If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking, you know that it’s one of the harder habits to break. Nicotineaddiction is a powerful physical and psychologicaldependency that conditions the body to craveni
隧道与广播How come we can hear FM longer in a tunnel than AM?为什么在隧道中调频广播比调幅广播的信号要好一点?It’s because FM stations transmit at higher frequencies. They
From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report.What do these four things have in common: a (1)__________ wind farm in the American state of Washington, a gold mine in Idaho, a new casino in L
GOMA, DRC — African leaders from the Great Lakes region will meet Thursday to find a (1)__________ to fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo between the (2)__________ and M23 militants. Reside
Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.Many cities have interesting (1). Nicknames can help establish the (2) of a city. They can also spread pride among its citizens.New Orleans
Some 770 million people do not have (1) __________water and 2.5 billion more lack basic sanitation. If the status quo continues, by the year 2025, half of the world’s population, around 3 billion pe
WASHINGTON — Many patients who have heart disease or who have suffered a stroke don’t take their medications as regularly as prescribed. One study shows that a number of stroke patients stop takin
Section A1. W: I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my tape-recorder.It was just a few weeks ago that I got it repaired.M: Don’t waste your time and money any more.It’s a very old tape-recorde
Section A1. M: May I take the tape out.I need it to practise my English for Dr.Tedder’s listening class.W: Well,I am afraid not.The tape has been put on reserve by Dr.Tedder.If you have his written
Section A1.M:I wonder whether it would be possible to change these two single roomon the sixth floor to a double room on the twentieth floor.W:Sorry,sir.All the double rooms on that floor are occupies