时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(一)月


英语课
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university.

The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests. Vo Ngoc Toan from Vietnam would like to know about the TOEIC-- the Test of English for International Communication.
 






Graduating students and alumni at a job fair in New York



This test is designed to measure skills in English as spoken in the workplace. People may be required to take it if they apply for jobs with companies or other employers. But TOEIC scores are not used for college admission in the United States.

The Educational Testing Service administers 1 the TOEIC. It says the test measures the language skills of people working in an international environment.

American colleges and universities accept scores from the TOEFL and often the IELTS. If you missed our report on these tests, you can find it at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.

Tahir Mahmood from Pakistan asks how to improve his English before taking these kinds of tests. Well, you can start by looking for ways to use English as much as you can. Watch American movies and TV shows and read books in English. Look for English speakers to talk to.

The Internet has a lot of free resources for English learners. Visitors to voaspecialenglish.com, for example, can read, listen and watch programs on many different subjects.

The United States Department of Education recently launched a free Web site designed to help immigrants learn English. The site is called USA Learns. The address is u-s-a-l-e-a-r-n-s dot o-r-g.

Next, a question from Turkey: Hasan Eker asks about getting a postdoctoral position in the United States. This is work generally done by a person who recently earned a PhD, or doctor of philosophy degree. The National Postdoctoral Association in Washington, D.C., has information about international postdocs on its Web site. That address is nationalpostdoc -- all one word -- dot org.

And, finally, we have questions from Iran, Afghanistan and Indonesia about how to pay for an education through loans or jobs. There are rules that restrict the kinds of jobs that foreign students can have while studying in the United States. But stay tuned 2. In the next few weeks, we will discuss financial aid as we talk about the costs of an American education.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Steve Ember.



1 administers
管理( administer的第三人称单数 ); 治理(国家); 给予; 执行
  • Physical exercise administers to the circulation of the blood. 体育锻炼有助于血液循环。
  • Health administers to peace of mind. 健康有助于身心的安宁。
2 tuned
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
0349
aminoadenine
analysis and synthesis
Anglo-Israelite
archdean
Asteropyrum
average annual rainfall
black scours
brandy mint
British system of units
calnexin-t
chestguard
Christify
clearing temperature
closed-open
coleosporium paederiae
consolute solution
contempt
core earnings
cosmic geodynamics
cumstance
damper cylinder
De-Synchronize
deltawinged
diagnostic related group
diesel locomotive
difazio
dive computer
double bed furnace
drying oils
electronic recognition system
end point of theoretical electrical travel
eternal energy
fayver
Ficus stipulata Thunb.
flippin'
forging burst
full-time employment
generating plate
Goncharovka
grape leaf louse
Hanot's syndrome
healthlessness
hexagonal configuration
Holboellia brachyandra
hypogene magma
hypothetical equilibrium tide
ichthyosporidium hoferi
internal hair
intragenerational mobility
Japanese lantern
Jonancy
laxalt
Lleida, Prov.de
lowwage
lymphocytic
macritchie
macrology
Marcos
Mdandu
metapodial
Midway Park
Mithradates VI Eupator
Morlanne
mrems
nerundine
New Preston
nht
nonprocreating
paleoceanographer
partially-penetrated well
parupeneus biaculeatus
paupertate
performing arts foundation (paf)
power-assisted
precision fire
private-jet
pseudomembranosa stomatitis
punctigerous
Rallidae
reinsertion of carrier
reputed owner
reticulohistiocytoses
role of soybean production
rostromedially
Saint Teresa of Avila
sing the old song
site of customs inspection
social linguistic analysis
sodium hypochlorite solution
staircase effect
streptimidone
submarine emergency buoyancy system
tenaillons
timidest
two element field
typhoon evacuation team
ultraviolet light transducer
vacuum tube voltmete (vtvm)
whitsons
worm's eye perspective