VOA英语演讲稿[全文5篇]

第一篇：VOA英语演讲稿

英语演讲稿范文 ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon!i’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech.today my topic is “youth”.i hope you will like it, and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.first i want to ask you some questions:

1、do you know what is youth?

2、how do you master your youth? youth youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind;it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.nobody grows old merely by a number of years.we grow old by deserting our ideals.years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.worry, fear, self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.whether 60 of 16, there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living.in the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young.when the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.thank you!青春

青春不是指岁月，而是指心态。粉嫩的脸，红润的唇，矫健的膝并不是青春。青春表现在意志的坚强与懦弱。想象的丰富与苍白、情感的充沛与贫乏等方面。青春是生命深处清泉的喷涌。

青春是追求。只有当勇气盖过怯弱、进取压倒苟安之时，青春才存在。果如此，则60见之长者比20岁之少年更具青春活力。仅仅岁月的流逝并不能使他们衰老。而一旦抛弃理想和信念，则垂垂老也。

岁月只能使皮肤起皱。而一旦丧失生活的激情，则连灵魂枯老，使人生枯如死水，毫无活力。60岁长者也好，16岁少年也罢，每个人的内心深处都渴望奇迹，都如孩子一般眨着期待的双眼，期待着下一次，期待着生活的情趣，你我灵魂深处都有一座无线电中转站------只有你我年轻，则总能听到希望的呼唤，总能发出喜悦的欢呼，总能传达勇气的讯号，总能表现出青春的活力??? 一旦青春的天线倒下，你的灵魂即为玩世不恭之雪、悲观厌世之冰覆盖；即使你年方 20.其实你已垂垂老也。而只要你青春的天线高高耸起，就可以随时接收到乐观的电波-----即使你年过八旬，行将就木，而你却仍然拥有青春，你仍然年轻。谢谢！saying goodbye to childhood,we step into another important time in the pace of young,facing new situations,dealing with different problems.....everyone has his ownunderstanding of young,it is a period of time of beauty and wonders,only after you have having a view on these great men in the history of hunmanbeing,they all made full use of their youth time ,to do things that are useful to society,to the whole mankind,and as a cosquence ,they are remembered by later generations,admired by everyone.so do something in the time of young,although you may not get achievements as these greatmen did ,though not for the whole word,just for youeself,for those around!the young is just like blooming flowers,they are so beautiful when blooming,they make people feel happy,but with time passing by,after they withers ,moet people think they are ugly.and so it is the same with young,we are enthusiastic when we are young,then we may lose our passion when getting older and older.so we must treasure it ,dont let the limitted time pass by ,leaving nothing of significance.篇二：经典英文演讲稿 i believe in our future honorable judges, fellow students: good afternoon!recently, ther is a heated debate in our society.the college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places.but will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? will we be able to better the lives of others? will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country? independently.we help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.the cynics say we care for nothing other than grades;and we neglect the need for character cultivation.but again, the cynics are wrong.we care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth.last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.as college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives.we all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country.i believe in all my fellow classmates.though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish.i believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities.we are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place.i believe in our future.我对未来充满信心

尊敬的评委，各位同学： 下午好！

最近，社会上有一场很激烈的争论。大学生是一种稀有特权的享有者，在很棒的地方接受高等教育。但是，我们能面对挑战而无所畏惧吗？我们能够改善他人的生活吗？我们能够承担建设祖国未来的重任吗？

怀疑论者说大学生是被宠坏的一代，一丁点挫折都受不了。但是他们错了，我所看到的大学生正在努力的学习独立生活。我们互相帮助打扫卫生，一起上街砍价购物，一起参加兼职工作来赚零花钱。

怀疑论者说我们除了成绩什么都不关心，从而忽略了性格的培养。但是，他们又错了。我们彼此关心，我们向往自由，我们珍惜公正，我们追求真理。上个星期，很多我的同学去验血，为了给患血癌的孩子贡献自己的力量。

作为大学生，我们是处在人生分水岭的青年。我们都面临一个重要的选择：怀疑人生还是相信自己，每一种都会给我们的人生带来重大的影响，甚至影响我们祖国的未来。我相信我们的同学们，虽然我们依然缺乏经验，甚至有些志气，但是我相信我们有勇气和自信来面对生活的挑战并承担我们的责任。我们正努力准备接受新的任务，用我们所学习的知识将世界变得更美好。我对我们的未来充满信心。

大学生英语演讲稿17 change the ingredients of your life

十七、王晨，20岁，安徽

change the ingredients of your life so my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to conquer your limitation and embrace new challenges.and hopefully with my speech included, you will have a fantastic speech contest.改变生活的味道

这是一杯白开水，平淡无味，对吧？可是加上点糖呢，他尝起来会有甜味；如果加的是苏打水，味道就会变苦。人生同样如此——个中滋味在于我们的选择。善待他人，你会拥有朋友；但如果充满恶意，则会多个敌人。将爱赋予一堆红砖，你会拥有一个家；用仇恨来浇铸这堆红砖，就会铸成一座集中营。因此亲爱的朋友们，不要抱怨人生乏味，世间无望。不喜欢生活的味道，那就换一换生活的调料吧！三年前，我重达100多公斤，这给我带来了很多尴尬和挫折：体育课老是不及格，总被女孩们嘲笑，更不敢当众发表意见。幸而由于祖母的鼓励，我不在消极人生，而是充满自信。她曾经说过：“孩子，如果体形无法改变，为什么不把它看做自己独特的风格呢？” 我开始这样来审视人生，通过改变生活的视角，我信心大增地去改变我的人生，很快就发现一个崭新的世界。

朋友们，将信念，希望，爱意和忍性溶入生命，你就会找到自信，克服缺点，迎接人生新的挑战。最后我的演讲包括在内，希望你会看到一场精彩的演讲比赛。大学生英语演讲稿16

十六、杨颖，21岁，海南 kipling said:“east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet!”

but now, a century later, they have met.i love beijing and hennan opera because it always reminds me of who i am.but i am also a fan of pop music, especially english songs.so i when two cultures meet, there may be things in one culture, which do not fit into the tradition of the other.when this happens, we need to learn to understand and respect the customs of another culture.then there are certain things some people may not like.to this, i will say, if you do not like it, please try to tolerate it.to learn to tolerate what you personally don’t like is a great virtue at a time when different cultures mix and merge.before us, there are two rivers, eastern and western cultures.at present, they may run in different courses.but eventually, they will converge into the vast sea of human culture.right now, i can see peoples of eastern and western cultures, standing side by side, singing the olympic theme song: we are hand in hand, heart to heart, together we will shape a beautiful tomorrow!thank you!让我们共同感受东西方的融合吉卜林说过:东方是东方，西方是西方，二者永不相聚。但是一个世纪后的今天，东西方相汇了!它们相聚在经济领域，它们相聚在教育领域，它们相聚在艺术的殿堂。有人争论说:这种融合需要我们在东方和西方之间做出选择，但我却坚信最美好的未来在于东方和西方创造性的融合。我们可以将西方的思想，观念和技术变为我们自己所用的东西。

我喜爱京剧和河南豫剧，因为它们经常使我想起自己是谁。但我也热衷于流行音乐，特别是英文歌曲。于是我将东方的旋律和西方的语言结合到了一起，它叫做西方版的河南豫剧。

当两种文化相结合的时候，也许一方的文化中的某些东西不适应另一方的传统文化。当此种情况出现时，我们需要试着理解并接受另一种文化中的风俗习惯。然而，也许有些东西你并不喜欢，对于此，我可以说，如果你不喜欢它，请试着去容忍它。当两种文化融合的时候，试着去容忍你个人不喜欢的东西是一种美德。在我们面前有两条河流，东方文化和西方文化。现在，它们也许正朝着不同的方向流去。但是最终它们将汇合到人类文化的海洋里。

就在此时此刻，我看见东方和西方的人肩并肩的站在一起，高唱奥林匹克主题曲:我们手拉手，心靠着心，共同创造美好的明天!大学生英语演讲稿英语风采大赛半决赛选手自备演讲赏析(大学成人组)

十五、黄扬，21，福建 farewell, indifference who was the most well-known figure in china last month? it’s ma jiajue—the college student who murdered 4 of his roommates.many people attributed his crime to his poverty and deficient education.in my opinion, his crime also has much to do with his classmates’ indifference.indifference is a terrible disease in today’s colleges and the whole society.it’s not rare that two students who have studied together for 4 years have never spoken to each other.it’s not rare that a student who has been absent from class for several days is not noticed at all.it’s also not rare that a student who has severe psychological problems is not cared about at all.some people may say ‘what the students with psychological problems like ma jiajue need is not care but psychotherapy.” however, when people are ill, what they need most is not only medical treatment, but also care from people around them.every smile and every caring word will bring sunshine to their life.what can we do to prevent the tragedy of ma jiajue from happening again? some people may say ‘let’s open more psychological courses in schools.’ and other people may say ‘let’s donate more money for the poor students.’ but i’ll say “my fellow student, let’s give more love and care to our roommates, our classmates and every person around us!” 走出冷漠

谁是中国上个月最有名的人物? 这当然要数马加爵了——这个杀害了四名同学的大学生。很多人将他的犯罪归结于他的贫穷和不全面的教育。但我觉得他的犯罪还跟他周围同学的冷漠有很大关系。

冷漠是流行于当今校园及整个社会中的一种可怕的疾病。有的同学在一起学习了4年却从未说过话，有的同学几天没去上课却无人知晓，还有的同学有了严重的心理问题却得不到关心。篇三：怎样写英语发言稿2 怎样写英语发言稿

