2010-03-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be shut off at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower

2010-03-22 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. Today, Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern st

2010-03-21 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.Many American cities have interesting nicknames. Nicknames can help establish the identity of a city. They can also spread pride among it

2010-03-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

I’m Barbara Klein.BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of America’s best-known writers, Mark Twain. We also talk about his famou

2010-03-20 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.Census forms have been mailed across America. Every ten years since seventeen ninety the Constitution has required a population count.The results decide how

2010-03-19 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 newly released proposal calls for almost everyone in the United States to have high-speed Internet service at home within ten years. On Tuesday the F

2010-03-19 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 tell about an artist in Washington whose work can be found on the sides of several city buildings. A

2010-03-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.President Obama sent Congress a proposal this week to rewrite the main federal education law. The current version of the law, signed by George W. Bush

2010-03-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of Americans began to move west to settle

2010-03-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.Researchers say American children now eat an average of three snacks a day between meals. A study found that those snacks add up to almost one-third of al

2010-03-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is Shirley Griffith.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we present the second of two programs about the Old American West. Expe

2010-03-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Call it "recession gardening" or a product of the local foods movement. But, whatever the reason, more Americans are growing some of their own food.

2010-03-16 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 will tell about two kinds of dinosaurs. Scientists say one of the cr

2010-03-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a personal toilet called the Peepoo. Anders Wilhelmson is the Swedish inventor of the idea. He wants

2010-03-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we play some favorite songs about spring.(MUSIC: Viv

2010-03-14 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.Many cities have interesting nicknames. Nicknames can help establish the identity of a city. They can also spread pride among its citizen

2010-03-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: People America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today, Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about scientist Rachel Carson. Her work started the environmental pro

2010-03-13 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.Iraqi officials are still counting votes from Sunday's elections. More than six thousand candidates competed for three hundred twenty-five seats in parliame

2010-03-12 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Laws in the United States and other countries treat a corporation like a person. We talked last week about how this idea developed a long time ago.In t

2010-03-12 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. Today on our program, we tell about a new staging of the famous Arthur Miller play “A View from the Bridge.”

2010-03-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Last month, students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Bat

2010-03-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English.Rutherford Hayes was sworn into office as the nineteenth president of the United States in eighteen seventy

2010-03-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in two thousand two. It is an alliance of business, government and civilian partnersh

2010-03-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: This is Faith Lapidus.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS from VOA Special English. Today we present the first of two programs about some of the most famous people wh

2010-03-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Some people say broccoli looks like small trees, and cauliflower like gathered clouds. They think broccoli is only green and cauliflower is only whi