Fighting Fire in Nairobi with Just One Fire Engine 内罗毕的消防部门只有一辆消防车 肯尼亚首都内罗毕人口日益增长完全超过了城市应急设施的承受范围。这个城市的消防部门已经捉襟见肘,居民正在采取...
Ooh! Ah! Sis-Boom-Bah! Music to Go with Fourth of July Fireworks Welcome to This Is America, with VOA Learning English. America's Declaration of Independence from Britain was signed on July 4, 1776. Today, Mary Tillotson and Steve Ember bring you an...
Indonesian Fires Reveal Unfulfilled Environmental Promises It's an annual occurrence in the dry season: a smoky, hazardous haze blankets southern Malaysia and Singapore. This year it was so bad that in some affected areas there was a 100 percent rise...
Fighting Fire with Fire In African savannahs, or grasslands, wildfires can either be destructive or beneficial. It all depends on when those fires occur. Scientists at the World Agroforestry Center have developed a system to determine the best time t...
Lesson 62 After the fire 大火之后 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What was the danger to the villages after the fire? Firemen had been fighting t...
今天我们要介绍给大家的两个习惯用语都是以fire这个字为主的。Fire就是火。火对人类来说是非常有用的。它给我们煮饭，使我们保暖，帮助我们制造钢铁...
IN THE NEWS -April 6, 2002: Cease-fire in Angola By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. The Angolan government and the UNITA rebel movement signed a ceas...
ENVIRONMENT REPORT -August 23, 2002: Fires in Russia By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Clouds of thick smoke have spread across some of Russia’s largest cities. The...
BY LINDAS TA FFORD When I was eight years old, I saw a movie about a mysterious island that had an erupting 1)volcano and 2)lush jungles filled with wild animals and 3)cannibals. The island was ruled...
Broadcast: Jan 01, 2003 Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, is back on 1) newsstands after an absence of more than a week. But the founding editor of the paper, one of best-kn...
