2018-11-09 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Humanitarian aid workers are often the target of armed groups in conflict areas.Recently in Nigeria, Boko Haram militants killed two aid workers they had kidnapped.In the Democrati

2018-11-09 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Samsung has provided the public a first look at its new foldable smartphone.The device was shown for the first time Wednesday during a Samsung developer's conference in San Franci

2018-11-09 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

A gunman opened fire at a crowded bar in Southern California Wednesday night, killing 12 people and wounding many others.The Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks is popular am

2018-11-09 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

This is What's Trending Today.Are you unhappy with your age? Do you feel younger than your age? Well, perhaps you should consider legally changing your birth year.That is what a D

2018-11-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

More than 100 women were elected to United States legislative office in mid-term elections Tuesday. A record number will serve in the new Congress.The results came almost two years

2018-11-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

China is developing a system that recognizes individuals by their body shape and walking movements.Systems that recognize human faces are already being used to identify people in c

2018-11-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The Roman Catholic Church on the American island of Guam is officially declaring financial failure, or bankruptcy. The move means the Church can avoid trial in more than 20 child s

2018-11-08 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

The Democratic Party is set to take control of the United States House of Representatives, following the country's midterm elections Tuesday. The Republican Party will keep its ma

2018-11-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

People in several American cities are wondering: where will the company Amazon build its new second headquarters?A recent news report in The Wall Street Journal said Amazon will di

2018-11-07 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

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