2011-08-15 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 new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon

2011-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.BOB DOUGHTY: And I'm Bob Doughty. Back in May, we did a program about untraditional couples in the United States.

2011-08-14 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.Every language has its ways of expressing strong emotions -- surprise, shock, anger.The expressions range from mild to strong, from exclama

2011-08-14 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 Aaron Copland, one of America’s best modern music composers.(MUS

2011-08-13 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.(SOUND)This week, Britain faced its worst riots since the nineteen eighties. The unrest began in London and spread to other cities, including Manchester, Bir

2011-08-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES.(MUSIC)Our story today is called “One Thousand Dollars.” It was written by O. Henry. Here is Steve Ember with the story.STEVE

2011-08-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.A "rollercoaster ride" is one description for these days of scary ups and downs in financial markets. If you want to use a more technical term, the mar

2011-08-12 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. This week on our show, we have music from a new album by the Swedish electronic group Little Dragon ...And we a

2011-08-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Students in Washington, DC, will return to classrooms this month to begin a new school year. But at least five percent of their teachers will not retur

2011-08-11 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(MUSIC)The Second World War ended with the surrender of Japan in August nineteen forty-five.

2011-08-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.Wisdom teeth are normally the last teeth to appear. This usually happens when people are in their late teen years or early twenties -- in other words, whe

2011-08-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we discuss three books that tell about ways the human brain works. One book co

2011-08-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Last week we discussed how to grow vegetables in partial sun. This week we learn how to protect vegetables from too much sun.Curtis Swift is an exten

2011-08-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus.BOB DOUGHTY: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about health problems linked to extreme heat. We tell what

2011-08-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.The Panama Canal opened almost one hundred years ago. More than one million ships have passed through the waterway since nineteen fourteen.The Panama

2011-08-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FRITZI BODENHEIMER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Fritzi Bodenheimer.MARIO RITTER: And I’m Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we hear about fathers who cook for their f

2011-08-07 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.

Tom Smith is the best hitter on his company's baseball team. For weeks during the playing season, Tom hit a home run in e

2011-08-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

RAY FREEMAN: I'm Ray Freeman.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with People in America - a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Every week we tell about someone who was i

2011-08-06 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.Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated against the government on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Late in the day, witnesses and acti

2011-08-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the Special English program AMERICAN STORIES.(MUSIC)Welcome to the fourth and last part of our program, “A Princess of Mars.” The story is from a series of books by Edgar Rice Bu

2011-08-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.This week President Obama signed a bill raising the nation’s borrowing limit. That debt deal, however, failed to keep stock markets from dropping. Pr

2011-08-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Steven Weinberger is the director of linguistics in the English Department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Weinberger says s

2011-08-04 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.(MUSIC)Britain was once the most powerful nation in the world. It ruled a wide-reaching empi

2011-08-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.One of the largest health studies ever done in the United States will look at environmental influences on children.The study will examine the many environ

2011-08-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

PHEOBE ZIMMERMAN: This is Phoebe Zimmerman.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program Explorations. Today we visit one of America’s great national parks. It is a plac