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VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about writer Zora Neale Hurston. She was one of the most recognized black women writers. She wrote seven books and m

VOA慢速英语2009-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Tree Deaths in Western US

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about one explanation for many trees dying in the western United States. We will tell about a project to make e

VOA慢速英语2009-Development Report - A Doctor Who Left His Mark

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared the end of an outbreak of Ebola virus. Cases were first identified in December in the southern province of Kasai Occidental. The W

VOA慢速英语2009-AMERICAN MOSAIC - Road to Hollywood Gold: The Os

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Workers finish the preparation and mailing of final Oscar ballots in January I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week -- the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its yea

VOA慢速英语2009-THIS IS AMERICA - The Truth About Cats and Dogs

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VOA慢速英语2009-Health Report - New Test Could Speed Tuberculosi

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis killed one million three hundred thousand people around the world in two thousand seven. In addition, almost half a million people who were infected with tuberculosis and with H.I.V. also d

VOA慢速英语2009-EXPLORATIONS - Environmental Film Festival Shows

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C., has been bringing movies to America's capital for seventeen years. This year, the twelve-day

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. March Madness is the name for the busy championship season in American college basketball. But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and un

VOA慢速英语2009-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Recession Raising Stress L

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Dwayne Speller, 22, waits to talk to a job adviser in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.1 percent in February,

VOA慢速英语2009-Development Report - Growing Crops With Less Wat

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA慢速英语2009-Agriculture Report - Working Magic in the Garden

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beans are a popular choice for home gardens. Specialists at the University of Illinois Extension say bush beans need the least work. The plants do not need supports to stand. Green bush beans used

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. On our show this week: We answer a question from a listener about the Great Lakes... Play music by Bright Eyes... And report about an event called The Big Draw. The

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus is believed to have made a list of what he thought were the most extraordinary s

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in uniform at a Texas middle school A listener in Fukuoka, Japan, Shinji Abe, would like to know about school uniform policies in the United States. American schoolchildren often wear uniform

VOA慢速英语 200707130041

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Personal finance is an increasingly complex world. There are more ways to invest money, more ways to save it -- and more ways to lose it. Yet many people are more strangers to this world than they mig

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VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Tony Riggs with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell the story about the presidential election of nineteen ei

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. An allergy is an unusually strong reaction to a substance. Many things can cause allergies. The most common cause is pollen. Trees usually produce pollen in the spring, grasses in the summer and weeds in

VOA慢速英语 200707090045

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we tell about the history of one of the most popular and colorful toy products in America. Generations of American children ha

VOA慢速英语2011--Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together on Some Farms

Agriculture Report - Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together on Some Farms 农业报道 - 烟草与虾共生 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 A cash crop is a crop grown for money. F

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Doctors currently identify autism disorders by observing behavior. Autism affects social and communication skills. It usually first appears in young children. Now, researchers in the United States think