2019-07-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

An aid group called Operation Smile has been helping people born with cleft lips and cleft palates for over 30 years.The group, based in the United States, works in countries aroun

2019-07-16 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Transportation company Uber may soon be expanding its services to Senegal's capital.Uber works much like a common taxi, except drivers and riders find each other through a smartph

2019-07-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

For many people, the sounds of a typewriter are but memories from 30 or more years ago, or something now heard only in movies.The United States has only a few typewriter repair sho

2019-07-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States, has deep ties to the U.S. space agency NASA.Every moon-walking astronaut in the Apollo program trained there. Even a crater on

2019-07-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This week, we answer a question from Ali in Iran. He writes,Question: "I want to know differences between the words 'advise' and 'advice'. Are they the same with different spel

2019-07-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Hello. Today we will start with a question for you: When you practice English more, do you remember more?If your answer is yes, one way you can say this is:The more I practice, the

2019-07-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Baby spiders enjoy the company of other spiders. But adult spiders often eat each other.New research found that the adults seem to forget how to behave with each other after being

2019-07-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The CARA Mineo, on the island of Sicily, was officially closed Tuesday. It was once Europe's largest holding area for asylum seekers and foreign migrants.At one time, more than 4,

2019-07-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

There was a time in recent American history when people depended on paper road maps. But the spread of GPS technology has changed that – probably forever.While few Americans

2019-07-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Colon cancer has affected several members of Loren McCabe's family.His great-grandmother was diagnosed too late to fight it. His grandfather did not want to travel to get treatmen

2019-07-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

California has become the first state to ban discrimination against black people for wearing natural hairstyles to work and school. This includes styles such as afros, braids, twis

2019-07-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The strongest earthquake to hit California in 20 years caused minor injuries and damage in a town near the quake's epicenter.The quake struck Thursday morning in the Mojave Desert

2019-07-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In the early 1970's, Motown Records released the Marvin Gaye song "What's Going On." The song asks for a peaceful solution to social problems."What's Going On" is very famous in

2019-07-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The bald eagle is important and has special meaning to many Americans. The bird represents the American ideal of freedom. It has served as the national symbol of the United States

2019-07-03 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Zimbabwe hosted the first United Nations and Africa Union meeting on wildlife. The country is seeking permission to sell its $600-million supply of elephant ivory and rhino horns t

2019-07-02 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Americans are divided on the issue of climate change. This divide is most apparent in Oregon, where state lawmakers had been considering a climate bill.On one side are lawmakers re

2019-07-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

When Kim Chil-doo was young, he says, he wanted to be a model. But he gave up that idea to make money. Now, at age 65, he appears in television advertisements and fashion magazines

2019-06-30 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Greece's Acropolis Museum has opened an excavation area under its modern-day building. For the first time, visitors will be able to walk through an ancient Athenian neighborhood t

2019-06-28 所属栏目:AS IT IS

As a general rule, the English language aims to avoid repetition.That's why, on Everyday Grammar, we talk about ways to shorten sentences – in spoken English and in some for

2019-06-27 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The American space agency NASA is organizing several events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 – the mission that first put a man on the moon.Recently, three astr

2019-06-26 所属栏目:AS IT IS

West Virginia has long been known as an important coal producing state in the eastern United States. But the coal business is slowing. Many mines are closing, leaving their workers

2019-06-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The world's last total solar eclipse happened in August 2017. Millions of Americans stopped what they were doing to observe the eclipse, which passed over parts of the whole Unite

2019-06-24 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A group of ocean experts has been helping a baby dugong survive off the southern coast of Thailand. Dugongs are large ocean mammals.The experts named the baby Marium. She has devel

2019-06-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

An American artist once had a celebrated history after creating Batman and Wonder Woman covers for comic books. Then he found a new life in the Holy Land. There, he draws the every

2019-06-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Millions of people in Chennai, India's sixth largest city, have run out of water.Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu, a southern state. It has an estimated 10 million people. As