This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be shut off at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also expected to go dark. So is the...
A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and A Friend by Mercer and Marianna Mayer 1 One day a boy went fishing with his dog and his frog.He sat by the side of a pond and patiently waited for a fish to bite. 2 All of a sudden he felt a bite! 3 It had to be a big fish be...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last month, students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China. Thr...
My Mother's Gift I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age , not so long ago , when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. At the time, I did not consider this a...
Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up. The sense of humour is mysteriously bound up with national characteristics. A Frenchman, for in- stance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. In the same...
[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, and Monica are there.] Monica: There's nothing to tell! He's just some guy I work with! Joey: C'mon, you're going out with the guy! There's gotta be something wrong with him! Chandler: All right Joey, be...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Even a small reduction in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart. A new study used a computer model to predict how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States. Th...
You might not think that mathematicians have anything particularly relevant to say about your love life. But you'd be wrong--if we're talking about James Murray, a mathematician at the University of Washington in Seattle who teamed up with Psychologi...
(So we can take the solar sunlight, right? create heat force, retain and save in this tank and store.) 20 homes soak off the suns rays on Washington D.C.s National Mall. They need all the energy they can get to power everything from ventilation syste...
Researchers witnessed a spectacular fiery（炽热的） underwater volcano explosion and captured it on video. It's believed to be the deepest ocean volcano eruption ever recorded. The undersea Pacific Ocean explosions in May of this year were recor...
