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VOA新闻听力100篇News Item 1This week, the chairman of America 's nuclear agency said there islittle chance that harmful radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy- nine. That was when America 's worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy.News Item 2Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more, for a glass of water. Placards on their tables explain that this small amount helps bring clean water to children around the world. It ' s called the UNICEFTap Project.News Item 3Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural produ cts near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week 's earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. Yukio Edano, the chief Cabinet secretary, says high levels of radiation have been detected in milk in Fukushima prefecture and spinach from Ibaraki prefecture have been found to be contaminated. He tells reporters there is no immediate health risk and the government is consideringregulating shipments of farm products from the affected area. At the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant efforts continue to try to cool overheating reactor cores and water in tanks containing spent fuel rods.News Item 4Some of America 's brightest students came to Washington for the2011 Intel Science Talent Search,the nation 's oldest and most prestigious science competi tion. The awards ceremony was theculmination of an intense week during which the 40 finalists were queried by judges and the public. They met with scientists, politicians and even President Barack Obama, who welcomed them to the White House. These high a chievers were whittled down from nearly 2,000 contestantsnationwide, representing excellence across many disciplines.News Item 5The billionaires ' club is growing. Forbes magazine 's annual list shows there are now 1,210 billionaires around the world —that is 199 more than last year. Although the world 's top threeearners are unchanged from last year, the newcomers in the list of the world 's richest did not come from the U.S. or Western Europe, but from Russia and the Asia Pacific region. Magazine chairman Steve Forbessays of the 200 new billionaires this year, the majority are from theBRIC1countries —Brazil, Russia, India and China.News Item 6Defense attorneys for former Liberian president Charles Taylor say testimony from prosecution witnesses is tainted by cash payments from a special fund provided by the United States. Mr. Taylor 's war crimestrial is drawing to a close after more than three years. Defense attorney Terry Munyard says money “lavished ” on prosecution witnesses has polluted “the pure waters of justice. ” He told the court that those payments went far beyond the simple reimbursement ofexpenses and were used in such a way “as to taint the testimony ofsome of the prosecutionwitnesses. ”News Item 7Many world leaders are expressing shock and sympathy following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and are offering to assist the country as it struggles to recover from the disaster. U.S. President Barack Obama pledged assistance for what he called a potentially catastr ophic disaster in Japan. Mr. Obama called Japan one of America 's strongest allies and said the U.S. is offering whatever assistance is needed. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a preliminaryassessment indicates that American troops, ships and military facilities were not seriously damaged by the quake or tsunami.News Item 8Women are joining together all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women 's Day on March 8. Women pouredthrough London 's streets on Tuesday singing loudly for women 's rights.The banners they carried trained a spotlight on the range of issues still at hand: health, education, and politics to name a few.News Item 9Food prices continue to rise, threatening to push more and more people into poverty and hunger. A new report from the UN food agency says one of the best ways to boost agricultural productivity worldwide would be to remove the barriers women farmers face that their male counterparts do not. Studies show when women have financial resources, they are more likely than men to spend them on food, health and educating their children. Women farmers tend to be less productive than men, but there are good reasons for that, says Agnes Quisumbing, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute.News Item 10Ronald Reagan's Hometown Celebrates His 100th Birthday. Though he gained prominence as an actor in Hollywood and later as President of the United States, the people of Dixon, Illinois, remember Ronald Reagan as a hometown hero who saved the lives of 77 people while working as2a lifeguard. The town is honoring Reagan ' s 100th birthday this year,with a year-long celebration.The 40th President 's hometown was never very far from his heart.News Item 11The National Football League wrapped up the 2010 season with the biggest football game of the year: Super Bowl XLV —played in a huge stadium in Arlington, Texas. But without the small, Midwestern town of Ada, Ohio —population 5,400 —the game would not have been the same. Adais where the Wilson Sporting Goods company makes footballs. Wilson has been the official football maker of the National Football League since 1941, and many of the 130 employees at its factory in Ada have spent most of their lives there —many working for 25 to 45 years.News Item 12Scientists say a common headache medicine dramatically reduces the risk of developing Parkinson 's disease, a physically -disabling brain disorder that mostly strikes elderly adults. In a six-year study of just over 136,000 nurses and health professionals, researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health in Massachusetts found that people who take ibuprofen（布洛芬镇痛药）regularly for headache or other pain reduced their risk of developing Parkinson 'sdisease by nearly 40 percent. Taking one or two pills of ibuprofen two or more timesper week was considered regular use. Other non-2prescription pain relievers, including aspirin and acetaminophen, did not show a similar protective benefit.News Item 13Insurgents opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to hold two strategic towns along the road to eastern Libya, after unsuccessful attempts by pro-Gadhafi forces to retake them. Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the key eastern oil port of Brega, but the son of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi says the bombs were only intended to “frighten ”rebels there.Libyan warplanes struck at the rebel-held oil port ofBrega on Thursday, a day after anti-government fighters turned back an assault by forces loyal t o the country 's longtime leaderMoammar Gadhafi.News Item 14A new study of more than 1.1 million people in six Asian countries finds that, like Westerners, Asians are more likely to die if they are overweight or obese. However, some of the highest death rates were seen in people who were severely underweight. Many previous studies have found that the risk of death increases as body-mass index increases. Body-mass index, or BMI, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. The trouble is, those studies mostly analyzed Europeans and other Westerners. So scientists couldn 't be sure if the results appliedto other groups.News Item 15Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities in Africa. In addition to providing employment, agriculture has the potential to transform African societiesthrough the increased export of produce to Western markets. Many agree that transformation will not take place without increased investment in agriculture, including public or private loans to small farmers. Statistics show that Africa has about 12% of the world 's arable land but 80% of it is not in use.News Item 16In July 2012, the world 's largest AIDS conference comes toWashington, D.C. It 's the first time the gathering will be held in the United States since 1990 and preparations are already underway. Despite the massive U.S. financial, medical and scientific contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a major issue blocked the conference from being held here. That was a law that prohibited HIV infected people from traveling to the United States. It was passed in 1987 in the early days of theHIV/AIDS epidemic. Effortsto lift the ban began during President George W. Bush 's second administration. It was finally repealed in January 2010 under President Obama.News Item 17As Discovery begins its 39th and final mission into Earth 's orbit Thursday, America ' s 30 -yearspace shuttle program comes one step closer to its scheduled end this April. Discovery has been a regular visitor to Earth 's orb it sinceits maiden flight in 1984. It is the oldest and longest-servingvehicle in the U.S. space agency ' s shuttle fleet. Discovery ' sfinal flight follows several delays dueto technical problems and repairs to its external fuel tank, but NASA' s missionlaunch directorMike Leinbach says the shuttle is still space-ready.News Item 18Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from the nitty-gritty of business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and fragmented musical tastes have largely replaced the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace, making entrepreneurial savvy more important than ever. A leading U.S. conservatory now teaches students how to create successful careers in this brave new world.News Item 19Egypt 's most famous tourism sites, including the great pyramids and the antiquities museum inCairo, have reopened after being closed during the popular uprising and political tumult. Egypt 's key industry —tourism —returns afterweeks of protests and celebrations, while other countries in the region deal with unrest. The sound of hooves as horses pull jostling carts ofpeople within the Giza pyramids ' complex is the sound of mone y to the men who make their livings fromtourism —a dominant industry in Egypt.4News Item 20Demonstrations against long-serving governments continue to roil theMiddle East and North Africa Friday from Libya eastward to Bahrain. InLibya, more protests as well as funerals for those killed in recent unrest were held aftermidday prayers, and witnesses said demonstrators gathered in the port city Benghazi, a bastion of resentment against the government. Human Rights Watch said Friday that 24 people have been killed in recent violence in Libya, many of them in Benghazi. Graphic videos posted on the Internet have shown shootings described as being inflicted by armed forces against protesters.News Item 21The National Park Service says the largest slave village in the Washington region is buried on the grounds. Archeologist Joy Beasley walks across the land now known as Best Farm. But approximately 200 years ago, it was a 300- hectare plantation called L'Hermitage, owned bytheVincendieres, French farmers from Haiti. Their stone home and outbuildings still stand. The National Park Service archeologist says her team discovered evidence of six other homes on the property where slaves were kept. The Vincendieres owned 90 slaves.News Item 22Cameroon's new mineral research center will begin operations this year. South Korean miningresearchers are making trips to Cameroon to determine the overall cost of the facility, to be located in the capital, Yaounde. They say the center will cost several millions of dollars and will ultimately be offered to the Cameroon government as a gift. The Korean investors say the facility will also have geological engineers to help in the design and construction of mines —andeconomic geologists to determine the commercial feasibility of projects. They will decide whether there are enough minerals to justify