2019-12-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Students from China and Singapore came out on top in an international survey of educational achievement.Results of the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, w

2019-12-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The First Lady of the United States Melania Trump is celebrating American patriotism at the White House this Christmas. She has also honored American design, inventions and buildin

2019-12-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many world leaders are gathering in Madrid, Spain to discuss how to reduce the world's temperatures. As they meet, China is expected to receive a lot of attention. China is the la

2019-12-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

An apple tree stands alone near the top of a hill. It produces the Arkansas Beauty, a fruit long believed to have disappeared from existence. Three years ago, plant experts E.J. Br

2019-12-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Life expectancy rates in the United States have been increasing for most of the past 60 years. But a new study has confirmed changes.It found that U.S. life expectancy rates decrea

2019-12-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The government of Samoa announced on Monday that five more children had died within the past day from measles.That raises the number of measles deaths on the Pacific island nation

2019-12-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The International Business Machines Corporation, known as IBM, says it is making technology for precision weather predictions available to everyone.The company said the new weather

2019-12-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the heart rate of the world's largest creature: the blue whale. To get this reading, they attached an electrocardiogram device to

2019-12-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

South Korean startup companies are planning to use their country's similarities with Vietnam to expand their businesses.The people of both countries could be called "kindred spiri

2019-12-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Whenever Mohammed al-Shenbari sees a new object, he quickly tries to find its "balancing point." In other words, he tries make it stand in a way that appears to defy gravity.The 24

2019-12-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.Each week, we explore the English language. We take a close look at words and expressions. We not only define the term

2019-12-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Yemen's civil war has resulted in widespread power outages across the country.The United Nations estimates that about 90 percent of the country's population lost electricity afte

2019-12-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

More college students are turning to their schools for help with anxiety, depression and other mental health problems.The Associated Press, or AP, reports that many students must w

2019-12-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Love songs, dance tunes, bed time songs for children – all of these kinds of music share patterns across cultures, a new study finds. Researchers who set up the study say thi

2019-11-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Thanksgiving Day is America's version of a harvest festival. The holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.This T

2019-11-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New research suggests that planting trees and other plants near factories could reduce pollution by almost one-third.The addition of plant life may even cost less and be more effec

2019-11-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

It is a dangerous time to be a child in Yemen. Besides facing war, hunger and poverty, more than 25 percent of children are not in school.But eight-year-old singer Amr Muqbel, know

2019-11-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A South African alcohol maker say it is using bodily waste from elephants to make the popular drink called gin.Les and Paula Ansley are the creators of Indlovu Gin. They came acros

2019-11-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

With Christmas a few weeks away, many Americans are busy preparing lists of what to give friends or loved ones for the holiday.This holiday season, people will be able to buy a car

2019-11-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Researchers are reporting success in using bacteria-carrying mosquitoes to fight dengue fever. Tests involving the release of laboratory-grown mosquitoes led to sharp drops in deng

2019-11-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In September 1789, the government of the United States was only a few months old. George Washington was president – the nation's first. Congress was new, too. Some of the ea

2019-11-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Dining rooms are disappearing from restaurants in the United States, as Americans increasingly use apps to order food.One example is the new Chopt Creative Salad Company restaurant

2019-11-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine meant to protect against the disease.Health numbers show more children are now being paralyzed by

2019-11-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, says the web "has changed the world for good and improved the lives of billions." But he adds that many people still have no in

2019-11-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

While the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday, some Americans are marking the day with sadness.The United American Indians of New England call the national holi