2011-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Pakistan is playing down the significance of a proposed suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military assistance, saying bilateral ties are already "on hold" following last month's N

2011-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A British Medical Journal editorial calls for a moral and political movement to end violence and oppression against women and girls. It says about one billion women worldwide have been beaten, coerced

2011-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Reporter: Healthcare experts believe that the establishment of a general practitioner system will be a major step towards improving medical care and eliminating the increasing number of public complai

2011-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Art expert Professor Douglas Stone giving a lecture at Peking University in Beijing. The talk marks the opening of a university exhibition of landscape prints. This includes work by western masters su

2011-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Being a mosquito can really suck. Not only do you have to gulp down your food because your dinner can turn around and swat you if you’re not fast enough, but a bellyful of hot blood can really do a n

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A lot of trees are dying in Africa’s Sahel region and new study says climate change caused by humans is to blame. What’s more, many tree species are also disappearing.The study appears in the Journa

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

All U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the month. The road south to Kuwait has been a hotbed of anti-American violence, roadside bombs and assaults by insurgents. Teams like Minnes

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

"My name is Wang Guangqi. I'm 8 years old."Wang Guangqi is a typical energetic young boy. But he has problems reading and writing. So his father Wang Tong brings him here, to LangLang school, which c

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Israeli government is now keen to follow in the footsteps of the global superpowers by traveling into space and planting their flag on the moon.Israel has unveiled their Space IL project and inten

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When it comes to sheer celestial bling, stars might not corner the market on twinkle. Because beneath their rocky exteriors, some terrestrial planets may be half diamond. So said scientists at the fal

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It's the holiday season in the United States and choirs across the country are staging special Christmas concerts. Typically, the singers are accompanied by pianos, organs and, sometimes, even a full

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he would continue to push for full United Nations membership after savoring one symbolic victory for his statehood bid, watching his flag fly over the Paris-ba

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Hu Jintao has praised China's WTO accession a decade ago as a major event in the country's reform and opening-up process.He says China will continue to play a constructive role in the glob

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The 194-party conference has agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that will put all countries under the same legal regime enforcing commitments to control greenhouse gases. It will take effect

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Cameras flash as Lord Sebastian Coe, head of Britain's Olympic Committee arrives at the UK Embassy in Beijing on a bicycle. "how do you like the bicycle?""Very good bike. Very sustainable.""Why bicyc

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Attempts to get all 27 EU states to back changes to the bloc's treaty to tackle the eurozone crisis have failed.French President Nicolas Sarkozy explains the reason of the failure."We would have pref

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ilove traveling, so I do make time for that. Wheredid you go? Idid a little trip with one of my best friends in Spain where we flewto Barcelona and just took trains all the way through Spain. Howare t

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We "naked apes" aren't as hirsute as our primate cousins. We still have an ape-like density of hair follicles—but we sprout out peach fuzz, instead of a thick coat. Those downy hairs may be more tha

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There’s a better-than-random chance that babies born in the United States last year, 2010, were named “Bella” or “Edward.”Those were among the 10 most popular girls’ and boys’ names, respective

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A humanitarian agency warns that millions of people in West Africa are facing a food crisis. Oxfam is calling on donors to take immediate action. Oxfam’s regional humanitarian coordinator, Nahuel Are

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In 30 years of making films, British-born Gary Oldman has won acclaim from critics and audiences, but he has never been nominated for Hollywood's top awards. That could change with his latest role.In

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In 2010 there were 34.3 births among every thousand girls between the ages of 15 and 19. That’s down 9 percent from 2009. And it’s the lowest number in nearly seven decades of reporting.The figure c

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I am here in Durban, South Africa to report on the just finished climate change negotiations. While an agreement was reached, negotiations were in doubt throughout the three final nights. The sticking

2011-12-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Iranian government has complained to the United Nations about a U.S. spy drone it says was brought down over eastern Iran this week. Iran accuses the U.S. of violating Iranian airspace and has re

2011-12-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Most members of the European Union agreed to a new deal Friday that is intended to address debt problems that have threatened the common euro currency and driven Europe into an economic crisis. The ag