2010-05-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs.At th

2010-05-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.A.D.H.D. is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Government estimates say three to seven percent of school-age children in the United States have it.

2010-05-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

MARY TILLOTSON: This is Mary Tillotson.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about Amelia Earhart. She was one of America’s first

2010-05-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown in six provinces in northern China. The study involved bollworms, a major threa

2010-05-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.FAITH LAPIDUS: And I’m Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about a United Nations warning about Earth’s natural envir

2010-05-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Researchers say they have found a way to extend the storage life of a drug used to treat H.I.V. Their work could give infected mothers in the develop

2010-05-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about a musical play that is fifty years

2010-05-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories.Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.Somet

2010-05-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN: I’m Barbara Klein.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we remember the singer and actress Lena Horne. She helped break racial barriers

2010-05-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Thailand's prime minister is urging national unity after ten weeks of anti-government protests in the capital. Abhisit Vejjajiva says the government has ret

2010-05-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce competition on the Internet. Now the Federal Communications Commission has a

2010-05-21 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)I’m Doug Johnson.Today we listen to new music from the Deftones ...And we answer a question about a great American writer ....Bu

2010-05-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.An international conference took place this week in Dakar, Senegal, to find new ways to get and keep girls in school.The United Nations Children's Fun

2010-05-20 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.In our last program, we told you how the flow of immigration to the United States began to change in the ei

2010-05-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men.Rheumatoid arthritis is considered

2010-05-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: I’m Steve Ember.BARBARA KLEIN: And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this summer can see a powerful exhibit that tells about a dar

2010-05-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Grafting is a way to produce plants from pieces of existing plants instead of seeds.Branches or buds are cut from one plant and placed on a related k

2010-05-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes.(MUSIC)BOB DOUGHTY: At the start

2010-05-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Delegates from around the world have agreed on a new plan to end the worst kinds of child labor by two thousand sixteen. More than four hundred fift

2010-05-17 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith.STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about Nashville, Tennessee, and its effo

2010-05-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

I'm Susan Clark with WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, a program in Special English on the Voice of America.People often say that money talks. They mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she

2010-05-16 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember.BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about James Brown, the musician called "The Godfather of Soul."(MUSIC)

2010-05-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court this week. She would replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the nine-member

2010-05-15 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES.(MUSIC)Our story today is called "The Lady in Black." It was written by Eleanor H. Porter. Here is Faith Lapidus with the story.FAITH LAPIDUS: Th

2010-05-14 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.European Union officials agreed on a debt rescue plan this week. They also got a message from Britain's new governing parties.WILLIAM HAGUE: "It was n