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VOA特别英语文化聚焦（十三）TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - (1)Utah Olympic ParkBYLINE=George Grow ANNCR: (Start at 1”05“)The Two-Thousand-Two Winter Olympic Games will begin in February of next year. They will be held in and around Salt Lake City, the (2)capital of the western American state of Utah. Shep O”Neal tells us about one of the main sports areas built for the winter games.HOST:The Utah Olympic Park is high in the Wasatch Mountains, about forty kilometers east of Salt Lake. It is about two-thousand-two-hundred meters above sea level. The (3)mountains receive an (4)average of seven- and-one-half meters of snow each winter.The Utah Olympic Park (5)extends over one-hundred-fifty hectares of land. The Park has five areas for ski jump (6)competitions. In warm weather, (7)skiers train on (8)special man-made jumps.An Olympic-size track has been built for bobsleigh and (9)luge competitions. It is one of only three such tracks in North America. The track is close to the ground and has fifteen turns. Its path is (10)similar in shape to the land.The Utah Olympic Park will hold four major (11)events during the Two-Thousand-Two Winter Games. They are the Nordic skiing, (12)bobsleigh, luge, and (13)skeleton competitions. The skeleton event has not been seen at the Olympics since Nineteen-Forty-Eight. Officials expect it to be extremely popular next year. Athletes competing in the skeleton slide down the track on a luge sled. But they lie on their stomachs instead of their backs.The Utah Olympic Park can hold about twenty-thousand people to watch the ski jumping event. It can hold about fifteen-thousand people to see the other events. The Utah Olympic Park already is used for national and international competitions. It also (14)operates as a (15)training center for the competitors. And, young people who wish to join the United States national teams train there.The Utah Olympic Park is open to the (16)public during the summer and winter months. Everyone is welcome to watch the athletes train and compete against each other. Visitors also can try some of the Olympic sports. This includes going down one of the ski jumps or riding on the bobsleigh or luge track. 介绍奥兰治海岸学院 DATE=2-23-2022TYPE=Special English (17)Feature NUMBER=7-21961TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Foreign Student Series: Part 23, Orange Coast CollegeBYLINE=Nancy Steinbach HOST: Our VOA listener question this week comes in an e-mail from (18)Vietnam. Nguyen Hanh Thao asks about Orange Coast College.(19)Orange (20)Coast College is one of the largest (21)community colleges in the United States. It is in the southern California town of Costa Mesa. Orange Coast College offers more than one-hundred programs to train students for jobs. Students usually graduate after two years. Orange Coast College also prepares students to continue studying at a four-year college or university.College officials say foreign students who want to attend Orange Coast College must earn a score of at least five-hundred on the written Test of English as a Foreign Language. Foreign students must also be tested in English and (22)mathematics when they arrive at Orange Coast College. Each student has an adviser to help choose which classes to take.Classes for one year at Orange Coast Community College cost about three-thousand dollars. Housing and food cost another seven-thousand dollars. Orange Coast College does not provide housing for its students. However, its International Student Center helps foreign students find American families in the (23)area with whom they can live. The International Student Center also helps foreign students prepare any necessary (24)documents, choose (25)activities and plan for (26)trips.More than twenty-two-thousand students (27)attend Orange Coast College. More than one-thousand-two-hundred are from outside the United States. They are from seventy-four different nations. College officials say about half the foreign students are in work-training programs. The others are preparing to attend a four-year college or university. Most are studying (28)business or (29)computer science.You can learn more about Orange Coast College by using a computer. The address is .occ.edu. Students who use a computer can get similar information about any American college by typing the college”s name into a computer search engine. Click on the name from the list provided and the college”s (30)web (31)site should appear. 简介戴尔 埃文斯 DATE=2-23-2022 TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #806 - Dale EvansBYLINE=Nancy Steinbach HOST: American western actress and singer Dale Evans died earlier this month. She was eighty-eight years old. She is best remembered as the wife of “The King of The Cowboys,“ Roy Rogers. She was known as “Queen of the West.“ Dale Evans also wrote books and music. Shirley Griffith tel。