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76 华盛顿国际数学奥林匹克竞赛
DATE=7-27-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #828-International Math Olympiad
BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach
HOST:
(Start at 0'54") Earlier this month, almost five-hundred young people from eighty-three countries took part in a special (1)contest near Washington, D-C. They were (2)competing in the forty-second yearly International (3)Mathematical Olympiad. Shep O'Neal has more.
ANNCR:
The International Mathematical Olympiad is the top mathematics competition in the world. This was the first year since Nineteen-Eighty-One that the competition was held in the United States. It was held at George Mason University in Fairfax, (4)Virginia. Last year the contest was held in South (5)Korea.
Each country sent a team of teen-age students. During the competition, the students worked alone for nine hours over two days to (6)solve six mathematics problems. They (7)presented their (8)solutions in writing, like reports written by research mathematics experts.
Those experts judged the papers during the next several days. During the judging, the young people visited Washington, D.C. and its museums. They also experienced American life and (9)culture.
The six mathematics problems include (10)algebra, (11)calculus and (12)geometry. They are too difficult to describe here. They are too difficult for many people to understand.
The students taking part in the competition understood them, however. The team from China won the competition. The United States and Russia tied for second place. South Korea was fourth. No third place award was given.
The students were also judged (13)individually and received (14)medals for their (15)performances. One of the members of the United States team became the first four-time gold (16)medalist at the Math Olympiad. Eighteen-year-old Reid Barton answered every question correctly each year for the past four years.
Reid lives in (17)Arlington, (18)Massachusetts. He does not attend a high school. Instead he is taught at home. He will attend college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in (19)Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reid will not be able to attend another International Mathematical Olympiad. But many other young people who love mathematics are already preparing for the contest next year. It will be held in (20)Glasgow, Scotland.
个人自费太空游成为可能
DATE=7-27-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #828 - Space Tourism
BYLINE=Caty Weaver
HOST:
(Start at 4'28") Our VOA listener question this week comes from Russia. Denis Vladimirovich Efimov asks if people will pay to take trips to space in the future.
It has already happened. In April, American businessman Dennis Tito travelled to the International Space Station. He paid the Russian space (1)agency twenty-million dollars for eight days in space.
However, the American space agency did not support Mister Tito's trip. NASA officials said a non-professional space traveller should not visit the space station while it is being built. But Russian officials said the money Mister Tito was paying for the trip would help their space program.
The two space agencies finally agreed on terms for the businessman's visit. NASA (2)barred Mister Tito from entering the American part of the space station alone. And Russia made him promise to pay if he damaged anything.Mister Tito flew with two Russian (3)cosmonauts on the Soyuz spacecraft. The cosmonauts were transporting equipment to the space station. Mister Tito's duties on the flight were (4)minor. His trip was for pleasure.
Mister Tito returned to Earth safely on May sixth. He described his trip as the deepest experience of his life -- a dream come true. And he says he plans to support the idea of space travel for pleasure.
He will not be alone. The head of Russia's space agency has expressed his support for the idea. He says Mister Tito's trip has opened up a new period of space exploration that includes pleasure flights. Another Russian space official described the international space station as "open for business."
Reports say Russian officials are considering offers from other (5)private (6)individuals looking for a ride into space. Film director James Cameron is among those interested. The director of the film "Titanic" is among a small group of people who are able to pay the high price for a flight in space.
When will the average person be able to take such a trip? Maybe sooner than you think. The German television production company Brainpool is creating a show in which people compete to win a space flight. Brainpool says it has an agreement to use Soyuz spacecrafts for flights that could begin as early as next year.
印度歌手阿里发行首张专辑
DATE=7-27-2001
TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #728 - India Arie
BYLINE=Lawan Davis
HOST:
(Start 7'55") India Arie (ar-EE) has been writing songs for five years. Her first (1)album was (2)released in March. It is called "(3)Acoustic Soul." Shirley Griffith tells us more.
ANNCR:
The songs on "Acoustic Soul" (4)include messages about loving yourself. The song "Video" is about being happy with what you look like.
((CUT 1 - "Video"))
India Arie (ar-EE) is twenty-five years old. She began playing (5)guitar while in college. In Nineteen-Ninety-Eight, she (6)performed with other female singers on the Lilith Fair tour. Major record companies became interested in her music.
(7)Critics praise her singing. They say the songs on "Acoustic Soul" show how (8)non-electric (9)instruments can add feeling to a song. Listen for guitar, cello and piano on this song, "Ready for Love."
((Cut 2 - "Ready for Love"))
India Arie calls her music soul music because it comes from the heart. She says the message of music has the power to heal. We leave you now with another song from her new album. This one is called "Brown Skin"(stop at 11'53")
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(2)compete [ kEm5pi:t ]vi.比赛
(3)mathematical [ 7mAWi5mAtikEl ]adj.数学的
(4)Virginia [ vE(:)5dVinjE ]n.弗吉尼亚
(5)Korea [ kE5riE, kC(:)5riE ]n.韩国, 朝鲜
(6)solve [ sClv ]vt.解决, 解答
(7)present [ pri5zent ] vt.呈现
(8)solution [ sE5lju:FEn ]n.解答
(9)culture [ 5kQltFE ]n.文化
(10)algebra [ 5AldVibrE ]n.代数学
(11)calculus [ 5kAlkjulEs ]n.微积分学
(12)geometry [ dVi5Cmitri ]n.几何学
(13)individually [IndI5vIdjJElI]adv.个别地
(14)medal [ 5medl ]n.奖章
(15)performance [ pE5fC:mEns ]n.成绩
(16)medalist [5mAdElIst]n.受领奖章的人
(17)Arlington [ 5B:liNtEn ] n.(美国)阿林顿 (在弗吉尼亚州)
(18)Massachusetts [ 7mAsE5tFu:sits ]n.马萨诸塞州
(19)Cambridge [ 5keimbridV ]n.剑桥(英国城市, 剑桥大学所在地)
(20)Glasgow [ 5^lB:s^Eu ]n. 格拉斯哥（英国）
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(2)bar [bB:(r)]vt.禁止
(3)cosmonaut [ 5kCzmEunC:t ]n.宇航员, 航天员
(4)minor [ 5mainE ] adj. 次要的
(5)private [ 5praivit ]adj.私人的
(6)individual [ 7indi5vidjuEl ]n.个人, 个体
(1)album [ 5AlbEm ]n.签名纪念册
(2)release [ ri5li:s ]vt.发表
(3)acoustic [E5ku:stIk]adj.声音的
(4)include [ in5 klu:d ]vt.包括, 包含
(5)guitar [ ^i5tB: ]n.吉他, 六弦琴
(6)perform [ pE5fC:m ]vt.表演, 演出
(7)critic [ 5kritik ]n.评论家
(8)non-electric adj..无电的
(9)instrument [ 5instrumEnt ]n.乐器
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