丹尼斯·提托将进行太空之旅

                         01  丹尼斯·提托将进行太空之旅

AM-American Cosmonaut 2/16
DATE=2-16-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC¹ #805 - American Cosmonaut
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:

（Start at 58'）Dennis Tito is a sixty-year-old American who lives in Los Angeles, California.  He is in Russia now training for a most unusual trip into space. 

ANNCR:

Dennis Tito paid the Russian government twenty-million dollars for the chance to travel in a Soyez space (1)craft to the new International Space Station.  His space flight will be launched² on April thirtieth.

Mister³ Tito says he has been interested in space travel since he was seventeen years old.  That was when the former Soviet⁴ Union launched the first(2) satellite, (3)Sputnik. This interest led him to become a(4) rocket scientist.  He worked for the United States Jet⁵ Propulsion (5)Laboratory in California. He left that job after a few years to start an (6)investment⁶ business. 

Today, Dennis Tito's company is among the nation's largest investment businesses.  Reports say he is worth about two-hundred-million dollars.  So he can easily pay twenty-million dollars for a trip into space.

Mister Tito says he asked Russian space (7)officials to take him because he knew they needed money to keep their space program (8)alive. The first agreement was for him to visit the Mir space station.  But Mir is old, and has experienced⁷ many problems.  It will be taken out of (9)orbit next month, and will crash into the sea.  Russian space officials decided⁸ to send Mister Tito to the International Space Station(10) instead.

This is not the first time the Russian space program has earned needed money by selling seats on its (11)spacecraft.  A Japanese (12)television reporter flew on Mir for a price of twelve-million dollars.  And the American space agency⁹ NASA paid four-hundred-million dollars to send several American (13)astronauts to Mir.

Mister Tito is now living and working at Russia's Star City training area to prepare for his ten-day trip.  Why does he want to go into space?  Mister Tito says he has been on Earth for sixty years and he now wants to take a look at the planet¹⁰ from space.  

 

                       詹森·威尔士大学简介

AM-Foreign Student Series (Pt. 22): Johnson & Wales U.
DATE=2-16-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #805 - Foreign Student Series: Part 22, Johnson & Wales University
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach

HOST:

We continue our series for foreign students who want to study at American universities.  Shirley Griffith tells about a(14) university that has been called one of the most unusual in the United States.

ANNCR:

It is Johnson and Wales University.  Its main center is in (15)Providence¹¹, Rhode Island.  Gertrude Johnson and May Wales began it as a business school in Nineteen-Fourteen.  Now, its students also study food service management, travel services, hotel management, marketing¹² and other subjects.

Many of Johnson and Wales' students study business subjects from the time they enter the university.  They also get work experience as part of their education. Professors (16)supervise second-year students as they work in businesses that are owned by the university.  These include farms, stores and hotels.

More than thirteen-thousand students attend Johnson and Wales University.  More than one-thousand students are from outside the United States.  They come from ninety-two countries around the world.  University officials say most are studying international travel and(17) recreation services.

Johnson and Wales University has an office in (18)Istanbul, Turkey that tells people about the school.  Workers in the office meet with students. They travel to schools all over the world and talk about the university.  They help students with their (19)applications and other paper work.  And they provide information about how to get (20)financial aid.

International students pay about twenty-five-thousand dollars a year to attend Johnson and Wales University in Providence.  The university's International Center helps new students find places to live and provides many other needed services.  The university's English Language Center offers classes that teach English as a second language.

You can use a computer to get more information about Johnson and Wales University.  The address is www.jwu.edu.  Or you can write to International Admissions¹³, Johnson and Wales University, Eight Abbott Park Place, Providence, Rhode Island, zero-two-nine-zero-three, U-S-A.

                            
                          乡村音乐之父――吉姆·罗杰斯

AM-Country Music Stars 2/16
DATE=2-16-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #805 - Country Music Stars
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach

HOST:

Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from the Middle East.  Milud Sultan Al-Omrany asks about famous singers in the history of country music.

A singer named Jimmie Rodgers is known as the "Father of Country Music." He was one of the first people elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Some experts say country music started with his first recording¹⁴ in Nineteen-Twenty-Seven.  The next year, his song "Blue Yodel" sold more than one-million records. 

