2019-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say they have found high levels of small plastic particles in Arctic snow. Their findings provide more evidence that plastic is entering Earth's atmosphere and travelin

2019-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists in New Zealand have found fossilized leg bones from a penguin believed to have been about the size of an adult human.The previously undiscovered giant penguin species li

2019-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A recent study suggests that a poor-quality diet may increase the chances of weakness in older people.Researchers followed 2,154 older adults in the United States for four years. A

2019-08-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Ozaguin is one of the most popular singer-songwriters in the Central African Republic. Recently, he went to the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to mak

2019-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Iceland is successfully treating a crisis in teenage drinking. The island nation has one of the lowest rates of teen substance abuse in Europe.How did Iceland do it?The country com

2019-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In many ways, the time spent seeking an education at a college or university can be some of the best years of a person's life.College students are usually just entering adulthood.

2019-08-18 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, a program from VOA Learning English.Each week, we tell the story of words and expressions often used in American English. Some of them

2019-08-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In late August 1619, an English ship named the White Lion stopped in what is now the American state of Virginia. It left behind more than 20 captive Angolans. They were the first k

2019-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

United States Representative Rashida Tlaib has changed her plans to visit the West Bank, saying she would not enter Israel under "oppressive conditions."Tlaib wrote that accepting

2019-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Greenland, the self-ruling territory of Denmark, told the United States Friday, "We are open for business, not for sale."Greenland's foreign minister dismissed the idea of Denmark

2019-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Financial markets are giving warning signs of a recession. At the same time, the world economy is weakening, and the trade war between the United States and China has intensified.A

2019-08-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many Americans are remembering the Woodstock music festival, which took place 50 years ago this week.Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to New York's farm country for the ev

2019-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Operators of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have predicted it will run out of storage space for radioactive water in three years.The Tokyo Electric Company, or TEPCO, recently sa

2019-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Children from three communities affected by the latest mass shootings in the United States are starting a new school year. Singer Lady Gaga is trying to make their return to school

2019-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Israel announced Thursday that it will bar American congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country. The Democratic Party lawmakers had plans to visit Israel n

2019-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Norway is studying radioactivity in the air days after an explosion during the test of a rocket engine in Russia killed five people.Norway's radiation and nuclear safety office, k

2019-08-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Farmers in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh are now growing herbs instead of traditional crops such as rice, wheat and corn. They are trying to save their farms from mon

2019-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Britain will leave the European Union with or without a deal on October 31, says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Now, some health professionals are saying that leaving the EU

2019-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Apple says it will pay $1 million to any researcher who can successfully break into an iPhone. Other technology companies are also offering big payments for people to identify seri

2019-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said India's recent actions in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir areas have endangered peace in the area.Khan spoke Wednesday at a celebration o

2019-08-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."Those words were written by poet Emma Lazarus and placed on the United States' Statue of Liberty. S

2019-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

International health officials say two experimental drugs used to treat Ebola infections appear to be saving lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Dr. Anthony Fauci o

2019-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The children sit close together with little space between them. They study their notes, books and papers at desks where once there had been passenger seats.A teacher has hung their

2019-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The idea that ambassadors in Washington, DC do not know how to have fun is changing, thanks in part to diplomats from Scandinavian nations.At an event earlier this summer, musical

2019-08-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Talks between the United States and North Korea are on hold once again.North Korea has been launching ballistic missiles. And officials are warning the U.S. government to "change"