voa慢速英语20110311
voa慢速英语1125日1点30听力原文
voa慢速英语1125日1点30听力原文Egyptian media says Egypt military rulers have appointed a former prime minister to form a new government. The state of the newspaper _____ said Thursday on its website that ____ has agree to the idea. This follows a resignation of prime minister ____. Mr._ met earlier with the head of the ruling _____council of the armed forces. The council says p____ elections will take place as planed on Monday. Thousands of protestors remained in ____ square in Cairo, each of military rulers rejected calls by the protestors to resign. Protest organizers have called for another big demonstration, on Friday.Y emen’s president ______, has ordered an investigation in _____ Thursday in the capital, _____. Witnesses said ____ was loyal to _____, shoot protestors, killing 5 people and wounding at least 34. Mr.__ condemned the killings, he was agreed to give power to his wise president and hold early presidential elections. But protestors are angry, about part of the ~~he said on Wednesday to leave power. Under that plan, the new government could not charge him with any crimes that he may have committed while president.Syria has until Friday to sign an agreement to let observers into the country, if not, the ________ plans to be on Saturday to discuss ordering section measures against Syria. A Syrian opposition groups says 47 more people have been killed in government’s efforts to suppress protests. The Syrian observatory for human rights said most of the death happened in Homes province, he said the victims included members of security forces, as well as army ___ and civilians.3 blooms in the southern_____ city of _____ have killed 19people and wounded at least 65 others. ___ officials said the first two blooms are motorcycles and exploded at the same time in the crowed market, then the third bloom exploded as soldiers and police arrived. The officials said most of the killed or wounded were soldiers and policemen. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the ______.In Afghanistan, president _____, has condemned a natto air strike that reportedly killed 7 civilians, most of them were children. His office says local officials reported that the death happened Wednesday in the southern province_____. The commander of American and natto forces in Afghanistan said he was startled by the news, he said natto is investigating. A local governor told French agency that the air strike missed its target of Taliban fighters hiding in roadside mines and hide homes nearby.Indian officials say a top commander of the country’s ____ rebels has been killed in eastern India. They say ___ , known as ______, was killed Thursday in a gun battle in a forest in western gun. Mr. ___ was wanted for killing of police officers . Indian home sectary _____ said Mr.__ was the third highest rebel leader. He called his death a huge setback for the _____. Moith rebel, also known as lucial light or lucial operate in more than 20 indian states. Indian’s capilate h as approved a plan to open up the country to foreign supermarkets, foreign companies like Wal-Mart in the US and the French based ___, have sought permission for years to sell directly to people in India. Critic says the proposal would cause job loses and forces small stores out of business, Indian common minister says parliament will discuss the details of the proposal on Friday.The leaders of France and Germany said they would they willpropose changes to European union treaties to improve governments of the European area, French president Nicolay _____ and Germany ______ met Thursday in ______, they also met with Italy’s new prime minister Mario _____, Mr.__ said Italian political parties will try to balance Italy’s budget in 2013.Moroccans will elect a new parliaments on Friday, the election were expected to happen a yearfrom now, but king ___ changed the date, the election is seen as a test of reforms by the king, designed to prevent protests like those that had ____ other Arab leaders, earlier this year, Moroccans approved constitutional changes that the king himself proposed to weaken his powers, but critical said he still has too much power, including the right to choose the prime minister from the ____ Party.This news is from Florida, news recorder show thate ______ agree to give his former wife about 70% of the 10 million dollars they had, the couple divorced in 2009. Hook Horgen’s real name is Tery Blare, ______ newspaper says he also agrees to give Linda ____ about 40% ownership of his companies.And finally, Americans have gathered with family and friends to celebrate thanksgiving. The holiday is observed on the forth Thursday in November, with a big meal and families by watching football games on TV. This is one of the busiest travel weeks of the year in the US. President Abraham Lincoln established thanksgiving in 1863, but the idea of an autumn harvest feast dates back to European settlers in the 16 centuries.。
VOA常速讲解2011-08-19
VOA常速讲解附字幕:外交官批评日本核事故后反应查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照After a magnitude9.0earthquake and historic tsunami battered northeastern Japan on March 11a veteran U.S.diplomat,who had just been removed from the top post on the island of Okinawa,was among those put in charge of a crisis task force in Washington.Kevin Maher says American decision-makers quickly realized there was little reliable data coming from their Japanese counterparts about the Fukushima-1nuclear power plant."There was a point where we told the Japanese government,'Look you guys got to take this seriously.This is a real serious situation.The government needs to respond to this.'And,I think the[Japanese]government eventually came to that conclusion,itself,"he said.Maher says that was based on flights over the crippled nuclear plant by a U.S.Air Force (RQ-4)Global Hawk remotely piloted plane. The unmanned aircraft took photographs and could roughly gauge temperatures inside the damaged reactor and spent fuel buildings."And when you looked at the information we did have,it was very clear to me early on that there had probably been at least one,probably two meltdowns,"Maher stated.Maher recalls that prompted the U.S. government to explore scenarios for evacuations,including transporting100,000 American citizens from the Tokyo metropolitan area.3月11日，9.0级大地震和历史性的海啸袭击日本东北部之后，刚刚退下冲绳岛最高职位的美国退休外交官负责华盛顿的一个危机调查任务小组。
2019年6月四级听力VOA慢速英语练习题(第十一套)
2019 年 6 月四级听力 VOA 慢速英语练习题（第十一套）2019 年 6 月四级听力 VOA慢速英语练习题（第十一套）People across the Washington, D.C. region are hunkering down for a massive winter storm that is expected to dump near record amounts of snow and create crippling blizzard conditionsas it moves up the east coast.Forecasters say the storm could bury the U.S. capital inmore than 60 centimeters of snow, which began fallingmidday Friday and is expected to continue into Sunday.Dangerous winds and coastal flooding are also expected.Ahead of the storm, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowserdeclared a state of emergency and closed local schools Friday."This has life-and-death implications, and all theresidents of the District of Columbia should treat itthat way," said Bowser.Federal government offices in the city have alsoshut down. Authorities are even taking the rare step ofclosing the DC Metro public transit system.So far, more than 4,500 flights have been canceledacross the nation. Widespread power outages are also expected,and authorities warned residents to stock up on essentialfood and supplies.Emergency statusThe Associated Press reports that at least five people have died in storm-related crashes in Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina. Officials are warning people to stay offroads as the blizzard makes its way across the East Coast.In addition to D.C., states of emergency were also declared in Maryland as well as in Virginia, where the governor, Terry McAuliffe, said people should "take thethreat of this storm seriously." The two states are adjacentto Washington.The storm is expected to affect tens of millionsof people from Kentucky through New England.Many meteorologists say the various forecast models and readings that frequently disagree on the path of big stormsall concur that it will be strong as it comes up theAtlantic coast and pulls in moisture.Computer forecast models are calling for a windy, slow-moving system.Nor'easter expectedRich Otto, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center outside Washington, said Tuesday an upper-level disturbance in the air was moving from the Pacific Ocean to the Rockies to the southern Plains. It was predicted to become a "nor'easter" Friday evening over themid-Atlantic and then move up the coast on Saturday.A nor'easter gets its name from the northeasterly winds that blow in from the ocean ahead of the storm. These stormsform along the U.S. East Coast as warm air from over the Atlantic Ocean clashes with Arctic cold to the north and west.。
VOA流行美语第119课：gotobatforsb.