 ((CUT 1: BLUE YODEL)) 

Another singer important in the history of country music was Hank Williams. He was only thirty years old when he died in Nineteen-Fifty-Three. It seemed that almost every song he recorded became a hit.  One of his biggest was "Your Cheatin' Heart."

 ((CUT 2: YOUR CHEATIN' HEART))

One of the most important women in country music history was Patsy Cline.  She was a major (21)influence on country singers like Loretta Lynn and Reba McIntyre.  Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash in Nineteen-Sixty-Three.  We leave you now with the song that many people say was Patsy Cline's best recording,"Crazy."

(1)  craft[ krB:ft ]n.工艺, 手艺
(2)  satellite[ 5sAtElait ]n.人造卫星
(3) sputnik[ 5spQtnik ]n.(苏联)人造地球卫星
(4) rocket[ 5rCkit ]n.火箭v.飞速上升
(5) laboratory[ lE5bCrEtEri, 5lAbErEtEri ]n.实验室
(6) investment[ in5vestmEnt ]n.投资, 可获利的东西
(7) officiant[ E5fiFiEnt ]n.主祭
(8) alive[ E5laiv ]adj.活着的, 活泼的
(9) orbit[ 5C:bit ]n.轨道, 势力范围, vt.绕...轨道而行vi.进入轨道, 沿轨道飞行, 盘旋
(10) instead[ in5sted ]adv.代替, 改为, 抵作, 更换
(11) spacecraft[ 5speiskrB:ft ]n.太空船
(12) television[ 5teliviVEn ]n.电视, 电视机, 电机学, 电视广播事业
(13) astronaut[5AstrEnC:t]n.太空人, 宇航员
(14) university[ 7ju:ni5vE:siti ]n.(综合)大学
(15) Providence[ 5prCvidEns ]普罗维登斯(美国罗得岛州的首府)
(16) supervise[ 5sju:pEvaiz ]v.监督, 管理, 指导
(17) recreation[rekrI5eIF(E)n]n.消遣, 娱乐
(18) Istanbul[ 7istAn5bu:l ]n.伊斯坦布尔(土耳其西北部港市)
(19) application[ 7Apli5keiFEn ]n.请求, 申请, 申请表, 应用, 运用,应用程序,应用软件
(20) financial[ fai5nAnFEl, 7fi- ]adj.财政的, 金融的
(21) influence[ 5influEns ]n.影响, 感化, 势力, 有影响的人(或事), (电磁)感应vt.影响, 改变

 

1 mosaic   

n./adj.镶嵌细工的，镶嵌工艺品的，嵌花式的

参考例句：

• The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
• The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。

2 launched   

v.发射( launch的过去式和过去分词 )；[计算机]开始（应用程序）；发动；开展（活动、计划等）

参考例句：

• He launched a bitter diatribe against the younger generation. 他对年轻一代发起了猛烈的抨击。
• The product was launched amid much fanfare worldwide. 这个产品在世界各地隆重推出。

3 mister   

n.(略作Mr.全称很少用于书面)先生

参考例句：

• Mister Smith is my good friend.史密斯先生是我的好朋友。
• He styled himself " Mister Clean ".他自称是“清廉先生”。

4 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

5 jet   

n.喷气发动机，喷气式飞机；v.喷出，喷射

参考例句：

• Put a match to the jet to light the gas.将火柴放在煤气喷嘴上点燃煤气。
• I don't see the jet of your plan.我不明白你的计划的要点。

6 investment   

n.投资，投资额；(时间、精力等的)投入

参考例句：

• It took two years before I recouped my investment.我用了两年时间才收回投资。
• The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad.这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。

7 experienced   

adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的

参考例句：

• Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
• Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

9 agency   

n.经办；代理；代理处

参考例句：

• This disease is spread through the agency of insects.这种疾病是通过昆虫媒介传播的。
• He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.他代表新华社讲话。

10 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

11 providence   

n.深谋远虑，天道，天意；远见；节约；上帝

参考例句：

• It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat.乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
• To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.照你的所作所为那样去行事，是违背上帝的意志的。

12 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

13 admissions   

n.准许进入( admission的名词复数 )；入场费；入场券；承认

参考例句：

• a need-blind admissions policy 不考虑经济能力的录取政策
• He's the Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan. 他是Michigan大学的新生注册主任。 来自辞典例句

14 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。