VOA的1530的新闻永远都是集中在中东地区…… Nickname of United States
http://download.putclub.com/update/sest/200801/06/20080106REPORT.mp3
听到好多美国的州英文读法，以前只知道中文译名或只是看见过文字
而且有句很有趣的
Georgia is the peach state
桃主任可以考虑移民过去啦……
Engineers Without Borders
http://download.putclub.com/update/sest/200801/07/20080107REPORT.mp3This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
Sometimes it takes an engineer to help a village. I
In poor communities, that help may come from volunteers with agroup called Engineers Without Borders.
A civil engineering professor in the United States, *** launched the group in 2000.
He did it with the help of his students and friends at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Professor *** took a group of students to *** to helpbuild a water project.
Sincethen, Engineers Without Borders has grown into an internationalnon-profit organization.
Its budget last year was four million dollars.
The group currently has about 300 projects in 45 countries.
EngineersWithout Borders works on low technology projects in mostly developingcountries.
In the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, for example, the groupset up a sun-powered computer to communicate with a school in ***.
In Guatemala, volunteers have builtten bridges for communities cut off from nearby populations by seasonalrains.
The group has built winnows in Kenya to improve crop production.
And in Rwanda, Engineers Without Borders is rebuilding areas destroyed during the 1994 genocide.
** is the Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders.
She tells us that many of the group's 8,000 members are students who volunteer as part of theircollege or university studies.
Working professionals and retiredengineers also have formed local chapters throughout the United States.
In the next five years, organizers hope more than 10 percent of the members will be non-engineers.
*** says community development involves not only engineering but many professions.
She says it is equally important to help villagers /to/ develop business plans and ways to finance and supervise projects.
Engineers Without Borders goes where it is invited.
Communities can propose a project or seek assistance through one of its partners, such as Roadway International.
Once a proposal is approved, student or professional chapters will compete for ownership of the project.
Local chapters are urged to work with a community for 5 to 10 years.
Individual chapters raise their own money for their projects.
And that'sthe VOA Special English Development Report written by **.
For alink to Engineers Without Borders, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm BobDoughty. 哇……得闲黎顶顶都好！！ Education report
http://download.putclub.com/update/sest/200801/10/20080110REPORT.mp3
又几天没听写了
就去考长途路上温习了下以前所听过的
发现还是很多单词不会的 This is the VOA Special English education report.
A decision by Harvard University to expand financial aid is putting pressure on other schools to do the same.
The full price for one year at Harvard in Cambridge Massachusettsis more than forty-five thousand dollars.
Many other private collegescost just as much.
But Harvard is much wealthier than many other American university, so it has more to give.
Harvard already offers a free education to students from families that earnup?
to sixty thousand dollars a year.
This has helped increase the numbers of lower income and minority students.
Now the aim is to help all but the wealthiest American families pay for a Harvard education.
Harvard officials will no longer consider the value of a family's home when deciding how much aid to give. Harvard says itHarvard officials will no longer consider the value of a family's home when deciding how much aid to give. Harvard says it The new policy is announced last month, with assist families that earn as much as one hundred eighty thousand dollars.
These families will be asked to pay no more than ten percent of their income for college.
For example, a family earning one hundred twenty thousand dollars would pay about twelve thousand a year.
Under existing students ? aid policies, the amount is more than nineteen thousand.
WhatHarvard has done is change the way it offers financial aid.
Undergraduates will not be expected to take outloans.
Increases in grant aid will replace loans.
Also
Harvard officials will no longer consider the value of a family's home when deciding how much aid to give.
Harvard says it
expects to to spend up to twenty-two million dollars more a year in financial aid.
This will come from its endowment.
A college endowment is money given by former students and others as gifts.
Schoolsinvest the money to earn more.
Harvard's endowment is valued atthirty-five billion dollars.
Other universities with large endowmentsare also changing their financial aid policies.
Examples include Yale,Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.
Yale's endowments is the second largest after Harvard at twenty-two and a half billion dollars.
This week, Yale, in New Haven Connecticut, announcedit will use more of that money for financial aid as well as scientific research.
Yale may also admit more students. But some colleges say they simply do not have enough money to compete with the new polices that are being announced.
Critics of the rising costs of a college education say schools are making these changes in an attempt to avoid action by Congress.