the cost of a mining venture.News Item 23A major study by the World Health Organization shows that most people with high cholesterol levels around the world are not getting the treatment they need, to avoid such serious diseases as heart attacks and strokes. And the authors of the study —the—say largest ever undertakentheproblem is especially serious in the developing world. The study was done on 147 million people, and found an increasing incidence of high levels of cholesterol the world over. Even more worrying, the researchers say, is that many of those patients are going untreated.News Item 24A huge crowd has gathered in central Cairo calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The opposition has called for one million people to protest. Crowds headed on foot for Cairo ' s Tahrir Square throughout the day Tuesday. They included women with babies in strollers. Their confidence is boosted after the army, in an official statement, described the demonstrations as5legitimate and promised it would not fire on demonstrators. Army helicopters dropped leaflets calling on demonstrators to keep the protests peaceful.News Item 25The popular revolts roiling Egypt and other Arab countries are being driven by young people clamoring to oust autocratic governments they have known all their lives. The hardscrabble Tunis neighborhood of Ettadhamen provides a representative look at the hardships, and aspirations, of some of the young people behind Tunisia 's so -calledJasmine Revolution.News Item 26A new study has tracked how low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. The study began with 1,000 children in New Zealand. Researchers followed them for decades. They observed the level of self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like “acting before thinking” and “persistence in reaching goal s. ” Thechildren of the study are now adults in their thirties. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University found that kids with selfcontrol issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.News Item 27President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday, before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. President Barack Obama will face a dramatically altered balance of power in the House of Representatives when he addresses Congress and the nation Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Republicans are now in the majority in the House, and they have already approved a repeal of Mr. Obama 's landmark reform of the U.S.health care system. The move was symbolic, since the bill will die in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats and Independents still hold a majority.News Item 28New research suggests a relatively simple blood test might make it possible to predict who is at a higher risk for developing dementia. The most common form o f dementia is Alzheimer 's Disease, and currently, it can only be definitively diagnosed in an autopsy, by examining the brain. Beta- amyloid is a protein that shows up the brains of Alzheimer 's victims. It 's also present inspinal fluid and, in very small quantities, in the blood.News Item 29Health Services in eastern and central Kenya are getting a big boost through a new $100 million dollar program. The U.S. development agency, USAID, has awardedthe funds to an international non-profit organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. For the past four years, Jhpiego has led a nearly $34 million program in eastern Kenya called APHIA II. APHIA stands for AIDS,6Population and Health Integrated Assistance. The goal is to “empower front -line heal th workers ”with effective, low cost solutionsto delivering quality health care.News Item 30Over the past 20 years, the United Nations says the Asia-Pacific population has been growing, but at a slower rate compared to the rest of the world. Asian fertility fell by 39 percent in a 20-year period from the late 1960s while remaining above the population-replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. By 1990, nearly two-thirds of Asian countries had experienced declines of at least 25 percent.News Item 31President Barack Obama will go to Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday to speak at a memorial service for those killed in Saturday 's shootings.The president will try to help the nation deal with therampage, which left six people dead and a U.S. congresswoman critically wounded. President Obama and his wife Michelle will cross thecountry to attend Wednesday night 's memorial service at the Universityof Arizona.The president will speak there, in an effort to help Americans cope with the tragedy.News Item 32New medical research into a possible cure for Parkinson 's diseaseis focusing on finding biomarkers in patients so that doctors can start treatment early before tremors and other symptoms start. Actor Michael J. Fox's recent commitment of $40 million towar d finding a cure for Parkinson ' s is helping to fund the new research. The current clinical diagnosis of Parkinson 's isbased on visible tremors and stiffness of limbs. But researchers say a more comprehensive diagnosis is needed.News Item 33U.S. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to outline the benefits of a tax cut package he signed into law in December. He says the tax cut compromise reached with Republicans will help grow the U.S. economy. Mr. Obama encouraged business owners to take advantage of a new incentive included in the legislation that allows any business to write off the full cost of most of their capital investments for one year.News Item 34A U.S. congress woman is in critical condition and six people are dead after a gunman opened fire in an Arizona parking lot where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents. The dead include a federal judge. More than a dozen people were wounded, including Giffords. A federal probe has been launched amid a national outpouring of sorrow and outrage.7News Item 35Three-dimensional cell phones and batteries that last much longer are just two ofthe technologies that could become commonplace in the next few years. For the fifth year, IBM has looked at the horizons of research, picked five technologies and announced them as tomorrow 's innovations. “Individual technologies take different times to matriculate, ” says John Cohn, IBM 's ChiefScientist. “But the thing that 's common about them is that wethink in 2015, all these predictionswill actually be something that we take forgranted. ”News Item 36The killing of the governor of Pakistan 's most populous provincehas highlighted the ongoingclash in Pakistani society between secularism and religious radicalism. Some of that radicalism is fueled by resentment against privileged and often secular-minded elite who govern the country.News Item 37In India 's main tea -growing region, scientists say tea production is being impacted by climate change. India produces nearly one third ofthe world ' s tea. The rolling Himalayan hills in India 's northeastern state, Assam, are carpeted with lush tea bushes whose leaves produce some of the world ' s finest teas. But there are concerns that rising temperatures may be affecting the tea plantations, resulting in declining productivity of the brew to which millions of people across the world wake up.News Item 38African leaders are in Abidjan for more talks with Ivory Coast 'srival presidents. The countr y'spolitical crisis has sent thousands of refugees into Liberia.Leaders met with defiant Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo Monday, offering him an amnesty deal on condition he cedes power to rival Alassane Ouattara.News Item 39More signs that the U.S. economy is moving in the right direction:The U.S. Labor Department says new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, dropping below 400,000 for the first time since July 2008. Other data also shows that businesses expanded in the month of December while home sales grew modestly in November. Despite the encouraging numbers, investors remain cautious as 2010 comes to a close. New estimates show the snowstorm that lashed parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic last week cost retailers about a billion dollars in lost sales.News Item 40The Holy Land enjoyed a flood of visitors last year, which benefited Israelis and Palestinians alike. It was a record year for tourism in Israel thanks to a lull in violence. There were 3.45 million visitors in 2010, 14 percent more than the previous record two years ago. Mark Feldman, who heads the Israeli travel agency Zion Tours, says tourism is booming. Most of the visitors were Jews and Evangelical Christians. Some 625,000 Americans came, more than any other country.News Item 41Voters in Ivory Coast have official results from only a small number of polling stations outside the country. About 10,000 ballots in an election of more than fourmillion registered voters shows former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara leading President Laurent Gbagbo by about 60 percent to 40 percent. As the wait for domestic results continues, President Gbagbo 's party is already calling on the electoral commission to annul returns from three northern districts. Both the Gbagbo and Ouattara campaigns say some of their supporters were prevented from entering polling stations Sunday.News Item 42Diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks indicate the U.S. is concerned about the security of Pakistani nuclear material. They also indicate questions about Pakistan 's commitment to fighting insurgentsalong the country ' s border with Afghanistan. The New York Times and the Guardian newspapers reported details of the cables today. A French newsagency quoted a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman as saying the fears are misplaced. Meanwhile, Interpol has placed Wikileaks ' founder Julian Assange on its most wanted list after Sweden issued an arrestwarrant for him as part of a rape investigation.News Item 43U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe needs to boost its role in Afghanistan and foster greater economic development throughout the region. Clinton spoke today at the OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan. “Our goal here in Astanashould be to move forward on democracy, human rights, economic growth and strengthening our security community. In other words, let ' sembrace the vision of Helsinki and apply it faithfully in this new century. ” The OSCE is celebrating the 35th an niversary of the Helsinki Accords, which gave birth to the OSCE structure. Clinton said insecurity anywhere in Central Asia is a challenge for all members and that protracted conflicts remain dangerously unresolved.News Item 44Russia 's prime minister s ays his country will have to build up itsown nuclear weapons capability if the United States fails to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty signed earlier this year. Vladimir Putin told CNN 's Larry King program in an interview to be aired later today that the newtreaty is in the United States best interest and it would be, inhis words, dumb for U.S. legislators to ignore that. