2012-01-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

According to its maker Samsung, this tiny device as big as your palm is the way tablets are heading in 2012. Bigger isn't better in the New Year as electronics devices slim down.Here at the CES in La

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ma Ding is a graduate student majoring in engineering at Beijing Union University. He has decided to sit for this year's postgraduate entrance exam, as he wants to pursue graduate studies in the hist

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There was a time when most internet videos were amateur. But now watching TV online is big business – especially in China.A recent report from financial analysts Barclays Capital says in 2011 the cos

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Technology is constantly narrowing the gap between science fiction and reality, bringing fundamental changes into our lives.According to IBM researchers, in five years we won’t need passwords, won’t

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Public health systems may be losing their monopoly on data about outbreaks of disease.Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Childrens Hospital Boston found that news reports and social media can a

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists have found that a medicine taken in pill form is just as effective in treating the neglected tropical disease yaws as the usual treatment, a shot of penicillin.The easier-to-use therapy rai

2012-01-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure. These are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world’s smallest frog.One team just announced the discovery of the on

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many Western countries are encouraging their citizens to ride bicycles to work in an effort to reduce traffic congestion as well as to help save the environment. In Washington and some of its near-b

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

For many Chinese families, it would be highly desirable to have their children born in the Year of the Dragon. This four-month-pregnant woman in the southern city of Guangzhou explains: "Some people b

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The forthcoming 17-day celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year in the largest city Down Under will not only mark the Year of Dragon but also feature Komodo dragons and giant pandas.Clover Moore, Syd

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The leaders of France and Germany now say boosting economic growth across Europe is a priority in their effort to stem the European Debt Crisis. As part of his plans, French President Nicolas Sarkozy

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

International food prices fell sharply in December. However, a U.N. agency says overall prices remained high in 2011. The Food and Agriculture Organization also says that price trends are uncertain fo

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is temporarily suspending distribution of aid to more than one million people in central and southern Somalia, after local authorities blocked deliv

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt. And it’s long been thought that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing the volume of the blood. Which i

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

American drama Desperate Housewives. Just one of the many foreign TV shows available for free in China on the internet. There's also a wide range of domestic programmes.This is one reason an increasi

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Tens of Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets for a third straight day Wednesday in the main commercial city of Lagos and the capital, Abuja, to protest soaring fuel costs, sparked by a governmen

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Tim Clark is a senior at Amherst College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, where he’s studied Latin, Greek and archeology. Thanks to those classes, he says, he’s not the same pe

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The guiding principles and plans formulated by the 4th National Financial Work Conference are to perfect capital and insurance markets, and develop financial markets in a coordinated manner. Experts b

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The annual 40-day travel rush lasts from January 8th to February 16th this year, as millions of travelers will board public transport in order to journey across the country to enjoy Spring Festival ce

2012-01-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sixteen major non-governmental organizations have launched a new initiative to add one million health care workers in developing countries.The new Frontline Health Workers Coalition says training more

2012-01-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

During his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called innovation the key to America's rebuilding and growth in the century ahead.Inspired by the message, Steven Johnson set out to

2012-01-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Dai Bin, the head of the China Tourism Academy, introduces the survey on tourism satisfaction in 2011. "Based on our data, the tourist satisfaction index has stopped dropping and began to go upwards.

2012-01-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Executive Director of Nigeria’s ‘Enough is Enough’ coalition, Yemi Adamolekun was on her way home from an Occupy Nigeria protest in Lagos Tuesday when she offered two fellow protestors a ride home

2012-01-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Angelina Jolie makes her directing debut with a powerful drama set amid the "ethnic cleansing" of the Bosnian War. The drama, and another film on the atrocities in Bosnia, are drawn from true stories

2012-01-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Rickets was once a shameful disease; a sign of poverty, a poor diet and cramped and unhealthy living conditions. It was common in the early 20th century but had since almost completely disappeared fro