2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In early 2010, PIP was ordered out of the market, but its products continued to be sold around the world. Brashares is women's interest group. One member says hundreds of thousands of women may be af

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

These days it is as easy as a click of a button to share your sound recordings online. All you need is a smartphone and a SoundCloud application. Press the record button and all the sounds you and you

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The U.N. refugee agency continues emergency airlifts to aid thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan.The fighting between government forces and rebels is taking place in two Sudanese states –

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Extreme weather cut a path of destruction across the United States in 2011.For Bill Wing, it began 12 months ago, on New Year’s Day, as he surveyed the damage from a tornado that touched down in Cinc

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. health officials say drug abuse is a major cause of death in the United States and that prescription drugs are a big part of the problem. Painkillers and mood-altering medications have left many

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Japan has chosen the F35 as its next mainstay fighter as it opted for stealth over proven combat records. The pick reflects concern over North Korea and China's introduction of its own stealth fighte

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Nobody likes getting shots. But what if you could make the needles so tiny that they broke the skin painlessly? Engineers from Tufts University have created such microneedles—made from the major prot

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

For shift workers, odd hours usually mean strange sleeping habits and unhealthy meals. And now an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine takes the position that unhealthy eating a

2011-12-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

On December 21, 2011, an unknown hacker released over 6 million accounts from one of the largest programmers' websites in China, CSDN. The company said the leak included user IDs, passwords and e-mai

2011-12-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin switches campaign managers in the middle of an election campaign. Is his position as solid as he would like the world to think?The prime minister was talking toug

2011-12-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The journal Science has named an AIDS study as its 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The clinical trial found that antiretroviral drugs can be used to dramatically lower the risk of transmitting HIV.The

2011-12-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders is reporting a refugee crisis in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. It says 60 thousand people have fled fighting just across the border in Sudan.The group,

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Jiang Qiping, General-secretary of the Research Center of Information at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says three of this year's top ten online merchants selected by the internet trade site

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Back in 1957, Dr Seuss wrote How the Grinch Stole Chrismas, spurred on by his realization that a lot of people had lost the feeling about what Christmas was about. The Grinch slithers into Whoville an

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Worldwatch Institute said in 2011 far too many people were living with less than they needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry and just as many were illiterate.Worldwatc

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As we write this story, the temperature in Anchorage, Alaska, is minus-8 degrees Celsius. Bitter cold, in other words, as you might expect on an early-winter day in a state that’s sometimes called “

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The United States elects its president in just a little more than 11 months. But before the general election, the Republican party must first select a nominee, who will run against current President

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Tens of thousands homes are without power following the 5.8 magnitude quake. There are two aftershocks with similar magnitude. There are no reports of major damage or injuries though. Authorities are

2011-12-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The eastern grey tree frog [sound] looks exactly like the closely related Cope’s grey tree frog [sound]. The big difference between the two species is beneath the surface—the eastern has twice the n

2011-12-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A Wumart convenience store on Zhongguancun Street in Beijing is very popular with passersby, because it provides 24-hour service and warm steamed stuffed buns and boiled sweet corn late into the night

2011-12-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

With digital music sales now overtaking CD album sales, the new generation of music lovers want the crispest sound on the go. Chunky designer headphones are now the hottest gadget to be seen with, for

2011-12-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

For many in predominantly Chrisian Cameroon, Christmas without new dresses, playthings and extraordinary food is unthinkable. Family breadwinners must provide them all for their spouses, kids and oth

2011-12-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the world, but its economy suffers from high unemployment, war damage and the lingering effects of past international sanctions.Crumbling infrastructure an

2011-12-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

New Orleans explodes into a carnival every year for Mardi Gras. And on that final day before the beginning of Lent, giant colorful floats parade down the city's streets. Groups known as "krewes" are

2011-12-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The U.S. government is currently reviewing orders to deport thousands of illegal immigrants in two cities, at a time of great division on the issue at federal and local levels. In the past fiscal year