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new9START in April. The agreement would cut nuclear stockpiles in theU.S. and Russia by about 30 percent.News Item 45Thai police say they arrested two Pakistani men and one Thai woman this week on forgery charges, as they attempted to flee to neighboring Laos. The three were arrested in cooperation with Spanish authorities, who on Thursday arrested six Pakistanis and one Nigerian in raids in Barcelona. Spanish authorities believe the group supplied fake passports used by Muslim militants who bombed Madrid commuter trains in 2004. They also suspect the group supplied fake passports to al-Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based group accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.News Item 46The U.S. unemployment rate rose in November while the economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Today ' s closely -watched report from the Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose 0.2% to 9.8%. The economy had a net gain of 39,000 jobs far fewer than the 150,000 most experts had predicted.News Item 47Iranian media reports say officials are calling for the removal of aStar of David painted on the roof of the headquarters of the country 's national airline after the Jewish symbol was revealed in a satellite image. Reports say Internet media company Google took the image of the building which was reportedly built by Israeli engineers who worked in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.News Item 48President Obama is calling a new free-trade deal between the U.S.and South Korea a landmark agreement. Mr. Obama accepted the deal Friday after a three- year stalemate and said it will deepen the two nations ' alliance, and he urged the U.S. Congress to ratify it. President said the agreement will increase U.S. exports by up to $11 billion a year and support at least 70,000 jobs. As part of the deal, South Korea has agreed to let the U.S. keep a 2.5% tariff on Korean-built cars for five more years rather than end it immediately.News Item 49The World Food Program is teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies to help subsistence farmers increase their crop yields. The WFP says 2010 has been a year with many climate related emergencies which have created a havoc with the agricultural produce of many developing countries.News Item 5010Some of the most dramatic, climate-related emergencies include flooding in Pakistan, Haiti, Burma and Burkina Faso. World Food Program spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the number of people affected is expected to reach about 375 million a year by 2015. “We are estimating that by2020, some countries having their agricultural yields halved by weather&climate emergencies- drought or flood. ” Casella says a detailed food insecurity analysis could pinpointareas that are most at risk. She says WFP is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization to help small subsistence farmers increase their food yields.News Item 51International firefighting teams are battling day three of what officials are calling the worst fire in Israel 's history. Police said Saturday the huge wildfires continued to burn out of control near the northern port of Haifa. The firefighting aircraft are coming in from Russia and have been dropping water on the blaze with additional help from the U.S., France and Britain. Middle East neighbors Jordan and Egypt sent equipment. So far, 41 people, at least, have been killed and thousands have been forced to evacuate from the area.News Item 52A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed into the Pacific Ocean after failing to reach orbit. Russian news11。
VOA英语听力练习
VOA英语听力练习慢速VOA关于英语初学者来说是专门好的听力演习材料，较慢的语速可许可进修者有较多的时刻反响所听单词的含义；同时还能够用来演习白话，仿照其发音，关于完美美式发音的声调语调等，有专门大年夜益处。
常速VOA则是英语国度人日常平凡措辞的语速，多听些这类材料能够使本身怀孕临其境，因此不在外国，却似身在国外的宝贵语境。
若何应用这些听力资本也是有必定讲究的：我简单的说说小我的一些实践与领会：第一步，我会下载VOA常速的MP3，然后遴选一些有翻译，词语说明，语法分析的篇章，进行精听。
所谓精听，确实是针对一篇较短的听力材料进行反复听力演习，直到能大年夜部分听明白。
第二步，这也是至关重要的一部，也是专门多英语进修者忽视或是并不看重的一步。
讲本身所听的内容写下来，能够边听边写，没听清晰或没明白的处所，能够倒归去，再听过。
因此这有些逝世板，然则在反复的听力过程中，我们不只加深了对专门多单词的明白得，语法的实际应用，语篇的融合，同时培养语感。
看着本身写下的听力材料然后再和原文比较，发来岁夜部分甚至全部差不多上一样的，那种自豪感，知足感真是满满的，信任只有实践，亲自领会的人才能明白。
第三步，温故而知新。
在开端今天的听力前，再回想一下昨天的内容，会有专门多不测的收成哦~听力演习过程中，存在如许的问题，边听边写的时刻，写得不敷快，老是让一段听力过了我才写完，中心就忽视专门多没听到。
针对那个问题，我建议下载一个复读软件，应用后果和日常平凡复读机一样。
能够在听了一句话，或是8到9个单词的时刻就让它复读，如许就能够在复读时安闲的把听到的单词写下来，内心就可不能认为专门急促，不知所措了。
O(∩_∩)O~英语进修没有捷径，也没有独一的门路。
贵在不懈尽力。
欲望本身一点浅见能与大年夜家分享，合营进步！加油，加油！！！！若何听明白VOA等英语广播专门多学英语的人都欲望收听VOA，BBC等英语消息广播，想以此来进步听力和白话程度，但许多人认为听英语消息广播比较困难。
VOA新闻听力练习材料 30【声音字幕同步PPT】
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filed by the union Solidaires Unitaires Democratic (SUD).
Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed working conditions at the
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More than 40 France Telecom employees have taken their lives since 2008.
Unions say that includes a dozen suicides this year alone.
The probe by the Paris prosecutor's office follows a court complaint
inspector's office linked 14 France Telecom suicides directly to the company's management
英语听力练习作业及答案
I. Reading•Read the Method section in your target article and mark the model components(1,2,3,4) wherever you think you see them.•For example, if you think the first sentence corresponds to number 1 in the model, write1 next to it, etc.II. Listening: fill in the blanksREPORTER: Black Friday sounds kind of scary, and it was. Black Friday first referred to the ______ of the U.S. gold market in 1869. A century later, Philadelphia police used Black Friday to describe chaos and ______. Downtown streets were clogged with hoards of shoppers headed to the big department stores._______ hated the term but then tried to reinvent it. It was the day their profits went from red to black — so they said.Black Friday really started _________ in the '80s and '90s pushed by the growth of big box stores. Today, it's all about bargains and Black Friday's _______ are for the history books.AZUZ: So, that's one of the events that follows the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday this Thursday. Others include Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.Small Business Saturday is when mom and pop shops hope to see their sales increase. Cyber Monday is named for online shopping sales. The _______, this weekend is the traditional start of the U.S. holiday shopping season and discounts area all over the place.What's a little _________ are sales on Thanksgiving itself. Some retailers are openedthe afternoon of the holiday to encourage people to shop in-stores or online. Some are closed, ____________________________________________________________.Though tens of millions of Americans typically do some shopping on Thanksgiving Day, data from the National Retail Federation suggests that number is decreasing each year, and retail itself is changing __________________________________________________________________________________.III. Translate the following Chinese sentences into English and English into Chinese.1. Police and education authorities in Beijing are probing a child abuse case at the Xintiandi branch of RYB Education Kindergarten, a well-known chain of preschools. This is the latest in a number of similar cases reported recently nationwide.2. 美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)的一篇报道称，腾讯创始人马化腾已取代马克·扎克伯格成为社交媒体之王。
