thank you,:)

谢谢各位的支持了！！！！:hug: :hug:

A way to help students before they fail

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Now, we continue our series on learning disabilities. We look this week at a process used to identify problems and help children avoid failure in school. This process is called response to intervention, or R.T.I.
Lynn Fuchs is a special education professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She studies R.T.I. and says more and more schools in the United States are using it.




Learning disabilities are neurological disorders that affect different skills. Federal law requires public schools to help disabled students through special education services and individualized programs.
The first step is finding which children need help. Professor Fuchs explains that the traditional way is to test students who are failing. But research shows that failure can lead to depression, and that can make improvement in school very difficult.
So some schools are using response to intervention as a way to identify problems much earlier. The growing interest also results from concerns that some children placed in special education programs do not truly have a learning disability. They may just need extra help with skills like reading or math.
Response to intervention supplies that extra help. R.T.I. provides specially designed instruction for children who have scored low on general tests.
Professor Fuchs says the process usually involves about eight to ten weeks of small group tutoring. The intensive work uses research-based methods of instruction. The students are tested, sometimes as often as every week, to measure progress.
Those who improve after the instructional intervention go back to their normal classroom activities. Those who do not might be declared learning disabled. But Professor Fuchs says most school systems require additional testing to confirm the presence of a disability.
Some teachers and administrators believe response to intervention can reduce the number of students put into special services. Professor Fuchs tells us this has not been proven. But studies have shown that R.T.I. can solve learning problems for some students, especially young children. And, at the same time, it can identify others who need much more help.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Our series on learning disabilities continues next week. The reports are online at voaspecialenglish.com with transcripts, MP3 files and links to additional information. I'm Steve Ember.

这个作业其实很有挑战性啊...!!!!1

:D 这么好的东西~~
留个记号，天天来听，天天来顶:lol

顶 一下  谢谢  LZ 。。。。

可以下载吗？或者到哪可以下载呢？
先在此表示感谢！

回复 #37 rouins 的帖子

取他的属性里面的网址 放到地址栏上enter 就可以下载了

楼主太好了
谢谢你啊

听力Erest Hemingway: A famous writer of the 20th century

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[size=3]VOICE ONE:
I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Doug Johnson with People in America, a program about people who are important in the history of the United States. Today we present the second part of the story of Ernest Hemingway's life and writings.

(MUSIC)
VOICE ONE:
At twenty-five, Hemingway was living in Paris. He was a famous writer. But the end of his first marriage made him want to leave the place where he had first become famous.

Years later he said: "The city was never to be the same again. When I returned to it, I found it had changed as I had changed. Paris was never the same as when I was poor and very happy. "

VOICE TWO:
Hemingway and his new wife returned to the United States in 1928. They settled in Key West, an island with a fishing port near the southern coast of Florida.

Before leaving Paris, Hemingway sent a collection of his stories to New York to be published. The book of stories, called "Men Without Women," was published soon after Hemingway arrived in Key West.
One of the stories was called "The Killers." In it, Hemingway used a discussion between two men to create a feeling of tension and coming violence. This was a new method of telling a story


STORYTELLER:
Nick opened the door and went into the room. Ole Andreson was lying on the bed with all his clothes on. He had been a heavyweight prizefighter and he was too long for the bed. He lay with his head on two pillows. He did not look at Nick.

"What was it?" he asked.

"I was up at Henry's," Nick said, "and two fellows came in and tied me up and the cook, and they said they were going to kill you. "

It sounded silly when he said it. Ole Andreson said nothing.

"They put us out in the kitchen," Nick went on. "They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper. "

Ole Andreson looked at the wall and did not say anything.

"George thought I ought to come and tell you about it. "

"There isn't anything I can do about it," Ole Andreson said.



VOICE ONE:
Any new book by Hemingway was an important event for readers. But stories like "The Killers" shocked many people. Some thought there was too much violence in his stories. Others said he only wrote about gunmen, soldiers, fighters and drinkers.

This kind of criticism made Hemingway angry. He felt that writers should not be judged by those who could not write a story.

VOICE TWO:
Hemingway was happy in Key West. In the morning he wrote, in the afternoon he fished, and at night he went to a public house and drank. One old fisherman said: "Hemingway was a man who talked slowly and very carefully. He asked a lot of questions. And he always wanted to get his information exactly right. "

Hemingway and his wife Pauline had a child in Key West. Soon afterward he heard that his father had killed himself. Hemingway was shocked. He said: "My father taught me so much. He was the only one I really cared about. "

When Hemingway returned to work there was a sadness about his writing that was not there before.

