为了方便那些要留学新西兰的同学和想了解新西兰文化的英语爱好者，在线英语听力室的小编特地整理了一套新西兰英语，希望对大家的学习有所帮助。
新西兰是一个独一无二的国家。新西兰的景色使她同世界上的其他国家相区别，而她的人民则以友善，强壮和独立而出名。新西兰景色美丽多变，生活方式和文化多元化。从翻滚着绿浪的农场到贫瘠的火山沙漠地带，从有着清澈的蓝色海水的金色沙滩到壮丽的白雪覆盖的山峰，新西兰提供了这样一种范例：即在一个相对很小的国土内有着每一种可能的景观。
Mojo Mathers is New Zealands first deaf Member of Parliament. She is a list MP for the Green Party. She has been profoundly deaf since her birth but lip-reads well and can use New Zealand sign language. She also speaks clearly. In spite of her hearin...
The Ombudsman, Beverley Wakeham, told a Parliamentary committee that her office has too much work and too few staff. She needs another $1m to employ extra staff and for general administration. The job of the Ombudsman office is to deal with complaint...
Last night at an awards ceremony in Auckland, the winner of the New Zealander of the Year was announced. He is Sir Richard Taylor of Weta Workshops. He was made Sir Richard for his successful film work in 2010. Listen to Queens Birthday Honours to he...
Twenty-nine miners died in the Pike River coal mine in November 2010. The government set up a Royal Commission to find out what happened and why. The third stage of this Royal Commission Inquiry finished on Friday. This third stage tried to find out...
Feb 22nd 2011 is a day that no Christchurch person wants to remember but it is also a day that every Christchurch person feels they need to remember. That was the day when a 6.3 earthquake near the central city, caused many buildings to collapse. 18...
Today has been a very sad day as we remembered the 185 who died as a result of the February 22nd earthquake last year. More than 100 of these victims were local Christchurch people. However, many who died were students at the English language school...
They are called watersiders or wharfies and they work on the wharf, loading and unloading goods from ships in a port. Most belong to the Maritime Union. Today, 300 watersiders at the Ports of Auckland started a three-week strike. This is the 7th stri...
From tomorrow, the practical driving test will be longer and more difficult. Learner drivers will be tested on the same things as before, like parallel parking, but they will also have to show they are watching other road users and can anticipate wha...
The Norwegian sailor, Jarle Andhoy with three other men, sailed to the Antarctic illegally. One of the men is a New Zealander. They did not have permission from the Norwegian government or from New Zealand. They wanted to know what happened to the bo...
Babies born today will have to wait another four years before they have a real birthday. However, most will choose to celebrate their birthday on February 28th or March 1st. Four years ago, 190 babies were born on February 29th in New Zealand. Nearly...
Shipping containers are large metal boxes used for shipping goods across the sea. However, Christchurch has found many other uses for shipping containers after the earthquakes. Some are placed against the cliffs to stop falling rocks in an earthquake...
Eleven people were killed early this morning in Carterton when a hot air balloon caught fire. There were ten passengers and a pilot in the balloon basket. As the balloon came in to land just before 7.30am, it hit a power line and burst into flames. T...
On October 5th 2011, the ship, the Rena, hit a reef coming into the Port of Tauranga. The ship was carrying 1300 containers. Many containers fell into the sea and heavy oil spilled from the ship and reached the beaches. Last week, there were still 83...
Debris from the Rena has reached beaches in the Coromandel. There are bags of milk powder, plastic and rope on the beaches and broken containers. The sea around the Rena is white from broken bags of milk powder. There is also oil for about 3km around...
Another fishing ship is in trouble in Antarctica, in the Ross Sea, 3,700km south of New Zealand. The ship is the Jeong Woo 2, a Korean ship. It had a crew of 40 men from different countries. They were fishing for toothfish. Fire broke out early this...