教学目标：通过本节课使学生能够掌握写英语发言稿的写作方法，并根据所给短 文的信息，综合运用所学的知识，完成写作任务

教学重点：英语发言稿的技巧及写作方法指导训练

教学难点：写作方法指导训练

教学过程

一、引言

纵观近年来的高考英语书面表达题，有关发言稿的考查在2004—2009年部分省市的高考书面表达题都出现过，例如：09年安徽 天津、08年江苏 陕西、07年江苏 江西 06年福建、05年安徽、04年天津等地的书面表达题，都是以发言稿的命题形式出现的。由此可见，发言稿目前也是高考书面表达最流行的题目之一，所以今天这堂课的任务是学习怎样写发言稿。

（见屏幕）

二.发言稿的写作技巧与方法指导 发言稿是生活中一种常见的应用文体，是参加会议的人为了在会议上表达自己的意见、看法、进行思想汇报或工作情况汇报而事先准备好的文稿。英文开幕词、闭幕词、欢迎词、欢送词、告别词和演讲稿是正式社交场合最常见的发言稿。

（1）格式

发言稿一般由称呼语、正文和结束语三部分组成。发言稿的开头和结尾一般有固定的格式。

例如：（见屏幕）dear friends，i am very glad to introduce muself to you„„that’s all.thank you.dear friends，today i am very glad to be here to share with you my ideas of„„that’s all.thank you for listening。

如果面对的是熟悉的听众，开头和结尾也可以活泼些、灵活些

例如:（见屏幕）

good morning /good afternoon,everyone„...that’s all.thank you.good evening!ladies and gentlemen„„that’s all.thank you.hi,everyone, it is so nice to see all of you here„„that’s all.thank you for listening（至于开幕词、闭幕词、欢迎词、欢送词、告别词的开头与结尾我们以后再讲）

（2）正文（见屏幕）

发言稿正文常分为三部分：

（1）第一部分：开门见山地提出本人要谈的问题及对问题的看法

（2）第二部分：说明理由。常用到的连接成分有：first of all,secondly,finally等等。

（3）第三部分：照应开头，总结全文。可以对全文作简明扼要的总结，也可以谈自己的感想、看法或期望。常用到的句式有：in short„,in a word,i think,i expect等

因为高考试题在命题形式上侧重于考查发言稿正文的写法。所以写正文时要注意以下三点：

（1）观点要鲜明。对问题持有什看法，要明确表态，不要含糊其辞。要中心明确，重

点突出，但不必面面俱到。

（2）条理要清晰。一篇发言稿要谈几方面的问题，每一方面有那些要点要进行阐述，都要安排得有条有理，让人听起来容易抓住重点。

（3）适当增加关联词和细节。发言稿开头于结尾已经给出。那么在命题形式上侧重于 考查发言稿正文的写法，所以我们在根据要点组织正文内容时，可以适当增加关

联词和细节，以使短文连贯、完整。

（4）语言要简洁明快，发言时因为要直接面对听众，所以发言稿的特定形式决定了其

语言的口语性强，因此应少用复杂句，多用简单句。话说的要准确、易懂，最好

运用大众语言。所以我们在组织句子时要注意“三多一少”即简单句式多，祈使

句多、情态动词多，修饰性词语少。但文中的句型也要善于变化，不要过于单一。

三、现场演练

现在我们按照所讲的发言稿的格式和要求，以下面提供的短文为例，来实践一下怎么样写好发言稿

例题：假如你是李华，将要到英国伦敦参加“international english learning camp”。参加的学生必须在会上交流自己的英语学习体会。请你根据以下提示写一篇英文发言稿。1.学习方法：多记有用句型，多阅读英文报刊 2.学习收获：了解异国文化，能与外国人直接交流 3.学习困难：经常遗忘所学的词汇

注意：1.发言稿的开头已经给出，不计入总词数 2.可以根据内容要点适当发挥，但不要逐条翻译 3.词数100-120 good morning, everyone!in today’s world being able to master a foreign language will be helpful in our life.__________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ thank you!（1）遵循以前学过的练习写作必走的三步骤

第一步：认真审题 提炼要点

一审格式 演讲稿 属于应用文

二审结构 动词的时态 ： 一般现在时

人称： 第一人称

三审要点 用英语思维，理出写作要点 learn english for years share my learning methods learn some grammar remember many useful sentences patterns read english newspapers and magazines improve my english.know much about foreign cultures foegetting words give mesome practical advice 第二步：紧扣主题，扩点成句（找学生上黑板写）

第三步：补充修改，连句成篇（5名学生读自己的习作）

（3）习作点评 借用他山之石，可以攻玉，保证你在写作练习中少走弯路 good morning, everyone!in today’s world, being able to master a foreign language will be helpful in our life.i have been learning english for years.i think it good to learn some grammar and remember some sentence patterns.if we read more in our free time , our english will be better.i often read newspapers and magazines after class, like english weekly, 21st century.i learn english, know much about foreign cultures and it helps me to talk with foreign people.so i like english more than before.but sometimes i am sad because i forget the words i have just learned.can you give me some advice? thank you!good morning, everyone!in today’s world, being able to master a foreign language will be helpful in our life.i have been learning english for years.here i’d like to share my learning methods.first, i think it useful to learn some grammar and remember as many useful sentence patterns as i can.i believe the more we read, the better our english will be.so i spend much time reading english newspapers and magazines after class, which helps to improve my english.besides, tv and radio programs are of great help.thank you!

四、写发言稿的佳句集锦

罗列观点的句型: my personal opinions on english learning are as follows.? here are my personal opinions on english learning.? i’ll tell you my personal opinions on english learning.有关英语学习策略的句型: ? each of us is dreaming of a practical way to learn english better.? it is a must to remember some grammar rules and sentense patterns.? reading english newspapers and magazines is of great benefit to us.? i’m fond of watching cctv news and listening to voa special english 征求意见的句型: ? would you please offer me some practical advice? thank you for your good advice.could you give me some practical advice?

五、课后练习作业(07·江西)你所在的班级将要举办一次主题为“what can we do for our school?”的英语演讲比赛。请写一篇英语演讲稿，要求从以下四方面中任选一至二个进行阐述，并举例加以说明。

1.关心他人； 2.美化校园； 3.受护学校设施；4.营造良好的学习氛围。

注意：

1.不要在书面表达中出现所在学校的校名和本人姓名，否则本节判为零分； 2.词数：100左右； 3.参考词汇：

爱心——love and care;校园——campus;设施——facilities;氛围——environment 4.开头和结尾已经写好，且不记入词数。hello, everyone.it’s nice to speak about what we can do for our school, and i think each of us can do something.thank you for listening!【参考范文】 hello, everyone.it’s nice to speak about what we can do for our school, and i think each of us can do something.the first thing we can do is to make our campus more beautiful.every one of us may plant a tree in the school, or organize a thorough cleaning on the campus.we can also form a goodhabit of putting the rubbish in the trashcan.the second thing we can do is to protect the facilities in our school.when we leave the classroom, we should never forget to turn off the light or close the door.we should not leave the tap water running or waste any materials in the laboratory class.if everyone does one thing for our school, i believe we will turn our school into a better place to study and live in.thank you for listening!.假设你应邀参加学校组织的“英语学习师生座谈会”，请你根据下表所提示的信息，用英语写一篇发言稿，简单介绍自己英语学习的情况，并对学校今后的英语教学提出建议。注意：

1.对所给要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。2.词数150左右。开头和结尾已经写好，不计人总词数。3.文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。dear teacher and schoolmates,1t’s a great pleasure for me to be today and share my experience thank you for listening 自己英语学习的情况

1.英语学习的目的2.英语学习的方法3.课外自学的途径

对学校英语教学的建议

（请考生根据自己的经历与感想，提出两至三点建议）【参考范文】 dear teacher and schoolmates,1t’s a great pleasure for me to be today and share my experience of learning english with thank you for listening.假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华，你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛（speech contest）,希望附近某大学的外籍教师smith 女士来做评委，请参照以下比赛通知给她写一份信 英语演讲比赛

主题：人与自然

时间：6月15日下午 2:00—5:00 地点：501教室

参赛选手：10名学生

联系人：李华（电话 4487665）

欢迎大家光临

dear ms.smith, with best wishes li hua

六、作文

内容要点：篇四：英语演讲稿 listening and speaking course the effects of ad.on people’s life good morning, ladies and gentlemen!i’m very glad to stand here and give you a speech.at first, i’ll show you a great advertisement.it’s based on an advertisement of a conditioner.the swedish childhood cancer foundation used the same technique and made a new version to show the reality we faced everyday.while the train stopped in the station, the hair of the model will be blown up.it’s very creative and attracted publics’ attention successfully.however, the model’s hair was blown away.a child who suffered from cancer appeared on the screen.the first time i watched this advertisement, i was touched deeply.obviously, this advertisement has received a good result, more and more people started to pay attention to these fortuneless children and helped them.this is the power of public service ads.that’s all, thank you.篇五：基础英语演讲稿汇总 第一篇：youth（青春）ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon!i?m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech.today my topic is “youth”.i hope you will like it, and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.first i want to ask you some questions:

1、do you know what is youth?

