VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Remembering Norman Bo

This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Norman Borlaug led what was known as the Green Revolution. As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history -- as many as a billion, by some estimates. He traveled the wo

VOA慢速英语2009年-EXPLORATIONS - Exploring the Magical World

VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Since ancient times, cultures around the world have been making and performing with puppets. They express the ideas and beliefs of human societies

VOA慢速英语2009年-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Great Pacific Ocean

VOICE ONE: This is the VOA Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we will tell about a drug treatment for stroke victims. We also will tell about a possible explanation for the myste

VOA慢速英语2009年-THIS IS AMERICA - Secret to Avoiding Summe

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Visitors to Washington, D.C., in the summer often want to stay inside air-conditioned museums. The cooler days of fall are a good time t

VOA慢速英语 2009 011b

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Last week in our series, we talked about the election of Martin Van Buren in eighteen thirty-six as the eighth president of the United States. Martin Van Buren Van Buren had

VOA慢速英语 2009 014a

VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a writer who helped influence modern culture. Her name was Susan Sontag. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was

VOA慢速英语 2009 019a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks. He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than two

VOA慢速英语 2009 018b

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Martin Van Buren was sworn-in as the eighth president of the United States in eighteen thirty-seven. Not long after he took office, the United States suffered an economic dep

VOA慢速英语 2009 0111a

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the art collector and cultural supporter, Isabella Stewart Gardner. During the late nineteenth century, she traveled arou

VOA慢速英语 2009 011a

Now, a VOA Special English holiday program. January first. The beginning of a new year. As far back in history as we can tell, people have celebrated the start of a new year. Today, most people celebrate New Year's Day on January first. People obser

VOA慢速英语 2009 0110a

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire. The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and elec

VOA慢速英语 2009 0112a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This week in our report we are going to talk about adobe. No, not the information technology company in California, Adobe Systems. We mean the traditional building product made of soil and other ma

VOA慢速英语 2009 019b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to new music from the Killers Answer a listener question about the famous book and movie Gone With the Wind ... And, tell about America's first V

VOA慢速英语 2009 017b

VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Half Dome in Yosemite National Park And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most famous national parks in the United States. You can find it h

VOA慢速英语 2009 018a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What do you think is the most popular subject of study for international students at colleges and universities in the United States? How many of you thought of engineering? Seventeen percent of forei

VOA慢速英语2009-Economics Report - Obama Offers a Rescue Plan fo

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Barack Obama has a plan to deal with a central cause of the economic crisis: America's troubled housing market. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Through this plan, we will help between seven and nine milli

VOA慢速英语2009-IN THE NEWS - More US Troops Going to Afghanista

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w

VOA慢速英语2009-PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-196

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