第119课：go to bat for sb.Larry和李华刚刚上完美国历史课，两⼈正在讨论上课的内容。
今天李华会学到两个常⽤语: out to get someone和go to bat for someone.LL: Hey, Li Hua, did you notice how professor Smith kept asking Mary really hard questions? He really seemed out to get her. LH: 就是啊！我也在纳闷呢！Smith教授好象在故意刁难Mary，他问她的问题恐怕谁都答不出来。
真是奇怪。
Larry你说教授是out to get her，那是什么意思啊？LL: If a person is "out to get" someone else it means that he has a grudge against that person and wants to hurt or embarrass her.LH: 哼，out to get someone 就是故意让某⼈难堪，和他过不去。
可是Smith 教授和Mary有什么过节，为什么要这样对她呢？LL: I heard that a student complained about Prof. Smith to the department chair. It's possible that she was the one who complained and now he's out to get her for it.LH: 你怀疑Mary在系主任那⾥表⽰对Smith教授不满，所以教授现在要整她？哎哟！要是被教授盯上，故意和你过不去，那可惨了！LL: Yeah, I can imagine that it's stressful. I've never had a professor that was out to get me, but I had a classmate that was out to get me once.LH: 真的啊？你那个同学为什么和你过不去呢？LL: Well, I asked out the girl he liked and she went out with me. He was so angry that he was always spreading rumors about me. He even told the girl that I had another girlfriendLH: 那可不能怪你呀！那个⼥孩愿意和你约会，他就算喜欢那⼥孩，也不应该散布中伤你的谣⾔嘛！那，那个⼥孩她相信那些谣⾔吗？LL: Of course not. She knew he was out to get me. Have you ever known anyone who was out to get you?LH: 我啊，我也有过这种不愉快的经验。
VOA 常速讲解2011-3-15
VOA 常速讲解2011-3-15VOA常速讲解附字幕:日本核反应堆再次发生爆炸查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照Workers at a nuclear plant in Japan are battling to prevent a meltdown in one of the reactors, following the massive earthquake that struck the north-east part of thecountry on Friday. The latest government figures put the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami at just under 2,000- but that’s likely to increase dramatically n the coming days.Amateur video footage, taken in a coastal town as the tsunami hit, reveals the full power of the tsunami in horrific detail. Residents had just minutes to flee before the wall of water came ashore.The town where the video was taken, Miniami Sanriku on the coast of Miyagi prefecture, is now flattened. Authorities say 10,000 of its residents are missing.Japan has now dispatched 100,000 troops to the area and rescue teams from the U.S, New Zealand, China and other countries have arrived.They are being greeted with scenes of utter devastation. The death toll is rising steadily; it will be weeks before it’s known how many people lie buried here, or how many were swept out to sea.Reunions bring relief from the horror, but for many more families the search for loved ones continues.周五，灾难性的大地震袭击了日本东北部地区，核电站的工作人员正在努力采取措施防止其中一座反应堆融化。
2011年3月高级口译听力完整答案及听力原文及解析
2011年3月高级口译听力完整答案及听力原文及解析听力答案SECTION ONE：LISTENING TESTPart A Spot Dictation：1. freedom and connection2. top five benefits3. to think differently4. old boring way of doing things5. oppose the common wisdom6. fixed and boring7. invite your inner child out8. shifts the new world of discovery9. every human spent time10. brought a smile to your face11. and a feeling of inner peace12. watch your joy factor13. to reduce stress14. basic to human existence15. adaptive abilities16. healthy answers to challenging situations17. add a feeling of relaxation18. stimulate the imagination19. more meaningful understanding20. various possible situationsPart B Listening Comprehension：1-5 BDBBC 6-10 BDACB11-15 BCDAC 16-20 ABCBCSECTION TWO：READING TEST1-5 C D D A A 6-10 C D B C C11-15 A D B D B 16-20 B D B B CSECTION FOUR：LISTENING TESTPart A Note-taking and Gap-filling：critical/ vital/ important/ essentialsaving/ cure/categoricallydeprofessionalizeddistancinghistoryListening75%10%laboratorytechnologyrelationshipinefficienttechnologiesdrugshospitalizationrewardbeyondcaringpatientPart B: Listening and Translation：Ⅰsentence translation1、首先让我们来定义这两个术语。
VOA慢速英语-丑闻威胁到中国的大学入学考试
VOA慢速英语-丑闻威胁到中国的大学入学考试第一篇：VOA慢速英语-丑闻威胁到中国的大学入学考试This is VOA Learning English Education Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
Millions of high school students in China took a college entrance examination recently.The highly competitive test is often praised for giving good students a chance to enter the best schools.It makes the competition for college fair for students from poor families.The examination is known as the Gaokao.中国数百万高中学生最近参加了高考。
这一竞争激烈的考生常被誉为给优秀学子提供了进入最好学校的机会。
它使得大学入学考试对贫困家庭学生也能公平。
该考试被称为高考。
Universities are supposed to require good scores on the test for admission to college.But reports suggest that some people are getting into schools without even taking the cation is very important to gaining a good standing in Chinese society.This year, about nine million students competed for about seven million places in colleges.各大学理应对入学考试有很高的成绩要求。
VOA慢速英语011.Development Report
001.Increasing Food Security in Dry Areas of the Middle EastThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.Agricultural experts have launched a land and water management project in the Middle East. The project seeks to increase food security in dry areas. Researchers say the water availability in some of the areas has dropped well below the internationally recognized standard.Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, Syria and Yemen are all taking part in the project. It is part of a larger ten-year effort called the Water and Livelihoods Initiative. The project is also expected to increase household income for farmers in the areas.The United States Agency for International Development provided one million dollars for the Water and Livelihoods Initiative. Scott Christianson is an agricultural development advisor with U.S.A.I.D. He helped develop the project while working for the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. He says the countries taking part in the project were all carefully selected.SCOTT CHRISTIANSON: "They all share a socio-economic and cultural heritage that's fairly homogeneous. We feel that it's going to maximize our opportunity for trading of knowledge that we will generate in the project."Research by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas and its partners has already proven to be successful. New irrigation methods are expected to double wheat production while using one-third of the water required for full irrigation. Experts say the new methods also increase crop production up to five times more than crops that depend on rainfall only.The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas will provide technical support for the project. Officials from the International Water Management Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute are also taking part in the effort.Each team will be joined by experts from local research institutions, universities and government agencies.SCOTT CHRISTIANSON: "We have good partnerships among the countries within each agro-eco system so that through this twinning they can learn lessons from each other and work together effectively through time."Scott Christianson and other officials met in Amman, Jordan last week. They attended an international conference on food security and climate change in dry areas. Nearly one-fourth of the world's people live in these areas.Officials say more must be done to deal with water shortages in agriculture. If not, they say, the future of food security, economic development and social stability in dry areas will be put at risk.And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms. I'm Steve Ember.002.Breathing Easier: The Art of Stove Making27 January 2010More than three billion people are at risk from indoor air pollution because of the heating or cooking fuels they use. Most live in Africa, India and China. They use biomass fuels like wood, crop waste, animal waste or coal. These solid fuels may be the least costly fuels available. But they are also a major cause of health problems and death.For more than thirty