2、how do you master your youth? youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind;it is not rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions: it is the freshness;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.nobody grows old merely by a number of years.we grow old by deserting our ideals.years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.worry, fear, self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.whether 60 of 16, there is in every human being?s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what?s next and the joy of the game of living.in the center of your heart and my heart there?s a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young.when the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.thank you!青春

青春不是指岁月，而是指心态。粉嫩的脸，红润的唇，矫健的膝并不是青春。青春表现在意志的坚强与懦弱。想象的丰富与苍白、情感的充沛与贫乏等方面。青春是生命深处清泉的喷涌。

青春是追求。只有当勇气盖过怯弱、进取压倒苟安之时，青春才存在。果如此，则60见之长者比20岁之少年更具青春活力。仅仅岁月的流逝并不能使他们衰老。而一旦抛弃理想和

信念，则垂垂老也。

岁月只能使皮肤起皱。而一旦丧失生活的激情，则连灵魂枯老，使人生枯如死水，毫无活力。60岁长者也好，16岁少年也罢，每个人的内心深处都渴望奇迹，都如孩子一般眨着期待的双眼，期待着下一次，期待着生活的情趣，你我灵魂深处都有一座无线电中转站------只有你我年轻，则总能听到希望的呼唤，总能发出喜悦的欢呼，总能传达勇气的讯号，总能表现出青春的活力„„ 一旦青春的天线倒下，你的灵魂即为玩世不恭之雪、悲观厌世之冰覆盖；即使你年方20.其实你已垂垂老也。而只要你青春的天线高高耸起，就可以随时接收到乐观的电波-----即使你年过八旬，行将就木，而你却仍然拥有青春，你仍然年轻。

谢谢！

第二篇：my dream（我的梦想）at last, i want to say to everybody” hold fast to your dreams, no matter how big or small they are.the path to dreams may not be smooth（平滑）and wide, even some sacrifices（牺牲）are needed.第三篇： haste makes waste（欲速则不达）good morning, dear teacher and fellow students.it’s my great honor to stand here and share a happy morning with you.today my topic is “haste makes waste”.there is an old saying,” haste makes waste.” it is the experience of our ancestors;however, it is correct in many cases even today.如此）.if you only emphasize on speed but ignore the quality of your work, your will get the opposite effect.suppose you are preparing for your final examination.there are a lot of exercises to do and many notes to memorize.but you have not enough time to do this, so it makes you feel worried.therefore, you have to read and write continuously（连续不断地）, without sleep and relaxation.the result by doing this is that your brain is less and less efficient, your process is slower and on the contrary, if you do your preparations with a calculated（适合的）plan and carry out take part in the exams confidently with good preparations.so, whatever you do, please remember the saying----haste makes waste.if you understand it and apply it to your study or work, you?ll benefit a lot form it.that’s all.thank you!第四篇：so much to learn good morning, dear teachers and fellow students.it’s my great honor to stand here and share a happy morning with you.today my topic is “so much to learn.” hello!my dear friends!do you like reading books? i guess all of you will say yes.am i right? thanks to books, we have got a lot of knowledge.on the other hand, tv is another way of getting knowledge.i still remember: last year, i watched an exciting speech on tv.it was given by american president osama;i could feel his great charm.i admire him.yeah, at that time i made a decision: i try to learn english well and some day i can have a talk with him.however, it’s a pity that my english is not so perfect.what can i do? how can i do it? ah, so much to learn.don’t lose heart!just do it!i say to myself aloud.if you set up your mind to learn it, you will get much knowledge.i am sure you will achieve your goal.ok!there is so much knowledge for us to learn to.we should do our best to learn it.we must try our best to learn it as much as possible.because knowledge can make us be learned and wise;because knowledge can make our country develop very fast;because knowledge can make our world be in harmony.ok!let’s keep trying!at last, i would like to say, we shouldn’t waste time, life is limited while knowledge is that’s all.thank you for you attention.第五篇：《阿甘正传》读后感 the lines touching me most in the book is ?my momma always said life was like a box of chocolates.you never know what you are goanna got.? yes, life is full of uncertainty & puzzle.for someone, they wish to have the power to forecast future.because they can be well prepare for the opportunities and challenges and even know the lucky numbers of lottery beforehand.but for me, i don?t want to have such ?ability? at all.life is a mystery and everyone has his own way.i enjoy the surprise of receiving gift from my classmates on my birthday and running into an old friend on the street in another city, etc.there are so many amazing incidents in my life which can?t be happen if i have the power to forecast the future.i believe i can make a better life for those i love though my own effort.have a little faith for your life.let?s enjoy our life everyday with dignity, honesty, braveness and love just like forrest gump!整部电影最让我感触最深的一句话就是“生命就像一盒巧克力，结果往往出乎你的意料。”

是的，生活充满了不确定性和难题。对一些人来说，他们希望自己拥有预测未来的能力。因为他们可以为迎接机遇和挑战做足充分准备，甚至可以提前知道彩票的幸运数字。但对于我来说，我实在不希望拥有这样的“能力”。生活本就神秘莫测，每个人都有他自己的道路。生日时收到同学送来的礼物或是在另外一个城市遇到老朋友时的惊喜都让我十分地享受。在我的生活中有许多令人惊喜的小插曲，假如我有预测未来的能力，它们就都不会发生了。

对阿甘来说，他出生时有智力障碍和腿部的肌肉问题，他从没想到过自己竟然能够成为橄榄球运动员、战争英雄和百万富翁。他通过自己的努力奋斗和不屈不挠赢得了尊严和别人的尊重。

我相信我能通过自己的努力让我爱的人们过上更好的生活。

第二篇：VOA短文汇总

A-Community-Helps-Burmese-Refugees-Learn-English This is the VOA Special English Education Report.About eighteen thousand refugees from Burma have come to the United States each year since two thousand seven.Some have settled in Howard County, Maryland, between Baltimore and Washington.A local school began teaching English to the children of the refugees.But while the children learned the language, their parents did not.That makes communication with teachers difficult.Burmese children in class in Howard County, MarylandCurrently almost fifty Burmese youngsters attend Bollman Bridge Elementary School.Laurel Conran is a teacher there.LAUREL CONRAN: “The main idea is the global idea.” She teaches English to speakers of other languages.LAUREL CONRAN: “Today we were doing text structures.I wanted them to know the vocabulary, the language of text structures, so when they go back into the classroom and work with their peers, they can do this successfully in the classroom.” One of her students is Tha Neih Ciang.Another student is Tha Neih's mother, Tin Iang.Ms.Conran practices English with Tin Iang at the mother's workplace.Many Burmese refugees work at Coastal Sunbelt Produce, a supplier of fruits and vegetables to restaurants and other businesses.Laurel Conran started classes at the company to help refugees from the country also known as Myanmar learn English.LAUREL CONRAN: “The program is a six-week session.It's once a week, on every Wednesday, from twelve to one o'clock.So every Wednesday I go to Coastal Sunbelt.” As the Burmese workers eat lunch, they also practice their new language skills.They sit in small groups with an English-speaking volunteer.Lisa Chertok has a child at Bollman Bridge.She is also a manager at Coastal Sunbelt.She helped Ms.Conran develop the lessons, which she says have really helped.LISA CHERTOK: “Well, when the Burmese employees got here, they were very, very shy.Now I find that they are more responsive as employees.They're more communicative.They're also, as parents, they are more involved in their children's school.” Jonathan Davis is the principal of Bollman Bridge Elementary School.JONATHAN DAVIS: “I really see it as the beginning of a great partnership between a business and a school, and we've just begun to scratch the surface with how that could benefit, really, the greater community.” Mr.Davis hopes the lessons will help Burmese parents feel better about communicating with the school.JONATHAN DAVIS: “Even as simply as making a phone call to say that their son or daughter is sick, even if that's the amount of English that they have gotten from the program, that truly will help us.” SPEAKER: “Please welcome Laurel Conran and Lisa Chertok.” For their work, the two women received a Community Builders Award from Howard County.LAUREL CONRAN: “I love this program.As a community we want to work together, collaboratively, because when everybody works together it is a win-win situation.” And that's the VOA Special English Education Report.You can read, listen and learn English and much more with our programs and activities at tingvoa.com.You can watch a video about the Howard County program on our website.And you can find captioned videos at the VOA Learning English channel on YouTube.I'm Steve Ember.Contributing: June Soh

