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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.。
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Week 1I Increase in Illegal Killing of Rhinos (盗猎犀牛）A new report says the illegal killing of rhinos for their horns is increasing Africa and Asia. Rhinoceros poachers are killing an estimated two to three of the rare animals each week. Experts say demand in Asia--especially Vietnam and China--currently from southern Africa. The horns often used to make traditional medicines, or handles for dagger knives. The report is from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and an organization know as Traffic. Most Africa rhino poaching is in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Experts found that two hundred the rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa in the last three years. The estimate for Zimbabwe is two hundred thirty-five. The situation threatens gains made is tis rhino populations in the nineteen nineties . In the last two years,only six people were found guilty of poaching charges out of forty-one arrested. In two thousand one, sixty-eight percent of African rhino horns entering illegal trade were recovered . Eight years later, nine out of ten Rhino horns were heading to Asian markets without interference. The report says poaching and illegal horn trade has increased in South Africa even with new measures against it. Adding to the problem , poachers today are more skilled at killing rhinos , and not only with guns. They also use quieter methods, like drugs, poison and crossbows. An international agreement on protecting endangered animals and plants provides for sport hunting of white rhinos in Africa . But the horns often enter illegal markets . Not all the news is bad , however. The report notes that rhino populations are increasing in some areas. These include both white rhinos and black rhinos in the wild in Africa . Africa had an estimated seventeen thousand white rhinos and four thousand black rhinos as of two years ago . Current estimates for Asia are around three thousand rhinos . But even with poaching, growth is reported in some areas of India and Nepal. Wildlife activists are urging governments to do more to fight rhino poaching . The report was presented to the organization known as CITES . CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Fauna and Flora. The next conference of countries that are parties to the agreement is in March in Doha, Qatar .2 Dubai . Feels . The . Financial. Pain ( 迪拜金融危机）In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainment. In October of tow thousand eight the same developer announced plans for the world's tallest building yet. But the economic downturn soon forced the Nakheel company to supend those plans. Dubai is in the Untied Arab Emirates, a thirty-eight year old federation of seven territories ruled by emirs. But unlike its neighbor Abu Dhabi, oil has not fueled Dubai's growth. Oil is only six percent of its economy. Instead, the property and service industries have led its expansion. Now Dubai finds itself in financial pain. And its reaction has some investors worried. In November, Dubai's largest investment company called for a six-month delay in paying some of its debts. Dubai World Group is seeking to renegotiate terms on twenty-six billion dollars in debt. All of it is linked to Nakheel, which is part of Dubai World. The government own Dubai World and will take control of its restructuring. But Dubai's finance chief said the government does not guarantee its debt. Dubai World owes creditors a total of sixty billion dollars . The company is not an investment vehicle forthe government like a sovereign wealth fund. It is a holding company for businesses in land development, port operations, energy and financial services. The group has used borrowed money for economic development. Ghiyath Nakshbendi of American University in Washington notes that the problems are linked to a worldwide collapse in real estate prices. He says:"Emerging markets are as victim to the world meltdown as any other economy and there are no exceptions." He expects the debt restructuring to be successful. He says Dubai and its leaders have too much to lose to let creditors -- like banks in Britain -- suffer losses. Still, the announcement was a surprise. Now Dubai World is faced with selling properties at heavy losses to raise money. Some experts question how willing Abu Dhabi will be to rescue Dubai. Their relationship is sometime tense. Ghiyath Nakshbendi says Dubai World will have to change its ways, He says Dubai borrowed too much money in a very short period of time. Of course, Dubai was not alone in gathering debt during the easy credit years. There are worries that the crisis could be the frist of more to come in other parts of the world.3 Educational Technology- Not Just Computers (教学新技术）We received a question from a listener in the West Bank about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools. Schools are almost all connected to the Internet, But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some school use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom. And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations. They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video. Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones. But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content. Yet technology can have special importance in some cases. Cosmobot is therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes. One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald . Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue. He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward, backwrad of around in circles. Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends. Cosmobot ws developed by AnthroTronix. Corinna Lathan started the company the years ago to work with children with cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome autism and other developmental disabilities. Children become friends with the robot, she says. That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions. Corinna Lathan is currently working with a British company to develop other socially assistive robots. She says they are still considered research tools in the United States. They are not used as much as in places like Britain and Japan. But she hopes to change that.。
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（1）Chinese dronesA recent broadcast on Chinese state television CCTV praising the global reach of the country's armed drone or UA V program, its developers say they have just sold the one hundredth model of this drone named the Wing Loong. VOA cannot confirm the accuracy of the video.One ability is to continuously monitor the battlefield situation, and the other is to strike time-sensitive targets in timely manner. Those features attract many clients in the context of modern warfare. China is increasingly meeting a growing demand in the Middle East for armed drone, according to the report from the Royal United Services Institute.Because the United States, in particular, has refused apart from the case of the UK and France to export armed models of its sort of iconic Predator and Reaper, series of armed drones. China has sort of stepped in to fill that gap. And while its offerings such as the Wing Loong series or CH-4 are less technologically capable than their American counterparts, they're available pretty much to any state that wants to buy.In Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the report authors say that drones are being used in situations where conventional airpower man-fast jets would be too risky.In the case of Iran, the development of armed drones mostly copied from older daily patterns, has allowed them to operate air strikecapabilities in Iran, and you saw in Iraq and in Syria. Despite the fact that it's conventional air force, it's far too obsolescence and too limited and too precious to be risked in skies controlled largely by hostile or potentially hostile powers, like the United States and Israel. Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fast developing their own armed UA V programs. U. S. President Donald Trump has pledged to relax export bans on American armed drone systems, but it's not clear when that might happen. The report authors say such a policy change would likely have a big impact on use of the technology across the Middle East region.Henry Ridgwell for VOA News, London.。
高中英语 第一部分 VOA慢速英语《美国万花筒》第4课(文本)素材
高中英语第一部分 VOA慢速英语《美国万花筒》第4课英语翻议讲解：1.thriving a.兴旺的, 旺盛的, 繁荣的例句：The once thriving yard is now almost deserted and covered with weeds and bushes. 原来繁盛一时的大院现如今变得荆榛满地。
2.celebrate v.庆祝, 祝贺, 举行例句：We celebrate Women's Day on March 8. 我们3月8日庆祝妇女节。
3.exchange vt.交换, 交易, 兑换例句：The shopkeeper refused my request to exchange the shirt. 店员拒绝了我换衬衣的要求。
4.tasty a.好吃的, 可口的例句：She was skilled in preparing tasty dishes. 她很会做菜。
5.alike a.相似的, 同样的例句：All good books are alike. 好书都很相似。
6.typical a.典型的, 象征性的例句：Britain provides a typical example. 英国是个典型的例子。
1.It gives me an opportunity to either visit states or countries that I either hadn't thought about or didn't realize what wonderful things they had to offer.either or用于连接两个表示选择关系的名词或代词，意为“要么……要么”。
如：He must be either mad or drunk. 他不是疯了就是醉了。
You can go swimming or play tennis. 你可以去游泳也可以去打网球。