Some lawmakers have criticized the universities for raising theirprices even as their endowments grow larger and larger.
a grant in aid (of) 补助金, 助学金in an attempt to 力图, 试图 快十天有多了
今晚听的是一篇Agriculture report
http://download.putclub.com/update/sest/200801/22/20080122REPORT.mp3
有点晕……
[ 本帖最后由 注定伤害 于 2008-1-22 20:47 编辑 ] This is Voa special English agriculture report.
A study from Canada says fish farms are a theatto some populations of wild salmon .
It says that thedanger is from sea lice,
whichsmall organisms that feed on fish.T
he researchers say thisparasites commly infect salmon raised infarms
but also attack young wind pink salmon that swim nearby.
Their reseach suggeststhat ifthese outbreaks continue local populations of wild pink salmonwill all disappear.
Experts are deabing the study publishing in the science magazine .
The Canadiangovernment and some American experts say no direct link has beenfound between sea lice and salmon death.
*** of the university of** in Edmonton led the study team.
The reseachers relate thegrowth of fish farming of British Columbia to losses in young wild salmon.
Thenumber of fish farm in this area has increased sharply .
The Reseachers say licecommonly kill more than 80% the pink salmonin the areas they studied.
The fish in these coastal areas swim pass many fish farms before entering the open ocean.
The reseachers say they used the information of Canadiangovernment from 1970 to the present.
They studied more 14 populations of youngwild pink salmon that came in contact with salmon farms.
They compared thispopulations with the 128 populations that did not have such contact.
Thescientists say the populations were dying out in the areaa near salmon farms.
Butother populations stayed healthy.
They note that theeariler reseach on this issue had similar result.
Sea lice travel fromthe inland river to the ocean.
The lice eat the muscle and skin of small fish.Adultfish do not see affected, older , bigger fish have thicker skin.
An official of**,the national oceanic and atmospheric administration in the United states said,
“fact do notsupport the new study .
He said many condition affect salmon .One is the salt contentof the water,
another is the present of the predators that attack the fish.
Still another is theamounts of the fishing that take place in the area.
Demand for fresh salmon isgrowing ,now almost 75% of the salmon that Amercians eat come from fish farms.,
and congress is considering legislation that could permit many morefish farms .And that is the Voa special English agriculture reaprot written by**
[ 本帖最后由 注定伤害 于 2008-1-22 21:28 编辑 ] http://download.putclub.com/update/special/feature/200802/20080209Story1.mp3
年后第一次听
All the year of herlife
Special English programAmerican stories .
Our story today iscalled “all the year of her life”,It was written by Morley ** ,Here is ** totell you the story.
The drug store was beginingto close for the night .
Young ** who worked inthe store was putting on his coat getting ready to go home.
On his way out ,he passed Mrsam carl ,the little gray hair man who owned the store.
Mr carl look up
at ** that he passed and said in a very soft voice: Just the moment ** one moment before you go.
Mr carl spoke so quiety THAT he worried **”WHAT is it ,Mr car?”
Maybe you be goodenough to take a few things out of your pockets
and leave them here before you go. Said Mr carl.
“What things?What areyou talking about?”
“You got a compact, a lipstick ,and at least
two tooth paste in your pockets ,**”
“What did you mean?**answered.Do you think I’m crazy?His face got red.”
Mr carl kept looking at**clodly,** did not know what to say and tried to keep hiseyes from meeting the eyes of his boss.
After a few moment, Heput his hands into his pockets and told out the things he had stolen.
'Petty scene **said Mr carl
And Maybe you be goodenough to tell me how long this has been going on.
This is the first time Iever took any things.Mr car was quick to answer.
So now you think youtell me a lie , What kind of fool do I look like
I don’t
know what goes on in my store? I tell you ,you’ve been doing this for a long time.
Mr car had a strangesimle on his face ,”I don’t like to call the police ,He said , but maybe Ishould call your father and let him know I am going to have to put
you in the jail.
My
father is not home , his is a painter, he works nights?
Who is at home?Mr carlasked.
My mother, I think.
Mr carl startedto go to the phone ,** fears made him raise his voice ,he wanted to show he was afraidof nobody.He acted this way everytime he got into trouble, this happened manytimes since he left school.AT such times he always spoke in a loud voice as hedid tonight. 不懂为什么会取这个标题…… 呵呵！厉害！顶下！我现在也在听VOA，我的速度比较慢，一段三分多钟的要听很久，请问楼主有没有背？ 楼主加油....坚持是最强大的...