2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A high-level international panel has announced its recommendations for achieving food security while addressing the effects of climate change. The recommendations from the Commission on Sustainable Ag

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The International Diabetes Federation has released data (this week) that indicates the number of people living with diabetes around the world will likely rise from 366 million to 552 million by 2030 i

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many of the world’s telephone directories include a section in yellow which lists phone numbers for businesses, not people’s homes. In some places, it’s pink or another color. In America’s big cit

2011-11-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ever wander through a supermarket and past the open refrigerated cases that house cream cheese, butter and OJ? The refrigerated shelves are protected by jets of air that blow across the front. These j

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

GUY RAZ, host: As of today, we're now a year away from the 2012 presidential election. Barack Obama won the White House with his message of hope and change. Now, with unemployment at 9 percent, he's

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As Europe grapples with its financial crisis, ambivalence is growing among many Europeans about the region's common currency.After choosing a common anthem - Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" - the European

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

You’ve heard of “smart phones,” but what about smart turkeys?First of all, it’s a myth that turkeys are so dumb that they actually drown if they look upward with their beaks open during a rainstor

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Europe’s economic problems are making it even more difficult for the continent’s governments to fund often unpopular defense programs. That is threatening to hurt the NATO alliance’s efforts to up

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I've always thought that when I get a fever, it's my body trying to make things uncomfortable for the invading pathogen. And that's often true—higher temperatures can inhibit the bad guys' abilit

2011-11-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Think of the weirdest creatures you’ve even seen in a sci-fi film. Now think of this: there are far stranger, albeit smaller, critters living in your own home. And Rob Dunn at North Carolina State Un

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.STEVE INSKEEP: And I'm Steve Inskeep.Today, the U.S. Supreme Court takes on a case that involves several of the long-r

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

China is pushing back at criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama about Beijing’s currency and trade policies. Obama says Washington does not want China to take advantage of the United States. Ch

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The day after Thanksgiving in America, or what is called “Black Friday,” which falls on Nov. 25 this year, traditionally marks the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. What retailers ho

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Cancer treatment might have just taken a big leap into the computer age. Stanford University researchers are reporting significant success in training computers to analyze microscope slides of breast

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new study casts doubt on the merits of reducing salt in our diet. The researchers found that a modest lowering of blood pressure may be offset by other less desirable effects of a low-sodium diet.Fo

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

British researchers have discovered a biochemical key used by the malaria parasite to invade human blood cells. The discovery could pave the way for an effective malaria vaccine.The Plasmodium malaria

2011-11-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

After getting your flu shot, did you know it takes about two weeks to develop an immunity? It’s true. You can test your knowledge on more flu facts by taking this quiz. Here it goes.True or false: Th

2011-11-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LAURA SULLIVAN, host: Tonight, like most Saturday nights in college towns across the country, students are getting ready to party, and the one thing most of those parties will have in common besides a

2011-11-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ceng Jin Min is a student from South Korea who has been studying in China for four years. Although he speaks fluent Mandarin, he still has some problems with reading Chinese menu."Chinese menus in res

2011-11-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Trade and foreign ministers of the 21 APEC member states sit down for the APEC Ministers' Meeting Friday, for what is expected to be an active discussion to produce significant results for the upcomi

2011-11-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Andy Rooney was never comfortable with his status as celebrity as he noted in his final regular appearance on 60 minutes. A lot of you have sent me wonderful letters and said good things to me when yo

2011-11-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. From Los Angeles to New York and Miami to Dallas, pro-basketball fans face a November without any play in the NBA. The l

2011-11-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mr. Zhang and his girlfriend Miss Zhu are going to get married next year. Right now, they are facing hard decisions when choosing a diamond ring: they can not find a ring with both a good design and a

2011-11-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Traditionally, when winter arrives, obtaining coal becomes a constant struggle to make-ends-met for ordinary Chinese households. The situation is not getting any better. Decades of fast economic growt

2011-11-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The arrest on child-abuse charges of a one-time assistant football coach at a prominent American university has quickly broadened into a major scandal. The president of Pennsylvania State University a