Voice of America

Here is a link to a page on Voice of America http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2010-01-30-voa2.cfm it has a streaming MP3 function so you can listen to the reading.
The reading is a bit slow in my opinion. However, I do believe it has potential. Text could be deleted to make a cloze test. Lara mentioned in her blog http://huiren1983.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-proposal-for-action-plan.html
that she felt the BBC spoken English was too fast. Maybe the answer is to switch to VoA. Maybe students could read and listen to the text from the VoA article above and then record their version.