2009-12-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE:I’m Phoebe Zimmerman.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Irving Berlin. He wrote the words and music for some of the

2009-12-19 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. Think of your family or friends. How well would those relationships work without trust -- or with a broken trust?Recently, Forbes magazine d

2009-12-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.President Obama told some of the nation's top bankers Monday that they need to explore "every responsible way" to make more loans.BARACK OBAMA: "Ameri

2009-12-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play jazz music by a young saxophonist, Hailey Niswanger …And answer a question about the history of blue j

2009-12-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A question from the West Bank: Zuheir Khlaif wants to know how American schools use educational technology.There is not a simple answer. It depends on

2009-12-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.On March fourth, eighteen sixty-five, Abraham Lincoln was sworn-in as president after winning a second term. The election h

2009-12-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease. Ten patients in all were treated in a study with donate

2009-12-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that

2009-12-15 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 our subject was illegal fishing. Now we report on two cases where fish are both the victims and the offenders. The first involves two kinds

2009-12-15 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 Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about efforts to protect the burial place of Egypt's King Tuta

2009-12-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A new report says the illegal killing of rhinos for their horns is increasing in Africa and Asia. Rhinoceros poachers are killing an estimated two to

2009-12-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we answer a question from a listener in Brazil. Tino Therezo in Sao Paulo wants to know ab

2009-12-13 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. (MUSIC) Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the

2009-12-13 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE:I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO:And I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Louis Kahn. He is considered one of the most important America

2009-12-12 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. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this week. Around fifteen thousand delegates and observers from

2009-12-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Dubai's recent debt problems have brought attention to the growth of Islamic finance. A government-owned group of companies, Dubai World, has been se

2009-12-11 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

HOST:Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Animal Collective …And answer a question about funeral traditions in the Unit

2009-12-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight. She came from a family of music his

2009-12-10 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting. The Civil W

2009-12-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Shy people often avoid situations that force close contact with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make others laugh at them. Bu

2009-12-09 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson.VOICE TWO:And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Some people say the higher you climb, the harder you fall. But those people probably would not be

2009-12-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some pirates catch fish instead of ships. The problem is known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Such fishing harms the productivity o

2009-12-08 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 Doug Johnson.VOICE TWO:And I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine Nobel Prizes for discoveries in scie

2009-12-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Scientists continue to seek better weapons against malaria. Each year the number of cases is in the hundreds of millions worldwide. Around a million

2009-12-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southw