Death-in-the-Family-May-Cause-Real-Heart-Break SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English.I'm SHIRLEY Griffith.MARIO RITTER: And I'm Mario Ritter.Today, we tell about an American study of heart attack survivors.We tell about a scientist recognized for his work in plate tectonics.And we tell how modern-day musicians rated some of the most famous instruments ever made.(MUSIC)SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Learning about the death of a loved one can be among life's most stressful events.A recent study showed that the risk of heart attack increases in the days and hours after getting news of such a death.Researchers studied nearly two thousand heart attack survivors.The subjects were asked whether someone close to them had died in the six months before their heart attack.Elizabeth Mostofsky is with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.ELIZABETH MOSTOFSKY: “We found that the risk of having a heart attack was twenty-one times higher in the day following the loss of a loved one, compared to other times.And that risk remained elevated in the subsequent days and weeks.” MARIO RITTER: Elizabeth Mostofsky says earlier research explored the risk of dying from any cause over a year or more after the death of a husband, wife or child.The earlier research did not include the death of other close family members or friends.Ms.Mostofsky and her team studied information from the days immediately after receiving the news.She says several things could explain why the intense feelings after the death of a loved one could lead to a heart attack.ELIZABETH MOSTOFSKY: “Grief causes feeling of depression, anger, and anxiety, and several studies have shown that these emotions can cause increased heart rate, higher blood pressure, and blood clotting.And those in turn, can increase the chances of having a heart attack.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Ms.Mostofsky says the family and friends of those mourning for a loved one should know about the increased risk of heart attack.ELIZABETH MOSTOFSKY: ”People should be making sure that the bereaved person is taking care of himself or herself, including taking regular medications, because they are at that heightened level of vulnerability at this time in their life.“ Her research paper was published in ”Circulation,“ the journal of the American Heart Association.(MUSIC)MARIO RITTER: A few weeks ago, we talked about the science of plate tectonics.Plate tectonics explains why the Earth's surface moves.It also tells how?those changes cause earthquakes and volcanic activity.?Today, we tell about a scientist who helped prove the theory of continental drift.Walter C.Pitman, the third, is an adjunct professor of geophysics at Columbia University.Now in his eighties, he works at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: When Walter Pitman was a teenager, he enjoyed visiting his father's workplace at Bell Labs research center.He remembers asking the researchers about their work.WALTER PITMAN: ”I worked there in the summertime sweeping floors but I was in amongst all these people.It was wonderful.“ Walter PitmanWalter Pitman studied electrical engineering and physics in college.He then went to work for an electronics company.He was not excited about the work, until one project – doing research on submarines – fueled a love for oceanography.Mister Pitman returned to school.For his doctoral studies, he went back to sea on a research vessel.He hoped to gather evidence that all the continents had once been joined.He thought they had been moving apart on large plates for hundreds of millions of years.MARIO RITTER: Walter Pitman helped prove the idea that Earth's continents move.He did this by recording and studying magnetic patterns at the bottom of the ocean.WALTER PITMAN: ”It was electrifying.I didn't imagine ever being involved in anything so astonishing and so very, very important to the geologic sciences at such a young age in my career.I was very fortunate to be there when it all happened.“ The science of plate tectonics explains how the continents move around the oceans.It also explains how continents can strike each other and break apart, creating earthquakes and mountain chains.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Later, Mr.Pitman turned his attention to the surface of the ocean, and sea level changes.He and William Ryan, another Columbia University geophysicist, proposed what is known as the Black Sea Deluge Theory.They suggested that the Black Sea was once a landlocked freshwater lake.Then about seven thousand five hundred years ago, melting ice from glaciers raised water levels in the Mediterranean Sea.WALTER PITMAN: ”You're talking about a huge mass of water coming in to fill a very small basin.And that water as it would come through the Bosporus is going to cut the Bosporus deeper.The deeper it cuts, the faster it flows.The faster it flows, the faster it cuts.There is a feedback mechanism.So soon you start with a trickle and within a very short period of time, it's a roaring, raging flume of water and we're very sure that's what it(the Biblical flood)was, you know.“ MARIO RITTER: Mr.Pitman and other researchers are currently studying the climate of the Arctic Ocean.And they are exploring its effects on water cycles over the past two million years.Their research could help scientists predict the effects of climate change, which is causing sea levels to rise.WALTER PITMAN: ”I've had an incredible, incredibly good time at this kind of endeavor.There are bad spots, of course there are bad spots.But the science is always fascinating.You might, you know, stop reading for the day or something like that and say, ‘Wow, that was so great.I learned something about how the Earth works.' That is really pure pleasure.“(MUSIC)SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is the sound of the greatest violin ever made.(violin music #1 in full then fade gently out completely)Or maybe it is this one.(violin music #2 in full then fade)It could be a Stradivarius, or an Amati, or a Guarneri made hundreds of years ago.But it might also have been made just last year by someone whose name is not nearly so famous.And that leads us to ask the following.Can you tell, just by listening, which is the best violin? If so, what makes it great? MARIO RITTER: It all began over three hundred years ago in the town of Cremona in northern Italy.If you wanted to buy a really good musical instrument, you probably visited Antonio Stradivari, Girolamo Amati, or Andrea Guarneri.Many people said they made the best violins that money could buy.Today, many still think of those violins as the greatest of all time.Those that still exist can sell for millions of dollars.Itzhak Perlman playing a Stradivarius violin from the year 1714For years, scientists and musicians have sought to discover the secrets of the master violin makers.They know that most of the time, spruce, willow or maple wood was used.Some people have thought that chemicals like borax were added to the wooden parts.Others have said that honey, or even the white of an egg was painted on the parts before they were put together.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Still other researchers say that a special kind of glue was used to connect the parts.Some think the secret is in the varnish, the nearly clear liquid that was used as a final cover to protect the wood.Or maybe the wood was special because it grew at a time when the weather was colder than it is today.In the end, no one knows for sure.And some people say we should not spend a lot of time thinking about the materials and processes used long ago.They instead think that some modern violins sound just as good and cost a lot less.Claudia Fritz at the University of Paris is one of those people.She led a study that was published in ”The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.“ At a musical competition in Indiana, she asked twenty-one really good violin players to test six different instruments.She did not tell them that only three of the violins were very old and costly.Together, the three were worth about ten million dollars.The other three were made by modern luthiers, or instrument makers, and cost a hundred times less.MARIO RITTER: Ms.Fritz asked each of the players to wear welders' goggles, thick, dark eyeglasses, so they could not see the instruments very well while holding them.She thought that some people might be able to identify an old violin by its smell.So she put a little sweet-smelling perfume on the part of the instrument that fits under a player's chin.The test began in a hotel room.All the subjects in the experiment were permitted to play all six violins, and then say which one they would like to own.Then each player was given only two violins to test.One was very old.The other was modern.They were asked which of the two sounded better.The results of the test led Ms.Fritz to believe that there is no secret to how the old, great violins were made.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Of the twenty-one players, only eight chose an old violin as the best.Even a recently made violin was judged to be much better sounding than the world famous Stradivarius.Ms.Fritz says the difference between the old and new instruments is only in the mind of the player.Modern luthiers were happy that she found what they believed.But some professional musicians think the test had little value.One noted that violins are meant to be heard in a concert hall, not a hotel room.MARIO RITTER: Researchers have performed tests like this many times in the past.But Ms.Fritz says those tests asked average listeners to try to predict which violin was made by a master.Her test was given to concert violinists who play at the highest level.They are the ones you would expect to have the best ”ear“ for great sound.There is an old saying that, ”beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.“ If that is true, then perhaps your opinion of how an instrument sounds to your ear is really what matters.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This SCIENCE IN THE NEWS was written by Brianna Blake and Jim Tedder.June Simms was our producer.I'm SHIRLEY Griffith.MARIO RITTER: And I'm Mario Ritter.Listen again next week for more news about science in Special English on the Voice of America.A-Goal-for-2012-Learning-English This is the VOA Special English Education Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。

Did you make a New Year's resolution? Some of you shared your goals at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook.And, no surprise, many of you said at least one of your goals for twenty-twelve is to speak English better.Daniel Kwon even went so far as to declare: I'm definitely going to try to study English at least an hour a day.你下新年决心了吗？一些听众在美国之音Facebook页面上分享了自己的目标。而且毫无疑问，很多听众都表示，至少2012年的目标之一是把英语说得更好。Daniel Kwon甚至宣布：我一定要试着每天至少学一小时的英语。

Jose Antonio Velarde says: My first resolution is to speak English as fluently as my Spanish.And Tuti Riel says: My New Year's resolution is to be able to speak English and Mandarin fluently, and be a better person.Jose Antonio Velarde说：我的第一个决心是把英语讲得像我的西班牙语一样流利。而Tuti Riel则说：我的新年决心是能讲一口流利的英语和普通话，成为一个更优秀的人。

Juwita Zulmi says she wants to improve her English and get a scholarship to study overseas.Another goal for twenty-twelve: a new boyfriend.Juwita Zulmi表示她想要提高自己的英语水平，并获得一份奖学金去国外留学。另一个2012年的目标是认识一个新男友。

Derly Johanna Barreto has these two resolutions: to speak English fluently and to get a job.Jiseon Kim also has two goals: to lose weight and improve speaking English.And Katie Chekalina has these resolutions: Don't eat meat.I'll take it easy.Then, to learn Spanish or Italian, and find my real love.The last ones will be the most difficult, she thinks.Derly Johanna Barreto有这么两个决心：讲好英语，找到一份好工作。Jiseon Kim也有两个目标：减肥和提高英语口语。而Katie Chekalina有三个决心：不吃肉，这事我会放轻松的。然后，学英语或意大利语，并且找到我的真爱。她认为最后一点将是最困难的。

Rafa Mtz's main goal is finishing high school and getting into a university.Lola Wazqito Oktobrata says: I am going to get married and finish my undergraduate study with good results.And Uma Cherif is ready for the next step this year: a master's degree.Rafa Mtz的主要目标是完成高中学业进入大学。Lola Wazqito Oktobrata说：我将要结婚，也将以好成绩完成本科学业。而Uma Cherif已经为今年的下一步做好了准备：读一个硕士学位。

Handri Permana has this resolution: Be more meaningful before my time's up on earth.And Handri has this advice for others: Have fun seriously in life!Handri Permana的决心如下：活得更有意义。而Handri对他人建议说：开心生活。Dionel Paguirigan has fun playing the video game Defense of the Ancients, or DotA.Dionel says: My New Year's resolution is I want to spend more time on my studying than playing DotA.Dionel Paguirigan喜欢玩视频游戏远古守卫（Defense of the Ancients）。Dionel说：我的新年决心是在学习上花更多时间。

Refky Aditya's resolution is to not be lazy about studying anymore.And Nur Chanifah says: I want to be the best in my national examinations, to be a braver girl, and to take a scholarship abroad.Refky Aditya的决心是在学习上不要在懒惰了。而Nur Chanifah表示：我要在全国统考中做到最好，做一个勇敢的女孩，拿到一份奖学金出国

Sharah Radinka offered this comment: My resolutions are to pass vocational school, get a scholarship and visit Singapore and Malaysia.And Sita Ayudha is thinking of Australia in twenty-twelve: I wish I could have a career abroad in my dreamland of Oz.And let's see, as I'm an optimist, I'm gonna make it real this year, hahaha.Sharah Radinka写下了这样的评论：我的决心是从职业学校毕业，获得奖学金，并到新加坡和马来西亚游览。而Sita Ayudha在2012年正考虑澳大利亚：我希望可以到我的心仪之地澳大利亚工作。我们来看看，因为我是一个乐观主义者，今年我要把它实现，哈哈。

AIDS-Study-Called-2011-Breakthrough

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。

The journal Science chose an AIDS study as the twenty-eleven ”Breakthrough of the Year.“ The study found that antiretroviral drugs can greatly lower the risk of spreading HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.It showed that infected people with early treatment were ninety-six percent less likely to infect their partners.《科学》杂志评选一项艾滋病研究作为2011年的“突破”。该研究发现，抗逆转录病毒药物可以极大地降低艾滋病毒传播的风险。这表明，接受早期治疗的感染者感染其性伴侣的几率要低96%。

