2020-08-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Increasing government attempts to censor or regulate the internet may result in new digital borders that could change the ways we currently experience the World Wide Web.Authoritar

2020-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say they have identified a chemical released by locusts that causes the insects to join together in huge swarms.On their own, locusts are mostly harmless. But in large s

2020-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Nations that store possible COVID-19 vaccines while not sharing them with others will deepen the pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.The WHO'

2020-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled in-person classes. It was just one week into the start of the new school year.The university said it will move t

2020-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A small but growing number of Americans are choosing to homeschool their children. Most U.S. schools plan to stay closed, or open only part-time, this year and offer distance learn

2020-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The National Weather Service's (NWS) measuring system recorded a temperature of 54.4 Celsius at Death Valley in eastern California on Sunday.The temperature was recorded at 3:41 p

2020-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A little over a century ago, feminists tirelessly campaigned for women's suffrage in the United States. They organized marches and other events in hopes of increasing public suppo

2020-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The coronavirus has affected a lot of things, including the presidential nomination process in the United States.The two leading parties know that they must restructure traditional

2020-08-18 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.Marriage ceremonies, or weddings, are among the most important events in the lives of many people. The COVID-19 hea

2020-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Shin Yun-sun describes her life as a series of dead ends.The South Korean has spent many of her 75 years questioning government officials, looking through records and searching bur

2020-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Google has launched a communications system that uses the company's Android phones to detect earthquakes. It aims to provide timely information about earthquakes to phones that ru

2020-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For the past several months, many restaurants have either been closed or are offering limited services because of the coronavirus health crisis.This means people all around the wor

2020-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Malaysia's last rhinoceros, Iman, died last November. Some skin, eggs and tissue are all that remain of her.Now, scientists plan to use experimental technology to try to bring bac

2020-08-16 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!Eggs. People all around the world eat eggs. You can cook them in many different ways!My favorite way to eat eggs is sunny

2020-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Brenda Cienfuegos recently became a United States citizen. Now, she is eager to exercise her new rights as an American.Born in El Salvador, Cienfuegos came legally to the U.S. in 2

2020-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A short video making fun of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's guidance about the new coronavirus has become popular on social media.The video shows actor Matt Lucas. "So we a

2020-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

British clothing design school graduate Phoebe St. Leger's dream of working for a major fashion company has been delayed for now.Like many other students around the world who comp

2020-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter. In a new study, scientists suggest this dwarf planet contains a large body of salty water und

2020-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Ruhel Islam is walking among the ruins of his Gandhi Mahal Restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The place was burned down during riots in the city following the death of George Fl

2020-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For nearly a week, Mona Zahran slept on a couch pulled across the front door of her home in Beirut. The powerful explosion in Lebanon's capital on August 4 had broken her door and

2020-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week, we received a question from Thompson in China.Question:The following words always make me very confused. Could you please tell me, what is the difference between novel c

2020-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study shows that Americans under the age of 40 now make up a majority of the U.S. population.The finding came from an examination of detailed age data released by the U.S. Ce

2020-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The new coronavirus has now infected more than 20 million people around the world: a number that has increased by 100 percent in about six weeks. The number of deaths linked to the

2020-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Japanese businessman Katsuo Inoue chose Italy for his summer vacation this year. He enjoyed the views of Florence and Rome - without ever leaving Tokyo.Inoue and his wife "flew" to

2020-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists often worry about the loss of the world's meat-eating animals. But a wide-reaching new study finds that plant-eating animals, or herbivores, are at higher risk of extin