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VOA News Item 1. 政治：战后多年韩国与美国检查指挥权移交The U.S. and South Korean militaries say they would fight a second Korean War, if it became necessary, side-by-side and seamlessly.For decades, their alliance has deterred a repeat of the North Korean attack of June 25th, 1950. Seoul has always agreed that U.S. forces would have command of South Korea's military if war re-ignites. But that is to change in April 2012, when Seoul assumes wartime operational control of its own forces, a step referred to as OPCON Transfer.VOA News Item 2. 社会：美国婴儿母乳喂养A new survey finds that three-quarters of U.S. newborns are breastfed beginning at birth. But the number of breastfeeding infants falls off rapidly during the first year of life.Seventy-five percent of babies started life breastfeeding, according to this latest Breastfeeding Report Card. That represents a slow but steady increase in recent years in the percentage of American infants who are breastfed.The new survey is for babies born in 2007, the most recent year available.The breastfeeding study comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A public health adviser at the agency, Carol MacGowan, says it's not enough for a new mom to want to breastfeed her baby."There's still a lot of practices that need to take place in the hospital to support the mother's decision to breastfeed." "So she may have decided to breastfeed, but if there's no support in place that helps her to continue that, then she may not even start."Hospital practices that encourage breastfeeding include putting the newborn skin-to-skin with the mother right after birth, and not offering infant formula or pacifiers.Although three out of four babies started life on their mother's milk, by the time they're six months old, just 43 percent were still breastfeeding. And by 12 months, only one baby in five was getting any breast milk.U.S. officials recommend babies be breastfed for the first year of life. The World Health Organization says breastfeeding should last two years.MacGowan says there are a number of reasons why American women don't continue breastfeeding. "Some of it is the community support; thus, we address the number of lactation professionals out there to help the women. A big barrier to women is working and breastfeeding. It's a perceived barrier in some cases. It's a real barrier in others."But despite the barriers, the underlying message is that breast milk is the right food for babies. Many studies have shown that infants who are fed breast milk are healthier." The benefits are multiple. Everything from prevention of certain infectious and chronic diseases ---respiratory, for example, being one, decreasing the severity of asthma, if they're prone to asthma---and chronic disease such as diabetes and obesity."Mothers benefit too. Breastfeeding lowers the risk of some cancers, naturally promotes spacing between pregnancies, and it costs less, too.VOA News Item 3. 政治：联合国大会致力于减少贫穷、饥饿和疾病The U.N. General Assembly's annual debate gets under way on September 23. Leaders andrepresentatives from all 192 member states are expected to address the gathering. In a long-established tradition, Brazil's president will open the debate, followed by the U.S. president as the leader of the host nation.This year's debate will be preceded by a three-day summit on the Millennium Development Goals. Some 140 presidents and prime ministers are expected to attend.The goals are meant to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that with the target date just five years off, many countries are in danger of not meeting the goals, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. But he said recently that with the right strategies countries can close those gaps.VOA News Item 4. 经济：印度货币有了新标志The search for a symbol for the Indian rupee began more than a year ago, when the government decided that the currency needed an identifiable symbol.After going through 3000 entries submitted in a national competition, a panel of bankers, officials and artists chose the new symbol. It is a mix of the Roman letter "R" and its Hindi equivalent in the ancient Devanagari script.Information minister Ambika Soni said the decision to have a symbol for the rupee is significant.VOA News Item 5. 政治：巴以第二轮直接和谈结束Secretary of State Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. There was no statement and no details of what, if any, progress might have been made after two days of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. President Abbas sounded positive in his remarks as he began his meeting with Mrs. Clinton.He says everyone knows that there is no alternative other than negotiating for peace.The Palestinian leader thanked the Obama administration for its commitment to mediating a peace deal. Clinton said the United States will press ahead with its efforts to bring about an agreement. “The United States and all of us led by President Obama are very committed and determined to work toward a peace agreement through direct negotiations that leads to an independent, sovereign, viable, Palestinian state that realizes the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”The talks began Tuesday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh. It was the second round of direct negotiations after a 20-month hiatus.Secretary Clinton then traveled to Amman in neighboring Jordan for a meeting and lunch with King Abdullah, before heading back to Washington.There are questions of whether the negotiations could last beyond the end of the month. The Palestinians have threatened to quit talks if Israel does not extend a self-imposed partial moratorium on construction inside Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The temporary freeze expires on September 26, and Israel has given no hint that it will extend it.The Palestinians say the presence of more than 100 Israeli settlements impede the establishment of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state.Militants in the Gaza Strip, which is not under the control of President Abbas' Palestinian Authority, oppose the negotiations with the Jewish State. They stepped up their attacks this week, firing anumber of rockets into southern Israel. Israel responded by launching air attacks inside the Gaza Strip.VOA News Item 6. 