2018-11-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A Yemeni teacher has given up a valuable part of his life to improve education in the face of continuing war. He turned his home into a school that now serves hundreds of students.

2018-11-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has presented a container of feces to visitors to a trade show in China.No, not the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Gates is at the "Reinv

2018-11-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke in Shanghai Monday to open the China International Import Expo.Xi spoke to about 3,000 business and government representatives who gathered for t

2018-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The United States again restricted Iran's oil and financial industry on Monday. Iran criticized the move.Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on Iranian television Monday that his

2018-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Pictures of the bird called the red siskin appear on Venezuela's money, on products and in school books. The "Little Cardinal," as the bird is known, is loved by Venezuelans.But t

2018-11-06 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.They are the world's smallest human beings.A premature baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of pregnancy. A mic

2018-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A large group of Central Americans is continuing toward Mexico City from the south in an effort to reach the United States.The group is trying to leave a part of Mexico that has be

2018-11-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Militants have kidnapped at least 78 students from a Christian school in northwestern Cameroon. The governor of North West Region said the kidnappers also seized the school's lead

2018-11-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The inventor of the World Wide Web has warned that the world's biggest technology companies have become too powerful and may have to be broken up.Tim Berners-Lee made the comments

2018-11-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Humans may have been enjoying cacao, the substance used to make chocolate, for much longer than experts had thought.Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada have

2018-11-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Sandy Lam has been rising early each day to swim in the waters off Hong Kong Island for nearly 30 years.Lam is 68 years old. He is part of a small community of about 50 people &nda

2018-11-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The city of San Francisco is home to some of the nation's largest technology companies, including Twitter and Uber.At the same time, it has one of the largest homeless populations

2018-11-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For a long time, the city of Venice, Italy, has suffered from the combined problems of flooding and sinking. On Monday, heavy winds pushed tides over the city's sea walls, floodin

2018-11-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new report suggests four simple ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Carbon dioxide is among the gases linked to the increase in the Earth's temperature.The Nationa

2018-11-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Colleges and universities in the United States have received more than $350 million from the government of Saudi Arabia over the past 10 years.Yet some of these schools are reconsi

2018-11-04 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 tell about terms and expressions we use in American English. We often explore their meanings and explain

2018-11-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

On Tuesday, November 6, Americans will choose hundreds of federal lawmakers and state officials

2018-11-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Thirty-year-old Shamsia Hassani is widely recognized as Afghanistan's first, if not only, female graffiti artist. Being a graffiti artist anywhere in the world presents difficulti

2018-11-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

We present the short story "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett. Dona de Sanctis wrote this version for VOA Learning English. Your narrator is Kay Gallant.The forest was full of sh

2018-11-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Amazon wants to get more young people to consider becoming computer engineers.The American technology company this week launched a program that aims to teach more than 10 million s

2018-11-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is What's Trending Today...Recently, the operators of a bookstore in Southampton, England made an unusual appeal to people in the community. They sought help moving books and

2018-11-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In a few weeks, the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. But experts in France say it could be another 100 years before France is cleansed from the weap

2018-11-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many Google employees protested Thursday against the way the company deals with sexual wrongdoing, unequal pay and discrimination.Employees walked off the job for a short period at

2018-11-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Mike Herrick has a 13-year-old daughter who enjoys using her smartphone all the time.His daughter often sends text messages to her friends, even if they are sitting a few meters ap

2018-11-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The man accused of killing 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh reportedly left messages on a small social media service.The suspect, Robert Bowers, was charged with 29 crimes, i