The study was a clinical trial known as HPTN 052.Myron Cohen led an international team that began the study in two thousand seven and announced the results last May.But Dr.Cohen says the work really began twenty years ago.该研究是一项被称为HPTN 052的临床试验。迈伦·科恩（Myron Cohen）领导的一个国际研究小组于2007年开始了这项研究，并于去年5月宣布了研究结果。科恩表示，这项研究工作真正开始于20年前。

MYRON COHEN: ”We had a strong suspicion based on all the biological studies we had done that when we treat people and lower the concentration of HIV in the blood and secretions, we were rendering them less contagious.But we didn't understand the magnitude of the benefit.It blows a gigantic wind behind the idea that treatment will serve as prevention.“ 科恩：“我们强烈怀疑，基于我们在治疗病人和降低血液及分泌物中艾滋病毒的浓度时所做的所有生物实验，我们降低了它们的传染性。但我们不清楚其受益程度。它让我们突发想象：治疗可以用作预防。”

Dr.Cohen is director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases paid for the study.科恩博士是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校全球卫生和传染病研究所所长。美国国立过敏和传染病研究所为该研究提供资金。

The study involved heterosexual couples in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.The results have already had an effect on government policies.Those changes include treating HIV-infected people when their immune systems are still relatively healthy.该研究涉及了生活在非洲、亚洲和美洲9个国家的异性伴侣。研究结果已经影响到政府的政策。这些变化包括在艾滋病病毒感染者的免疫系统仍相对健康时对他们进行治疗。

MYRON COHEN: ”This particular 052 study in the last six months has generated policy changes at the level of the United States and the World Health Organization and UNAIDS.And it's inspired new community-based clinical trials that are just about to be launched that apply the scientific discovery.So when you do a single study and it receives so much recognition, and then seems to inform policy in a dramatic way, you think, OK, this was twenty years well-spent.“ 科恩：“过去6个月，052这一特殊研究已经在美国、世界卫生组织和联合国艾滋病规划署这一层面上产生了政策变化。它也启发了正要推行的应用了科学发现的基于社区的新临床试验。因此当你从事一项单一研究并得到这么多的认可，然后似乎又以一种戏剧性方式影响到政策，你就会认为这20年功夫没白费。”

Dr.Cohen says the study results will be wasted unless they are linked to other areas of HIV treatment and prevention.科恩博士表示，如果不和其它方面的艾滋病病毒治疗和预防相结合，这一研究结果就将被浪费。

MYRON COHEN: ”So the 052 study kind of lends itself to understanding that if we don't know who's positive and negative, there's no benefit.If people aren't linked to care, there's no benefit.If they aren't provided drugs, there's no benefit.If they receive the drugs but don't take the pills, there's no benefit.So this cascade is now the focus of our attention.“ 科恩：“052研究有点儿便于理解，如果我们不知道谁是阴性和阳性，如果人们不与治疗挂钩，如果不给他们提供药物，如果他们得到了药物却不吃，都不会从中受益。所以这一系列问题是我们现在关注的焦点。”

AIDS activist Mitchell Warren was among those who welcomed the results.艾滋病活动家米切尔·沃伦（Mitchell Warren）是欢迎这一研究结果的人士之一。MITCHELL WARREN: ”Treatment is prevention.And that becomes a fundamentally different conversation because for many years debates have waged whether we should do treatment or prevention.And the results of the HPTN 052 study actually affirm once and for all that treatment is prevention.“ 沃伦：“治疗就是预防，这成为了一种本质不同的对话。因为多年来一直辩论我们是否应该进行治疗和预防。HPTN 052研究的结果实际上彻底肯定了治疗就是预防。”

Science also recognized nine other scientific developments last year.You can find the list at tingvoa.com.They include progress on a malaria vaccine and research on the DNA of our ancient ancestors.They also include a study of cells that have stopped dividing.It found that clearing them from the bodies of mice can delay some of the effects of aging.《科学》杂志还表扬了去年的另9项科技发展。你可以在tingvoa.com网站上找到该名单。这其中包括疟疾疫苗以及我们远古祖先的DNA研究的进展。还包括一项已经停止分裂的细胞的研究，该研究发现，从老鼠身体中清除这种细胞后，可以延缓衰老。

