2020-09-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

September 7 is Labor Day in the United States. The national holiday began more than 100 years ago to honor low-paid factory workers.Labor Day unofficially marks the end of summer.

2020-09-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study has found that ozone pollutants in Earth's lower atmosphere increased across the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 years.Ozone is a form of oxygen. In Earth's uppe

2020-09-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The first complete dinosaur skeleton was found in southern England in 1858. The bones belonged to a creature called Scelidosaurus.The early British paleontologist Richard Owen inco

2020-09-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Editor's Note: Today's profile is of President Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential nominee. Check in tomorrow for a profile of former Vice President Joe Biden, the De

2020-09-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study has found that safety equipment could prevent more than 40 percent of crashes in which tractor-trailers rear-end other vehicles.The survey also found that when the rear

2020-09-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Black holes are becoming stranger — even to scientists who study planets and other objects in outer space.Astronomers recently reported the discovery of the signal from a vio

2020-09-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.On this program we teach common English expressions and how to use them.Many English expressions come from weather. We h

2020-09-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to open their doors when he stops at their houses. He wants to give them information from the Republican Party.

2020-09-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. law enforcement officers shot and killed a man suspected of being the gunman who killed another man in Portland, Oregon last week, the U.S. Marshal Service said Friday.Officia

2020-09-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Modified common cold viruses are being used to create COVID-19 vaccine candidates in China and Russia. Such viruses have been studied for over 30 years, but are still not widely us

2020-09-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Humanitarian aid work is difficult. Workers helping people without food, water, shelter, or healthcare must often face natural disasters, slow governments, and even war.Now they ha

2020-09-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Each week we answer questions about American English from readers from outside the United States. But today we answer a question from the American state of Alabama. Khan writes:Que

2020-09-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

People have long dreamt of a car that flies through the sky.Japan's SkyDrive has carried out a successful, but modest test flight of such a vehicle carrying a person. It is just o

2020-09-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Joe Biden, the Democratic Party presidential nominee, met with the family of Jacob Blake Thursday in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Blake is the Black man whose shooting by a white police off

2020-09-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The U.S. federal government has told health officials in all 50 states to be ready for a coronavirus vaccine by November 1.The date is just two days before Election Day on November

2020-09-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Tax officials in Africa estimate governments will collect between 10 and 30 percent less in taxes in 2020 because of the economic downturn.The coronavirus crisis has caused busines

2020-09-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American billionaire Elon Musk has demonstrated a technology designed to use a computer chip inside the head to control the brain.During a video demonstration on Friday, Musk provi

2020-09-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Researchers say antibodies, made by the human body to fight the new coronavirus, could last for at least four months. Earlier reports suggested that these special proteins disappea

2020-09-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The World Health Organization (WHO) says COVID-19 has interfered with necessary health services in almost every country. It says low- and middle-income nations are affected the mos

2020-09-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say they have calculated temperatures on Earth's surface during the last Ice Age.The researchers made their calculations with the help of fossilized remains of ocean pl

2020-09-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Across America, many public spaces are taking on an unlikely new responsibility this fall. They are welcoming children for distance learning while their parents go to work. Among s

2020-09-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Venice, Italy is reclaiming its place as a top cultural center this week with the opening of the Venice Film Festival. It is the first major in-person film event since the start of

2020-09-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American President Donald Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin Tuesday to show support for law enforcement officials in a city struggling with days of violent protests. The unrest came

2020-09-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Telehealth is an American idea that seems to have been accepted by everyone during the coronavirus pandemic. It involves talking to a doctor on a computer or smartphone.Medicare is

2020-09-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

People climbing Mount Everest are two times as likely to reach the top and less likely to die on the climb than 20 years ago, a new study finds. Everest, high in the Himalayans, is