2016-06-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In this week’s episode of Everyday Grammar, we are going to discuss the relative pronouns who, that and which.A relative pronoun relates to the noun it is describing. Relativ

2016-06-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is What’s Trending Today:A jaguar was killed in Brazil on Monday after it got out of its leash.Earlier in the day it was shown off during an Olympic torch ceremony in th

2016-06-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Last week Apple held its yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The company announces new technology at the event. WWDC 2016 included news about updates to Apple’s op

2016-06-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Time, acts of war and natural disasters can damage and destroy the world’s artistic and cultural objects.More than 1,000 years ago, fire destroyed the Library of Alexandria i

2016-06-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Manufacturing is an important industry in the United States. However, for many years, Americans have expressed fear that the industry is in decline.In the late 19th to middle 20th

2016-06-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Recent anti-American protests in Japan are a sign of growing disapproval of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s military policies.Last weekend, more than 65,000 people demonstrated o

2016-06-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study says students who attended for-profit private colleges in the United States to learn a trade saw their earnings drop.The report by the National Bureau of Economic Resea

2016-06-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In the Education Tips series, education experts offer suggestions about how you can improve your English skills. This week, Tamara Jones, a program coordinator at the English Langu

2016-06-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is What’s Trending Today...The Cleveland Cavaliers won the National Basketball Association championship on Sunday night.In the last game of the seven-game series, Clevel

2016-06-21 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.“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is a popular expression in the United States.It may be a common

2016-06-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is leaving.The campaign did not say why Lewandowski was dismissed, but the Associated Press reported that Lewandowski’s p

2016-06-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

More Americans expect to work past their 65th birthdays and never retire, says a recent study.The Associated Press with the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polled 1,075 peo

2016-06-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

An Israeli company has asked the United States Patent and Trademark Office for legal rights to a process for making a special kind of human cell.The company, Nano Dimension, says i

2016-06-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many Americans dream of the day they can retire and take a long-awaited road trip across the country. But Mikah Meyer believes that life is too short to wait.At 30 years old, he is

2016-06-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.This program explores the origin and uses of popular words and expressions in American English.Today we explain how a c

2016-06-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of a new ongoing series about international student life at colleges and universities across the U.S. Please join us over the next several weeks

2016-06-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The newest amusement park in China, Shanghai Disneyland, has opened. And so, the competition between it and Nanchang Wanda Park begins.The Dalian Wanda Group company operates Nanch

2016-06-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Some victims of the mass shooting in the United States are being buried this weekend.Forty-nine people were shot to death Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The gunman,

2016-06-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Central banks in two of the world’s largest economies – the United States and Japan -- left interest rates unchanged this week.In the United States, the Federal Reserve

2016-06-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

We present the short story "The Count and the Wedding Guest," by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State.Andy Donovan had his dinner

2016-06-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The planet Mars has gone through an ice age and is now warming up, scientists say.The findings are based on detailed radar measurements of ice caps on Mars.Isaac Smith studies the

2016-06-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.This week's Everyday Grammar looks at how to use the modals may, must and might.Modal verbs (called modals for short) are auxili

2016-06-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Police have recovered the body of a small boy who was attacked by an alligator at Walt Disney World, say officials in Florida.The attack took place Tuesday night as the boy played

2016-06-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A recent piece of audience mail expressed concern about the “listening” capability of smart phones.The writer said she had been planning a funeral and searched on Googl

2016-06-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hillary Clinton has earned enough delegates to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. It will be the first time in U.S. history that a major party will nominate