【专题】慢速英语(美音)2017-01-31
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2017-01-31 Special EnglishThis is Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. Here is the news.China will quadruple its new energy vehicle annual output to 2 million by 2020. A government plan released by the Industry and Information Technology noted that by 2025, at least one in every five cars sold in China will be a new energy model.Last year, China produced 517,000 new energy vehicles. The country has been the world&`&s top seller of such environment-friendly cars since 2015. The cumulative sale has exceeded 1 million.New energy vehicles include battery electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and fuel-cell cars.Last year, three top Chinese electric carmakers sold their models in more than 30 countries and regions around the world.The government will continue to improve policies, boost research and development, invest in charging infrastructure construction, and promote international cooperation to help the sector grow.In terms of charging infrastructure, China built 100,000 public charging poles in 2016, ten times the figure in 2015. A comprehensive charging grid has taken shape in big cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.China witnessed a boom of electric vehicle investment in the past few years, largely thanks to government&`&s incentives.This is Special English.An oil-electricity hybrid locomotive, the most powerful of its kind, has started in an experiment in extreme cold weather in northeast China.The experiment was conducted in the northern part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, when the local temperature was minus 40 degrees Celsius.Despite the cold, the temperature in the cab was 25 degrees Celsius. The batteries were 12 degrees Celsius, suitable for operation.The manufacturer says the experiment marked the end of a series of experiments for the hybrid locomotive.In earlier experiments, the locomotive was run under a temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius in northeast China.Last year, it operated in high temperatures in northwest China&`&s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.Hybrid locomotives are environment friendly, energy-saving and less noisy. The successful experiments mean that the world&`&s largest-power hybrid locomotive can run in all weather conditions.You&`&re listening to Special English. I&`&m Ryan Price in Beijing. Facebook is launching a journalism project aimed at strengthening its ties with media organizations. The move aims to expand their audiences, come up with new products and generally promote trusted news in today&`&s "post-truth" era.The project is in its early stages and as such, is light on its specifics. But the company envisions Facebook engineers working with news organizations to create new ways of telling stories and novel advertising or subscription models, right from the early stages of development. The company also wants to help promote "news literacy" and support local news.Dave Merrell, lead product manager at The Washington Post, which is among the news organizations working with Facebook, said it is very early in the process but certainly something they are really excited about. He said he worked with Facebook on numerous products over the years, but often were not involved in the product development stage.With "Instant Articles" launched in 2015, Facebook hosts and displays news items directly instead of pointing users to news websites. Such instant stories load faster on Facebook than those on outside links, and Facebook gives participating publishers a cut of the advertising revenue from Instant Articles.This is Special English.The U.S. Homeland Security Department has warned about an unusual cybersecurity flaw for one manufacturer&`&s implantable heart device where it is said it could allow hackers to remotely take control of a person&`&s defibrillator or pacemaker.Information on the security flaw was identified by researchers at MedSec Holdings in reports mont
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