VOA慢速英语2011--Doctors Lack Many Ways to Treat Radiatio

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Countries across Asia and beyond are reporting small amounts of radiation from the disabled nuclear reactors in Japan. But officials say these levels are not a threat to public health. On Tuesday, Chines

名人轶事:Eleanor Roosevelt Was the Most Influential Wife of Any

Eleanor Roosevelt Was the Most Influential Wife of Any American President (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Shirley Griffith with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the woman who was the most influential

超级简单英语阅读:Rose Queen

She won the contest. She won the Rose Queen contest. She was the new queen for the Rose Parade. She was so happy. She would be in the parade on New Years Day. She was so excited. She would be on TV. Millions of people would see her. She would wave to

2006年VOA标准英语-New Violence Hits Nepal as Opposition Call

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 23 January 2006 Students chant slogans next to burning tires during an anti-king demonstration in Katmandu, Monday, Jan. 23, 2006 In Nepal, new fighting between security f

VOA标准英语2008年-Venezuela Hopes New Currency Will Curb Inflatio

By Brian Wagner Caracas 07 January 2008 Venezuela has launched a new currency aimed, in part, at curbing high inflation rates in the oil-producing nation. Prices have risen in Venezuela due to soaring consumer demand, creating shortages of milk, suga

VOA慢速英语2011--In Domestic Violence Cases, Children Are Often the Forgotten Victims

AMERICAN MOSAIC - In Domestic Violence Cases, Children Are Often the Forgotten Victims MARIO RITTER: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Mario Ritter. Today we listen to new music from Feist. We also read some of your recent

VOA慢速英语2011--Fathers Who Cook; Food Trucks Roll Acros

THIS IS AMERICA - Fathers Who Cook; Food Trucks Roll Across America FRITZI BODENHEIMER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Fritzi Bodenheimer. MARIO RITTER: And Im Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we hear about fathers who c

2006年VOA标准英语-Children with AIDS Pose Difficult Challeng

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 May 2006 A young HIV positive orphan lies in his cot at the Nyumbani children home, a hospice for AIDS orphans in Nairobi, Kenya Every day, nearly 1,800 children under the

VOA标准英语2011--Kenyan Women’s Groups Call for End to

As International Women's Day is observed worldwide, Kenyan women gathered in Nairobi Tuesday to speak out against the police killings of their loved ones. For women around the world, the March 8 is a day to celebrate and advance the progress of gende

2006年VOA标准英语-Serbia Denounces Kosovo Albanians' Choice

By Barry Wood Pristina 04 March 2006 Top UN administrator Soren Jessen-Petersen, left, shakes hands with Agim Ceku head of the Kosovo Protection Corps The Serbian government Friday strongly criticized

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-4

Many aspects, like its geological past, are a mystery. But some things we do know, this lonely planet has a strange sense of keeping time. Once you arrive, you have to reset your watch for a time zone like no other. It has such an unusual orbit and r

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-5

Mercury's core makes up about 60% of the planet by mass. It's about twice as big as earth. Why would it have such a huge core for such a small planet? Some people think there was a huge impact. Kind of stripped off a lot of the planet and now what we

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-6

After Messenger's 3 fly-bys, we've now mapped more than 90% of the planet. Taken from around 124 miles, these images are the clearest to date of Mercury. And it's not hard to spot a crater of epic proportions, the result of yet another Titanic collis

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-8

Reason/ you are going to go to Mercury as a travel destination would be this night sight view because it's going to be highly unique in the solar system. You have sodium thats atoms that are streaming off and giving enough to see yellow light, so you

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-11

You are there, on the most exciting, nerve-shattering journey in the history of man! Fifty years ago, it was easy for us to imagine Venus, closer to the Sun and wrapped in clouds, to be our scorched, tropical sister, swarming with life. There was thi

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-12

And thats the first time; it was return black-and-white panoramas of the Venus surface. These images were extremely important, because it was the first time, we ,human beings had a chance to see with our naked eyes completely different other world. W

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-9

And its here in a freezer that Messenger will encounter another puzzle: can ice exist on a planet so close to the sun? It's only when the first radar observations to the surface of Mercury were obtained back in the 90s that it was discovered that Mer

2007年VOA标准英语-Global Positioning Systems Now Help Doctors Per

By Carol Pearson Washington 18 May 2007 The technology that helps drivers to navigate roads and soldiers to map their positions is now helping doctors repair worn-out knees. The medical procedure is called navigational knee surgery. VOA's Carol Pears

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-15

One of the really exciting and high-level scientific interests is whether Venus is geological active today, because there are reasons to think of the clouds on Venus only exist, because there is ongoing geological activity, so this is one of the bigg

英语听力：自然百科 金星和水星旅行指南 Venus and Mercury-16

Congratulations, you've arrived on the hottest surface in the solar system. Here, the official temperature is eight hundred seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Day or night, equator or pole, the searing heat never varies more than a few degrees, and thats wh