2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

GUY RAZ, host: We end this hour with special thanks to the Edmonton Journal. That's where we first read this little story about a really big pet. Now, imagine a cowboy and a buffalo walk into a bar..

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When 28-year-old German designer Anke Domaske set out to create a new kind of textile, her aim was to make a fabric that would be sustainable in the long term and soothing to the skin for people suffe

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The issuing of these bonds is part of a four-region trial program launched by the central government on Oct 20 that also covers Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, as well as the city of Shenzhen.　Supp

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ever since "Old Boys" was first uploaded to the Internet on Oct. 28, 2010, it has been forwarded more than 4 million times. On Youku.com, a popular Chinese video sharing platform, the short film has b

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

40 percent of the world's land - home to about two billion people - is arid or semi-arid. The Karoo drylands are just one example of where the earth has dried up to such an extent, that it is no long

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Twenty-three-year-old North Korean student So Myong Jin is taking a business English class at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, or PUST.In slightly awkward English, So tries to expre

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

With the theme of "The Future: Redefined," the ongoing two-day CEO summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC, focuses on advancing trade and economic policy and partnerships for the futu

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A Libyan revolutionary militia commander from the town of Zintan announced Saturday that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was captured alive in southern Libya, nea

2011-11-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Kenyan military says it has secured more areas of southern Somalia and is urging aid agencies to come back to the country to help those in need. Kenya's Foreign Ministry says it is also trying t

2011-11-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Thousands of women are gathering in Portland, Oregon for The Grace Hopper Celebration. It is the world's largest technical conference for women in computing, and there's a lot o

2011-11-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is promoting U.S. economic engagement with Asia during the East Asia Summit in Bali. The secretary focused her public remarks on increasing economic ties to the regi

2011-11-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A stem cell treatment for patients with heart failure significantly improved their heart function in a small but promising new study. In heart failure, the heart loses its ability to efficiently pump

2011-11-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. medical researchers report a possible breakthrough that might prevent infection by one of the two most widespread varieties of malaria.A new class of anti-malaria compounds kills the parasites in

2011-11-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

An alliance of mostly East African nations is preparing a coordinated military campaign in Somalia to finish off the embattled al-Shabab extremist group. The al-Qaida-inspired extremists were driven

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP: On this Veteran's Day from StoryCorps, we have memories from Pearl Harbor. It was attacked 70 years ago next month. Thousands of people were killed. Today we're going to hear from a v

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Huang Xiao is an employee working at the Shenzhen branch of the Agricultural Bank of China. He is also quite well-known among bank card collectors. He has a collection of more than 70 thousand bank ca

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

"stay close to me…"Coaches full of European travel agents drive though Beijing. It's the start of a trip to China designed to convince them of the country's tourist potential. "On the corner there

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The United States' most prominent public health agency is calling the cholera epidemic in Haiti “the worst cholera outbreak in recent history.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The World Bank says tough decisions lie ahead at the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. A top bank official says nations need to decide on a long-term strategy.Andrew Ste

2011-11-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Welcome to Seoul, South Korea. Capital city of one of the world's fastest growing economies. There are many reasons to be impressed with this ancient tiger that rose from the ashes of the Civil War.

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Some other news. The nation's largest retailer is electing to move into a new business. NPR has learned that Wal-Mart sent out a proposal saying it wants to become the largest pr

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

At the 2011 APEC summit, U.S. President Barack Obama has once again mentioned the renminbi exchange rate in his remarks, while Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said China's currency exchange rat

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Experts have indicated that Shanghai was chosen as the pilot city because of the city's stronger economy and lower debt ratio. Professor Li Weisen, Vice Dean of the School of Economics at Fudan Unive

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In 1879, at the age of thirteen, Sun Yat-sen went to Hawaii to live with his older brother. It was in Honolulu that he spent many of his teenage years growing up and getting an education. Sun studied

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Economist Mario Monti has been sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister, with a mandate to restore stability to the country’s economy and respectability to its politics.At European Union headquarters