VOA Special English Program听力测试实训教程PDF电子书下载

Chapter 1 Environment Report 1

Unit 1 Air Pollution/Lung Cancer 1

Unit 2 Antarctic Ice 2

Unit 3 Nuclear Waste 4

Unit 4 World's Forests Endangered 5

Unit 5 Medicinal Plant Conservation 7

Unit 6 Carbon Dioxide 8

Unit 7 Apes Endangered 10

Unit 8 Coral Reef Systems Threatened 11

Unit 9 Weather and Plant Growth Study 13

Unit 10 Doppler Radar 14

Unit 11 Loss of Ozone Slows 16

Unit 12 Conditions in China 17

Unit 13 Rooftop Gardens 19

Unit 14 Tornadoes 20

Unit 15 Effects of Global Warm 22

Unit 16 Solar House Competition 23

Unit 17 Summit on Sustainable Development 25

Unit 18 Pollution Threatens Water Cycle 27

Chapter 2 Agriculture Report 29

Unit 1 Salt-Resistant Tomato 29

Unit 2 Plants that Absorb Metals 30

Unit 3 Growing Carrots 32

Unit 4 Farm Safety 33

Unit 5 Conservation Agriculture 34

Unit 6 Antibiotics in Animals 36

Unit 7 Mad Cow Disease in Japan 37

Unit 8 Tsetse Fly Threat to Agriculture 39

Unit 9 Genetic Engineering Debate 40

Unit 10 Treating Stress in Animals 41

Unit 11 Solar Food Dryers 43

Unit 12 Fertilizer 44

Unit 13 International Conference Looks at Agricultural Science and Technology 45

Unit 14 WWOOF:World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms 46

Unit 15 2004 Good Year For U.S.Farmers 48

Unit 16 Growing Vegetables in the Shade 49

Unit 17 Red Tides 51

Unit 18 Raising Sheep 52

Unit 19 Tsunami's effect on agriculture 53

Chapter 3 Development Report 55

Unit 1 Vietnam and Malaria 55

Unit 2 Drug Trade in Developing Countries 56

Unit 3 Oxfam 58

Unit 4 Digital Divide in Developing Nations 59

Unit 5 UNESCO Literacy Campaign 61

Unit 6 Maternal Deaths Study 62

Unit 7 Worker Safety 63

Unit 8 New TB Vaccine to be Tested 65

Unit 9 Campaign Against Tetanus 66

Unit 10 Bushmeat Hunting in Ghana 67

Unit 11 World Bank to open Artisan Market'in Washington 69

Unit 12 Aid Plan for Africa Called Progress,If Only Limited 70

Unit 13 Iron Sprinkles Seen as a Way to Aid Children's Health In Developing Countries 72

Chapter 4 Economic Report 74

Unit 1 The Dow Jones Industrial Average 74

Unit 2 World Trade Organization,Part 1 75

Unit 3 The World Trade Organization,Part 2 77

Unit 4 Steel Tariffs Dispute 78

Unit 5 Holiday Shopping 80

Unit 6 Nobel in Economics 81

Unit 7 Mutual Funds 83

Unit 8 Securities and Exchange Commission 84

Unit 9 Fiscal year 85

Unit 10 China's money 87

Unit 11 New York Stock Exchange 88

Unit 12 Carbon Trading 90

Unit 13 Business organizations 91

Unit 14 Social Security 92

Chapter 5 Health Report 94

Unit 1 Tuberculosis 94

Unit 2 Fast Food 95

Unit 3 Lightning Safety 97

Unit 4 Parkinson's Disease 98

Unit 5 SARS in Animals 100

Unit 6 Walking to Better Health 101

Unit 7 Shingles 103

Unit 8 Lance Armstrong/Fighting Cancer with Exercise 104

Unit 9 Vitamin D 105

Unit 10 Cancer and Children 107

Unit 11 Drugs for High Blood Pressure 108

Unit 12 New Warnings About Tobacco Smoke and Children 109

Unit 13 Lead and Violence 111

Chapter 6 Science in the News 113

Unit 1 First Aid 113

Unit 2 Developments in 2002 116

Unit 3 SARS 119

Unit 4 Skin Disorders 123

Unit 5 Vitamins 126

Unit 6 Depression 129

Unit 7 AIDS Update 133

Unit 8 Babies and Intelligence 136

Unit 9 Diseases Spread by Mosquitos 139

Unit 10 High Hopes Travel with Newest Flight to Explore Mars 142

Unit 11 Autoimmune Diseases:When the Body Starts to Attack Its Own Cells 144

Chapter 7 Exploration 148

Unit 1 Fuel Cell Cars 148

Unit 2 Literacy 151

Unit 3 Population and the Environment 155

Unit 4 Project Apollo 158

Unit 5 Software Theft 161

Unit 6 2002 Space Digest 165

Unit 7 2005 Space Digest 168

Unit 8 The National Museum of Natural History 171

Unit 9 Albert Einstein 174

Chapter 8 People in America 178

Unit 1 Rachel Carson 178

Unit 2 Walt Disney 181

Unit 3 Heroes of September 11 184

Unit 4 Martin Luther Kiog Jr 188

Unit 5 Douglas Mac Arthur 191

Unit 6 Walt Whitman 194

Unit 7 Ernest Hemingway 198

Unit 8 Stephen Foster 201

Unit 9 Marilyn Monroe 204

Unit 10 Janis Joplin:One of the Most Famous Voices in American Rock Music 207

Unit 11 Life Story of Jackie Robinson，the First Black Player in Major League Bashball 209

Unit 12 Langston Hughes:Considered the Poet Voice of African Americans 212

附录 Key to Exercises 216