2015-12-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The new force gathered with the old Monday when “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” made its world premiere in Hollywood.“The Force Awakens” is the seventh film

2015-12-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

There are about 650,000 school-aged Syrian refugee children in Turkey.Government officials estimate only about one-third of them are going to school.Educating the refugee children

2015-12-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.Last week in Paris, leaders from 195 countries reached a major global climate agreement. In the final hours of meetings, one litt

2015-12-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

States and local communities in the United States gained more control over education standards and testing last week.U.S. President Barack Obama signed the education reforms into l

2015-12-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Technology makes listening to holiday music easier than ever. There are endless sources to help you find your favorite Christmas tunes and many other songs.Today we explore ways to

2015-12-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Humans need less sleep than other mammals, yet their slumber is more efficient, said researchers at Duke University in North Carolina.In their study, the scientists researched slee

2015-12-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Saudi Arabia has announced the creation of an Islamic military alliance to fight terrorism.The Saudis will lead the 34-nation alliance, said the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Tue

2015-12-15 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.A wounded military veteran will soon be the first in the United States to receive a penis transplant. This news com

2015-12-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Florida is the state where Americans and immigrants choose most to settle, shows the latest research.Population continues to move from north to south in America. Florida is expecte

2015-12-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Some people can get motion sickness from being in moving vehicles such as cars or airplanes.But, a new device could stop motion sickness by suppressing some signals in the brain.Mo

2015-12-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello and welcome to the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.Every language has common words that are used in uncommon ways. Today we focus on the word “brid

2015-12-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The tech industry is driving the U.S. economy into the future, but not everyone is sharing in the prosperity.Only six percent of Facebook employees are Hispanic, Black or African-A

2015-12-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a huge pay package, although her company’s share price has slumped, reports Bloomberg News.She is the 23rd-highest paid executive of 200 on the Bl

2015-12-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Americans are angry and growing more frustrated, but the reasons are mixed.At shopping day sales, they fight over who gets the biggest television.At their children’s soccer g

2015-12-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Leaders in Paris negotiating a climate change agreement missed their deadline Friday.Representatives from 195 countries have spent two weeks in Paris trying to reach agreement at

2015-12-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Filmmaker Spike Lee reached back thousands of years to a Greek comedy for the inspiration of his latest film, “Chi-Raq.”The musical is a modern, urban telling of the an

2015-12-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The forest was full of shadows as a little girl hurried through it one summer evening in June. It was already 8 o'clock and Sylvie wondered if her grandmother would be angry with

2015-12-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Kendrick Lamar has had a good week. The hip-hop artist led the music industry in nominations for its most important awards, the Grammys. The Recording Academy honored him with 11 n

2015-12-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Eleven Taliban fighters attacked an important airport in southern Afghanistan early Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, Afghan officials say.The Afghan Defense Ministry said 38 ci

2015-12-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Have you ever wondered how to talk about an event that began in the past and continues into the present?In English, we often use prepositions to place a noun, pronoun or noun phras

2015-12-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Technology company Google has brought reliable Internet connections to Kampala, Uganda.Google is expanding high-speed Internet in the city, the company said. The project includes 1

2015-12-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Oil prices have fallen to their lowest levels since 2009.Brent crude oil, one of several kinds of oil on the world market, dropped below $40 a barrel on Tuesday. However, the main

2015-12-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

If you are active on social media, you probably have seen quizzes on Facebook.You may even have taken some of the Facebook quizzes yourself. They can be fun as you learn the answer

2015-12-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In New York City public schools, 176 different languages are spoken among the more than 1 million students.For 160,000 children, English is not their first language. New York&rsquo

2015-12-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

#TrumpOnCNNRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump is all over social media today because of comments he made Monday. Trump called for the U.S. to temporarily ban all Muslim