健康：感冒疫苗可降低心脏病风险Getting a flu shot can help prevent influenza. But now, a large study in Britain indicates that older adults who get an annual flu vaccination are less likely to suffer a heart attack.The study involved more than 78,000 people, age 40 and older.Researcher Niroshan Siriwardena of Britain’s University of Lincoln who led the study."Our research suggests that flu shots are associated with a reduction in relative risk of heart attack in adults by about 19 percent."The reduction was even higher - 21 percent - for people who got their vaccination early in the flu season.The results were mathematically adjusted to reflect the fact that people who are at higher risk for heart attack in the first place are more likely to get a flu shot.Although Siriwardena is careful to point out that his study is one of associations, not necessarily cause-and-effect, he does offer one possible link between the seemingly unrelated conditions of influenza and heart attack.VOA News Item 7. 政治：广播电台致力于赋权予巴勒斯坦女性Halla Bazzar, an attractive woman in her 20s, begins her afternoon show. For this young professional, the job is more than just running a show. It is about giving women living in conflict a key to success. "We talk about issues that would inspire women in the future."Giving women hope for the future is one of the goals of the station, Nisaa FM, which started broadcasting this month from the West Bank town of Ramallah.Founder and manager Maysoun Odeh tells VOA the station wants to entertain, but also empower women. "We broadcast success stories of women regionally, internationally, or locally in which they can take example from, and they know that they can do something and they can achieve something regardless of the situation."The day-to-day situation for many Palestinian women living under occupation involves supporting their children while their husbands are in prison, finding housing after their homes are demolished, and navigating their way through Israeli checkpoints.Wafa Abdel Rahman, a woman's activist with the West Bank group Filastiniyat, says Palestinian women also face cultural issues."We suffer, as the rest of the women in the Arab world suffer, political Islam - the interpretation of Islam, which actually, is putting more burden on the women." "It portrays women as if they are the key to the honor of the family. If you are a good Muslim or not depends on how is your woman. Is she covered? Is she following all the instructions, etcetera. This is really hard on women."Abdel Rahman welcomes the new station. "We need a radio that brings out all those issues." "But also to take it a step further and think how we can - not only women but also men - how we can together change the status of women and make it better."The station, whose name "Nisaa" means "woman" in Arabic began operations this month with the help of Smiling Children, a Switzerland-based humanitarian foundation.VOA News Item 8. 政治：波兰期望关闭决胜投票Sunday, Polish voters are choosing their new president from between two candidates. One is the Speaker of Parliament and Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski, from the governing center-right Civic Platform party. The other is Jaroslaw Kaczynski from the far-right Law and Justice party. Neither candidate was able to win an outright majority in the first round of voting June 20th.Kaczynski is running in the place of his twin brother, the late President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in April along with his wife Maria and 94 others in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. The crash moved the presidential election forward nearly four months.Before the first round of voting, opinion polls had placed Komorowksi firmly in the lead. But the results were closer than predicted, with only a five percent difference between the two men. Grzegorz Makowski of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs explains this surge of support for Kaczynski, saying he thinks the plane crash at Smolensk mobilized more conservative voters. If the crash had not happened, he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round."I am almost 99 percent sure that if it didn't happen, probably Lech Kaczynski would lose these elections in the first round," "I think it had a really strong impact on those who were passive. Maybe not on those who were against Kaczynski and they dislike him, it didn't change their opinions. But it made those who were passive, and those who were potentially supporters of Kaczynski, active. Because of Smolensk, I thinkthey started thinking that maybe we should be more conservative."Kaczynski has run an effective advertising campaign, and may well have gained ground over the last two weeks.At the moment, Komorowski's Civic Platform party controls parliament. Makowski says Kaczynski has played on his status as opposition leader by arguing that it could be dangerous for the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) to control both the Parliament and the Presidency."This is a very populist argument, but it works. People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, oh, we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma. "Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.At this point, most analysts agree that the race is too close to call. Final results are expected to be announced on Monday.VOA News Item 9. 