2011-11-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember.Today, we tell about life in the United States during the nineteen sixties.(MUSIC)The ninete

2011-11-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.Tobacco companies are fighting efforts in the United States and Australia to make their products less appealing.In Washington, a federal judge last week b

2011-11-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to Explorations, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week, Barbara Klein and I tell about one of the most influential thinkers in science history.Charles Darwin develo

2011-11-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Today we have a vocabulary quiz. We start with two questions about terms for plants.OK, first question: What is the name for a plant that lives only

2011-11-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I’m Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about a study that explores how we feel about future events.

2011-11-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.Have you ever heard the expression "a ball of energy"? People often use the term to describe very active children. But today we tell about an inventio

2011-11-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. Visitors to Washington, D.C., in the summer often want to stay inside air-condi

2011-11-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

I'm Susan Clark with the Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and invest

2011-11-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: I’m Steve Ember.PHOEBE ZIMMERMAN: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell the story of Sam Houston. He was a congressman, sena

2011-11-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.This week, the coach with the most wins ever in major college football in the United States lost his job. The governing board of Penn State University in Sta

2011-11-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.The economic situation in Italy is worrying investors and may have cost its prime minister his job. Like Greece, Italy is facing pressure to make unpop

2011-11-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.

(MUSIC)

I’m Doug Johnson. Today we play music from American Idol winner Scotty McCreery ...

And we answer a question about Am

2011-11-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.The state of Florida is home to one of the largest populations of Haitians outside of Haiti. The city of Miami has a neighborhood known as Little Haiti

2011-11-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember.Today, we tell about the movement for civil rights for black Americans.(SOUND)The day is Aug

2011-11-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.Some people's ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be a problem even though earwax appears to serve an important purpose.It protects and clea

2011-11-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America.It was called the last great goal in flying. It would be a flight around the world without stopping or adding m

2011-11-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.East Coast fever kills hundreds of thousands of cattle in eastern and central Africa every year. The animals become infected when they get bitten by

2011-11-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein. Today, we tell about temperature changes on the planet Mars. We also tell abou

2011-11-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.A top-level domain is the part of an Internet address after the dot. The most common of what are called generic top-level domains are dot-com, dot-net

2011-11-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we look at how political campaigns use data mining to

2011-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.Some of the most exciting information comes by way of the grapevine.That is so because reports received through the grapevine are supposed

2011-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: I’m Steve Ember.BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of t

2011-11-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.For months, people around the world have watched the strikes and violent protests in Athens. But Greeks in rural areas say the country's debt crisis is hitt

2011-11-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, we discussed limiting investment risk in retirement planning. So what are financial planners advising people to invest in?Stocks and bonds a

2011-11-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)I’m Doug Johnson. Today we hear new music from singer Demi Lovato. We also tell about some women who play American football.But