VOA慢速英语20061228a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about the costs of higher education for students who want to study in the United States. Today, as our Foreign Student Series cont

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NPR 2009-03-27

From NPR news in Washington. I'm Jack Speer. A key Senate committee has sighed off on President Obama's budget blueprint setting the stage for debate on the 3.6 trillion dollars spending package some time next week. Approval by the Senate Budget Com

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This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on performance appraisals. In the first lesson, we covered giving feedback. In this podcast, we will discuss setting goals. The American poet Carl Sandberg once said, Nothing happens unless

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I volunteered this year to build my mother an arbor in her back garden. She has a small patio at the back of her house with three borders(1) for planting. Because it gets so hot from late spring to the middle of autumn, she decided that she'd like a

NPR 2009-6-18

President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

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Setting up a staff meeting A: Were going to need everybodys input on this project. So Id like to fix a time to meet next week and hear what you all have to say. B: Id prefer to meet in the morning. Im going to be out of the office most afternoons nex

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Setting up a birthday party A: Well, Cindy. We were going to try to surprise you for your birthday. But youre just too busy! Can you tell me when youll be free? B: Oh, Brian. Thats really sweet of you guys. I would love to get together with all of yo

SSS 2008-02-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to

NPR 2010-05-02

President Obama plans to get a close-up look at the oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House says the president plans to head south tomorrow, but aides are not saying exactly where or what time Mr.Obama plans to arrive. The news came as Pr

NPR 2010-03-07

At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

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A: How much do you think that I should ask for my house? B: Well, there are a lot of factors involved in setting an asking price. A: What do you look at when setting an asking price? B: We need to look at the selling prices for similar homes in the a

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In many countries it has long been the tradition to hold an annual tree or forest festival. The origin of such celebrations dates back to antiquity and is in the dawn of religious feeling and awe for what trees represented. However, Arbor Day, as it

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Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re

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Come all young fellows that carry a gun, Beware of late shooting when the Daylight is done. It is my reckoning that many hazards They may run. I shot my true love at the setting of the Sun. In a shower of rain my darling did lie, All under the bushes