years, the Aprovecho Research Center has been designing cleaner, low-cost cooking stoves for the developing world. Dean Still is the director of the group which is based in the United States. He notes a World Health Organization estimate that more than one and a half million people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels.DEAN STILL: "And half of the people on planet Earth every day use wood or biomass for cooking. These are the people on Earth who have less money, and the richer people use oil and gas. It's been estimated that wood is running out more quickly than oil and gas. And so it is very important for the poorer people to have very efficient stoves that protect their forests and that protect their health."Every year Aprovecho holds a "stove camp" at its testing station in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Engineers, inventors, students and others come together to design and test different methods and materials for improving stoves.Over the years, the group has made stoves using mud, bricks, sheet metal, clay, ceramics and old oil drums. Most of the stoves look like large, deep cooking pots. They have an opening at the bottom for the fire and a place on top to put a pot.In the late nineteen seventies, Aprovecho produced a popular stove called the Lorena. The Lorena was very good at reducing smoke and warming homes. But new tests years later found that it was not very efficient. The Lorena used twice as much wood as an open fire, and took much longer to heat food.Since then, Dean Still says they have experimented with countless other designs.DEAN STILL: "Our goal is to make a very inexpensive stove -- let's say five dollars -- that makes very, very little smoke, so it's safe for health, diminishes global warming and diminishes deforestation. And so it's an ongoing problem to work on."Aprovecho has now partnered with a stove manufacturer in China. The company is making Aprovecho's first mass produced stoves. They are said to use forty to fifty percent less wood than an open fire, and produce fifty to seventy-five percent less smoke. A company called StoveTec is selling them through its Web site for less than ten dollars. Dean Still says that more than one hundred thousand have been sold so far.003.Steps Urged to Prevent Snakebites, Improve TreatmentsThis is the VOA Special English Health Report.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Snakes bite an estimated five and a half million people worldwide each year. Experts say tens of thousands of people die from venom poisoning.An untreated or incorrectly treated bite might require the removal of a bitten foot, for example, or an arm. Each year around four hundred thousand amputations are the result of snakebites.Last year, for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases." This recognition aims to bring greater attention to the problem.Scientists know of about three thousand kinds of snakes. About six hundred of them are venomous. These are most often found in rural areas in tropical climates.Asia and Africa have the highest number of snakebites -- together about four million a year. Latin America and islands in the South Pacific follow.The highest number of victims are agricultural workers. Snakebites are also common among fishermen, hunters and children. Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.Antivenom is the only cure. But experts say antivenom technologies and their use need to be improved. Problems include a shortage of manufacturers and the high cost of treatment.Also, there is a widespread lack of knowledge among local health workers about how to use antivenoms. The treatments can cause dangerous and even deadly reactions if not used carefully.Antivenom contains proteins from animals such as horses or sheep. The animals are injected repeatedly with one or more different snake venoms to produce immunity.The Lancet medical journal recently published a series of reports on snakebite prevention and treatment. David Warrell at the University of Oxford in England co-wrote one of them. He praised efforts by the W.H.O. to establish common practices for the production, regulation and control of antivenom. But he says more must be done.The authors say community education programs could help prevent snakebites by teaching people how to avoid them. They also suggest actions like providing protective boots to wear while working in fields, and not sleeping on the ground.Also important is providing information about where dangerous snakes are most likely to live and when they are most active.004. New Vaccine Joins Campaign to End PolioTThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.The World Health Organization has begun to use a new vaccine against polio. Officials say it will become a major tool in the campaign to end a disease that mainly affects children under age five.The new formulation is known as B.O.P.V. , or bivalent oral polio vaccine. It was used for the first time in December in a polio immunization campaign in Afghanistan.Carol Pandak is with the PolioPlus program of the service organization Rotary International. She explains that health workers have been using what are called trivalent vaccines in some places. These are areas like Afghanistan where more than one kind of polio virus exists.There are three types of polio virus. The trivalent vaccine is least effective against type three, more effective against type one and highly effective against type two. As a result, few new casesof type two have been reported since nineteen ninety-nine.This has led to greater use of monovalent vaccines to protect against either type one or type three polio. But Carol Pandak says the monovalent vaccine is not enough in areas with both.CAROL PANDAK: "You address the type one, and the type three cases go up. You address the type three, and the type one cases go up."Rod Curtis at the World Health Organization in Geneva says the new bivalent vaccine solves this problem.ROD CURTIS: "The beauty of the bivalent vaccine is that it is able to attack both types of wild polio virus in one dose."Carol Pandak says tests found the new vaccine to be thirty percent more effective than the trivalent vaccine.More than thirty new cases of polio were reported in Afghanistan last year. About half were type one and the others type three. Rod Curtis says that shows the importance of the new vaccine targeting both viruses at once. Officials say similar vaccination campaigns are planned this year in India, Nigeria and Pakistan.Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative says the number has fallen by ninety-nine percent since nineteen eighty eight.Polio is highly infectious. One victim in two hundred suffers permanent paralysis, usually in the legs. Five to ten percent of those victims die when their breathing muscles fail.005. Solar-Powered Pumps Aid African FarmersThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.A new study in West Africa shows how farm irrigation systems powered by the sun can produce more food and money for villagers. The study in Benin found that solar-powered pumps are effective in supplying water, especially during the long dry season.Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world with the least food security. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year. Around two hundred sixty-five million of them live south of the Sahara Desert. Lack of rainfall is one of their main causes of food shortages.Jennifer Burney from Stanford University in California led the study. The research team helped build three solar-powered drip irrigation systems in northern Benin.Between thirty and thirty-five women used each system to pump water from the ground or a stream. Each woman was responsible for farming her own one hundred twenty square meters of land. They also farmed other land collectively.The solar-powered irrigation systems produced an average of nearly two metric tons of vegetables per month. During the first year, the women kept a monthly average of almost nine kilograms of vegetables for home use.They sold the surplus produce at local markets. The earnings greatly increased their ability to buy food during the dry season which can last six to nine months.People in the two villages with the systems were able to eat three to five more servings of vegetables per day. But making the surplus available at markets also had a wider effect.The study compared the villages with two others where women farmed with traditional methods like carrying water in buckets. The amount of vegetables eaten in those villages also increased, though not as much.The researchers note that only four percent of the cropland in sub-Saharan Africa is irrigated. Using solar power to pump water has higher costs at first. But the study says it can be more economical in the long term than using fuels like gasoline, diesel or kerosene. And solar power is environmentally friendly.The study appears this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.006. New Treatment for Sleeping SicknessThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.The World Health Organization is using a new combination of drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The drugs nifurtimox an eflornithine will be given out in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Officials from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative say the new treatment has fewer side effects. It is also more effective and less costly than the drugs traditionally used. In addition, the new treatment reduces the number of injections needed. And it shortens the amount of time patients must spend in the hospital.Sleeping sickness threatens millions of people in thirty-six countries in Africa. Most live in poor rural areas. The disease is caused by the trypanosoma parasite. It is spread to humans through the bite of infected tsetse flies.Common signs of sleeping sickness include fever, headaches, extreme tiredness and pain in the muscles and joints. Early identification of the disease may be difficult because many infected people do not show any immediate symptoms.Over time, the parasites invade the central nervous system. The disease causes sleep disorders, mental confusion, personality changes, speech problems, seizures and coma. If left untreated, sleeping sickness kills.The World Health Organization estimates that about sixty thousand people are currently infected with the disease. It develops in two different forms. Trypanosoma gambiense is responsible for ninety percent of the reported cases of sleeping sickness. People infected with this form may develop the disease over many years without any major symptoms. The disease develops more quickly over a few weeks or months in people infected with trypanosoma rhodesiense.Until now the drug melarsoprol was used to treat patients in the advanced stage of sleeping sickness.But the drug requires many painful injections several times a day for several weeks. It also causes bad side effects, some of which can be deadly.In Uganda, a new study has confirmed earlier research linking the spread of sleeping sickness to infected farm animals. The writers of the study have called for stronger rules requiring cattle to be treated before being sold at market. The study was published in the Public Library of Science.007. Bringing Light to Homes in Poor CountriesThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.More than one and a half billion people around the world live without electricity. Finding better ways to bring light to the poor is the goal of researchers like David Irvine-Halliday.In the late nineteen nineties, the Canadian professor was working in Nepal when his return flight was canceled. A delay gave him time to take a fourteen-day hiking trip in the Himalayas.As he tells it, one day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was. This is a common problem for millions of children around the world -- and not just at school, but also at home.Many families use kerosene oil lamps. There are many problems with these lamps. They produce only a small amount of light. They are dangerous to breathe. And they are a big fire danger, causing many injuries and deaths each year.Kerosene costs less than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries. Professor Irvine-Halliday says many people spend well over one hundred dollars a year on the fuel.When he returned to Canada, he began researching ways to provide safe, clean and affordable lighting. He began experimenting with light-emitting diodes, LEDs, at his laboratory at the University of Calgary in Alberta. As a professor of renewable energy, he already knew about the technology.Light-emitting diodes are small glass lamps that use much less electricity than traditional bulbs and last much longer.Professor Irvine-Halliday used a one-watt bright white L.E.D. made in Japan. He found it on the Internet and connected it to a bicycle-powered generator. He remembers thinking it was so bright, a child could read by the light of a single diode.In two thousand, after much research and many experiments, he returned to Nepal to put the systems into homes. His Light Up the World Foundation has now equipped the homes of twenty-five thousand people in fifty-one countries.DAVID IRVINE-HALLIDAY: "The one-time cost of our system -- which consists of a small solar panel, a little motorcycle-sized battery and a couple of LED lamps, which basically live forever, as well as the solar panel -- is less than one hundred dollars. So, one year of kerosene would pay for a solid-state lighting system."Now his aim is to develop a lower-cost lighting system. In January, David Irvine-Halliday is leaving the University of Calgary. He has also decided to give up leadership in the Light Up the World Foundation to start a company in India.And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms with Rosanne Skirble. I'm Christopher Cruise.008. Increase in Illegal Killing of Rhinos in Africa, AsiaThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.A new report says the illegal killing of rhinos for their horns is increasing in 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 drives most trade in rhino horns from southern Africa. The horns are 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 known as Traffic.Most African rhino poaching is in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Experts found that two hundred ten 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 in its 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. By this year, nine out of ten 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 veterinary 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.009. Looking for New Ways to Fight MalariaThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.Scientists continue to seek better weapons against malaria. Each year the number of cases is in the hundreds of millions worldwide. Around a million people die, most of them in Africa. Economic losses from the disease amount to an estimated one percent of the African economy each year.George Dimopoulos is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.GEORGE DIMOPOULOS: "Forty-two percent of the earth's population live in areas where malaria transmitting mosquitoes exist. All of these people are in risk of being infected with malaria. The sad thing is that the majority of people that are killed by malaria are children because there immune system is not strong enough to ward off this infection."Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. The organism is injected into peoplethrough the bite of infected mosquitoes. Malaria can be treated, but in many areas the parasites have become resistant to different drugs.George Dimopoulos and his team are studying ways to make mosquitoes resist infection by the parasite. There are hundreds of kinds of mosquitoes in the world. Most do not spread malaria. Some have immune systems that kill Plasmodium.GEORGE DIMOPOULOS: "We are particularly interested in these type of immune reactions that are responsible for killing the malaria parasite. Because we think once we understand how they work, we could be able to manipulate the mosquito genetically and convert mosquitoes that can transmit malaria into mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria."The researchers have developed a way to make genetic changes in the three mosquito species known to spread malaria. The changes cause their systems to attack the parasite, blocking its development. Other researchers are working on ways to spread these genetically modified insects among mosquito populations.Professor Dimopoulos says there is still a long way to go, but current malaria research is highly promising.A new vaccine is in final testing. So far it has proven effective at preventing the disease in half of those vaccinated -- which is more than ever before.And at the Malaria Institute at Macha in Zambia, researchers are developing an easier way to identify malaria. The test uses saliva instead of blood to diagnose the infection.Current efforts in malaria control are mainly based on the use of insecticide sprays and treated bed nets. But George Dimopoulos says malaria needs to be attacked with drugs, with vaccines, with bed nets -- with whatever researchers can find.GEORGE DIMOPOULOS: "Malaria needs to be attacked with multiple weapons. There is not one magic bullet to control this disease."010. Some Tips for Cold Storage of FoodsThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.Before refrigerators were invented, the next best thing was an ice box. But another way to keep food fresh is to use an evaporative cooler. A common design is a tall box with several shelves inside to hold the food. The shelves are pieces of metal with many small holes through them. The sides of the box are covered with pieces of thick cloth.Containers of water are placed at the top and bottom of the cooler. The ends of each piece of cloth lie in the water so the cloth stays wet.The cooler is put outdoors, but not in the sun. Air will pass through the wet cloth. The inside of the box will stay several degrees cooler than the outside air temperature. And this may be cool enough to keep foods fresh, at least for a short time.Some foods can make you sick if they are stored in conditions that are not cold enough to prevent the growth of harmful organisms. Freezing can keep some foods in good condition for months after the growing season. Yet foods can be damaged if they are kept too cold.The British development group Practical Action says the best way to prepare foods for storage is at harvest time while still in the field.Use a sharp knife and place the harvested items on a clean surface or directly into storagecontainers. Do not put them on the ground.Use clean water to remove dirt, and keep the water clean. Usually it is better not to remove outer leaves from fruits and vegetables before storage. Without the leaves, food can become dry.Fruits and vegetables must be cool from field heat before they are put into storage. But cooling them in water can spread fungus throughout the food. A better idea is to harvest foods either early or late in the day, then leave them to cool naturally.Some fruits and vegetables must be stored at zero to four degrees Celsius. Any colder, and they might be damaged. Some foods need to be stored at four to eight degrees, and some need to be stored above eight degrees for best results.Wet the fruits and vegetables so they do not become too dry. The best time to do this is before storage. Cover the items in plastic once they reach the right "critical temperature" for storage. Most fruits and vegetables need the relative humidity in storage to be kept between eighty-five and ninety-five percent.Finally, leave space between the food containers and the walls of the cold storage area so air can flow. Keep the space clean. And try not to open the doors too often.011. Results of UN Food Summit Seen as DisappointingThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.Last week, the United Nations held a World Summit on Food Security. But the three-day meeting in Rome produced only limited measures to fight rising hunger. The U.N. World Food Program says more than a billion people -- one in six worldwide -- do not get enough food to be healthy.The troubled world economy is not the only cause of recent increases. The poorest countries continue to face high food prices, which have fallen elsewhere. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says more than thirty nations continue to need emergency food assistance.Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the food crisis has forced millions of families into poverty and hunger. He said six million children die of hunger every year. And he warned that food security is closely connected to the issue of climate change.BAN KI-MOON: "At a time when the global population is growing, our global climate is changing. By twenty fifty we will need to grow seventy percent more food. Yet weather is becoming more extreme and unpredictable."The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen. But critics pointed out that world leaders made a similar promise more than ten years ago.Several countries promised to increase aid for agriculture, to help developing nations become more independent.Still, critics deplored a lack of greater action. Leaders from more than sixty countries were in Rome. But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the only leader from a major industrial nation in the Group of Eight. An official from Kenya, Adam Barre Duale, said it showed a lack of unity in the fight against hunger.ADAM BARRE DUALE: "We need both the developed world and the developing countries to come together and to give and support a global initiative in the war against hunger."The Food and Agriculture Organization says more than forty billion dollars a year needs to be invested in agriculture to defeat world hunger. The growing problem has affected developing countries, but also industrialized nations.The government estimates that forty-nine million people in the United States were "food insecure" last year. That means their households, at some time during the year, had difficulty providing enough food for all members because of a lack of resources. Almost fifteen percent of all households were in that situation. And the Agriculture Department says the numbers may be even higher this year.012. Project Finds New Homes for Unwanted Bikes From USThis is the VOA Special English Development Report.Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mostly they gather dust. But a project based in Washington is putting unwanted bikes from the United States to good use in developing countries.Keith Oberg is the director of Bikes for the World.KEITH OBERG: "Everybody has an old bicycle, and it is usually not ridden. It sits there in the garage, or basement or shed, going to waste."Stephen Popick recently had two bikes to donate.STEPHEN POPICK: "I brought in two mountain bikes that my wife and I have ridden for the past ten years. My bikes wouldn't fetch a nice price and wouldn't be worth trying to sell, but they could be useful to somebody else."Bikes for the World collects bicycles and delivers them at low cost to community programs in developing countries. It shipped more than five thousand bikes during the first eight months of this year. Last year it shipped about ten thousand three hundred.The bicycle recycling program is one of the largest in the United States. It is a sponsored project of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.Bikes for the World began in two thousand five. Since then it has shipped more than forty thousand bikes to communities in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, says director Keith Oberg.KEITH OBERG: "We work currently with partners in seven countries actively -- in Uganda, Ghana. We're talking to an organization that we would like to ship to in Liberia. We have shipped to Namibia and the Gambia in the past. And in Central America we ship to Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and we are talking to two organizations in El Salvador."Bikes for the World partners with nonprofit groups in the United States to collect unwanted bikes. Then it works with nonprofits in the other countries to get the bikes to organizations and individuals that need them the most.For example, the Bicycle Empowerment Network Namibia uses the bikes to provide transportation for health workers. That makes it possible for them to visit more patients each day. The organization also has bicycle ambulance services to transport the sick.The Bicycle Empowerment Network also provides training and support to help local。
VOA慢速讲解2010-11-24第531期
VOA慢速讲解附字幕:医疗债务每年使1亿人陷入贫困查看原文第一部分:原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Health Report.The World Health Organization says the rising cost of health care is a struggle for people and governments around the world.The problem is greatest in countries where people must often pay directly for services.A new report says these costs push one hundred million people into poverty each year.Aging populations are one reason why health costs are rising.Also,more people are getting chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease that require long-term treatment.And new treatments for health conditions are more costly than old ones.This year's"World Health Report"offers guideline s to strengthen health financing systems and make services available to more people.The report says about one billion people do not get the care they need because it costs too much or it is unavailable.WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says no one should have to risk financial ruin to take care of their health.David Evans agrees. He is the director of health systems financing for the WHO,which is part of the United Nations.这里是VOA特别英语健康报道。
VOA慢速英语听力：北约首脑峰会在芝加哥举行
VOA慢速英语听力：北约首脑峰会在芝加哥举行VOA慢速英语听力：北约首脑峰会在芝加哥举行NATO leaders will meet Sunday and Monday in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Afghanistan will be the top issue at the meeting of the twenty-eight member North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States last hosted NATO leaders in nineteen ninety-nine. That was two years before al-Qaida launched attacks on the United States. Those attacks led to the first use of the common defense provisionof the North Atlantic Treaty of nineteen forty-nine. As a result, for more than ten years now, the coalition has directed its attention on Afghanistan. The United States and NATO have about one hundred thirty thousand troops serving in the International SecurityAssistance Force, or ISAF. They plan to withdraw allof those troops by the end of twenty-fourteen. The Afghan government is supposed to lead the country’ssecurity beginning next year. President Obama talked about the change when he flew to Kabul this month to sign an agreement with the Afghan government. BARACK OBAMA: “International troops will continue to train, advise and assist the Afghans and fight alongside them, when needed. But we will shift into a support role as Afghans step forward.”President Obama is to meet this Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari also plans to attend the NATO summit. But President Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, says there are no plans for a private meeting with Mr. Obama.NATO has identified a support level of four billion dollars a year for Afghanistan. Stephen Flanagan of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies says the question is who will pay it. STEPHEN FLANAGAN: “Most allies have not met their pledges to the existing NATO training mission in Afghanistan over the past four years, so their willingness to do so after the ISAF forces are withdrawn, when they are even more dependent on Afghan forces fortheir security, particularly given the incidents we have see n of late, that is a key question.”The United States has paid an increasing share of the costs of NATO operations. A year ago, Robert Gates, in his last major speech as defense secretary, criticized cuts in European defense spending. He warned of what he called “the very real possibility of collective military irrelevance” for the alliance.The NATO summit will include France’s new president. Francois Hollande was sworn in Tuesday as the first Socialist president in almost twenty years. In Chicago, Mr. Hollande will have to defend plans for an early French troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. He promised during his election campaign to remove troops by the end of this year. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy had announced plans to remove them by the end of twenty-thirteen.Charles Kupchan is a NATO expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. He says the leaders in Chicago will once again discuss how to make sure European powers carry their fair share of NATO’s military work. Mr. Kupchan says the issue takes on a new importance forseveral reasons.CHARLES KUPCHAN: “One is that the United States is pivoting out of Europe, putting more emphasis on the Middle East and East Asia -- our footprint in Europe is going down to about thirty thousand troops. Number two, the U.S. is constrained fiscally and its own defense budget is going down. And that makes the U.S. more sensitive to what its partners in the NATO alliance are doing. And then you have the financial crisis in Europe” Experts say a good example of sharing responsibility was the intervention last year in the Libyan conflict. The Europeans took a leading military role. But they needed a lot of help. And that’s IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Mario Ritter.北约首脑峰会在芝加哥举行。
VOA常速讲解2011-03-25
VOA常速讲解附字幕:西方联合部队继续空袭利比亚查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照Anti-aircraft batteries fired into the air over Tripoli overnight as coalition warplanes bombed military target s inside the capital and elsewhere.ABC News reported that coalition forces shot down a Libyan warplane that was defy ing the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone.Meanwhile,Libyan state TV showed imagesof several charred bodies it said were casualties of the coalition bombing.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe insisted that coalition airstrikes are targeting only military sites.Haitham al Traboulsi,a Libyan doctor who said he is in Tripoli,told al-Arabiya TV that "no civilians were hit"in recent coalition airstrikes and that the strikes were"extremely precise."He claimed that the bodies shown on Libyan TV were of people killed in previous fighting in Zawiya and Tripoli"Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Kaim, however,complain ed to reporters that the western coalition is hitting civilian targets and he called for an end to airstrikes:"The airstrikes as what happened today didnot differentiate between civilians and armored personnel,"Kaim said."To start up the national dialogue and get life back to normal,the airstrikes should stop immediately."由于国际联合部队战斗机轰炸了首都和其他地方的军事目标，防空炮整晚都向的黎波里上空发射。
VOA流行美语第118课：losesleepoversth.