voa慢速英语 中英文对照
voa慢速英语中英文对照当然可以，以下是一篇关于自然保护的VOA慢速英语中英文对照文章：Protecting our planet is everyone's responsibility. 保护我们的地球是每个人的责任。
We must take action to conserve our natural resources and preserve the biodiversity of our world. 我们必须采取行动来保护我们的自然资源，并维护我们世界的生物多样性。
One important way to protect our planet is through conservation efforts. 保护我们地球的一个重要途径是通过保护努力。
This involves protecting habitats and ecosystems from human-caused degradation and destruction. 这包括保护栖息地和生态系统免受人类活动造成的破坏和毁灭。
Another crucial aspect is sustainable development. 另一个关键方面是可持续发展。
We need to ensure that our economic activities are carried out in a way that does not harm the environment or deplete natural resources. 我们需要确保我们的经济活动以不损害环境或耗尽自然资源的方式进行。
Education is also key in promoting environmental protection. 教育也是促进环境保护的关键。
By educating people about the importance of conservation and sustainability, we can create a society that is more aware and responsible towards the environment. 通过教育人们关于保护和可持续性的重要性，我们可以创造一个对环境更加有意识和负责任的社会。
VOA、CNN和BBC分别是什么意思
VOA、CNN和BBC分别是什么意思1、VOA：美国官方国际广播电台，隶属美国新闻署(Voice of America,简称VOA) 。
1942 年创立，总部设在华盛顿。
第二次世界大战后，广播对象由敌对国家转向社会主义国家。
VOA是美国*** 的喉舌，广播稿代表美国官方的政治态度和立场，因此它的新闻谈不上它所标榜的客观，公正。
但是播音员发音规范，字正腔圆，值得喜欢美音的听友模仿。
语速在140词/每分钟，较缓。
内容主要为世界新闻，广播对象主是为要发展中国家的听众。
难度相对较易，基础词汇量约在8000左右。
目前该类新闻在我国英语教学中使用相当普遍。
2、CNN：美国有线电视新闻网--Cable News Network的英文缩写，由特纳广播公司（TBS）董事长特德·特纳于1980年6月创办，通过卫星向有线电视网和卫星电视用户提供全天候的新闻节目，总部设在美国佐治亚洲的亚特兰大。
CNN，是在1991年海湾战争之后才开始在新闻界取得主导地位的。
当年战争爆发前，所有西方媒体都撤离了伊拉克，唯独CNN冒着风险留了下来。
后来，CNN以现场直播的方式将战争的画面传给全世界，成为外界了解伊拉克战争局势的唯一窗口。
CNN一战成名。
CNN立场明显偏右。
一般论坛的CNN新闻，来源于CNN Radio Hourly News, 主要的收听对象是美国居民。
播音员风格轻松活跃，感染力强，使新闻具有很强的播音员个人风格。
播音口语化，语速较快（180词以上），内容丰富，难度比较大。
3、BBC：英国的BBC是指英国广播公司（British Broadcasting Corporation，简称 BBC）是英国的一家 *** 资助但却独立运作的媒体，长久以来一直被认为是全球最受尊敬的媒体之一。
BBC在相当程度上代表了英国 *** 的政治态度，但是BBC特有的运作模式，保其独立于英国 *** 之外，享有较强的编辑自 *** 。
标准英语新闻中VOA,BBC,NPR及CNN的区别和学习方法
标准英语新闻中VOA,BBC,NPR及CNN的区别和学习⽅法标准英语新闻中VOA,BBC,NPR及CNN的区别和学习⽅法Standard English News（简称ST）是指正常语速播报（140词每分钟以上）的英语⼴播新闻。
听懂ST是我国很多英语爱好者希望登上的台阶，但很少能做到。
事实上，如果没有经过科学的、系统的、持续的长期训练，这个⽬的是很难达到。
在我们中国英语教学中⼴泛使⽤的VOA ST, BBC World Service ST是经过简化的，听众是主要外国⼈（特别是VOA），⽽不是⼀般英国⼈和美国⼈⽇常⽣活中听到的新闻播报。
很多英语爱好者有⼀种错觉，认为听懂VOA ST 或BBC ST 就能听懂国外⼴播了，实际不是这样，离听懂还是有⼀段不⼩的距离。
但是，⼀般认为能⼀次性轻松听懂ST 80%以上内容的听友，英语⽔平已经在中等偏上⽔平了，有能⼒进⾏⽐较正式的涉外⼯作。
进⾏ST的听写时间控制在2分钟30秒到3分30秒之间时⽐较合理的，有利于减轻听写疲劳。
★英语新闻学习⽅法1、听写：认认真真，⼀词⼀句地写出来，是加速是听⼒发育的⼿段，同时也是检验英语⽔平和查找⾃⾝不⾜的⼀个好⽅法。
2、要重视查找⼯作：听不出来就多听，不要急，急也急不来。
有些上午听不出来，可能下午就听出来，或者晚上再听就已明⽩⼀部分。
听不出来，多⽤听⾳查词，多⽤Google和维基百科，查找的过程也是⼀个很好的训练基本功和增长知识的过程。
有的学⽣不重视查找过程，认为浪费时间。
实际经验表明这个功夫不会⽩费的，对英语⽔平提⾼极为有利！头稿或homework 尽量写的完美的学⽣，进步是惊⼈的。
3、复述，翻译和复习：把新闻稿听写出来了，实际只完成了⼯作的⼀半。
要留出时间，进⾏复述，翻译和复习。
听说不分家，听写和复述有助于提⾼听友的⼝语能⼒，⽽⼝语能⼒的提⾼进⼀步推动了听⼒的提升，相辅相成。
翻译有助于加深理解。
4、阅读：我们认为新闻听⼒的培养，除了听写外，还⼀定要和阅读紧密地联系起来。
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。
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With almost 40,000 students, the University of Brasilia is an institution in Brazil's capital city. Among them are a hundred or so Africans who came to try the Brazilian adventure. Most of them are from Angola or Cape Verde, but you also find some Francophones from Ivory Coast and Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Here you have more facilities for the students, like the library," said Congolese student Morgan Tshipampa Nganga Mayoyi. "Many other things you do not have at UNIKIN [University of Kinshasa]. The Brazilian government also helps the students with grants. So we have better conditions here than in Congo.
These young people came to find opportunities. The United States or Europe are often inaccessible. Brazil, as an emerging power, is more appealing, even though Portuguese is the first language. To get a visa for Brazil, African students are obligated to return home after they graduate. This does not prevent them from fitting in.
"They [Brazil] were colonized by the Portuguese, but they have many African roots," said Congolese student Ursila Manga Aridja. "So it was very easy to feel integrated, make friends, learn the language. So I am OK, no problem.
Although this Brazilian adventure has many advantages, home-sweet-home is always on their moinds, and they miss their families. They will spend several years without seeing them.
"I miss Kinshasa so much…I have been here a year-and-a-half," said Congolese student Jacques Kenemo Shako. "It is not easy with family, to live far away from them, Mummy, Daddy. I miss them so much even if we communicate with phone calls, but it is expensive.
Many swear they will go back home after their studies, though with no guarantee that Africa will offer the same opportunities. But these young people want to succeed in their country, and look at the future with an optimism they have found among Brazilians.。