2020-01-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For generations, many colleges and universities in the United States have offered classes in a lot of different subjects.Higher education officials believed that by learning about

2020-01-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.Rats. They are not among nature's most loved animals.However, rats help humans in many ways. They have been tested and re-tes

2020-01-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Michael Sunday was very happy and a little surprised when he first saw his "new" right hand. It is a glove-like prosthetic device that covers his real right hand.The device should

2020-01-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Japanese officials say a decision on how to deal with radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant could come before the Tokyo Olympics begin in July.The Tokyo Electric Compa

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

United States President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to attend the yearly "March for Life" demonstration on the National Mall in Washington, D. C.The March for Life

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New York City, the birthplace of hip-hop music, is thousands of kilometers away and, culturally, very different from northeastern Thailand.But for Thai rapper RachYo, the language

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Italian scientists reported this week that a volcanic explosion not only killed one person, but turned the victim's brain material into glass.This is the first time that scientist

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week, the U.S. Census to count everyone who lives in the country started in a small Alaska town called Toksook Bay.The count starts in Alaska for several reasons. Traveling to

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The U.S. government has published new visa rules aimed at restricting what officials are calling "birth tourism.""Birth tourism" is when women travel to the United States to give b

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from genocide.Rohingya refugees celebrated the ruling as t

2020-01-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced this month that athletes are barred from making political statements at Olympic events. It said banned actions can include makin

2020-01-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The little-known word "pettifogging" was used during a 1905 impeachment trial of a judge. This week, Chief Justice John Roberts used it again during the impeachment trial of U.S. P

2020-01-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Call it luck, but not "dumb luck."Just three days into Wolf Cukier's summer internship with the American space agency NASA, he found a new planet.The 17-year-old high school stude

2020-01-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new report says man-made "forever chemicals" are more common in U.S. drinking water supplies than earlier estimates suggested.An environmental group reported Wednesday that some

2020-01-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The trial to decide whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office began this week. Trump is charged with abusing his power as president, and with obstructing – or

2020-01-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many Asian countries are making final preparations for Lunar New Year celebrations. In China, the Lunar New Year holiday will begin this Friday, January 24. Under the country's tr

2020-01-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Michael Morris is a curator with New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. He was trying to fulfill a common request when he uncovered a number of artworks. They were images of the Ho

2020-01-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

People claim they have seen large groups of drones flying through the night sky across rural areas of the United States. Their mysterious appearance has raised questions and launch

2020-01-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Chinese paddlefish – one of the world's largest freshwater fish – has been declared extinct.Scientists say the paddlefish, also called the Chinese swordfish, is be

2020-01-21 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.The transition from childhood to the teenage years can be a difficult time. Hormones in the body can affect a young

2020-01-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Not long ago, Egypt marked the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal.The canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It helped speed worl

2020-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The idea of setting up a wealth tax to target the richest Americans has created a lot of debate in the United States.President Donald Trump calls it socialism. But Senators Elizabe

2020-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say they have identified the oldest solid material on Earth – stardust believed to have formed about 7 billion years ago. It was found in pieces of meteorite that

2020-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Increasingly intense wildfires are burning forests across Australia and the western United States. They are fueling concern among locals and health professionals about the long-ter

2020-01-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

While drinking tea with officials at a plantation in southern India, Sharda Krishnan had memories of her childhood. She thought of the farm where, as a girl, she was enslaved.Her o