政治：据报道俄罗斯科学家在与美间谍交换中被释放A lawyer for an imprisoned Russian nuclear expert, Igor Sutyagin, says her client was released Thursday from a jail in Moscow and flown to Vienna. Other reports say he will be transferred later into British custody.His family says his release is part of an exchange for suspected Russian agents detained last month in the United States in a high-profile case. Neither U.S. nor Russian officials have confirmed the reports.Sergei Markov, a deputy in the Russian State Duma from the ruling United Russia party, said he has heard the rumors of an exchange. He tells VOA that if such a thing occurs, it represents a kind of confession from both the United States and Russia."I think most important is that by exchange, both sides recognize that those arrested people - they are spies."Sutyagin was serving a 15-year prison sentence, after being convicted of sending classified information to a British firm that Russian authorities said was a front for U.S. intelligence.He and his family have repeatedly denied his guilt. His case has been championed by human rights groups who say he was unfairly persecuted by the government. But Markov says the United States has already confirmed he was a spy."It was a very big shock for some of the Russian human rights activists who protected Sutyagin for many years, repeating many times that he is, you know, a scientist who is being arrested by the KGB, by Putin, Putin is oppressing science and so forth."Meantime, the ten members of the alleged Russian spy ring operating in the United States are charged with conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents. They are accused of seeking to infiltrate U.S. policy-making circles and to gather information on U.S. political affairs. Nine of them are also charged with money laundering.An eleventh suspected was detained briefly in Cyprus, but went missing after being released on bail.VOA News Item 10. 政治：报道称2010年海盗袭击数量下降The coast of Somalia remains a major piracy hotspot, the location of more than half this year's pirate attacks. But International Maritime Bureau Director Pottengal Mukundan says the target area is widening."The fact is that the Somali pirates are ranging further out than they have ever done before. We are talking of going 1,000 nautical miles away from the coast in order to attack ships, board them, hijack them and then bring them back into Somalia until a ransom is paid for their release."The International Maritime Bureau recorded 196 piracy incidents in the first six months of the year - about 20 percent less than the same period last year.In the Gulf of Aden there were 86 pirate attacks in the first half of 2009 and 33 so far this year. Mukundan says foreign navies, which have operated in the Gulf of Aden since 2009, have been instrumental in reigning in piracy in the area. But he says piracy is more difficult to manage in the Indian Ocean."It is a huge, huge expanse of sea, very difficult for the navies to effectively monitor it and deal with it in the way it has been successfully dealt in the Gulf of Aden."He says he thinks by the end of 2010 the number of piracy attacks may match or even exceed the 2009 total."At the moment we are seeing a lull because of the southwest monsoons in the Indian Ocean, where these small pirate skiffs cannot operate, but the southwest monsoons will subside by the end of August and then we expect the pirates to be back there trying to seize the ships."According to the International Maritime Bureau report, the first half of the year has seen one crewmember killed, 597 crewmembers taken hostage, and 16 injured.。
英美报刊选读36新闻英语的分类 软新闻硬新闻
新闻英语的分类: 软新闻硬新闻硬新闻（Hard News）和软新闻（Soft News）是西方新闻界新闻业务中老生常谈的两个基本概念。
在英、美及澳大利亚大学新闻系的新闻写作教材中，硬、软新闻的分类之所以成为喋喋不休的话题，是因为对这两种新闻形式的科学区分直接涉及对新闻报道类别和写作方法的确认。
对此问题的宏观把握有着重大的理论和实践意义。
它们的主要分法是：将硬新闻和软新闻一分为二，在这两个巨大的框架之下对新闻文体进行分类，然后再研究导语和主干的关系。
这种两分法似乎可以这样概括：硬新闻：一种强调时间性和重大性的动态新闻形式，重在迅速传递消息。
软新闻：一种注重引起读者兴趣的新闻形式，重在引起受众的情感呼应。
比如愉悦或深思等，更多地强调人类兴趣。
二者之间的联系：都是新闻；新闻价值的诸种要素（如时间性、重要性、接近性等）都起作用。
二者之间的区别：1．要求重点不同：硬新闻重在迅速传递信息，强调时间性，多为动态新闻和现场报道。
软新闻重在引起读者兴趣和情感呼应。
2．尽管新闻价值和诸种要素都起作用（特别是时间和重大性），但硬新闻要求的程度较高，软新闻要求的程度相对较低。
3．写作方面：硬新闻有一定之规（在大多数情况下沿用倒金字塔结构）；软新闻则不拘一格。
硬新闻直接了当，简明扼要，形式简练，具有直接性；软新闻样式复杂，细节描写和记者感情色彩占据重要地拉，具有间接性。
硬新闻形式上基本是动态新闻，软新闻则有软消息和特写之分。
4．在新闻导语方面，硬新闻将最重要的事实放在最前面，要求开门见山，一语中的，概括新闻的中心。
软新闻导语则不拘一格，有较大的宽容性。
概而言之，新闻的基本形式是硬新闻和软新闻；它们的侧重点不同，导语和文体写作要求也不同。
由此出发，可以这样认为，硬新闻即动态新闻。
除动态新闻以外的新闻都可以划入软新闻。
软新闻是一个大类，其中包括不少品种，在西方新闻学中，它基本包括“软消息”（Brief soft news）和“特写”（Feature story）。
VOA Special English 广播节目简介
VOA Special English 广播节目简介美国之音（以下称VOA）的英语节目，按播音速度可分为两种：Standard English （标准英语）和Special English（特别英语）。
Special English 又叫“慢速英语”，是VOA专为全世界非英语国家初学英语的听众安排的一种简易、规范的英语广播节目。
该节目创始于50年代末期，是VOA的专家们研究如何与世界各地的英语学习者进行交际的产物。
它正式开播于1959年10月。
当时只面向欧洲和中东，但由于这个节目适合许多国家英语学习者的需要，所以它的广播对象不久就扩大到世界其他地区，并很快在全世界范围内产生了广泛的影响。
现在这个节目对欧洲、非洲和拉丁美洲每晚广播一次，对加勒比地区每晚广播一次（星期天除外），对东南亚广播次数最多，每天上午两次，晚上三次。
30多年来，VOA为了办好Special English节目，进行了大量的调查研究工作，对播音速度、内容及用词范围都作了具体规定，基本上达到了既能为英语学习者提供信息，又不损害英语本身风格的目的，使之成为VOA独具特色，拥有最大量听众的节目。
美国著名词汇学家S. B. Flexmer 指明了Special English的三条标准，也就是它所“特别”的地方：1、它是一种由美国人最常用的1500个基本单词为主体构成的美国英语；2、它用简短、明晰的句子写作和广播；3、它以每分钟90个单词的速度，即2/3的Standard English（标准英语）速度进行广播。
Special English的节目可分为两大类：一类是新闻节目；一类是专题节目。
1．新闻节目VOA Special English 的新闻广播向听众提供世界范围内的政治、经济、军事、外交、国际关系、宗教、天气以及各种重大事件和珍闻奇事等各个方面的信息，每天向东南亚地区广播五次，早上两次，晚上三次，每逢半点播出。
Special English新闻节目每次长约十分钟，大都播出十条左右新闻，近一千个单词，每条新闻多为一分钟，但偶尔也有长达两分钟的要闻。
VOA新闻50篇