第118课：lose sleep over sth.李华正在家⾥批改中⽂班学⽣的考卷。
Larry来找他。
今天李华会学到两个常⽤语：flunk和lose sleep over.(Paper rustling sounds)LH: (sighs) 唉，这两个学⽣⼜不及格了。
这学期他们已经是第三次考试不及格了！LL: What? You're flunking them? I thought I told you to go easy on your poor students.LH: 你在说什么啊？flunk them? 什么是flunk?LL: I said you are going to flunk the students. That means you're going to give them a failing grade.LH: 噢！flunk就是给他们不及格分数啊，那你还真说对了。
你看看他们的考卷！这能及格吗？LL: Heh, let me see... whoa, that guy even wrote his own Chinese name wrong! If he can't even get that right, he's almost definitely going to flunk!LH: 就是嘛！连⾃⼰的中⽂名都写错。
我只能给他不及格了。
等等，Larry，你先是说我flunk这些学⽣，给他们不及格，现在⼜说他们⾃⼰要flunk。
这到底是谁要flunk谁啊？LL: The word flunk can mean both "to give a failing grade to" as well as "to fail a course". So if you flunk that student, he will flunk the class. Got it?LH: 噢，我懂了，flunk既可以指给学⽣不及格的分数，也可以指学⽣⾃⼰考不及格。
VOA慢速英语《词汇掌故》第3课
VOA慢速英语《词汇掌故》第3课英语翻议讲解：现在是voa 慢速英语栏目--- 词语典故。
我是Rich Kleinfeldt。
今天我们讲解fireworks这个词。
Fireworks这个词语来自人们庆祝盛事时向空中放的烟花。
火箭式烟火色彩斑斓，有红色，蓝色，黄色，绿色和白色等点亮了黑色的夜空。
这个词语也表示愤怒或热情的表现。
例如，在法庭审判过程中，辩护律师会情绪激动地和公职律师争论对被告有影响的证据。
法官最后会制止他们的大声争辩，并让双方上前。
他会告诉他们“我不想我的法庭上再出现争吵。
”另一种Fireworks可以表示任何一种令人激动的事件或活动。
坠入爱河就是其中之一。
到能够产生火花的东西就是爱人和亲吻或抚摸爱人的手。
在电影，电视动画片里通常用燃放烟火渲染接吻时的激动之情。
人们一年到头使用词语fireworks。
但如果你住在美国，观看烟花的最佳时间是现在7月4是美国独立日。
按照传统，美国将在晚上举行盛大聚会，燃放烟花来庆祝国家的独立自由。
例如，在华盛顿，一大群人聚在华盛顿纪念碑附近，听音乐，观看大型的烟花展。
其他城市或较小的城镇里，当地居民听乐队音乐会，观看烟花在黑暗的天空里绽放。
世界上许多其他国家也有在特殊的日子放烟花的传统。
在澳大利亚，悉尼市每年都以午夜一场大型的烟花展开始新的一年。
中国是烟火的发源地。
中国早期常举行大型的烟火展。
现在人们用小规模的烟花来庆祝婚礼和生日。
法国也燃放烟花的传统。
巴士底日那一天，人们会举行大型的烟花展来庆祝法国大革命的开始。
法国城市戛纳每年7月和8月举行世界烟火比赛。
在印度，人们燃放烟花已有500多年的历史了。
每个秋天，印度宗教仪式Diwail期间会举行大型的烟花展。
烟花展在全世界都很流行。
但如果我不结束节目，制作人会非常愤怒的。
1.defense n.防卫, 防卫物例句：In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.在答辩中，他提出短暂的精神错乱为借口。
VOA慢速讲解2011-04-13第663期
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VOA 慢速讲解附字幕:聋人阅读有困难的最新解释
查看原文 第一部分：原文中英对照
这里是 VOA 特别英语健康报道。 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deaf people may have no trouble communicating English words through American Sign Language, or ASL. But studies of ASL users show that, on average, educated deaf adults are likely to read at the level of a nine-year-old. The explanation has always been that this is because they never learned to connect letters with sounds. But a recent study shows that deaf readers are just like other people learning to read in a second language. Linguist Jill Morford led the study. JILL MORFORD: "The assumption has always been that the problems with reading were educational issues with what's the right way to teach reading when you can't associate sounds with letters. But what we're finding is that all this time we've been ignoring the fact that they're actually learning a new language." Ms. Morford is a professor at the University of New Mexico and part of a research center at Gallaudet University in Washington. Most students at Gallaudet are deaf; the center studies how deaf people learn and use language. Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet. 聋人使用美式手语(American Sign Language, or ASL)来交流或许没有什么困难。但是对 ASL 使用者进行的调查发现，受过教育的聋 人的平均阅读水平却只相当于九岁儿童。
VOA常速讲解2011-09-03
VOA常速讲解附字幕:八月份西班牙失业率上升查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照The number claiming unemployment benefits in Spain went up by more than50,000last month.Spain's Labor Ministry says the hike is typical of the month of August but,nonetheless, discouraging."Spain has the largest unemployment rate in the euro area and one of the largest unemployment rates in the world,"noted Javier Diaz-Gimenez,professor of economics at the IESE Business School in Madrid."In fact,our employment rate currently is about twice the euro area average and about three times the unemployment rate in Germany."Spain's unemployment rate is more than20 percent.For those under the age of25,it is more than45percent.But economic growth does not appear to be on the horizon.Spain,like a number of European nations,is struggling with a major public deficit.Greece,Portugal and Ireland have already had to borrow money from their euro neighbors in order to avoid defaulting on their debts.It has not yet come to that in Spain,and its lawmakers want to keep it that way.上月，西班牙申领失业救济的人数增加了50,000多人。
VOA慢速英语讲解2011-03-31
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origami cranes. Their wish is for a
孩子们对日本的帮助不只是体现在折纸鹤 上。校长洛娜奥茨桑托斯说，萨默维尔小学 的学生们还为救灾机构筹集了大约两千美元 的赈灾金。
LORNA OATES-SANTOS: "We will be donating that money to the American Red Cross and Save the Children. They are two groups that are ready on the ground in Japan to help the people of Japan."