Amelia-Earhart-First-Woman-to-Fly-Across-the-Atlantic-Alone MARY TILLOTSON: This is Mary Tillotson.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS.Today, we tell about Amelia Earhart.She was one of America's first female pilots.(MUSIC)MARY TILLOTSON: Amelia Earhart was born in eighteen ninety-seven in the middle western state of Kansas.She was not a child of her times.Most American girls at the beginning of the twentieth century were taught to sit quietly and speak softly.They were not permitted to play ball or climb trees.Those activities were considered fun for boys.They were considered wrong for girls.Amelia and her younger sister Muriel were lucky.Their parents believed all children needed physical activity to grow healthy and strong.So Amelia and Muriel were very active girls.They rode horses.They played baseball and basketball.They went fishing with their father.Other parents would not let their daughters play with Amelia and Muriel.STEVE EMBER: The Earharts lived in a number of places in America's Middle West when the girls were growing up.The family was living in Chicago, Illinois when Amelia completed high school in nineteen sixteen.Amelia then prepared to enter a university.During a holiday, she visited her sister in Toronto, Canada.World War One had begun by then.And Amelia was shocked by the number of wounded soldiers sent home from the fighting in France.She decided she would be more useful as a nurse than as a student.So she joined the Red Cross.MARY TILLOTSON: Amelia Earhart first became interested in flying while living in Toronto.She talked with many pilots who were treated at the soldiers' hospital.She also spent time watching planes at a nearby military airfield.Flying seemed exciting.But the machinery – the plane itself – was exciting, too.After World War One ended, Amelia spent a year recovering from the disease pneumonia.She read poetry and went on long walks.She learned to play the banjo.And she went to school to learn about engines.When she was healthy again, she entered Columbia University in New York City.She studied medicine.After a year she went to California to visit her parents.During that trip, she took her first ride in an airplane.And when the plane landed, Amelia Earhart had a new goal in life.She would learn to fly.(MUSIC)STEVE EMBER: One of the world's first female pilots, Neta Snook, taught Amelia to fly.It did not take long for Amelia to make her first flight by herself.She received her official pilot's license in nineteen twenty.Then she wanted a plane of her own.She earned most of the money to buy it by working for a telephone company.Her first plane had two sets of wings, a bi-plane.On June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight, the plane left the eastern province of Newfoundland, Canada.The pilot and engine expert were men.The passenger was Amelia Earhart.The planed landed in Wales twenty hours and forty minutes later.For the first time, a woman had crossed the Atlantic Ocean by air.MARY TILLOTSON: Amelia did not feel very important, because she had not flown the plane.Yet the public did not care.People on both sides of the Atlantic were excited by the tall brave girl with short hair and gray eyes.They organized parties and parades in her honor.Suddenly, she was famous.Amelia Earhart had become the first lady of the air.She wrote a book about the flight.She made speeches about flying.And she continued to fly by herself across the United States and back.STEVE EMBER: Flying was a new and exciting activity in the early nineteen twenties.Pilots tested and demonstrated their skills in air shows.Amelia soon began taking part in these shows.She crashed one time in a field of cabbage plants.The accident did not stop her from flying.But she said it did decrease her desire to eat cabbages.Flying was fun, but costly.Amelia could not continue.She sold her bi-plane, bought a car and left California.She moved across the country to the city of Boston, Massachusetts.She taught English to immigrants and then became a social worker.MARY TILLOTSON: In the last years of the nineteen twenties, hundreds of record flights were made.A few were made by women.But no woman had flown across the Atlantic Ocean.A wealthy American woman, Amy Guest, bought a plane to do this.However, her family opposed the idea.So she looked for another woman to take her place.Friends proposed Amelia Earhart.STEVE EMBER: American publisher George Putnam had helped organize the Atlantic Ocean flight that made Amelia famous.Afterwards, he continued to support her flying activities.In nineteen thirty-one, George and Amelia were married.He helped provide financial support for her record flights.On May twentieth, nineteen thirty-two, Amelia took off from Newfoundland.She headed east in a small red and gold plane.Amelia had problems with ice on the wings, fog from the ocean and instruments that failed.At one point, her plane dropped suddenly nine hundred meters.She regained control.And after fifteen hours she landed in Ireland.She had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.(MUSIC)MARY TILLOTSON: In the next few years, Amelia Earhart set more records and received more honors.She was the first to fly from Hawaii to California, alone.She was the first to fly from Mexico City to New York City, without stopping.Amelia hoped her flights would prove that flying was safe for everyone.She hoped women would have jobs at every level of the industry when flying became a common form of transportation.STEVE EMBER: In nineteen thirty-five, the president of Purdue University in Indiana asked Amelia to do some work there.He wanted her to be an adviser on aircraft design and navigation.He also wanted her to be a special adviser to female students.Purdue University provided Amelia with a new all-metal, two-engine plane.It had so many instruments she called it the ”Flying Laboratory.“ It was the best airplane in the world at that time.Amelia decided to use this plane to fly around the world.She wanted to go around the equator.It was a distance of forty-three thousand kilometers.No one had attempted to fly that way before.MARY TILLOTSON: Amelia's trip was planned carefully.The goal was not to set a speed record.The goal was to gather information.Crew members would study the effects of height and temperature on themselves and the plane.They would gather small amounts of air from the upper atmosphere.And they would examine the condition of airfields throughout the world Amelia knew the trip would be dangerous.A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.Amelia had carried the flag on all her major flights.Jacqueline did not want to take it until Amelia returned from her flight around the world.”No,“ Amelia told her, ”you had better take it now.“(MUSIC)STEVE EMBER: Amelia and three male crew members were to make the flight.However, a minor accident and weather conditions forced a change in plans.So on June first, nineteen thirty-seven, a silver Lockheed Electra plane left Miami, Florida.It carried pilot Amelia Earhart and just one male crew member, navigator Fred Noonan.Amelia Earhart in front of a map of her proposed trip around he world Amelia and Fred headed south toward the equator.They stopped in Puerto Rico, Surinam and Brazil.They crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, where they stopped in Senegal, Chad, Sudan and Ethiopia.Then they continued on to India, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.MARY TILLOTSON: When they reached New Guinea, they were about to begin the most difficult part of the trip.They would fly four thousand kilometers to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.Three hours after leaving New Guinea, Amelia sent back a radio message.She said she was on a direct path to Howland Island.Later, Amelia's radio signals were received by a United States Coast Guard ship near the island.The messages began to warn of trouble.Fuel was getting low.They could not find Howland Island.They could not see any land at all.STEVE EMBER: The radio signals got weaker and weaker.A message on the morning of July second was incomplete.Then there was silence.American Navy ships and planes searched the area for fifteen days.They found nothing.Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were officially declared ”lost at sea.“(MUSIC)MARY TILLOTSON: This Special English Program was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano.It was produced by Paul Thompson.This is Mary Tillotson.STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember.Join us again next week for another EXPLORATIONS program on the VOICE OF AMERICA.American-History-Life-in-the-1970s-and-80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION--American history in VOA Special English.I'm Steve Ember.This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and cultural changes in America in the nineteen seventies and eighties.(MUSIC)In some ways, the nineteen eighties seemed like the opposite of the nineteen sixties.The sixties were years of protest for social justice and change.Many Americans demonstrated against the Vietnam War.Blacks demonstrated for civil rights.Women demonstrated for equality.Many people welcomed new social programs created by the government.By the nineteen eighties, however, many people seemed more concerned with themselves than with helping society.To them, success was measured mainly by how much money a person made.People wanted to live the good life, and that took money.The changes started to become evident during the nineteen seventies.For a while, these years brought a continuation of the social experiments and struggles of the sixties.But then people began to see signs of what society would be like in the eighties.There were a number of reasons for this change.One reason was the end to America's military involvement in Vietnam after years of war.Another was the progress of civil rights activists and the women's movement toward many of their goals.A third reason was the economy.During the nineteen seventies, the United States suffered a recession.Interest rates and inflation were high.A shortage of imported oil as a result of tensions in the Middle East only added to the problems.As the nineteen seventies went on, many Americans became tired of economic struggle.They also became tired of social struggle.They had been working together for common interests.Now, many wanted to spend more time on their own interests.This change appeared in many parts of society.It affected popular culture, education and politics.ARCHIE BUNKER(CARROLL O'CONNOR): ”Let me hear your idea again.“ MICHAEL(ROB REINER): ”OK, I want us to watch Jack Lemmon and a group of famous scientists discuss pollution and ecology on channel thirteen.“ ARCHIE: ”Good.And I wanna watch football highlights on channel two.Now guess what's gonna happen.“(MUSIC)One of the most popular television programs of that time was a comedy series that often dealt with politics and serious social issues.The show was called ”All in the Family.“ The family was led by a factory worker named Archie Bunker.Carroll O'Connor played Archie, and Jean Stapleton played his wife, Edith.The Bunkers lived in a working-class neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City.Archie represented the struggles of the blue-collar working man against the social changes in America.He loved his country and was socially conservative--in the extreme.ARCHIE: ”What about John Wayne? And before you say anything, lemme warn you –-when you're talking about the Duke, you ain't just talking about an actor;you're talking about the spirit that made America great.“ MICHAEL: ”Are you kidding?“ His opinions on subjects like race and women's equality were always good for an argument with his liberal daughter and even more liberal son-in-law.MICHAEL: ”Good.I can mail my letter today and it'll get to Washington by Monday.“ EDITH(JEAN STAPLETON): ”Washington--are you writing to Washington? GLORIA(SALLY STRUTHERS): “That's right.Michael wrote the president.” ARCHIE: “Write to the president, about what?” GLORIA: “All the things we've been talking about – the pollution of our air, the pollution of our water, the way us housewives have no protection from foods without nutrition, how they make products with harmful things in them.Like you saw what happened to Michael from that shirt.” ARCHIE: “You, Michael Stivic, Meathead, you have the nerve to write to the president of the United States about your rash?” Edith would always try to make peace.EDITH: “Maybe he knows a good skin man [dermatologist].”(MUSIC: “Happy Days” theme)Another popular program, “Happy Days,” about family life in the nineteen fifties, offered an escape from the social issues of the day.(MUSIC)Music also changed.In the nineteen sixties, folk music was popular.Many of those folk songs were about social problems.But in the nineteen seventies, there was hard rock and punk.TV HOST: “Here is Wonder Mike, Hank and Master G--the Sugarhill Gang.” And in nineteen seventy-nine a group called the Sugarhill Gang brought rap music to national attention with a hit called “Rapper's Delight.”(MUSIC: “Rappers Delight”)In bookstores, the growing number of self-help books offered another sign of social change.These books advised people about ways to make themselves happier.One of the most popular self-help books was “I'm OK--You're OK” by Wayne Dyer.It was published in nineteen sixty-nine and led the way for many other popular psychology books throughout the seventies.(MUSIC)Politically, the United States went through several changes during the nineteen seventies.For most of the sixties the nation was governed by liberal Democratic administrations.Then in nineteen sixty-eight a conservative Republican, Richard Nixon, was elected president.Nixon won a second term four years later, but had to resign in nineteen seventy-four because of the Watergate scandal.Nixon's vice president, Gerald Ford, took his place.Two years later, Ford was defeated by Jimmy Carter, a Democrat who until then was little known nationally.The election showed that Americans were angry with the Republican Party because of Watergate.But they soon became unhappy with President Carter.They blamed him for failing to improve the economy and for failing to end a crisis involving American hostages in Iran.He lost his re-election campaign to Ronald Reagan.RONALD REAGAN: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”(MUSIC)Michael Douglas in “Wall Street”Reagan, a Republican, won two terms and led the nation during most of the nineteen eighties.For many people, the Reagan years offered a renewed sense of economic opportunity.Reagan reduced taxes, which increased his popularity.But the national debt grew as he raised military spending to put pressure on the Soviet Union.(MUSIC)The self-centeredness of many people in the seventies and eighties gave rise to terms like the “me” generation.“ And there was the rise of ”yuppies“--young urban professionals remaking older neighborhoods in cities, often displacing poorer people.Popular entertainment at that time was often about financial success.ANNOUNCER: ”Premiering Sunday, April second, 'Dallas,' where money buys power and passion breeds conflict...“(MUSIC: ”Dallas“ theme)”Dallas“ was a TV drama about a Texas oil family with more money, and more problems, than they knew what to do with.It became a hit not just in the United States but around the world.Actor Larry Hagman played JR.JR EWING(LARRY HAGMAN): ”Your daddy lacked the killer instinct.He forgave those who transgressed against him.People just weren't afraid of him.And he overlooked ol' JR's golden rules.CASEY(ANDREW STEVENS): “And what might they be?” JR EWING: “Don't forgive and don't forget.And do unto others, before they do unto you.And, most especially, keep your eye on your friends, 'cause your enemies will take care of themselves.Oh, and one other thing – the oil business is a little bit like a poker game.It's good to get caught bluffing early on, 'cause, after that, somebody's gonna call you when you've got a winning hand.”(MUSIC)“Dynasty” was another popular series about rich people behaving badly.One of its stars was veteran actor John Forsythe.BLAKE CARRINGTON(JOHN FORSYTHE): “Those banks are going to find out that they've got more than they can handle.Denver-Carrington [company] is Blake Carrington, and they'll come begging to me to run the company again.I know they will.And I'll make them get down on their knees when they come begging.” There was also “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” a series about real-life wealthy people, hosted by Robin Leach.ROBIN LEACH: “Our bustling capital city combines the chic with the freak, the 'Oh, God' with the avant garde.So let's go 'upper deck' with a couple of my good friends, and run away with the rich and famous...” And at the movie theater, there was the nineteen eighty-seven film “Wall Street.” GORDON GECKO(MICHAEL DOUGLAS): “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.Greed is right.Greed works.” Michael Douglas played a character named Gordon Gecko, who earns his wealth by raiding companies and illegally trading on inside information.President Reagan during a news conference at the White House on March 19, 1987GORDON GECKO(MICHAEL DOUGLAS): “Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.And greed – you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.Thank you very much.[Applause]”(MUSIC: “Rambo” theme)Good triumphed over evil in the “Rambo” action films starring Sylvester Stallone.He played a troubled hero who had fought in Vietnam.The films were violent.But they represented a more positive view than society had shown in the past toward veterans of that unpopular war.In the nineteen eighties people came to fear a new disease that could be spread by sex or blood.It was the rise of the AIDS epidemic.At the same time a new drug--crack cocaine--started a wave of violence in American cities.Technology was also on the rise.ANNOUNCER: “You don't have to be a genius to use a computer.Let Computer Land show you how easy it is to manage your own small business or home finances with the Atari 800.Record keeping, information, communication, and a world of new ideas from Atari.” Personal computers appeared in more and more offices, schools and homes.Michael Jackson performs with his brothers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on December 3, 1984The nineteen eighties brought stardom to young entertainer Michael Jackson.(MUSIC: “Beat It”/Michael Jackson)And no history of the eighties would be complete without noting the rise of Music Television--better known as MTV.(MUSIC: “Money for Nothing”/Dire Straits)You can find our series online with transcripts, MP3s, podcasts and pictures at tingvoa.com.You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English.I'm Steve Ember, inviting you to join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION--American history in VOA Special English.__ Contributing: Jerilyn Watson This was program #225.

