2011-01-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN: I’m Barbara Klein.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we travel through city streets all over the world to explore street art, a popula

2011-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Economists across the world are expressing concern about rising food prices. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released i

2011-01-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Christopher Cruise.FAITH LAPIDUS: And I’m Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about an effort to learn what happened to Ame

2011-01-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.Dogs are known for a strong sense of smell. Their noses can be trained to identify different odors. Dogs are often used in search and rescue operation

2011-01-17 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.FAITH LAPIDUS: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about a memorial being built in Washington

2011-01-16 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.Today, we tell about more interesting nicknames of American states.The mid-Atlantic state of Maryland is called the Free State. A Baltimore

2011-01-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith.DOUG JOHNSON: And I’m Doug Johnson with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a young woman named Virginia Patterson Hensley. No one b

2011-01-15 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.Christina Taylor Green was born on September eleventh, two thousand one, the day when terrorists attacked the United States. A book published the following y

2011-01-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES.(MUSIC)We present the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. (MUSIC)B

2011-01-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Big stock exchanges in the United States are linked in what is known as the national market system plan. The idea is to process deals and report the be

2011-01-14 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 we play music by Nora Jane Struthers…And answer a question about Facebook…But first we look at an e

2011-01-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.For years, the Catholic Church in America has struggled to find new clergy. The average age of priests and nuns is seventy and rising. But some Catholi

2011-01-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.Americans experimented with many new customs and social traditions during the nineteen twenties. There were ne

2011-01-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.On Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, a gunman opened fire on a small crowd meeting outdoors with a congresswoman. Six people were killed and fourteen were woun

2011-01-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second of our two programs about the history of

2011-01-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.The United States is making the first major changes in its food safety rules since the nineteen thirties. A new law called the Food Safety Modernizat

2011-01-11 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. Today, we will tell you everything you wanted to know about snow.(MUSIC)FAI

2011-01-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.Tablet computers were the stars of this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The international gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world's biggest t

2011-01-10 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.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. This week on our program, we look at the new Congress in Washington.(MUSIC)FAITH

2011-01-09 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.As we told you last week, every American state has a nickname. Here are some more of them. Idaho is known as the Gem State. This is not bec

2011-01-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN:I’m Barbara Klein.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Bob Feller, one of the best pitchers in the history of American b

2011-01-08 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.On Sunday, the people of southern Sudan begin deciding whether or not to become the world's newest nation. A week of voting is expected to split Africa's l

2011-01-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Facebook is the world's biggest social network -- and the subject of the movie "Social Network."(SOUND)The real Mark Zuckerberg and his friends at Har

2011-01-07 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 we play music by America’s Ambassador of jazz Billy Taylor who died last week in New York.We also an

2011-01-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.(MUSIC)Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega. An American teaching English overseas once told us that students love