016-12-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The American dictionary Merriam-Webster has named “surreal” its 2016 Word of the Year.Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary defines the adjective as &ldquo

2016-12-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Some of the most successful technology business owners in Silicon Valley are immigrants. Silicon Valley is an area of northern California that is home to major technology companies

2016-12-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Editors note: This is the second of a four-part series on verb tenses. Click here to see part one.For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.Today we are going to look at t