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VOA News "In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses" [1]
아이폰으로 청취가능 writeCode('', "m1ef0283f4913143d5f3d2b85a85456c11617") "In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses" "장미 키우기" This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 이 기사는 VOA 스페셜 영어 농업 기사입니다. Most kinds of rose plants come from Asia. But roses are also native to other areas including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States. In nineteen eighty-six, Congress chose the rose as America's national flower. Technically, Congress and President Ronald Reagan dec...
VOA News How Failure Can Lead to Long Lasting Knowledge?
How_Failure_Can_Lead_to_Long-Lasting_Knowledge.zip 아이폰으로 청취가능 writeCode('', "m9c1fbfe0fecf2ef252122e986a8448fe8331") This is the VOA Special English Education Report. No one likes to make mistakes. But a new study says organizations learn more from their failures than their successes, and keep that knowledge longer. 어떤 이도 실수하기를 좋아하지 않습니다. 그러나 새로운 연구에 의하면 조직들은 실수로부터 더 많은 것을 배우고 그 지식은 더 오래 유지 된다고 한다. One of the researchers was Vi...
VOA News Microsoft Competes Against Apple With New Tablet
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Microsoft has announced its first tablet computer. The device, called the Surface, is designed to compete directly with the popular Apple iPad. The computer software maker announced its new tablet in June at a media event in Los Angeles. Microsoft will offer two versions of the Surface. Each has a different processor. The Surface for Windows RT runs on an ARM processor. It...
VOA News More School May Mean Higher IQ Scores
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A study in Norway has found that students who stayed in school longer than others their age scored higher on intelligence tests.In the nineteen fifties, the government began requiring students to attend school until the age of sixteen instead of fourteen. Communities had almost twenty years to make the change. So some students went to school for seven years while others wen...
VOA News Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Scientists say enough energy is wasted in the oil and gas fields of Texas every year to provide electricity to 100,000 homes. Businessman Loy Sneary says he is using that wasted energy to create a profitable business called Gulf Coast Green Energy.Loy Sneary says 60 percent of all energy produced in the world today is being lost as wasted heat. He wants to capture some of...
VOA News Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms
Today we have a vocabulary quiz. We start with two questions about terms for plants. OK, first question: What is the name for a plant that lives only one year or one growing season? This kind of plant is called an annual. Think of an "annual report," a report published just once a year. You can probably guess the next question. What do we call a plant that produces new growth year after year? Plants that keep growing back are called perennials. So a perennial is the opposite of an annual. Perenn...
VOA News Want to Lose Weight? Try Counting Calories
This is the VOA Special English Health Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish How many calories we eat appears to be more important than what we eat when we eat too much. That was the finding of a new study that should be satisfying to anyone who counts calories for weight control.More than one billion adults are overweight. The World Health Organization calls obesity a global epidemic. Government researchers have just reported their latest estimates f...
VOA News Koreans Ecstatic Pyeongchang Will Host 2018 Winter Olympics
"Koreans Ecstatic Pyeongchang Will Host 2018 Winter Olympics" "2018 평창 동계올림픽 주최국에 환호하는 한국인들" 아이폰으로 청취가능 voa2.zip [The South Korean resort of Pyeongchang has been selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. It took only one round of voting in Durban, South Africa, for Pyeongchang to defeat Munich, Germany, and France's Annecy. Now many South Koreans hope that by having the games, it will also put them on the map as a winter sports hot spot.] [한국 평창 리조트가 2018년 동...
VOA News Do Sex Strikes Work?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Women in a civil rights group in Togo called a weeklong sex strike in August to try to force the president of the West African nation to resign. Members of "Let's Save Togo" planned to withhold sex from their husbands to pressure the men to take action against President Faure Gnassingbe. The opposition says his family has ruled Togo for too long. He became president in 2005, ...
VOA News For Lots of People, Getting Older Means Getting Happier
"For Lots of People, Getting Older Means Getting Happier" "대부분의 사람들은 나이가 들 수록 더 행복해진다" This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 이 기사는 VOA 스페셜 영어 건강 기사입니다. Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with...
VOA News Linking Education and Employment in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish More than six hundred delegates recently met in Burkina Faso to discuss education in Africa. The aim is to find ways to support economic growth by improving education and job training programs.The delegates included education ministers and representatives of civil society, business, labor and youth groups. The meeting, held every three years, is known as the Triennial. Ahl...
VOA News Sound Imaging Used to Find Hidden Cracks in Infrastructure
Sound Imaging Used to Find Hidden Cracks in Infrastructure Finding hidden cracks in large structures, such as bridges and airplanes, can be the difference between life and death, if the flaw leads to a catastrophic collapse. Scientists at Bristol... From: VOAvideo Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 02:27 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHPMBZSOHks&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News When a Textbook Is Online, Not on Paper
This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach. More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital books in fifteen schools. This school year, midd...
VOA News British Bank Pays $340 Million Fine for Iran Dealings
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The British bank Standard Chartered agreed to pay $340 million to a United States financial regulator in August. The agreement was to settle charges that the bank illegally hid financial business with Iranian interests. The wording of the agreement notes that the financial business in question amounted to at least $250 billion.Standard Chartered said it "strongly rejects" t...
VOA News Women in the Navy: Aboard an Aircraft Carrier
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States Department of Defense has announced plans to open 14,000 more military positions to women. Lieutenant Megan Donnelly is one of the 770 women on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. LT. MEGAN DONNELLY: "Managing 15 - 20 people on the bridge at a time, and it's my job to manage all of them for the captain so that he doesn't have to -- he can focus on the big picture." Lieutenant Donnelly studied at...
VOA News For Smokers, Never Too Late to Quit; Diesel Exhaust and Cancer
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish There's new medical evidence for the expression "better late than never." Researchers have found that smokers reduce their risk of dying from tobacco even if they stop smoking after the age of 60. Smoking is a known risk for many diseases, including many forms of cancer as well as heart disease. But most studies on the health effects of smoking involve middle-aged people. The...
VOA News Website Saves Today's Headlines for the Future
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish If researchers want to know whathappened on a particular day, they often look at newspapers from that day. But what would happen ifnewspapers stopped publishing?Future researchers would likely turnto the Web. The Wayback Machine at Archive.org has for years archivedwebsites. But it only does this oncea day for news sites, and even less-often for other websites. Twenty-nin...
VOA News Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglishAmiscarriage is the natural loss of a baby before the twentieth week of pregnancy. Experts say many pregnancies end before a woman even knows she was pregnant. Up to twenty percent of known pregnancies end in a miscarriage. Miscarriages are generally caused by genetic problems with the baby that prevent it from developing. But whatever the cause, the loss of a pregnancy can be ...
VOA News A Birth Procedure Does Little to Prevent Bleeding
This is the VOA Special English Health Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Severe bleeding, also called hemorrhage, causes one-third of pregnancy-related deaths in Asia and Africa. The World Health Organization has been recommending several ways to reduce the risk of hemorrhage immediately after birth. These include giving the mother a hormone called oxytocin. It helps the uterus expel the placenta, or afterbirth. Another recommendation to help expel...
VOA News Words and Their Stories: Heart to Heart
The English language has many heartfelt expressions | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES 스마트폰으로 청취가능 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Each week, this program explains the many meanings of English expressions. Today’s expressions include a very important word –heart. We will try to get to the heart of the matter to better understand the most important things about words and their stories. So take heart. Have no fear about learning new expressions. Besides, popular Engli...
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