This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. We asked a literacy professor at Vanderbilt Univ

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十)月

Burmese Skateboarders Lobby for Official Recognition The Speed Ring Skate Club, comprise of 20 young Burmese with a passion for skateboarding in a country where skateboards are rare. The skaters first learned their tricks at this park. But four years

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National Railway's Test Become Intellectual Challenge: Ticket Buyers With the Spring Festival Holiday right around the corner, huge numbers of people are already going online, booking train tickets for the most important vacation of the year. However

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And it's time now for StoryCorp, a project crisscrossing the country recording interviews between everyday people. And we're gonna hear today about two men who changed each other's lives. It began when they met ten years ago and at that time Don Boni

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According to the China Railway Guangzhou Group, around 70 percent of passengers in southern China will be using high-speed trains to travel during the Spring Festival holiday. Guangzhou South is one of the busiest train stations in China. During the

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Computers Go Head-to-Head with Humans on Face Recognition Google and Facebook both do a nice job identifying your friends in photosa testament to how good machines have gotten at studying human faces. But how well would an algorithm fare, when pitted

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图片1 This episode is about people taking attention for themselves, and the expressions we can use to talk about them! A person might steal another persons thunder by accident when they announce important news. Another person might give a great per

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

By Parke Brewer Turin, Italy 12 February 2006 Speedskater Chad Hedrick won the first gold medal for the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics Late Saturday, and in the crowd to witness his achieve

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 18 February 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met separately with Palestinian U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center left, smile following their meeting in the Wes

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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has signed decrees granting formal recognition to the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports analysts say the move could promote separatism in R

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has failed to give Russia full support for its actions in South Ossetia. VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports. Presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states pose for a photo during

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Russia's U.N. envoy has defended his government's decision to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces, saying Tbilisi's attack on South Ossetia earlier this month canceled existing U.N. resolutions that assure Georgia's territorial integrity and

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For many Olympic sports, attention comes just once every four years. VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on the push by some athletes to raise the profile of their sports in the time between Olympic Games. Women's water polo, fencing and wrestling are, as

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters following a meeting with economic advisers on Capitol Hill in Washington, 4 May 2010 Nancy Pelosi has won broad recognition as an effective Speaker of the House of Representatives. But she is also the ta

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Never before has a sitting U.S. president met with the sitting leader of North Korea. But with plans for a meeting in the works, CNN 10 starts today by explaining how it could come together and whats changed between the two rival countries to make it

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HEALTH REPORT – November 6, 2002: Study Finds Autism Increase in California By Jeri Watson This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Autism is a mysterious and complex brain disorder that begin

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Rene: Hey, look whos here. Its the companys golden boy. Bruno: Very funny. Rene: Im not joking. First, youre recognized at the annual meeting for your work in the company, and then you get a commendation from the city for your volunteer work. Im bask

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By Cathy Majtenyi Hargeisa, Somaliland 04 March 2008 The people of the African republic of Somaliland voted in 1991 to become an independent nation. They argue that there are enough cultural, political and social differences between them and the peop

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Topics: American Presidents: Jimmy Carter; The Lost Ship of the Desert Legend; phrases used to ask for status updates; to start off for; likely versus probable Words: peanut board name recognition stagflation to be taken hostage inept accord diplomat

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Topics: Famous Americans: Tyler Perry; NASA; to think on (ones) feet; plural for iPod Touch and other proper nouns; recognition versus acknowledgement Words: musical adapted uninhibited recurring to cross-dress no-nonsense to be nominated space in or

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