VOA新闻50篇VOA News Item1经济：印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday.They met on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.The agreement creates one of Asia’s biggest trading areas and integrates India’s fast growing economy with10of its neighbors.Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to$40billion each year.Under the pact,India and ASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by2016.VOA News Item2政治：英国政党领袖进行电视辩论第二轮角逐Britain’s political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties—the Conservatives,now led by David Cameron,and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.But a third party,the Liberal Democrats,are turning this election into a three-horse race.Their campaign was given a major boost by Britain’s first ever televised debate last week; Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged as the clear winner.Viewer polls taken after this second debate,which focused on foreign policy,showed there was no runaway victor.The last time Britain had a hung parliament was in1974.A final televised debate is to take place next Thursday,followed by the election on May6.VOA News Item3政治：参议院就索托马约尔就任最高法院大法官进行了讨论On the second day of debate all signs continued to point toward an easy confirmation win for Sotomayor,the55-year-old federal court judge nominated by President Barack Obama earlier this year.Although most of the40Senate Republicans are likely to vote against her,the decision Wednesday of Missouri Senator Kit Bond added to the number of Republicans who have committed to voting for her.Senator Bond,who is one of several Republicans retiring from the Senate next year,said while he respects and agrees with the legal reasoning others in his party used to oppose Sotomayor, lawmakers have an obligation to show deference to a president’s choice of a nominee.VOA News Item4政治：南部非洲的部长们准备报告区域危机Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community met in Maputo to prepare a report on the region’s political crises.It is to be presented to African leaders at their upcoming summit in Ethiopia.SADC’s Political and Diplomatic Committee has been mediating three major crises in the region.SADC officials said the ministers are pleased the various parties to the unity government inZimbabwe resumed negotiations on implementing their power-sharing agreement.They said they believed Zimbabwe was on the right path.The officials said the ministers also believe that progress is being made toward easing the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that reconciliation efforts between the government and various rebel groups were on the right track.But the officials said they were less optimistic about the political crisis in Madagascar.It erupted in March after Andry Rajoelina,backed by the military,seized power following the ouster of then-President Marc Ravalomanana.SADC and the African Union do not recognize the Rajoelina government and have suspended Madagascar from their organizations.VOA News Item5政治：以色列国防部长遭到恐吓Security has been tightened around Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he received dozens of death threats.Security sources say the threats were made by Jewish militants who oppose the government’s partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.The freeze was imposed in November under pressure from the United States,which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.The death threats are being taken seriously.In1995,Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Orthodox Jew opposed to his policy of trading land for peace with the Palestinians.VOA News Item6政治：泰国军警围捕红衫军领袖行动失败Government officials say they will investigate just how three leaders of the anti-government protests managed to escape when police tried to surround their hotel Friday.One of the leaders climbed down three floors using a rope,and was rushed away by supporters thronging the building.Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to clashes with security forces last Saturday that left24soldiers and protesters dead.The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks and fired on troops trying to disperse a rally.The anti-government movement,led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship or UDD,demands that the Government call fresh elections.UDD supporters have held protests in Bangkok for more than a month.Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost20years.Some parties in the governing coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions.But the government says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.VOA News Item7政治：吉尔吉斯斯坦政变威胁美军基地未来Kyrgyzstan’s five-day-old provisional government is vowing to use the country’s military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate his departure from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocentcivilians.The president was effectively ousted after last Wednesday’s clashes between government forces and protesters.Authorities say about80people have died and more than1,600were wounded.VOA News Item8政治：内塔尼亚胡称以色列只能依靠自己On the eve of Israel’s62nd Independence Day,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation must not rely on the help of foreigners.Commentators say it is a clear reference to Israeli ties with the United States,which have plummeted over Jewish construction in disputed in East Jerusalem.The U.S.backs Palestinian demands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.But Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital,and anyahu,who heads a right-wing government,has rejected U.S.demands to stop building there.As a result,the Palestinians have refused to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks,and the diplomatic process has been deadlocked for15months.Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a softer approach.Barak said Israel would not make any compromises when it comes to the security of the state.But he said it would show courage in the struggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.VOA News Item9经济：非洲农民种植有机作物供应欧洲市场Nearly5,000farmers in Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal,and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe,after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion,increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.30small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from26tons to more than115 tons after gaining their organic certification.Pascal Liu is an economist with the FAO’s trade and markets division.Liu says the United Nations expects demand for organic foods will grow by between five and15percent during the next five years.And African farmers are well positioned to benefit from more people eating healthier food.VOA News Item10经济：债务危机扩展到希腊以外The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.The aim:to get agreement on a bailout package for Greece.Greece has been in negotiations with EU member countries and the IMF to secure a bailout —money that would allow it to pay debts coming due in time to avoid having to default.In return Greece is under pressure to restructure its economy and implement austerity measures.Disgruntled public-sector workers went on strike in Greece Wednesday to protest against thecutbacks.A daylong general strike has been called for next week.Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout,seeing it as foreign interference.Worries about the Greek economy’s potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.And help is imperative because the Greek crisis could spread.A joint EU-IMF package for Greece is put at$60billion,but some European officials said Wednesday the full cost could be much higher,reaching about$160billion over three years.VOA News Item11经济：奥巴马致华尔街：别抵制金融改革Aiming his appeal directly at the financial industry and skeptics within it,and at Republican critics in Congress,the president warned of the danger of a repeat of economic collapse.Calling the financial crisis the outcome of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street to Washington,he said the time has come to seize the moment to make fundamental changes in the rules of the financial road.With many,but not all,of the most prominent executives of Wall Street firms present,the president outlined key aspects of legislation the U.S.Senate will debate in coming days.These include steps to impose new oversight and controls on hedge funds and complex financial instruments known as derivatives,and protections for consumers of financial products.Of particular importance would be a system to ensure that troubled financial companies could be dismantled in an orderly way without posing the kind of systemic risk they did in2008.Calling the Senate bill and one the House of Representatives approved last year a significant improvement over flawed rules now in place,he said changes would be advantageous for the industry and the country.VOA News Item12经济：亚洲航空遭受冰岛火山喷发影响The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated$200 million a day in revenue as a result of airline groundings related to the Iceland volcano.Albert Tjoeng,a Singapore-based spokesman for the association,says that is just part of the problem.Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work.The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller Southeast Asia countries,where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.VOA News Item13经济：WFP对尼日尔粮食援助加倍The World Food Program is now expecting to feed more than1.5million people in next month’s general food distribution,along with specialized therapeutic feeding for500,000children under the age of six.That is because poor rains last year have brought forward the time when people no longer have enough to eat.WFP is trying to raise$182million to scale up its operations in Niger.The U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization is also stepping in to aid cattle herders in Niger and Chad.Livestock pastures are dry,so herders are selling their animals at lower prices to buy food for their families.Eight FAO projects in Niger worth more than$12million are aimed at helping two million people.VOA News Item14经济：立法者、反对者和媒体齐聚2010底特律车展Cobo Center is home to the2010North American Auto Show in downtown Detroit.For the event,the Center has been transformed into an expanse of flashy displays and trendy marketing displays,featuring the latest in automotive engineering.Known as the Detroit Auto Show,the annual event is one of the industry’s biggest.It helps generate publicity for some models,like the newly-redesigned Ford Focus,and it helps promote new technology,like the electric battery in the Chevrolet Volt.But in the wake of one of the worst years for U.S.automobile sales,this year’s show has a different feel.General Motors and Chrysler—two of the Detroit“Big Three”automakers,which also include Ford—went bankrupt last year and received billions of dollars in federal aid.Although some of that money has been paid back,the ernment is still a major shareholder in both companies.VOA News Item15经济：世博会在上海开幕China celebrated the opening of the2010World Expo in Shanghai with an evening of fireworks and fanfare.Dubbed the“Economic Olympics,”by Chinese officials,some190nations and50international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.Similar to how2008Beijing Olympic Games put the Chinese capital in the international spotlight,Shanghai’s hosting of the World Expo has given the city of20some million people and China a chance to showcase its emergence as a global economic power.The theme for the Shanghai World Expo is“Better City,Better Life”and features major exhibitions that look at modern and future urban life,and consider issues such as sustainable development and the interaction between cities and the environment.The Shanghai2010World Expo runs until the end of October.VOA News Item16经济：经济衰退已过，债务危机依旧First the good news:after contracting slightly in2009,global economic output is expected to grow more than4percent this year,according to the International Monetary Fund.With a fledgling recovery gaining strength,it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago,an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the1930s.In short,the pain,havoc,and economic devastation could have been far worse,according to the head of the U.S.Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,Texas,Richard Fisher.Addressing central bankers from Europe and elsewhere,Fisher said central banks and national governments averted catastrophe through aggressive intervention.VOA News Item17军事：以色列成功试射导弹防御系统Rocket alarms have terrified Israeli border communities near the Gaza Strip for years.Butnow Israel has a high-tech answer to the thousands of low-tech rockets that Palestinian militants have fired across the border since Israel pulled out of Gaza in2005.Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome defense system,which uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and can shoot them down within seconds of their launch.The system was developed by Rafael,the Israel Military Industries,at a cost of$200million.VOA News Item18军事：美国正在尝试培训黑客来对抗罪犯和间谍Computer security engineer Alan Paller recalls how the Soviet Union’s1957launch of Sputnik,the world’s first artificial satellite,spurred the ernment to accelerate its lagging space technology program.Now Paller,research director at an educational company called the SANS Institute,is leading the campaign to bring that kind of energy to defending cyberspace from assault by pranksters,thieves and spies.VOA News Item19社会：挫败底特律机场袭击事件凸显以色列的安保成功It’s another day of stringent security checks at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.About a million passengers pass through the airport each month,on average.But here,the lines move quickly thanks to what Israeli security experts say is an approach that—unlike other countries—relies more on eye contact with passengers and less on technology.VOA News Item20社会：意大利三名医生在阿富汗被捕The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province,due in part to its policy of treating all patients.Afghan officials said they detained three Italian Emergency workers Saturday,a doctor,a nurse and a logistics worker.Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000as an advance payment for killing him.In total nine people,including six Afghans,were held after explosive suicide vests,hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand’s capital,Lashkar Gah.Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group’s three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.VOA News Item21军事：利比里亚人反对临时解除武器禁运政策The U.N.Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year,primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to receive military equipment.But it also allows the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to acquire arms and training to fight crime.Government misuse of force under former President Charles Taylor brought about the arms embargo10years ago.Its lifting,even temporarily,has been met with both pride and worry among Liberians still recovering from a long civil war.VOA News Item22社会：非洲国家加强机场安全防范Reaction to the attempted bombing of a U.S.airliner on Christmas Day has been mixedamong the six African nations with direct air links to the United States.Ghana has announced it will install full-body scanners at Accra’s international airport by next month.Nigeria has also announced it will install the scanners at Lagos international airport.Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab departed from Accra and transited through Lagos and Amsterdam.He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.Abdulmutallab successfully passed through metal detectors and hand luggage searches at both airports,allegedly by concealing powdered explosives under his clothes.The full-body scanners are more powerful than metal detectors that are standard at most airports.They can detect non-metallic materials hidden on the human body.But some rights groups consider the scanners an invasion of privacy,because they show private physical characteristics in detail.South Africa,whose airports handle the largest number of travelers flying directly between Africa and the United States,says it does not intend to install the scanners at this time.VOA News Item23科技：美国将于周二发射发现号飞船The Discovery crew is set to launch early Tuesday to deliver nearly8,000kilograms of equipment to the International Space Station.NASA engineers cleared the shuttle to fly on Sunday, after deciding there were no technical concerns to delay launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said the skies should be clear for the evening launch, but storms could delay the delicate process of filling the shuttle’s external fuel tanks.VOA News Item24科技：珊瑚礁在物种进化中的重要性A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution,adding another reason to preserve these delicate,diverse,and often beautiful ecosystems.Many of the world’s coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification and pollution,among other things.Wolfgang Kiessling of Berlin’s Natural History Museum says that concerns ecologists because of the vital role reefs play in ocean ecosystems.VOA News Item25科技：澳大利亚、新西兰科学家挑战日本捕鲸业The researchers will set sail for Antarctica early next month,in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments.The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan’s claims that whales have to be killed to properly study them.During their six-week voyage,researchers will employ a range of techniques to unlock some of the secrets of the giant marine mammals.They will fire darts from small air rifles to collect blubber and skin for genetic testing,and to attach satellite-tracking tags to monitor the whales.Samples of dung will also be gathered, photographs taken,and acoustic instruments will record the animals’distinctive calls.VOA News Item26医学：母亲越高，孩子越健康Taller mothers are more likely to have children who are healthier—indeed,their children are more likely not just to thrive,but to survive—compared to children of shorter mothers. That’s the conclusion of a massive new study of millions of children in low-and middle-income countries.