摘要：12．Which hotel faces the Orchard Hotel? A．The First Hotel B．The Osaka Hotel. C．The Fairview Hotel D．No, hotel (D) Daily at this we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good or bed. We shall tell you the truth. -The Voice of America February 24, 1942 Those words were from the Voice of America’s first broadcast during World WarⅡ. Today more than 80 million listeners tune in every day. The broadcast network is the largest in the world and reaches millions of listeners in Africa in English, French, Hausa , Portuguese, and Swahili. The program is broadcast in Spanish and Portuguese for Central and South America. The Middle East receives its news in Arabic and Parsi. South Asia picks up signals in Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. The Russian - language service is on 14 hour a day. All of the broadcasts come from the Voice of America headquarters in Washington D . C. Visitors can push a red button outside any of the twenty-five glass-walled studios and listen t the broadcast, in Hindi, that Indian citizens are listening to at that very moment in India. In addition to news broadcasts, the Voice of America sents out interviews and a wide variety of programs. For example, special broadcasts in easy English are written for students of English as a foreign language. Among the most popular features of the Voice of America are the musical programs which offer every kind of music from Bach to rock. The Voice of America is the official voice of the United States government, but it presents opposing opinions as well. To give an objective analysis of the news, the station gets advice from newspapers, news services, reporters, and correspondents from all over the world.

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