6月四级英语听力VOA训练材料
6月四级英语听力VOA训练材料2017年6月四级英语听力VOA训练材料沿着别人走出的道路前进时，应该踩着路边的荆棘，因为这样走多了，就能使道路增宽。
以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的2017年6月四级英语听力VOA训练材料，希望能给大家带来帮助!This week, three more Americans joined the ever-growing "Republican-running-for-president" club.A pediatric neurosurgeon, one of the first women tolead a high-tech company and a Baptist preacher-turned governor all announced their campaigns forthe Republican party's nomination for president.They join United States Senators Ted Cruz, RandPaul and Marco Rubio, who have all announced theywant to be the Republican nominee for president in2016.Ben CarsonDr. Ben Carson rose from poverty to be the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns HopkinsChildren's Center in Baltimore. His mother raised him by herself, in Detroit, Michigan. Now, theretired surgeon is the first African-American to enter the 2016 presidential race. He is a socialconservative with no previous political experience.In his announcement speech, Dr. Carson said he wants to reduce the power of the centralgovernment. He is known for making controversial statements. He has denounced PresidentObama's health care law, also known as "Obamacare." He compared it to slavery. And in arecent interview he said homosexuality is voluntary.Carly FiorinaAlso this week, Carly Fiorina became the first Republicanwoman to enter the 2016 race. Sheonce headed the computer company Hewlett-Packard. She says her knowledge about thebusiness world makes her different than the rest of the candidates. She has been very criticalof the other woman running for president: Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Ms. Fiorinaquestions some of Ms. Clinton's actions while she was U.S. secretary of state.Mike HuckabeeMike Huckabee announced on Tuesday that he is running for president again. Mr. Huckabee isboth a Baptist preacher and a former governor of the state of Arkansas. When he first ran, in2008, he won the Iowa caucus. Mr. Huckabee brings to the race a social conservative viewthat is popular with evangelical Christians: he opposes abortion and gay marriage. Although hewon eight state primaries in 2008, Mr. Huckabee eventually ran out of money. At the time,analysts said he had trouble reaching beyond social conservatives in the Republican party. Theynow say that Mr. Huckabee and the other Republican candidates will talk about national securityand foreign policy issues.Ford O'Connell is a Republican strategist."I think when all is said and done and we get to the general election in 2016, you're going tohave three issues: economic mobility, jobs and national security. And while they do overlap,the ability for Republicans to distinguish themselves with the Republican primary on nationalsecurity is going to be very, very important."Early public opinion studies show two Republicans who have not officially entered the race havestrong support. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is leading in the early polls. He is the sonand brother of two former U.S. presidents. Behind Mr. Bush in thepolls is Wisconsin GovernorScott Walker. He is popular with Republicans for opposing labor unions.。
全国英语六级听力VOA训练
全国英语六级听力VOA训练全国英语六级听力VOA训练2017One man's fault is other man's lesson.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的全国英语六级听力VOA训练2017，希望能给大家带来帮助!NAIROBI, KENYA—A 2011 World Bank survey found that only about one-tenth of Kenya's population earned enough to support a mortgage. However, that situation may be changing, with more affordable apartment units on the outskirts of Nairobi selling out even before the start of construction.Anthony Wamburu, a 35-year-old technology enthusiast, is in the market for his first property.Wamburu has been saving for a while now, and has his eye on an apartment —valued at $50,000 —in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. The units are dubbed "starter homes" by Suraya properties, the firm behind the venture."They are not very expensive for somebody like me who is looking to start a family quite soon,” he said. “And also I like the way it comes with different benefits. It comes with a gym. It also comes with a swimming pool, so I would not have to get gym membership somewhere else. So a starter home would be quite perfect for me."Begun four years ago, Suraya Properties has built starter homes in the Kenyan capital and its outskirts with a view toward tapping into the low- and middle-income market. Most of their units range between $10,000 and $80,000.Unexpected buyersThe company was started to supply affordable homes to first-time home buyers, said CEO Peter Muraya, but a market wasuncovered that he had not anticipated."Surprisingly, we have found that there's a lot of people heading to retirement who have looked at it differently and they are thinking, 'We [were] going to maybe the countryside retirement home' but they want a place in town where they can be coming and where it's their own," Muraya said.The new apartment complexes in Thika and Syokimau are still under construction, but already are sold out.Still, homeownership remains beyond the reach of most Kenyans. The Mortgage Company, a Kenyan real estate firm, estimates that only a fifth of Kenyans can afford a home priced at $10,000.Part of the problem is the high interest rates charged by Kenyan banks."You're talking about borrowing at [rates of] eighteen, nineteen, twenty and even in some cases higher than that,” said economic analyst Aly Khan Satchu. “It's very expensive to borrow money from the bank and until we see significantly lower rates, I think we'll continue to see poor mortgage penetration because it's just too expensive."Another real estate company, Hass Consult, says only 30,000 Kenyans hold mortgages, a tiny fraction of the country's 42 million people.听力技能补充：复合式听写答题顺序及技巧听之前：pre – listening1.对全文进行全局性预览：尤其是第一句(topic)最后一句(conclusion)2.观察空格前后的特殊现象，判断词性，单复数，时态语态听之时：while - listening原则：精听，速记，以听为主，以记为辅。