“The key finding of this paper was to show a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health,which was mainly defined in terms of offspring mortality by age five and the risk of experiencing a failure in growth.”The Harvard researcher says that while the association is clear,the“why”still needs more work.VOA News Item27医疗：联合国帮助不发达国家对抗H1N1The World Health Organization is warning countries to prepare for further spread of the H1N1influenza pandemic in coming months.However,aid agencies say it will be more difficult to fight the disease in poorer countries, which have weak health systems,poor health status and limited resources.They say countries overburdened by diseases,such as HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria, will have great difficulty dealing with the surge of pandemic flu cases.World Health Organization spokesman,Paul Garwood,says this Call to Action aims to reduce the impact of H1N1by offering a range of measures applicable to all countries.VOA News Item28医疗：美国民众对医保体系缺乏信心Americans are just as divided on health care as they were before President Obama’s health care reform legislation became law.Protesters in Washington carried signs on Thursday calling for the repeal of the legislation. They say it represents runaway spending.A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that50percent of Americans oppose the new health care law and opposition is strongest among those64and older.Many older Americans worry that their care will be affected by cuts in federal payments to hospitals and other providers.In another survey,this one by Ipsos/Reuters,only51percent of Americans thought they could get adequate,affordable health care.The survey included people in22nations.Women, adults under the age of55and less educated people in all the countries included in the study reported low satisfaction with health care access.Yet another study showed that Americans without medical insurance,often delay going to a hospital after a heart attack.VOA News Item29教育：印度学生重新考虑去澳大利亚接受高等教育For nearly a decade,the popularity of Australian universities rose rapidly among Indian students,and the number of those heading to the country for higher education rose from about 10,000in2001to more than70,000last year.But that could change this year due to a string of negative publicity generated by attacks on Indian students in Australia.A travel advisory by the Indian government earlier this week warned that Indian students in Australia face an increased risk of assault.It was issued after an Indian graduate was stabbed to death in Melbourne.His stabbing came on the heels of a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia in recent months,which the Indian media have dubbed as racist.It is a charge that Australian officials have strongly denied.They say the attacks are purely criminal,and the country is safe for foreign students.Nevertheless,as concerns rose in India,foreign minister S.M.Krishna called on Indians to assess their options while exploring the possibility of studying in Australia.VOA News Item30社会：法国调查电信员工自杀事件For some,the wave of suicides at France Telecom reveals the downsides of the scramble to stay competitive amid the pressures of globalization and the recent economic downturn.More than 40France Telecom employees have taken their lives since2008.Unions say that includes a dozen suicides this year alone.The probe by the Paris prosecutor’s office follows a court complaint filed by the union Solidaires Unitaires Democratic(SUD).Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed working conditions at the company for the suicides.A February report by the French labor inspector’s office linked14France Telecom suicides directly to the company’s management practices.France Telecom denies its management practices have led to the suicides.France Telecom lawyer Claudia Chemarin told French television that each suicide will be examined individually. She said that under no condition can it be claimed that there was an organized policy that led to them.In March,France Telecom’s new boss Stephane Richard outlined ways the company planned to improve employee working conditions.France Telecom is not the only French company grappling with employee suicides.But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted,critics say France Telecom’s problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.VOA News Item31社会：移民者抗议冻结约旦河西岸建设Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government’s freeze on construction in West Bank communities.Settlement leaders demonstrated outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem as the Cabinet held its weekly meeting.They carried signs saying,you can freeze in the North Pole,but not in Israel.The settlers helped elect right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,but now they accuse him of abandoning his nationalist ideals.VOA News Item32社会：密西西比的小城吸引大量游客The King of Rock‘n’Roll,Elvis Presley,was born75years ago last week in a two-room house in the town of Tupelo in the piney woods of the deep southern state of Mississippi.So this time of year,and again in August on the anniversary of the King’s death,pilgrimages of Elvis fansdescend upon that furniture manufacturing center of34,000people.Surprisingly,you don’t see a lot of Elvis markers there.There is one sign that says The King is Up Ahead,but that’s for an automobile dealership.Visitors can take a self-guided Elvis Presley driving tour.One stop is the Tupelo Hardware where Elvis got his first guitar.The folks there say Elvis had wanted a rifle.But his mother,Gladys would have none of it.She stood him on a keg and let him play around with a guitar.He loved it,and Mrs.Presley bought it for him for$7.95.VOA News Item33文化：很多人认为依地语正在消失A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction.Only it’s not funny at all for one language in particular.Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact,foreign language instruction is booming at U.S.colleges.But because of the tight economy,many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all.This is the case at the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus,a prestigious state-run school in the eastern U.S..To save costs,the university plans to cut its one Yiddish-teaching position.It’s the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish,which began among European Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters.Today,Yiddish is struggling to survive.It’s thought that fewer than500,000people,mostly the elderly,speak it worldwide.Most young,acculturated Jews speak only their countries’principal language,plus Hebrew during worship.VOA News Item34自然：湄公河水坝威胁水生生命The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia,with the largest inland fisheries in the world.About40million people depend to some degree on the fisheries,worth about$2.5billion a year.But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration,threatening already endangered species. Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.VOA News Item35灾难：联合国加紧救援海地灾区Haiti is prone to disasters,but this huge quake is the worst to hit the Caribbean island state in two centuries.The7.0magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday destroyed much of the country’s capital,Port-au-Prince.The International Red Cross fears up to three million people may have been affected by the earthquake,which not only devastated the capital city,but many smaller nearby communities.The United Nations reports electricity has been cut off and communications are difficult.It says bridges have been knocked out,hospitals and care facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Haiti’s envoy to the United States estimates losses could run into the billions.。
普特慢速英语新闻听写版块导航
【普特慢速英语新闻听写版块导航】欢迎您来到PUT慢速英语(Special English，简称SE)听力训练版块。
VOA慢速英语（VOA Special English）是VOA播出的特别英语节目，内容分NEWS，REPORT，FEATURE，每天四个时段。
由于其语速慢，词汇量少，特别适合非英语国家的听众。
节目一经推出便受到广泛欢迎。
它是英语入门及提高的极好材料，对纠正您的发音，提高听力、口语及写作能力将会有极大的帮助。
本版块共设4个栏目：REPORT：节目长4分钟左右，题材涉及健康、教育、经济、农业等。
长度适中，内容广泛，特别适合刚开始练习英语听写的朋友，是本版块中最受欢迎的栏目，有众多网友参与听写。
除周日Words and Their Stories外，其他均有VOA官方标准文本以供参考，Words and TheirStories由本版版主整理标准文稿。
NEWS：VOA慢速英语新闻每天报道当天发生在世界各地的大事，节目长10分钟。
我们提供15:30时段的音频下载。
为了方便大家的听写后的比较，我们提供15:30的整理稿。
自2005年12月19日起，1530NEWS可以听写5分钟的内容，以“You are listening to the news in VOA Special English. ”为分界点。
斑竹在整理时会给出10分钟完整的整理稿.FEATURE：节目时长约15分钟，题材涉及科学探索，美国历史，美国人物，美国社会万象等，是了解美国历史、社会与文化的绝佳材料。
除周六的American Stories，其他均有标准文本供网友参考。
American Stories：'American Stories' 一直是Special English的经典节目，每周六播出，时间为15分钟左右。
VOA选用经典美国小说，进行缩略，具有时代气息和文化底蕴。
语速虽为慢速，但是要真正听懂实属不易。
VOA的时间,频道,小常识和频率表(北京时间,短波)
VOA的时间,频道,小常识和频率表VOA——Voice Of America，作为世界上最大的新闻广播机构之一，多年来，它的英语节目如“一部活的教科书”，帮助全球各地的英语学习者掌握现代英语的发展动向，培养准确连贯的英语语感，学习地道的英语语言。
下面我们将把VOA的英文广播的精彩时空展现在你面前，领你进入“原汁原味”美语世界。
一、VOA Special English (特别英语)节目评价1.1. 背景提示：Special English又叫“慢速英语”，是VOA电台专为全世界非英语国家的初学英语的听众安排的一种简易、规范的英语广播节目。
它始于50年代末，是VOA电台的专家们研究如何与世界各地的英语学习者时行交际的产物，开播之后迅速覆盖全球，在世界广泛内产生了广泛影响。
30多年来，VOA对Special English作了大量研究，目前，它的播音速度、内容及用词范围都有规定，达到了既能为听众提供信息又不损害英语本身风格的目的，使之成为VOA独具特色，拥有最大量听众的节目。
概括起来，Special English 特别于以下三点。
☆词汇量较严格地限定在美国人最常用的1500个基本单词内。
☆句式简单，清晰。
☆语速约为90 words/min，即2/3的Standard English速度。
1.2 Special English两大营地：新闻节目News Programs 专题节目Feature Programs1.2.1. Special English的新闻广播向听众提供全球的政治、经济、军事、外交、国际关系、宗教、天气以及各种重大事件和珍闻奇事等各个方面的信息。
每次节目长约十分钟，播十条左右的新闻，总词汇1000左右，新闻单长1～2分钟。
除头条新闻外，每条新闻都由一个电头引导，结构分明，条理清晰，适宜初学者。
节目结束之前，播音员常常用三、四句话重播其中三条新闻的提要，以加深听众印象。
慢速新闻每天向东南亚地区广播五次，朝二暮三，每逢半点准时派送。
英语四六级新闻听力常考题材
英语四六级新闻听力常考题材英语四六级新闻听力常考题材导语：新闻听力是四六级英语考试中的重要一项，小伙伴们一起来看看小编为大家带来的“英语四六级新闻听力常考题材”吧~希望对大家有所帮助哦!首先，本文适用于四级和六级考生，原因如下：1. 新闻听力并不是四级听力独有的，也不是新题型;六级听力曾在2009年6月和2010年6月的短文听力中考过新闻听力。
2. 官方六级讲座听力(新题型)样题第二篇来自2010年10月的VOA。
新闻听力常考8大题材如下：1. 气象/灾害2. 军事3. 健康/环保4. 罪案5. 事故6. 经济7. 政治8. 文化体育真题举例六级2009年6月短文听力Passage 3是日本火车相撞(train crash)的新闻，而2010年6月的考到的六级短文听力Passage 1是一篇关于plane crash(坠机事故)的报道。
这两者都属于事故类新闻报道。
再来看16年6月刚刚考过的.四级听力，新闻部分第一篇是关于国际劳动组织关于失业问题的报道，第二篇讲的是速食品需要在包装上标明卡路里含量，最后一篇则讲的是创新在商业中的应用。
题材分别是经济和健康。
样题中呢，四级新闻听力三篇分别是肯尼亚汽车爆炸事件、Woolworths欠债以及开罗空气污染;题材分别是罪案、经济和环保。
那么，在做题时，我们如何通过选项来辨识出文章题材呢?首先，我们来看看新闻听力的选项特点。
1. 选项具有时效性2. 选项具有灾难性如2010年6月的passage 1的选项：26.A) It carried passengers leaving an island.B) A terrorist forced it to land on Tenerife.C) It crashed when it was circling to land.D) 18 of its passengers survived the crash.听前预读时，我们横读和竖读扫读选项，可以发现BCD选项中反复出现了crash(坠毁)，survive(幸存)以及terrorist(恐怖分子)，可以推断这是罪案或事故类的新闻报道。
VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表
VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表1. 引言VOA〔Voice of America〕特别英语节目是针对全球学习英语的听众而设计的一系列教育性节目。
为了帮助听众更好地理解和运用英语，VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表被创立。
2. 词汇表分类VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表按照字母顺序分为26个类别，每个类别代表一个字母。
A. Animals〔动物〕B. Business〔商业〕C. Computers〔计算机〕D. Daily Life〔日常生活〕E. Education〔教育〕F. Food〔食物〕G. Geography〔地理〕H. Health〔健康〕I. Internet〔互联网〕J. Jobs〔工作〕 K. Language〔语言〕 L. Law〔法律〕 M. Music〔音乐〕 N. Nature〔自然〕 O. Olympics〔奥运会〕 P. Politics〔政治〕 Q. Quotes〔引语〕R. Religion〔宗教〕S. Sports〔体育〕T. Technology〔技术〕U. USA〔美国〕 V. Vehicles〔交通工具〕 W. Weather〔天气〕 X. X-Ray 〔X光〕 Y. Yoga〔瑜伽〕 Z. Zodiac〔星座〕3. 词汇表使用方法VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表可以用作学习资源，帮助学习者扩展词汇量并提高听力和阅读理解能力。
以下是几种使用方法：3.1 浏览学习者可以浏览VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表，了解各个类别中涵盖的词汇。
这有助于学习者了解不同主题的英语词汇，并将其应用于实际场景中。
3.2 听力练习学习者可以选择一个特定的字母类别，然后使用该类别中的词汇进行听力练习。
他们可以找到与所选字母类别相关的VOA特别英语节目，并聆听这些节目中的词汇。
3.3 阅读理解学习者可以选择一个特定的字母类别，然后使用该类别中的词汇进行阅读理解练习。
他们可以阅读包含所选字母类别相关词汇的文章或故事，并理解其中的内容。