2020-02-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In October 2016, the head of Russia's largest oil company traveled to the birthplace of Hugo Chávez, the former president of Venezuela.Rosneft chief executive officer Igor

2020-02-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Abdullah Mohammed would do anything to make his daughter happy. That includes forcing himself to laugh with her when they hear bombs explode. The game helps ease the young girl's

2020-02-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists are not yet able to say how deadly the new coronavirus really is. As the virus spreads around the world, the percentage of patients dying differs from one place to the n

2020-02-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say they used new measuring methods to confirm that cloud seeding can produce snowfall under the right conditions.Researchers used radar and other instruments to measure

2020-02-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In the United States, some once-loved stores are trying to understand decreasing sales. Jewelry store Tiffany & Co. is an example. Clothing store the Gap, and motorcycle store Harl

2020-02-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In 1976, American Barbara Smith became only the second black model to appear on the cover of Mademoiselle magazine. That was only the beginning of her extraordinary success.During

2020-02-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

One out of every three people in Venezuela is struggling to get enough food to meet minimum nutrition requirements. That information comes from the United Nations World Food Progra

2020-02-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Marzio Toniolo works as a primary school teacher in the small, quiet northern Italian town of San Fiorano. Until recently, he would usually spend his weekday mornings riding a bicy

2020-02-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

People who survive cancer during childhood and early adulthood are more likely to experience severe, life-threatening health problems later on in life. In fact, many of the survivo

2020-02-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Amy Melendez was in a supermarket in Maryland with friends when it happened to her.She had ordered one of her favorite drinks, a corn-based beverage from Central America called ato

2020-02-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Egypt's leader for nearly 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, has died, Egyptian state television announced Tuesday. He was 91 years old.State TV said Mubarak died at a hospital in the capit

2020-02-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A jury in New York City has found former movie producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of sexual assault and rape.The jury cleared Weinstein on the most serious charges he faced – w

2020-02-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A World Health Organization (WHO) official is crediting China with controlling the new coronavirus in Wuhan, the city where the virus was first identified.The head of a WHO team in

2020-02-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New parents who clean their homes very often to protect their babies from bacteria and other organisms might want to cut back their efforts.A new study suggests that high levels of

2020-02-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Students who are worried about climate change want universities to cut investments in energy companies that deal in fossil fuels.The effort is gaining attention at well-known schoo

2020-02-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study looks at air pollution and its effects on premature deaths in the United States. Premature deaths are defined as those that take place before the average age of death.R

2020-02-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study suggests that a mysterious human species mated with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa.Researchers say the study provides evidence that present-da

2020-02-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A university in the American state of Utah made news recently when it changed the school's code of conduct. Brigham Young University amended its rules to remove a rule that banned

2020-02-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Alexei Vergunov is a homeless man living in Omsk, Siberia, in northern Russia. He survives freezing nighttime temperatures of minus-30 degrees Celsius by sleeping under an industri

2020-02-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American technology company SpaceX says it plans to launch as many as four private citizens into a higher orbit than ever before.SpaceX is working with U.S.-based Space Adventures

2020-02-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Completing a degree program at a college or university can be one of the best things you do to improve your chances of success in life. Higher education is a necessity for many of

2020-02-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The economic effects of the new coronavirus outbreak have spread from China all the way to the West Bank city of Hebron.Hebron is the largest Palestinian city. It is also the busin

2020-02-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories -- our weekly program about common, everyday expressions in American English.Today we are talking about the somewhat unusual day of Febr

2020-02-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Jigsaw puzzles for adults are becoming more popular in America. The puzzles have pieces of different shapes that, when put together, form a picture.People attend puzzle nights at c

2020-02-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A seven-day "reduction of violence" agreement between the United States and the Taliban group in Afghanistan begins on Friday.A top U.S. State Department official said that, by the