第七周听力精听作业 MOOC---VOA Special English
2012-3-21This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But a big idea in higher education these days is the massive open online course, or MOOC.Some universities offer free, non-credit MOOCs available to anyone in the world. Others charge for courses and provide credits. The idea is still developing.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently started its first MOOC. The school plans to offer many free, non-credit courses through a project called MITx.So far, most massive open online courses are in computer science, technology, mechanics and engineering. For example, students around the world are taking a free course called "Building a Computer Search Engine." Two computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun and David Evans, are offering this course through .Mr. Evans is on leave from the University of Virginia. Mr. Thrun is a Stanford research professor and a Google Fellow best known for his work on a driverless car.There are no education requirements for the course. The students watch short videos. Then, says Mr. Evans, they take informal, ungraded quizzes after the videos each week for six weeks.DAVID EVANS: "Quizzes are part of the lecture to keep students engaged and keep them thinking, for students to be able to check that they understood what we covered. Those are not graded and students try those as often as they wish."They can repeatedly watch the videos and take the quizzes whenever they want.Students receive homework. They join online groups to exchange questions and answers about the course.The teachers hold virtual office hours to answer questions that the students have voted to send them. They also present their own questions and observations.The students take a final examination to show where they rate in the class Everyone who finishes the course receives a grade and proof of completion. Top students get letters documenting their work.Mr. Thrun started Udacity, which supports free MOOCs. Udacity hopes to make a profit in the future by connecting possible employers with interested students. On his Stanford homepage he says he wants to "democratize" education. Education, he says, should be free, accessible for all, everywhere and any time.So how does David Evans compare the education in MOOCs to traditional teaching?DAVID EVANS: "There are things that we can do better in the online format. We can certainly deliver high-quality education to so much more students at much lower cost ."But he recognizes the limits.DAVID EVANS: "Part of what I hope will happen as a result of this is that the best traditional universities will be able to focus on the things they can do really well that can't be done better through an online university."。
voa听力50天挑战计划答案
voa听力50天挑战计划答案答案1.clean2.water-stressed3.preventable4.integrity5.alternative6.variability7.legitimate disputes8.cooperation9.assistance10.multiple benefits词汇解释1.sanitationn.[医]环境卫生;卫生设备;下水道设施The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point. 从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
2.aquaticadj.水生的;水栖的;在水中或水面进行的Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.水上运动包括游泳和划船。
3.variabilityn.可变性，变化性;[生物][数]变异性There is considerable variability in all the test scores.所有这些考查成绩都有很大变化。
4.basinn.水池;流域;盆地;盆She tipped the flour into the basin.她把面粉倒进盆内。
5.status quon.现状We must not return to the status quo.我们决不能恢复原状。
内容解析1.Daniel Reifsnyder stated that there is no alternative to global and regional cooperation on water.no alternative to除了...别无选择There appears to be no alternative to the increase of price.除了提高物价没有别的选择。
She had no alternative but to ask for a few days'leave.实在不得已，她只好请几天假。
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VOA 201709022EXERCISEItem 1True or False1. President Uhuru Kenyatta's electoral win is admitted by Kenya's Supreme Court. ( )2.RailaOdinga from ruling party fileda petitionto the court. ( )3. RailaOdingaconvinced thatmore than a third of polling stations havedeadly faults. ( )4. Voting was followed by protests and sporadicviolence that killed at least 28 people last month. ( )Item 2 Multiply Choices5. How many people were found floating in the Naf River in Bangladesh on Friday ______A. 26B. 31C. 216. The bodies of the Rohingya Muslim refugees had been buried at ______A. a local green yardB. a local grave yardC. a local grape yard7. Three boats carrying Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar ______ in Bangladesh.A. stoppedB. shipwrecked c. landedItem 3Blank-fillingA spokesman for the SDF told the AFP that 8._________________ are now "on the edges of IS's 9.__________________in the city center, where most of its main bases are."About 25,000 10.__________________ with the remaining jihadists.A U.S. military spokesman said he has not been able to 11.