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The story of Noah building an ark to save his family and save thousands of animals from a flood which destroys all life on earth is an epic from many people's childhoods. It's a wonderful story found

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Broadcast: February 14, 2003 By George Grow This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. President Bush has offered a plan to speed development of technology that uses hydrogen as fuel. His goa

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This would put a pipeline to take natural gas 将设置天然气运输管线 from the Beaufort Sea through the heart 从波弗特海穿越 of the third largest watershed basin in the world, 世上第三大水域中心 and the only one which is 95 per

NPR 2012-07-04

More people are returning to their homes in Colorado, Springs; however, some are finding that their homes have been reduced to ashes. The Waldo Canyon fire destroyed hundreds of homes. The blaze is said to be about 70% contained. Two members of the p

NPR 2009-09-05

A NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan has killed or wounded at least 90 people, most of them believed to be Taliban fighters. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has more from Kabul. NATO says its aircraft targeted two fuel tankers that Taliban fighters

NPR 2010-06-12

Sixteen people are believed to be missing after heavy rains caused a flash flooding along two rivers in southwestern Arkansas. Sabrina McCormick from member station KTXK reports. Many of the dead were camping at the popular tourist camp, Albert Pike

美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-12

1. On California Santa Catalina Island, firefighters turned back flames threatening the island's main city. About 3,800 people have been evacuated. Wildfire worries are easing with the favorable forecast and the arrival of fire trucks and tankers. 2

北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 22 warm-up

[00:02.86]Unit 22 Environmental Protection Warm-up [00:08.03]Exercises 2 Listen to the news report. [00:11.71]Which of the statements are true [00:13.72]and which are false? [00:15.30]Write T for true and F for false. [00:19.26]Now over to Jim Wilson

VOA慢速英语 2008 0314a

Economics Report - Boeing Protests Air Force Contract on Tankers A deal awarded to a U.S. competitor, teamed with the parent of Europe's Airbus, angers some lawmakers in Congress. Transcript of radio broadcast: 13 March 2008 This is the VOA Special

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AS IT IS 2015-04-22 Pirate Attacks Increase in Southeast Asia 东南亚海盗袭击增加 Pirates off the coast of Somalia made big news a few years ago. But the waters of the West Indian Ocean are not the worlds most dangerous for pirate attacks rig

VOA标准英语2012--Dispute Over Supplies Leaves Gaza Short on Electricity

Dispute Over Supplies Leaves Gaza Short on Electricity Evening in Gaza. Because of a shortage of fuel, many neighborhoods get only six hours of electricity per day. Few cars pass along usually congested streets. Long lines form when a station has fue

TED演讲:石油真正的代价(9)

And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez, 然而，其中一项提案是－当然－建造输油管供应比Exxon Valdez大10倍的巨型油轮装载原油， through some

每日一词【844】fuel：刺激

今天我们要学的词是fuel。 Fuel, 做为动词，有刺激的意思。The basketball player put his house up for sale, fueling speculation that he is being traded, 这个篮球队员正在卖房子，大家因此猜测，他可能要被球队换

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The Saudi-led intervention is pitting the Saudis and their Arab allies against Iran, which is widely believed to be backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen. This has led to the prospect of a wider conflict emerging. It's since prompted the United Nations

Iran denies crude oil to Greece: local media

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran has refused to deliver oil to Greece in Persian Gulf, the local Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic refused to deliver a shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to one of the refineries in Greec

Turkish-Kurdish Oil Deals Upset Baghdad

ISTANBUL Growing tensions between Baghdad and the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdish government over control of the country's energy reserves is threatening to pull neighboring Turkey into the deepening dispute. This past weekend, Iraq warned Ankara that s

Many die in Afghan tanker blasts

At least 90 people have been killed after a Nato air strike blew up two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials say. Nato confirmed(确认) to the BBC that an air strike happened in Kunduz province on the main road to B

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The importance of Guinea to China is clear. 几内亚对中国的重要性显而易见。 The authorities in Beijing have promised the government a $20bn loantwice the country's GDPto be paid to Guinea in instalments over 20 years, 北京当局承诺为