2011-11-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Seattle rock band Minus the Bear has spent a decade traveling together -- and recording four albums in its own studio in Seattle. The band's recent album, Omni, changes the pattern. Minus the B

2011-11-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Obama administration offered financial relief last month to one million college students and recent graduates struggling to make student loan payments, as tuition costs rapidly rise. Administrator

2011-11-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

US officials say the Asia Pacific region is less affected than other areas by the financial crisis in Europe and can stimulate worldwide economic growth. Talks by finance and foreign ministers are ta

2011-11-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Since the dawn of agriculture, tilling the soil has been fundamental to farming.But today, experts say this age-old practice may do more harm than good, at least in some places. That's why they've b

2011-11-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Professor Michael Miller is the director of Preventative Cardiology at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine. He and his team have been studying the effects of laughter on thirty volunteers

2011-11-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Can you summarize your education and work history in 140 words or less? If the answer is "Yes", and your words are catchy enough, then congratulations, you may just find the job you're looking for.In

2011-11-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

“American Idol” 2011 winner Scotty McCreery has just released his debut album and he's already setting records.“Clear As Day” is the debut album by Country singer Scotty McCreery. With first-wee

2011-11-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Greece named a new prime minister Thursday, and Italy is planning to do the same fairly soon, as European leaders move to regain the confidence of financial markets and to ensure that the region’s ec

2011-11-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

International energy companies say they have discovered potentially massive natural gas fields off the coast of Mozambique.The Italian energy firm ENI last month announced two major finds in the Mamba

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mrs. Liao, a resident of Beijing, has just found a new maid to replace her former one who recently left. Over the past decade, Mrs. Liao has always had a maid to help take care of her ill husband. But

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The idea is very simple. As soon as the baby's temperature rises above a threshold the suit starts to change color, a bit like a traffic light system.It was developed by a company which specializes i

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Advocacy groups are praising Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments that an AIDS-free generation is within reach. Mrs. Clinton spoke Monday at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.Mitchell W

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. It is home to 28 ethnic groups, each with a distinct language, culture and lifestyle. Many groups are afraid of losing their traditional

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

India's Supreme Court is examining a proposed measure that could put a large number of tigers off limits to tourists in some of its forest reserves. Tourism advertisements all over India use images o

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I'm gonna move on to the new Barbie doll, we first told you about last week. Her pink hair, leopard skin leggings, and those tattoos you see even on her back. Parents up in arms. And Andrew Kantin i

2011-11-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Food is the body’s fuel. Now a study finds that the amount of energy in that fuel can depend not just on its calorie content—but on how it’s prepared. And the research, published in the Proceedings

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Xiao Zhang is the owner of a cake shop. He says he needs a large quantity of small value notes every day to give to customers as change, but it's always hard to receive such notes from customers, esp

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sometimes the solution is simple. On this occasion, even in medicine.New research says that three routine checks can save the lives of stroke patients: the monitoring of temperatures, blood sugar leve

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

China has developed an aging society before it become wealthy enough. In 2030, the country will have about 450 million senior citizens. By that time, 2.4 young laborers will have to support one elderl

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has “systematically” violated all terms of the Arab League-mediated peace plan for his country. In a policy

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Shakespeare asked, "What's in a Name?" A lot, it turns out. Take Ezra Jack Keats, the famous children’s book author and illustrator, who died in 1983.Keats wrote and illustrated more than 20 childre

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Barack Obama departs this week for Hawaii where he will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, formed in 1989 to improve economic cooperation and liberalize trade among its membe

2011-11-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Einstein, Newton and many other legendary scientists did groundbreaking work in their 20s. But if your hair has gone gray and no Nobel seems likely, don’t fret just yet. Because the age at which Nobe

2011-11-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

China recently set up a national-level technical center that will provide evaluation reports on food safety. The creation of such a center is seen as an important step towards comprehensively tackling

2011-11-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Foggy weather hit the cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu early this week.Highways in these regions were temporarily shut down, and police urged driv