______________________________.Item 4 Questions12.What did Greg Abbott assure the residents?13. What happened in Texas?Item 5True or False14. Trump has decided to end the Obama administration policy that protects children of undocumented immigrants who entered the United States illegally. ( )15. The program known as DACA, is the 2012 Obamaadministration policy that protects children of undocumented immigrants who entered the United States legally. ( ) 16. DACA has given a lot of people a reprieve fromexpulsion. ( )Item 6 Questions17. What was Venezuelan President NicholásMaduroaccused of ?18. When did Ortegahad evidence that Maduro was involved in graft ?19. How old is Ortega ?Item 7 Blank-fillingSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone on Friday and 20.____________the need to bring Pyongyang back to the 21._________ by applying 22.________________________________.KeyItem 1:1. F (Kenya's Supreme Court has nullified（使无效）President Uhuru Kenyatta's electoral win)2. F (RailaOdinga is the opposition leader)3. T4. TItem 2:5. C6. B7. BItem 38.coalition fighters9. security quarter10. civilians remain trapped11. confirm if the city has been retaken.Item 412. There's plenty of gasoline.13. There has a big storm and the storm has displaced more than a million people, with up to 44 feared dead.Item 514. F( Not decided yet)15. F( Who entered the US illegally)16. TItem 617. He was accused of involving in corruption.18. A week ago19. 59Item 720.reaffirmed21. negotiation table22. maximum pressure and sanctionsSCRIPTSeptember 22, 2017From Washington, this is VOA news. Hello, I'm Steve Miller.1. 0: 12Kenya's Supreme Court has nullified（使无效）President Uhuru Kenyatta's electoral win, citing irregularities and ordered a new poll（民意选举）within 60 days. Mia Walmsleyhas more：Opposition leader RailaOdinga filed（提交）a petition（情愿书）to the court claiming that results from more than a third of polling stations were "fatally flawed"（有致命缺陷的）.Odinga has contested the last three polls and lost each time.A row after the 2007 results was followed by weeks of ethnic bloodshed and 1,200people were st month's voting was followed by protests and sporadic（不定时发生的）violence that killed at least 28 people.2. 0: 47Friday, the bodies of 21 people were found floating in the Naf River in Bangladesh. Robert Raffaele has the details：The officer in charge of Teknaf police station said the bodies of the Rohingya Muslim refugees had been buried at a local grave yard.On Thursday, 26 bodies of women and children were recovered after three boats carrying Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized（船翻了） in Bangladesh.Myanmar's military said on Friday that most of the 400 people (who) died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine were because of triggered attacks on security forces by insurgents（暴动） from Rohingya ethnic minority.3.1: 27United States-backed fighters in Raqqa say they have taken the last districts of the Old City from Islamic State jihadists.A spokesman for the SDF told the AFP that coalition fighters are now "on the edges of IS's security quarter in the city center, where most of its main bases are."About 25,000 civilians remain trapped with the remaining jihadists.A U.S. military spokesman said he has not been able to confirm if the city has been retaken.This is VOA news.4. 1: 59Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a news conference in Austin, Texas, on Friday. He assured residents that "There's plenty of gasoline.""The bottom line is that the state of Texas will have plenty of gasoline showing up at gasoline stations across the state of Texas. So don't worry, we will not run out and we will be back into our normal pattern before you know it."Harvey shut down about a quarter of the U.S. refinery capacity（冶炼厂的最大容量）, much of which is clustered along the Gulf coast and caused gasoline prices to spike to a nearly two-year high ahead of the long Labor Day holiday weekend.The storm has displaced more than a million people, with up to 44 feared dead.5. 2: 41U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated his decision is imminent as to whether or not he will end the Obama administration policy that protects children of undocumented immigrants who entered the United States illegally."We'll be releasing on DACA sometime over the weekend, probably Sunday, Saturday. Latest will be Monday."The program known as DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the 2012 Obamaadministration policy that protects children of undocumented immigrants who entered the United States illegally.The Trump administration faces a September 5 deadline for decision set by a group of state attorneys grappling with the issues in their states.DACA has given nearly 800,000 people a reprieve from deportation（驱逐出境） by providing two-year, renewable work permits for eligible applicants.6. 3: 30Venezuela's former chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega met Mexico's attorney general（司法部长）and handed over documents regarding Venezuela. Ortega fled her homeland after accusing Venezuelan President NicholásMaduro of involvement in corruption. Ortega, who was removed from her position earlier this month, said a week ago she had evidence that Maduro was involved in graft（受贿）with construction company Odebrecht. The 59-year-old Ortega has said she would give details of the corruption cases to authorities in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.7. 4: 04South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone on Friday and reaffirmed the need to bring Pyongyang back to the negotiation table by applying maximum pressure and sanctions.Asked by VOA during Friday's briefing to clarify Trump's stance, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders replied, "The president is looking for an integrated process. And we're continuing to move forward on that. We take North Korea extremely seriously and all options are on the table. That has not changed."For additional stories and in-depth coverage to these and more, put your web browser to . From the news center in Washington D.C., I'm Steve Miller.That's the latest world news from VOA.。