2016-02-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is What’s Trending Today…A video of hundreds of Florida manatees has gone viral.Manatees are aquatic mammals. The friendly creatures are sometimes called “s

2016-02-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Experts at America’s space agency, NASA, are watching a 30-meter wide asteroid as it comes near the Earth in March.According to NASA, the asteroid has no chance of hitting Ea

2016-02-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President Barack Obama is asking Congress for more than $1.8 billion to fight the Zika virus in the United States and other countries.The White House said Monday that most of the m

2016-02-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Football is the most popular professional sport in the United States. The National Football League (NFL) championship is called the Super Bowl.The game is always played on a Sunday

2016-02-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The United States will spend $37.9 billion on foreign aid in 2016.That is about $2 billion more than 2014. But it still amounts to less than 1 percent of the U.S. government’

2016-02-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Employers are more and more hiring temporary workers, or workers who do not have the same status as permanent, full-time workers.This practice has been called “freelance nati

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello and welcome to Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English!Winters in parts of the United States can be cold and, at times, snowy. Sometimes violent storms with high wi

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. presidential candidates are talking about the problem of high costs in higher education.From 2002 until 2012, tuition increased by around 39 percent, on average, among public

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Brazilian scientists have detected the Zika virus in urine and saliva samples of two infected patients.But, they said, more study is needed to find out whether the virus can infect

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Imagine reaching the top of your profession as a 27-year-old.Teammates cry tears of joy. Confetti falls from above. A trophy is held high like a new baby. And your hometown holds a

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Out of the eight most-watched programs in U.S. television history, only one was not the Super Bowl football game.Can you guess which television program that was?We’ll give yo

2016-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Our story today is called "Athenaise." It was written by Kate Chopin. Here is Barbara Klein with the story.Athenaise went away one morning to visit her parents, ten miles back on t

2016-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders traded sharp comments in the first debate in which they faced each other directly.It took place in New Hampshire, days befo

2016-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American football is a game of great drama and theater.On Sunday, the championship game will decide who is the best, and who is second best. The game will include music, noisemaker

2016-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Americans are split on how their next president should talk about Islamic extremism, says a new public opinion study.The study found that 65 percent of Republican supporters say th

2016-02-05 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 talk about conditionals. We use conditionals to show that something is true only when something else is true. Condition

2016-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Officials in the southwestern state of Texas have reported what may be the first case of the Zika virus being transmitted in the United States by sexual contact.On Tuesday, health

2016-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

If you use Gmail, Google's email program, you should know about the many tools to help you make the most of your email.Sure, you could use the Google-based email service and do ju

2016-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Iowa voters surprised political experts Monday.Senator Ted Cruz of Texas finished first in the state’s Republican caucuses. This surprised many observers who expected busines

2016-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Halfway through the season of the National Hockey League, the players take a short break.They celebrate the best players in a match they call an All-Star Game. It was January 31 in

2016-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The new movie, “The Birth of a Nation,” was a long time in creation.Nate Parker stars in and directed the movie. But he also wrote the screenplay and it took him seven

2016-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz has won the Republican party contest in the Iowa caucuses, the first in the United States.However, Democratic Party voters in Iowa split evenly

2016-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Last month, a 5-year-old boy in Afghanistan became famous on the Internet. A photograph of him went viral. That means people around the world saw the picture, and shared it with th

2016-02-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

People in Iowa will vote for presidential candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties Monday night.Public opinion studies show strong support for two candidates in each par

2016-02-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Even in the world of medicine, what is old is new again.Thousands of years ago, Egyptians used it to sterilize drinking water. Ancient Romans, Aztecs and Greeks also used it for me