第三篇：听写VOA标准英语体会

我听写VOA标准英语1年的体会 恒星英语学习论坛

今天是我听标准VOA整整一年的日子。当然，跟坛子里的很多听力高人比起来，我的水平实在是差太远，也就不敢说什么经验了，只是想写下一些我的感受和体会，于自己和同自己一样在还在听力道路上摸爬滚打的广大VOA热心听友共勉吧。

我这人一直没有什么太大的毅力，从小到大，做事经常是虎头蛇尾，半途而废的，但是在听VOA这件事上我真真正正的做到了两个最简单却又最困难的字——坚持。一年中，我没有落下一天的听写，而且尽量做到当日事当日毕，很少有将当天的VOA拖到第二天来做，除非真的有特殊情况要出外无法完成，但只要有机会上网就会把落下的内容补上，现在再回头看看存在自己电脑中的300多篇听力内容，我真的有了一种自豪感——也许这在大家看来会觉得没什么，不过就如前面提到的，长这么大。我很少能一直坚持做一件事，这是少数几件之一，所以我才会觉得有一些自豪。大家见笑了）

其实想想，坚持做一件事也没什么太难的，只要每天抽出半个小时，就能听听VOA。说起来，半个小时的时间能做些什么呢？也许茶余饭后，看看电视，发发呆的时间就够半个小时了。最开始的时候，我有过爱把这个做听力的时间往后一拖再拖的毛病，结果往往一拖就拖到十一二点，不仅影响休息，也影响了效率和效果，所以后来我就习惯了FIRST THING FIRST，只要没有很紧要的事，那么每天的八点，我必定登陆到听力版进行每日的标准VOA的听写练习。

去年因为一个偶然的机会，我发现了恒星，又喜欢上VOA栏目。因为我一直都比较喜欢英语，一直都比较注意对英语能力的锻炼，所以我的基础还算不错，因此我当时听了VOASP和VOAST后，自己感觉了一下，VOASP基本上可以一次听懂，所以决定直接听VOAST。

刚开始的时候真的是有点痛苦，播音员一句话读过去的时候，绝大多数的词我都感到很熟悉，但是当句子说完以后，脑子里却是一片空空，完全说不出刚才句子说的是什么内容，有时甚至连一个词都复述不出来。所以我当时考虑之后，认为除了听力能力欠缺外，这个问题中也包含了阅读能力欠缺的缘故，打个比方说，在看一个稍微复杂一点的句子的时候，保证不要回头看，即使句子中每个词都认识，但是当眼睛扫完最后一个词的时候，却无法说出句子的意思，需要再反复一次或者两次才能看懂句子的意思，所以我在不放松听力训练的同时，也注意加强了阅读的训练。事实证明我的做法没错，的确有很大的提高。由于实际情况的限制，我当时采用的听写方式是用SITMAN反复复读听写，而且重复的区间很短，大概四、五个词。这样练了将近一个月，收到一些效果后，我感到不能再这样练下去，因为这样将句子拆得四分五裂，其实很不利于理解，进而对综合听力能力的提高产生限制。于是，这个时候我的听写方法发生了变化，仍然是利用SITMAN这个好帮手，我先会将每天的听力材料先通听一到两遍，首先把句子长短摸清楚，然后用SITMAN放一句暂停，听写，再一句暂停，再听写，在这个过程中不进行复读，如果有不会的或听不明白的暂且放下，直到放完一遍，这样整篇的大意也有了个初步了解，然后再利用SITMAN从头检查一遍，对开始没听出来的地方用复读功能反复听，最后再通篇放一次。最后提交听写内容获得答案，与自己的比较，对那些错误的地方和仍然没有听出来的地方重点注意。与此类似的方法我一直用到现在。

就这样我又听了一两个月，听力能力的确获得一定的提高。偶然有一天，我随便点开了以前的听力材料听，发现我还是有些地方听不出来，打开当时自己听写的文本一看，结果以前没听出来的地方过了一两个月后仍然听不出来，看来光听完还不够，还要多多反复，于是我便将之前的所有听力材料转成WMA文件存到我的MP3中当泛听材料。后来将每天的脚本内容加上时间和标题复制到了一个WORD文档中，方便查找，并将它排版后打印装订了出来，这就成了一份上好的听力训练材料，我休息的时候，坐车的时候都可以把MP3拿出来听听，这样效果的确很不错，现在过去听过的材料我都能听懂，而且这样做还有当对听力材料很熟悉了以后，MP3里放着材料的时候，不看脚本，自己的嘴巴也跟着说，要说出声来，而且尽量注意播音员的高低升降语调，以及重音轻音，因为心里想得出跟说得出是两码事。这一步非常之累人，做了一会就会很疲劳，好在每篇材料不是很长。所以不能急于求成，一天练习几篇就行。

这样的练习又做了几个月，这时我辨音能力已经不错了，复读的区间也已经可以增加到几句话的长度了，但是我这时又发现了另一个问题，我太注重听音，或者说是听词了，所以对句子结构和内容的把握仍然不是很理想，于是我开始注意加强把握句子结构和大意的能力，举个最简单的例子来说”The man is sitting on a desk” 与 ”the man sitting on a desk” 当听到后者的时候，这只是一个从句，后面才开始真正的内容，所以会加强注意，这样的东西看书面内容也许很容易区分，但是听的时候也许就不那么容易了。再就是象一些从句标志which, who 之类的也是句子结构的很重要的标记。有些时候，听了前面一部分，句子结构就已经基本清楚，那么就大概知道重要内容会在何处出现，从而会加强注意。不过有一点要声明，这些应该是在潜意识中去完成，如果为了听结构而听结构就得不偿失了，弄懂结构只是为了更好的弄懂句子含义，不要太刻意的去抓结构。

现在我做每天的VOA跟当初比还是轻松了不少，速度也快多了。看CCTV4的时候也基本上能跟上播音员，并能把握大意，有时候看一些国外的访谈节目也可以跟上主持人思维了，看电影虽然通篇听懂还是有不少问题，电影中大量充斥的不同口音、极快语速、夸张语调和俚语还是跟正统的播音员的不大一样，但还是可以听懂那些正常的部分。

现在我又发现了新的问题，那就是做听写的时候过于依赖SITMAN的复读功能，并过于注重细节，这在看英文电视节目的时候暴露无遗，碰到一个不熟悉的东西，思维会有停顿，在几秒中内会落后于播音员，这对听力理解会有一定的影响。因为听写不是目的而是途径，是达到交流过程中对大意的掌握和理解的途径，而交流才是最终目的，并不需要我一字不差的复述下来。我已经决定我下一步的训练方法是将每天的内容通篇听完几遍，不停顿，然后按自己的理解和记忆写下这一整段话，不会太过于将注意力专注于一些过于细微的细节，而可以用自己的思维去填充。然后再与参考脚本对照，在对照的过程中，便可以找到很多“中式英语”与“原汁原味的英语”的差别，这对自己的综合提高是很有帮助的。当然，我知道刚开始的时候，这会很困难，也许不会比我去年刚开始听VOA时感觉的难度小，不过万事开头难，贵在坚持，只要能继续坚持下去，明年这个时候的我相对于现在，也许就能象今天的我相对于一年前的我一般，能按这种办法轻松的完成听写内容了。

1）最好要将自己每天的听写内容保存到硬盘上，以备日后对比察看。2）如果可能的话，多多温习过去听过的内容，贵精不贵多。

3）如果可能的话，整理一下听过的材料，条件允许的话可以打印出来，并把音频材料转到MP3里去。大家总是在找听力材料，而我看这就是一份很好的听力材料，题材广泛，语音纯正，长短适中，语速也较正常。如果真的能好好利用的话，一定不会比大家买的这样那样的资料差。4）不要给自己找借口推托，尽量当日事当日毕，当时事当时毕，否则拖欠的只会越来越多，当多到你不想再管它的时候，你的练习进程也就终止了。

5）说来说去，还是兴趣第一，如果能先培养出对这方面的兴趣再去练习的话，每天做VOA就不是一件任务，甚至可以说是一种娱乐消遣，是件很让人期待的事。我现在就是，每天都等着斑竹的听力材料出来做听力，因为我认为这是一件很有意思很值得去做的事，反而如果某天不能做的话，反而觉得不自在。

第四篇：VOA等英语广播听力心得

许多学英语的人都希望收听VOA，BBC等英语新闻广播，想以此来提高听力和口语水平，但不少人认为听英语新闻广播比较困难。从这几年的中等以上英语听力考试来看，都涉及到测试英语新闻广播的内容。从教学上来说，许多大专院校的英语系的听力课都增加了听英语新闻报道的内容。那么怎样才能基本上听懂外台的英语新闻报道呢?我们认为，除了多听以外，还必须掌握英语新闻报道的特点和一些收听技巧。

(1)掌握新闻报道的结构新闻报道往往采用“倒金字塔体”。

所谓“倒金字塔体”，也称为倒途法，即按新闻事实重要性的程度由要点到细节逐步扩展，安排全文。把最重要的事实置于全文的第一个句子中，这个句子被称为新闻导语(the news lead)。它告知听众最关心最重要的事实，如事件(what)、时间(when)、地点(where)、人物(who)，以及原因和方式(why，how，即新闻导语包含了我们常说的五个WH和一个H构成的“新闻六大要素”。新闻导语是整条新闻的高度浓缩形式，听懂了导语，也就听懂了新闻的主要内容。当然，由于新闻报道的侧重点不同，有时新闻导语也可能只包含其中几个要素。

