2011-11-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: There's another Republican presidential debate tonight on foreign policy and candidates are likely to take a hard line on China, always a helpful campaign issue. NPR's Scott

2011-11-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Candidates in the hope of gaining employment in posts at the China Banking Regulatory Commission and for vacancies requiring foreign languages took exams on the first exam day.And on the second exam d

2011-11-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

China's oil demand has been relentlessly pushing up its dependency on foreign imports. Imported oil now makes up 55% of total consumption. Amid widespread concerns and worries over the country's ene

2011-11-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Climate negotiators are meeting in Durban, South Africa beginning from November 28-December 9 to discuss the planet's changing climate.The first decade of this century was the hottest on record. Pol

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Of course, only one Republican will win the party's presidential nomination, but for the remaining contenders, there can be other benefits. Case in point: Most of the current GOP

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There are now more than 5,000 group buying websites in China, and amid the cutthroat competition, profits are increasingly harder to come by. Analysts believe many of these group-buying firms will clo

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Women's issues are related to many other important issues all over the world, such as health care, violence and social development. Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global women's issues, ha

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Beijing, new units at the Jinyu Vanke City apartment complex in Changping District have been selling for about 14,000 yuan, or about 2,200 U.S. dollars, per square meter this month-a reduction of 3

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The European commission is facing stiff opposition from Germany.German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has been a staunch opponent of a pan-European approach to raising capital, despite the pot

2011-11-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

One of these days, drivers in the UK could be breaking the law if the government heeds advice from the British Medical Association, which suggests that the government ban people from smoking in their

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This bull mastiff trots along happily. From a distance it's hard to tell she's walking with a prosthetic paw.Following a serious trauma injury, the paw became infected and needed to be amputated. Be

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

At present, a lot of furniture retailers claim that their goods are made of solid wood, but the products are labeled with different names, like pure solid wood, complete solid wood, and solid wood ven

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The two declarations were adopted at the 6th East Asia Summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.The first declaration serves as the guidance of conduct for EAS participating countries towards pr

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Located in Chaoyang District, the Beijing Cartoon Art Museum is a cartoon wonderland: gigantic transformers welcome visitors at the gate; televisions hanging on the wall constantly play cartoon films;

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In the hands of trained practitioners, acupuncture is a safe medical treatment, even for children. But a new study finds when acupuncture is performed by untrained providers, it can pose a serious ris

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Surgeons may soon have a new tool to help locate early-stage cancerous growths; a spray that turns fluorescent green when it comes into contact with tumors. The spray is clear, but contains a non-tox

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This week, Somali government officials agreed to begin taking steps to end the recruitment of child soldiers. The Transitional Federal Government, or TFG, and the al Shabab militant group, are cited b

2011-11-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

And now for the last look. Those of you who watched our recent Education Special saw the exhausting study habits of South Korean students. The culmination of that pressure was last week when almost 70

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Today from StoryCorps we'll check back with a family we first heard from five years ago when Joshua Littman interviewed his mother Sarah. Joshua has a disorder on the autism spe

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

For almost 10 years, a unique non-profit organization called 826 has been helping students across the United States become better writers by tapping into their creativity. Founded in San Francisco by

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As the United Nations marks World AIDS Day this year (Dec. 1) it is celebrating a major milestone: a drop in the number of AIDS-related deaths around the world. But funding for continued AIDS research

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The three crew members on the International Space Station plan to have their own Thanksgiving feast on Thursday as they orbit 352 kilometers above the earth. The lone American on board plans to share

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The eastern provinces are some of the most volatile parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and have been plagued by war and humanitarian crisis for decades. This week, as they gear up to vote in

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

And now, for all of us, is there any way to keep it from happening? You are under pressure, people watching, and your brain freezes, you can't remember a name or a phrase you know by heart. When it h

2011-11-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We've told you about the economic convulsion in Italy that threatens to take down the mighty countries of Europe and send a shock wave across the Ocean to American 401(k)s. Well, tonight, Italians ar