越南寄望地铁可以缓解交通拥堵

AS IT IS 2015-10-01 Vietnam Hopes Subways Will Ease Traffic 越南寄望地铁可以缓解交通拥堵 Vietnam is developing quickly with skyscrapers and supermarkets. But the country still lacks one kind of public transportation that many countries

VOA标准英语2010年-Palestinian Rocket Hits Israeli City o

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NPR 2010-12-20

The Senate is in session today to discuss whether to ratify START, a new arms control treaty signed by President Obama and Russian President Medvedev earlier this year. Treaties require the approval of a two-thirds majority. Vice President Joe Biden

NPR 2011-04-17

Another air traffic controller was found asleep on the job; this time in Miami. The Federal Aviation Administration says it has suspended the controller in Miami who fell asleep early this morning. The FAA also announced today it will ban scheduling

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Climate change has had a number of effects on cities around the world, including rising sea levels. And, this has become an especially big problem for coastal cities. City officials must now prepare for higher tides on their coasts. The American city

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New York City Studies Response to Rising Seas When Hurricane Sandy struck last October, New York got a taste of what its future could be. One Brooklyn youngster, Jerry Gonzalez, was in the midst of it. The water was up to half of the door, and then w

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英语作文 THE city's meteorological observatory issued a white warning sign Thursday indicating the city's weather could be influenced by a tropical sand storm in the next two days. The meteorological observatory in Beijing said the storm could hit t

维森特台风袭击中国南方

Local authorities on China's Hainan Island have upgraded wind emergency response levels from four to three as Tropical storm Vicente has grown into a typhoon. The newly formed typhoon is currently approaching the island from the Northeast. The Qiongz

中国两会将传递哪些重要信号

Almost no one eats there any more and it's not making any money: the last remaining noodle bar outside Yunfeng steel plant cannot be long for this world. It seems destined to the same way as other small shops in the same area that have already shut. 运

北京预将名牌大学迁至河北

Some prestigious universities of Beijing will be moved to neighboring Hebei province in an effort to achieve balanced development of Beijing and its neighbors and ease the increasing pressure on the capitals infrastructure and resources, according to

遛狗不清便便？DNA追责主人

Spains north-eastern city of Tarragona has threatened to use DNA analysis of dog droppings to track down owners who fail to clear up their pets mess. 西班牙东北部城市塔拉戈纳（Tarragona）扬言要对狗狗的粪便进行DNA分析，以追

上海采取措施应对海平面上升

Zhang Zhenyu, of the Shanghai Flood Risk Information Center spokesperson, said the seawalls virtually encircle half of the city. These are all the sea walls we have built, including from Hangzhou Bay to up at the top at the border with Jiangsu provin

青岛天价虾黄金周宰游客

The most high-profile scandal took place at a restaurant in the coastal city of Qingdao. A tourist from Nanjing, surnamed Zhu, complained about being overcharged for a seafood dinner. He asked us to pay over 21-hundred yuan when we finished the meal.

Typhoon-triggered rainstorm leaves 23 dead, 9 missing

WUHAN/SHENYANG/BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-three people have been confirmed dead and nine others remained missing after typhoons Damrey and Saola tore through China's eastern coastal regions over the weekend, local authorities said Monday. As

经济学人216:索马里之子-来自非洲的声音

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Japan Commemorates 6 Months Since Disasters

Japan fell silent Sunday in a solemn minute of prayer and reflection marking six months since the massive earthquake and tsunami that left 20,000 people dead or missing and sparked a nuclear crisis. Sirens wailed at 2:46 in the afternoon as tens of t

Where are you from?你回答对了么？！

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外媒:贵阳超越上海成中国最佳表现城市

Guiyang, the capital of China's poor-but-fast-growing Guizhou, edged out financial capital Shanghai as the nation's top performer, a ranking by the California-based think tank Milken Institute shows. 总部位于加利福尼亚州的智库米尔肯研究

CCTV9英语新闻：Magnitude-6.2 quake jolts waters off Taiwan

The China Earthquake Networks Center has reported a magnitude-6.2 earthquake in Taiwan. It hit the waters just east of the coastal city of Yilan at 11:17 a.m. Beijing Time. The tremor struck at a depth of 15 kilometres, and was felt as far as 60 kilo

经济学人486:辩论

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