川村泰久：“几天前一个美国小女孩带着自己 的绘画来到领事馆。画中显示的是，日本和 美国两个国家隔着海洋握着手，说‘我们和你 在一起’。我们被这个小女孩的画深深地感动 了。”
第二部分：重点词汇
1.fold vt. 折叠；合拢 Take a piece of paper and fold it like this. 拿一张纸，像这样把它叠起来。 I like to fold presents up in pretty paper. 我喜欢用漂亮的纸包装礼物。
says the activity gives students a way 次活动为同学们提供了一个向受灾者表达同
to express empathy for victims.
VOA慢速英语10.11
（2011.10.11）This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.Blueberries are generally grown in northern climates with cool winters and mild summers. But some newer varieties do well in very cool or very warm climates.The major kinds of blueberry plants are highbush, half-high, lowbush and rabbiteye. Highbush plants can grow almost two meters tall.Rabbiteye plants like warmer temperatures. Some of these bushes grow three meters tall. Blueberry plants do best in soil that is acidic.Plant expert Steve Renquist at Oregon State University says blueberry plants can grow well in containers. He says dwarf varieties are a good choice. These plants are often less than half a meter tall.STEVE RENQUIST: "Blueberry plants have a pretty shallow root system. It is not particularly vigorous. And so that is why they do well in pots, because of the light soil mixture. But they also require, then, fairly frequent watering because they are going to dry out a little faster. With any plant, a pot dries out faster, the pot does, than any plant that is in the soil."If you consider growing blueberries at home, you might think about placing some shorter plants in pots. Steve Renquist says potted blueberries should be watered almost every day if temperatures are twenty-one degrees Celsius and above. He says potted blueberry plants should also be given fertilizer.Blueberry plants do not need a lot of pruning. Instead, just a little thinning is needed, or as Steve Renquist puts it, "a stem here and a stem there."STEVE RENQUIST: "We've had a number of them growing in our master gardener locations both in the ground and in pots. And we notice that we need to reinvigorate and repot them about every four or five years."Blueberries are sold fresh, frozen and processed, and used in baked goods and other foods. Major production states include Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida on the East Coast; Michigan in the Midwest; and Oregon, Washington and California on the West Coast.Maine produces wild blueberries, but most commercial growers in other states use cultivated highbush plants. The North American harvest runs from the middle of April through early October. The US Highbush Blueberry Council points out that the blueberry is one of the few fruits native to North America. The United States and Canada are the world's largest producers and consumers of blueberries. But South America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe have also developed highbush blueberry industries. And demand is growing in other markets as well, especially Japan. And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. For more gardening advice, go to . I'm Karen Leggett.。
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He also said the United States must lead by example in protecting women’s rights and supporting their empowerment. Women are fifty-one percent of the total population in America.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in the Brooklyn area of New York City in nineteen sixty-three. He went to high school and college in North Carolina. He played basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was chosen to play for the Chicago Bulls in nineteen eighty-four.
FAITH LAPIDUS: Earlier this month, the White House Council on Women and Girls released a historic report on the condition of women in America. It is the first time since nineteen sixty-three that the government has released such a detailed report on the subject.
And we answer a question from Thailand about former basketball star Michael Jordan ...
But first, a report on the state of women and girls in the United States.
The report is called “Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being.”
The report says women have made major progress is several important areas. But, it says, there is still much work to be done.
First lady Michelle Obama was introduced by Aissatou Hamidou Diallo, 13, from Burkino Faso, at the White House on Tuesday. The reception marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.
Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls in nineteen ninety-four to play minor league baseball for one season. He retired from the team permanently in nineteen ninety-nine. He played briefly for the Washington Wizards starting in two thousand one.
Michael Jordan is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time. He is most famous for playing for the Chicago Bulls, but later in his career he played briefly for the Washington Wizards.
National Women’s History Month grew out of National Woman's Day which was first celebrated in the United States in nineteen hundred and nine. The observance was celebrated worldwide as International Women’s Day in nineteen eleven. Congress expanded it into a month-long celebration in the United States in nineteen eighty-seven.
Women today are more educated, have better jobs and earn better pay than at any other time in history. There are also more women than men graduating from high school, enrolling in college and attending graduate school. In fact, women are expected to represent nearly sixty percent of all college undergraduate enrollment by the year twenty nineteen.
Michael Jordan became famous for the way he jumped through the air to throw the ball into the net and score points. This skill earned him the nicknames “Air Jordan” and “His Airness.” Jordan also became known around the world for appearing in advertisements for companies including Nike, Gatorade and Coca-Cola.Michael Jordan also won gold medals in nineteen eighty-four and nineteen ninety-two representing the United States basketball team during the summer Olympic Games.
President Obama noted such inequities in his Presidential Proclamation for Women’s History Month. Mr. Obama said countries are more peaceful and successful when their female citizens enjoy equal rights, equal voices and equal chances for success.
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Michaelห้องสมุดไป่ตู้Jordan at a Chicago Bulls game last month with former teammate Scottie Pippen
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This year’s National Women’s History Month celebration is called “Our History is Our Strength.” Programs and ceremonies are planned around the country to celebrate women’s successes.
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Women in America
DOUG JOHNSON: March is National Women’s History Month in the United States. It is a time to recognize, honor and celebrate the important part that women play in shaping America’s history. It is also a time to call attention to the social, political and economic problems facing women and girls. Faith Lapidus has our story.
Michael Jordan played for the Bulls for thirteen years. During this time, the team won six championships. Jordan became one of the highest scoring players in the National Basketball Association. He averaged thirty points a game during the regular season. He was recognized as the NBA’s most valuable player five times during the regular season.