His new book told about an American soldier who served with the Italian army during World War One. He meets an English nurse and they fall in love. They flee from the army, but she dies during childbirth. Some of the events are taken from Hemingway's service in Italy. The book is called "A Farewell to Arms."

Part of the book talks about the defeat of the Italian army at a place called Caporetto.


STORYTELLER:
"At noon we were stuck in a muddy road about as nearly as we could figure, ten kilometres from Udine. The rain had stopped during the forenoon and three times we had heard planes coming, seen them pass overhead, watched them go far to the left and heard them bombing on the main highroad. . . .

"Later we were on a road that led to a river. There was a long line of abandoned trucks and carts on a road leading up to a bridge. No one was in sight. The river was high and the bridge had been blown up in the center; the stone arch was fallen into the river and the brown water was going over it. We went up the bank looking for a place to cross. . . . We did not see any troops; only abandoned trucks and stores. Along the river bank was nothing and no one but the wet brush and muddy ground. "


VOICE ONE:
"A Farewell to Arms" was very successful. It earned Hemingway a great deal of money. And it permitted him to travel. One place he visited was Spain, a country that he loved. He said: "I want to paint with words all the sights and sounds and smells of Spain. And if I can write any of it down truly, then it will represent all of Spain."

A book called "Death in the Afternoon" was the result. It describes the Spanish tradition of bull fighting. Hemingway believed that bull fighting was an art, just as much as writing was an art. And he believed it was a true test of a man's bravery, something that always concerned him.


VOICE TWO:
Hemingway also traveled to Africa. He had been asked to write a series of reports about African hunting. He said: "Hunting in Africa is the kind of hunting I like. No riding in cars, just simple walking and feeling the grass under my feet. "

The trip to Africa resulted in a book called "The Green Hills of Africa" and a number of stories. One story is among Hemingway's best. He said a writer saves some stories to write when he knows enough to write them well.

The story is called "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." It tells of Hemingway's fears about himself. It is about a writer who betrays his art for money and is unable to remain true to himself.


VOICE ONE:
In 1936, the Civil War in Spain gave him a chance to return to Spain and test his bravery again. He agreed to write about the war for an American news organization.

It was a dangerous job. One day, Hemingway and two other reporters were driving a car near a battlefield. The car carried two white flags. But rebel gunners thought the car was carrying enemy officers. Hemingway was almost killed. He said: "Shells are all the same. If they do not hit you, there is no story. If they do hit you, then you do not have to write it. "

The trip to Spain resulted in two works, a play called "The Fifth Column" and the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The novel tells the story of an American who has chosen to fight against the fascists. He realizes that there are lies and injustice on his side, as well as the other. But he sees no hope except the victory of his side. During the fighting, he escapes his fear of death and of being alone. He finds that "he can live as full a life in seventy hours as in seventy years. "

The book was a great success. Hemingway enjoyed being famous. His second marriage was ending. He divorced Pauline and married reporter Martha Gellhorn. He had met Martha while they were working in Spain. They decided to live in Cuba, near the city of Havana. Their house looked out over the Caribbean Sea.

But this marriage did not last long. Hemingway was changing. He began to feel that whatever he said was right. Martha went on long trips to be away from him. He drank heavily to forget his loneliness.


VOICE TWO:
When America entered World War Two, Hemingway went to Britain as a reporter. Later he took part in the invasion of Europe and the freeing of Paris.

During the war Hemingway met another reporter, Mary Walsh. In 1945, when his marriage to Martha was legally over, he married Mary.
After the war, Hemingway began work on his last important book, "The Old Man and the Sea." It is the story of a Cuban fisherman who refuses to be defeated by nature.

Hemingway said: "I was trying to show the experience of the fisherman so exactly and directly that it became part of the reader's experience. "

In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for literature. But he was too sick to take part in the ceremony.

VOICE ONE:
Ernest Hemingway was sixty years old, but he said he felt like he was eighty-six. And, even worse, he felt that he no longer was able to write. He seemed to be living the story about the writer who had sold his writing skill in order to make money.

In 1961 Ernest Hemingway killed himself. Among the papers he left was one that described what he liked best:

"To stay in places and to leave. . . to trust, to distrust. . . to no longer believe and believe again. . . to watch the changes in the seasons. . . to be out in boats. . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go. . . to hear the rain. . . and to know where I can find what I want. "
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VOICE TWO:
This program was written by Richard Thorman. I'm Doug Johnson.