例如：

Oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will bold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss.这一新闻导语包含了以下几个要素：

What：An emergency meeting vail be held

When：Friday

Who：Oil Ministers Of the Organization of Petroleum Ex—poring Countries

(2)扩大词汇量，熟记新闻报道中的常用词汇

①普通词汇。尽管新闻报道所使用的词汇量很大，但是语言的基本词汇是稳定的。如VOA广播中的special English(特别节目)的新闻报告中常用词汇约1 500个，这的重复率在报道中是很高的，如cease-fire，presidential eleation等政治性词汇，financebankinggroup等经济词汇以aceshuttle，robot等科技词汇。而新闻英语中的特有用语就更具稳定性。若能掌握这些词汇，再加上一些听力技巧，基本听懂新闻报道就不是件难事了。

②专有词汇。新闻报道是有关世界范围的最新消息，因在报道中常涉及许多人名、地名、国名。除此之外，新闻报道中还常常出现一些河流、山脉及名胜古迹等专有名词熟悉这些专有名词可使听者更快更准确地了解所听的新闻。

(3)掌握一定数量的缩略语(acronym)

由于新闻报道时间的限制，不少机构的名称常采用其缩略形式，即由该名称中数个词的首字母的大写形式组成，如：PLO是thePalestineLiberationOrganization的缩写形式。需要注意的是，听者不仅要了解这些缩略语的确切含义，而且还应知道它们的正确读音。

(4)掌握数字的不同读法

在新闻报道中经常出现许多数字，大到几十亿，上百亿，小到分数或小数。尤其对一些多位数的数字，要想立刻听准这些数字的确不容易，其主要难点在于位数过多。因此在听多位数的数字时，应对billion(十亿)、million(百万)、thousand(千)、hundred(百)等词尤为重视。同时，要注意一个数字的多种读法，如播音员把两个足球队比赛结果2：0读作two to nothing而不是读成two to nought或two to zero．

(5)掌握循序渐进，从慢到快的原则

目前，许多外台(如BBC，VOA)的新闻英语报道有特别英语(Special English)和标准英语(Standard English)两种。所谓Special English也可称为慢速英语，即新闻播放的语速较慢。就VOA而言，慢速英语每分钟不超过90个单词，而且新闻报道均是由简单易懂的英语缩写的，因此较适合初级阶段的新闻英语训练。然而它毕竟有其局限性，只能作为听力训练的一种手段，而不是新闻英语训练要达到的最终目的。要想过真正通过新闻英语这一关，还必须进行Standard English的训练。Standard English也可称为常速英语，即新闻英语是用正常的语速播送的。就VOA而言，常速英语每分钟为135个单词，而且句法和词汇方面的难度也大些。经过从慢速英语到常速英语相当长一段时间练习后，收听新闻英语的能力一定会有很大提高。

(6)要密切注意国内外形势的变化

平时应养成多看报纸，常听广播的习惯，这样就可以掌国际、国内的一些阶段性的热门话题及一些有争论的问题。若有可能的话，最好在收听新闻英语之前，先听一下汉语新闻广播。对于当天国际、国内发生的一些大事做到心中有数，然后，再收听外台的新闻英语报道。由于已有了一定背景知识，这些新闻英语报道就容易听懂了。当然在更高层次上也可以先听英语新闻，然后验之以汉语新闻。

收听英语新闻广播时有两点要注意：

①听懂英语新闻广播必须要有一定的听力理解水平，因对于外语初学者来说，应着重提高自己的英语听力水平，不要急于收听外台新闻广播，到了中高级阶段开始收听英语新闻广播较为合适。

②听者除掌握以上提到的技巧外，还必须多听多练，持之以恒地坚持听下去，就能最终达到“能听懂外台英语新闻广播”这一目标。

第五篇：voa名词集合

voa名词集合，建议看一下，新闻听力会有用的（都在voa中摘录）

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan联合国秘书长 安南

General Assembly:联合国大会

Security Council:安理会

The chief U.N.weapons inspectors Hans Blix 联合国对伊武器核查负责人 汉斯 布里克斯 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries =OPEC

石油输出国家组织

International Atomic Energy Agency=IAEA

国际原子能组织

North Atlantic Treaty Organization=NATO

北大西洋公约组织

International Monetary Fund=IMF

国际货币基金组织

China

Inner Mongolia 内蒙古

Lhasa 拉萨

Tibet西藏Tibetan

Uigur维吾尔人

Cantonese广东人

Hakka 客家人

The United States

President Bush总统布什

Secretary of State Colin Powell国务卿鲍威尔

vice President Dick Cheney副总统切尼

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德

National Security adviser Condoleezza Rice国家安全顾问赖斯

The Dow-Jones industrial average 道琼斯工业指数

The Nasdaq composite stock index 纳斯达克

the Senete 参议院

the House of Representative 众议院

Federal Bureau of Investigation联邦调查局

Central Intelligence Agency美国中央情报局

American Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia James Kelly美国负责东亚事务助理国务卿凯利

British Prime Minister Tony Blair 英国首相布莱尔

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw 外交大臣

Palestine

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat阿拉法特

Jerusalem耶路撒冷

Jenin杰宁

Ramallah拉马拉

Nablus纳布卢斯

Bethlehem伯利恒

Hamas哈马斯抵抗运动

Islamic Jihad吉哈德-伊斯兰圣战组织

Fatah Movement 法塔赫运动

Israel

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon沙龙

Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 本杰明 内坦尼亚胡

Former Foreign Minister Shimon Peres佩雷斯

Likud Party 利库德集团

the newly elected head of Labor Party,Amram Mitzna阿姆兰·米茨纳 Tel aviv 特拉维夫

Iraq伊拉克，Baghdad巴格达

President Saddam Hussein总统萨达姆 候赛因

Foreign Minister Naji Sabri 外长纳吉 萨布里

Afghanistan（Afghan人）

Kabul喀布尔

President Hamid Karzai 卡尔扎伊

Foreign minister Abdullah 阿布杜拉

Al-QaedaAl-Qaida 基地组织

Osama Bin Landen奥萨马 本 拉登

Taliban 塔利班 Mullah Omar 奥马尔

Kandahar坎大哈

Jalalabad贾拉拉巴德

North Korea

Pyongyang平壤，president Kim Jong-il金正日

North Korea's honorary head of state Kim Yong-Nam 金永南

South Korea

Seoul汉城

President-elect Roh Moo-hyun卢武铉

president Kim Dae-jung金大中

Millennium Democratic Party 新千年党

Grand National Party 大国民党

Sri Lanka斯里兰卡

Colombo科伦坡

Tamil Tiger：泰米尔猛虎组织

Zimbabwe

President Robert Mugabe穆加贝

The Czech Public

Prague,布拉格

President Alexander Lukashenko

Russia

President Vladimir Putin普京

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov伊万诺夫

Ukraine

President Leonid Kuchma库奇马

Chechnya 车臣

Chechen

India

New Delhi新德里，Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee瓦杰帕伊

Indian Kashmir印控克什米尔地区

Pakistan

Islamabad伊斯兰堡

President Pervez Musharraf穆沙拉夫

Ecuador厄瓜多尔

Venezuela委内瑞拉

President Hugo Charves

Iran

Teheran德黑兰

President Mohammad Khatami 穆罕默德 哈梅内伊Egypt

Cairo开罗，President Hosni Mubarak穆巴拉克

Oman阿曼

Qatar卡塔尔

Al-Jazeera station 半岛电视台

Yemen 也门

Yemeni也门人

Aden亚丁(也门人民共和国首都,临亚丁湾the Gulf of Aden）Kuwait科威特

Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah 外长 Algeria阿尔及利亚(北非国家)

Libya利比亚北非国家）

Ethiopia埃塞俄比亚(非洲东部国家)

Cuba 古巴

Cuban dissident Asfao Daopaya 古巴一持不同政见领袖 the Solomon Islands 所罗门群岛

Honiara霍尼亚拉[所罗门群岛首都]

Baltic States 波罗的海诸国

Lithuania立陶宛

President Valdas Adamkus总统瓦尔达斯·阿达姆库斯 Vilnius维尔纽斯[立陶宛共和国首都]

Latvia拉脱维亚

Estonia爱沙尼亚

NBA球队一览表 提供：lf3721

东部联盟 Eastern Conference

大西洋赛区

1.Boston Celtics 波士顿凯尔特人

2.Miami Heat迈阿密热火

3.New Jersy Nets新泽西网

4.New York Knicks纽约尼克斯

5.Orlando Magic 奥兰多魔术

6.Philadelphia 76ers费城76人

7.Washington Wizards华盛顿奇才 中部赛区

8.Atlanta Hawks亚特兰大老鹰

9.New Orleans Hornets新奥尔良黄蜂

10.Chicago Bulls芝加哥公牛

11.Cleveland Cavaliers克里夫兰骑士

12.Detroit Pistons 底特律活塞

13.Indiana Pacers印第安纳步行者

14.Toronto Raptors多伦多猛龙

15.Milwaukee Bucks密尔沃基雄鹿 西部联盟 Western Conference

中西部赛区

16.Dallas Mavericks达拉斯小牛

17.Denver Nuggets丹佛掘金

18.Houston Rockets休斯敦火箭

19.Minnesota Timberwolves明尼苏达森林狼

20.San Antonio Spurs圣安东尼奥马刺

21.Utah Jazz犹他爵士

22.Memphis Grizzlies孟菲斯灰熊 太平洋赛区

23.Golden State Warriors金州勇士

24.L.A.Clippers洛杉矶快船

25.L.A.Lakers洛杉矶湖人

26.Phoenix Suns菲尼克斯太阳

27.Portland Trail Blazers波特兰开拓者

28.Sacremento Kings萨克拉门托国王

29.Seattle Supersonics西雅图超音速