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Stephen Foster, 1826-1864: America's First Popular Songwriter He wrote more than two hundred songs during the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties. VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

By Sonja Pace London 06 March 2008 Britain plans to introduce a controversial identification card plan in the coming months, with foreign workers first in line to get the compulsory ID's. VOA's Sonja Pace has details from London. The British governme

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 June 2006 French President Jacques Chirac and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, left, share a few words on the steps of the Elysee Palace following their meeting in Paris Israeli and French leaders met in Paris Wednesday to discuss con

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(194) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

You know how uncomfortable it feels when you really have to go to the bathroom? And you have to hold it in? If researchers get their way, disease-carrying mosquitoes will spend their last moments being that uncomfortable. Cornell University scientist

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

HUMPTY DUMPTY Nursery Rhyme Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the Kings horses, and all the Kings men Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(327) / 评论(0) 分类 鹅妈妈童谣

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russian troops have no timetable for withdrawing from Georgia under a cease-fire agreement both sides have signed. Lavrov told reporters in Moscow today the pullout is contingent on the security situation

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

By Andre de Nesnera Washington 06 July 2006 Just a few days ago, North Korea triggered an international furor when it conducted several ballistic missile tests. In this report from Washington, VOA Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at whethe

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(220) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Every ten years the United States government counts the national population and asks people questions about how they live. Results fr

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(三)月

SAT Revisions Could Hamper International Students SAT考试改革为难国际学生 From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 The organization that administers a widely-used college entr

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(四)月

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 July 2007 Renowned British soccer star David Beckham is scheduled to play his first game with the Los Angeles Galaxy Saturday, when the Galaxy will face the visiting English team, Chelsea. However, an injury may kee

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(207) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(七月)

New Survey Finds 1/3 of World's Population Overweight Obesity is not just an American problem anymore. A recent international survey by the Worldwatch Institute, found that nearly two billion people around the world are overweight. Health statistics

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to pull no punches straight from the horse's mouth 大多数人都认为诚实和坦率是一个很好的品质,尽管我们不见得每时每刻都能够做到,美国人也不例外。在美国的日

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

音乐咖啡厅:Beckah Shae - Just to Know 相关介绍 :而这是Beckah Shae的一张最新专辑,经Montell Jordan, tobyMac Group 1 Crew 等人编制,由Shae Shoc Records音乐公司出品。 也就是说,这张专辑是由Beckah Shae自己的

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(239) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we have part two of our look at proverbs in American English. RS: We continue our conversation with Wolfgang Mieder, a professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: proverbs in American English. RS: It's tempting to call Wolfang Mieder the proverbial expert from out-of-town. A professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, he

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BERLIN, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Finnish(芬兰) soccer veteran defender Sami Hyypiae is going to quit his active career after the season 2010/2011 at his current club Leverkusen, aiming to start a professional coach schooling, Hyypiae announced on Monday.

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

和GRE写作比较起来,SAT写作要简单得多,主要表现在以下三方面: 同样主题,SAT写作题目切进角度相对较浅。 例如,隐私的这个话题,SAT只会问人是否应该保护隐私?而GRE题目则会这样说:某些明

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE作文

其实关于词汇部分,并不能固定的来讲,一个考试要考察的总词汇量减去已知的词汇量就是生词量,而GRE考试并不像国内的四六级考试一样有一个事先划定的词汇表,所以GRE生词表必然是一个

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE英语

音乐咖啡厅:Beckah Shae - Life 相关介绍:Beckah Shae很小的时候就显示出她在音乐方面的特殊天赋,常常被人们称赞为songbird。作为一名独立厂牌的音乐歌手, Beckah Shae一直都很坚持自己的音乐风格。

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(230) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅

Chelsea beat FC Nordsjaelland 4-0 in Champions League COPENHAGEN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Top English football club Chelsea beat Danish side FC Nordsjaelland 4-0 to win their first Champions League group stage match at the Parken Stadium here on Tuesday e

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻
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