VOICE ONE:
And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week for another People in America program in Special English on the Voice of America.[/size]

[[i] 本帖最后由 酷港小秘 于 2008-4-12 14:42 编辑 [/i]]

建议大家下到自己的电脑里自己听，把听到的内容记下来，与楼主的对照，然后再听。这样对听力的提高是很有帮助的。
另外希望楼主以后发一些比较短的文章，2-3分钟最佳。大家每天坚持听，对照，纠正。。。
支持楼主。。。。

回复 #41 yuzhong21 的帖子

:D 我尽量找一点短的上来吧！不过看了一下，好像都是这么长的！！其实大家可以分开来听啊！他一段里面有几个PARTS的啊！

支持，非常！:victory:

The fall of Bear Stearns

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[size=3][font=Times New Roman]This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.


This week, the crisis in credit markets claimed Bear Stearns. The eighty-five year old investment bank in New York agreed on Sunday to sell itself to J.P. Morgan Chase. The price: just two dollars a share, as part of a rescue plan organized by the government.
Bear stock had traded at seventy dollars last week, and one hundred seventy last year.
The fall of Bear Stearns developed quickly. Banks were no longer willing to lend money to the company. The problems largely involved short-term loans, called repo borrowings, that are secured by assets like securities.
The problem was that lenders no longer knew the value of the assets that secured Bear's debt. Bear Stearns invested heavily in securities based on risky home loans.
Unable to get new loans, the bank suffered a liquidity crisis. By last Thursday, investors started withdrawing their money. This put more pressure on the bank to sell assets that no one wanted to buy. The next day, Bear informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would fail if nothing was done.
Officials from the Treasury and the Federal Reserve wanted a deal to save Bear Stearns before markets opened this week in Asia. They worried that if Bear failed, it could lead to even more problems.
The central bank agreed to lend J.P. Morgan up to thirty billion dollars to finance the purchase of Bear's less-liquid assets. The loan will be secured with those assets, and the Fed will take responsibility for them.
To increase liquidity in the market, the Fed also agreed to lend money to securities dealers, including investment banks. The central bank has not done this since the Great Depression of the nineteen thirties.
Last week the Fed offered banks up to two hundred billion dollars in loans. And twice this week it cut its discount rate for direct loans to banks. The Fed also lowered the target rate for overnight loans between banks for the sixth time in six months. It cut the federal funds rate by seventy-five basis points, to two and a quarter percent.
Shareholders in Bear Stearns will vote on the takeover by J.P. Morgan. Some are expected to oppose the low-cost deal. Bear employees own about one-third of the stock in their company.
There was some good news this week for financial stocks. Three major investment banks reported earnings that were better than expected for the three months ending February twenty-ninth.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. I'm Steve Ember[/font][/size]

请问有没有一些简短的文章啊?这里面的词汇太多了..............好多都看不懂意思:$ :$ :$

回复 #45 matisa820226 的帖子

MM 不好意思啊 几乎都是长的哦  短的貌似没有哇

其实这样也有一个好处的 你可以把不懂的单词积累起来 翻阅 哪也是一种增加你词汇量的办法哦

不错啊

谢谢，我收益非浅，我会记牢的

这个节目很好，楼主加油了，我也建议2-3分钟的VOA听力，以前我在其他网站听的，可以渐渐转到福步上来！！！听的时候大家不要看原文，听完再看，这样效果好，但是最主要是要坚持听！！:) :)

回复 #48 kevin0574 的帖子

谢谢支持了！VOA的会从special 到normal  speed 呈上，慢慢提高大家的听力能力！一起努力吧！

hehe   is there some good sources for downloading?  for i have no computer at home, so i have to copy it into my MP3.
however, anyway, thanks for your share.

[quote]原帖由 [i]brightlion[/i] 于 2008-4-14 14:00 发表 [url=http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=13727494&ptid=1058189][img]http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
hehe   is there some good sources for downloading?  for i have no computer at home, so i have to copy it into my MP3.
however, anyway, thanks for your share. [/quote]


不客气，你可以右键播放器的属性，拿到他的地址，放到地址栏上，enter，就可以下载了！

thank you very much, i've got it

[quote]原帖由 [i]brightlion[/i] 于 2008-4-14 14:19 发表 [url=http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=13727864&ptid=1058189][img]http://bbs.fobshanghai.com/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
thank you very much, i've got it [/quote]


nothanks ~~

办公室里不能听，回家再听

要记得听哦！呵呵！！别3分钟热度哇！！！

可否下载下来啊，我的机器没声卡

求助各位，谢谢！

看到前面，知如何下载，谢谢

有空时，听一听，应有帮助

以后每天都会有吗？

:Q :Q 51楼不是有说嘛？？？估计你们都是没怎么看的哇！！！哎！！！！

谢谢

太感谢了,来到公司3个多月了才发现,真是相见恨晚啊,太 好了,希望多多发布这样的听力资料

very very good ,thanks so much