2016-01-05 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.Health officials in Brazil have declared a state of emergency in several states.They are also warning women to not

2016-01-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan have cut off diplomatic relations with Iran.On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed a well-known Shi’ite Muslim leader. The cleric had publicly cri

2016-01-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say a huge percentage of bird species are in danger because their habitats, or homelands, are disappearing.Traditional migration paths take birds through countries that

2016-01-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Zimbabwe announced last week that it would shift to the Chinese yuan as its reserve currency.A reserve currency is a foreign currency held in large quantities by governments and fi

2016-01-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Iraqi and Kurdish forces supported by United States’ airstrikes have regained territories controlled by Islamic State militants in the past month.The U.S. military believes t

2016-01-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Three university students in Santiago, Chile have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.The three engineering students got the idea for the device while si

2016-01-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan killed at least 26 people and left more than 40 wounded last week.The explosion occurred in the Pakistani city of Mardan. The blast took plac

2016-01-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello! Welcome to the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories, where every word has a story.And Happy New Year!The start of a new year is a time of reflection, or dee

2016-01-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Flying devices, called drones, may be one of the most important technologies of the future.The number of jobs for people who know how to design, build and control them is increasin

2016-01-02 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.Today we have more good news for all our coffee drinkers around the world. Another new study finds that drinking co

2016-01-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello! Here is a VOA Learning English Feel Good for you.There is a woman named Tao Porchon-Lynch. She was born in India in 1918. So, if you do the math … she’s 97.And

2016-01-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

We present the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry. Here is Shep O’Neal with the story.It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you. We wer

2016-01-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Authorities say everyone has been evacuated from a luxury hotel in Dubai that was still burning early Friday.The city’s police chief says all residents were out of the 63-sto

2016-01-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Here are some of the top news stories of 2015. The year was marked by violence, with continued civil war in Syria, worldwide terrorism and mass shootings in the United States.Paris

2016-01-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.Today we are going to give you a basic overview of the verb tense system in English.Verb tenses tell us how an action relates to

2015-12-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Prosecutors in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania have brought criminal charges against celebrity Bill Cosby.Cosby, an American comedian, is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in

2015-12-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is What’s Trending Today…American actress Carrie Fisher is most famous for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies. During the 1970s and 1980s, she star

2015-12-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new public opinion survey shows many Americans are not satisfied with the government’s efforts to fight terrorism.Forty percent of those asked said they believe terrorists

2015-12-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many Americans believe Britons have bad teeth. But a new study shows Americans actually have more dental problems.The study was published in the British Medical Journal.Researchers

2015-12-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hoverboards were among the most popular Christmas gifts of 2015. They may have also been most dangerous gifts of 2015.A true hoverboard looks like a skateboard without wheels. To &

2015-12-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Iraqi military officials said they took back the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants.On Monday, Iraqi forces raised the national flag over the city’s main government

2015-12-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello and welcome to the Health & Lifestyle year in review.As 2015 comes to an end, we look at the stories that you, our audience, found interesting and useful.In early 2015, we ai

2015-12-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

China’s fertility industry could benefit now that the Chinese government has relaxed its one-child policy.China eased the country’s one-child per couple policy at the e

2015-12-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Vietnamese could buy Italian machinery and Austrians could wear more athletic shoes from Vietnam. That is because Vietnam is moving closer to reaching a trade deal with the Europea

2015-12-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello! And welcome to Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program about American expressions.The Greek poet Homer has given us many phrases. A famous one is “Achi