2018-11-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

French officials say famed musician Yo-Yo Ma will perform at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in a World War I anniversary event.The war ended 100 years ago on November 11, 1918. More

2018-11-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Former United States President Jimmy Carter has travelled the world observing elections to find out if they are fair.Carter also is a former Democratic governor in the American sta

2018-11-01 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President Donald Trump says he wants to end to the constitutional right of citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-U.S. citizens.Trump made the comments on the tele

2018-10-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The American space agency is reporting that its Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object.NASA officials said the robotic s

2018-10-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The number of English language learners in American public schools continues to rise.About 9.5 percent of public school students were English language learners in 2015, the U.S. De

2018-10-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Halloween holiday is October 31. Tens of millions of children will put on costumes that night and visit their neighbors' homes. The neighbors will give them candy.Americans ar

2018-10-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

An Indonesian passenger airplane crashed into the sea on Monday, just minutes after taking off from Jakarta.Indonesian officials say all 189 people on Lion Air Flight 610 were like

2018-10-30 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.When trying to make a successful career, which is better: being a generalist or a specialist?In other words, should

2018-10-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Americans learned last week of pipe bombs sent by mail to Democratic Party political leaders and other critics of President Donald Trump.The leaders included former President Barac

2018-10-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Jair Bolsonaro was elected Sunday to be the next president of Brazil. Results showed that the Social Liberal Party candidate won 55 percent of the vote over Workers' Party candida

2018-10-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Germany's Angela Merkel says she will not seek a fifth term as chancellor in 2021.In an announcement on Monday, Merkel also said she would step down as leader of her conservative

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

United States health officials say an estimated 80,000 people died of influenza and problems resulting from the flu last winter.The director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China. Scientists say it is one of the world's fastest-melting glaciers.The huge body of ice i

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Water is a necessary resource for the health and survival of living things. But the availability of fresh water is decreasing for much of the world's population.The United Nations

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

An American law that blocks placement of Native American children with non-native American families was ruled illegal earlier this month.A federal judge in Texas announced the deci

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The man who has been named to be Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi is trying to find a way to reduce corruption in government.To build his government, he opened a website whe

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

European and Japanese space agencies have successfully launched a spacecraft as part of a joint effort to study Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.The unmanned "BepiColombo" sp

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

One of the easiest ways to stop the spread of disease is to simply wash your hands. Twenty seconds of handwashing with soap and water can reduce illnesses and save lives.But, many

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Generations of people in the United States have seen higher education as the best path towards a well-paying and satisfying job.But the cost of attending colleges and universities

2018-10-29 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.Food expressions are popular with language learners. They combine two things important to every culture: food and lang

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Some Catholic women are calling to remove the barriers that prevent them from reaching the highest positions in their church's leadership.They say women should be able to vote in

2018-10-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The European Union (EU) and Italy are disputing which side has control over the country's budget.Recently, the EU ordered Italy to change its proposed budget for 2019. The EU want

2018-10-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The English word "foot" has more than one meaning. In the United States, one meaning is a unit of measurement equal to 12 inches, or .3 meters. We use feet to measure height, lengt

2018-10-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A work of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) has been sold by a major art seller for the first time.The print sold for an unexpectedly large amount of $432,500. The artwor

2018-10-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In West Africa, dancing is an important part of many family traditions.An ocean away, in the United States, a German-Jamaican-American family has made performing those dances part