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一、为什么要精读?有很多网友坚持学习VOA Special English很长时间,但基本上只停留在随便听听,随便看看的层次。如果你是用这种消极的学习方式,就会发现虽然自己花了相当的时间学习英语,但除了知识面有所增长,英语语言能力
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US Troops in Iraq Drop Below 50,000
24 August 2010 Photo: AP Trucks transport U.S. military Humvees, MRAPs and other vehicles recently arrived from Iraq at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, 20 Aug 2010.The announcement comes ahead of an August 31
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Rare Russia Crop Collection At Risk
24 August 2010 Photo: VOA - A. Nevsky The Pavlovsk Experimental Station contains Europe's largest collection of fruit trees and berry plants, many of them found nowhere else on Earth. In September of
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Muslims Wearied, Offended, by Islamic Center Controversy
25 August 2010 Photo: AP The site of a planned mosque is shown two blocks from the World Trade Center, in New York, 13 Aug 2010Nine years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, and a massive eff
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Kosovo Independence Ruling Watched Around World
25 August 2010 Judge Owada is seen in the Great Hall of Justice at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, announcing that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate general international
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Does Less Clothing Reduce Stress?
25 August 2010 Photo: Photos.com Six Items or Less, a self-imposed exercise in frugality, encourages people to wear the same six items of clothing for an entire month. What am I going to wear today?Th
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Tiger Woods and Ex-Wife Speak Out
25 August 2010 Photo: AP In this 11 Jun 2009 file photo, Elin Nordegren talks to her husband, golfer Tiger Woods, during the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals in Orlando, Fla. (file
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Palestinian Opposition Calls for Cancellation of Peace Talks with Israel
25 August 2010 Photo: AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramalla
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Controversial Trial of 4 Terrorist Suspects Begins in New York
26 August 2010 Photo: AP In this courtroom sketch, defendants Onta Williams, left, Laguerre Payen, center in white shirt, David Williams, third from right, and James Cromitie, right, sit with their at
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Israelis, Palestinians Hold Little Hope for Direct Talks
26 August 2010 Photo: AP A masked Palestinian protester holds stones during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, 20 Aug 2010Mustafa Murar owns
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Halal Cosmetics Founder Hopes to Broaden Appeal
26 August 2010 saminapuremakeup.comSamina pure mineral makeup modelWhen you open the website, saminapuremakeup.com, a flash movie featuring several beautiful models greets you. All the women have fla
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Favre Returning for 20th NFL Season
20 August 2010 Photo: AP Minnnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre throws a pass during NFL football training camp, 18 Aug 2010 in Eden Prairie, MinnesotaThey were three men on a mission: Vikings ven
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Century-Old Novel on US-Arab Harmony Still Resonates
20 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy Project Khalid Khalil Gibran, author of 'The Prophet,' and another significant Arab-American literary figure, provided illustrations for 'The Book of Khalid.' Ameen Riha
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Mideast Peace Talks to Restart
20 August 2010 Photo: AFP Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (R) speaks while flanked by Special Envoy for Middle East Peace Talks, Senator George Mitchell, 20 August 2010U.S. officials have ev
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Iran Announces Test-Firing of New Qiam Missile
20 August 2010 Photo: AP This photo released on 20 Aug 2010, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, claims to show the launch of the Qiam-1 liquid-fueled missile by Iranian armed forces, at an undisclosed l
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Deep Water Plume Persists Months After BP Oil Well Blowout
20 August 2010 Photo: Dana Yoerger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) aboard the research vessel Endeavor at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site. Ove
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Ancient Ice Helps Predict Future Warming Trend
16 August 2010 Jim White studies really old ice. He is director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lead U.S. investigator on the North Greenlan
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Egyptian Man's 'Table of The Merciful' Helps Cairo's Poor
16 August 2010 Photo: VOA - E. Arrott People gather around 'Table of the Merciful' in Cairo's Khan al-Khalili bazaar, 12 Aug 2010 The women gather first, even before planks are raised as makeshift tab
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NYC Mosque Controversy Could Affect November Elections
17 August 2010 Photo: AP President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, in the State Dining Room at the White Ho
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Computer Simulation Could Help Curb Spread of Malaria
17 August 2010 Sophisticated mathematical modeling could assist health planners in the fight against malaria. The ancient disease of malaria continues to be a scourge that sickens millions worldwide a
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Mexican Guest Workers Take Jobs Few Americans Want
17 August 2010 Photo: VOA - A. Greenbaum About 66,000 migrants enter the United States legally as H2B Guest Workers each year. Raquel Trejo Rubio has a job few Americans apparently want. The 28-year-o
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Setting the Stage for Future Stars
17 August 2010 Photo: Stagedoor Manor At the Stagedoor Manor summer camp theater, kids from all over the world put on 13 full-scale productions in three weeks.Among the many specialty summer camps in
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Bomber Strikes Iraqi Army Recruits, Killing at Least 61
17 August 2010
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Tamil Boat People Seek Asylum in Canada
17 August 2010 Photo: AP Internally displaced ethnic Tamils watch Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse during his visit to the Manik Farm refugee camp, in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (file photo) The Tamil
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Can Social Media Bring Democracy to Middle East?
17 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy - Dirk Eusterbrock Egyptian-born columnist, Mona Eltahawy, writes about Middle Eastern political affairs for a number of international newspaperswe continue looking at t
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