2011-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Search efforts are continuing in southeastern Turkey for survivors of Sunday's powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake. The number of dead reported has exceeded 200 and the death toll is expected to contin

2011-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Excessive alcohol consumption in the United States costs Americans more than $200 billion a year, according to a new study.That hefty bill includes the medical costs related to heavy drinking, plus th

2011-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new study finds that women who have a mammogram every other year are less likely to get a suspicious result requiring additional testing as compared to women who have the breast cancer screening tes

2011-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

“With the loss of these one, two, maybe 10 million bat individuals in these populations, what are the implications?”Bats in the US are being plagued by a fungal condition called white nose syndrome.

2011-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ARI SHAPIRO, host: Suppose you could raise your IQ by exercising your brain like a muscle. That's the analogy researchers are using to explain a new study that finds the IQ of teenagers can rise or f

2011-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Heart disease is the number one killer in the world, and it is mostly preventable. But reducing deaths from heart disease will require changes in lifestyle and public policy, and better public awarene

2011-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Companies go to great lengths to protect their trademarks and logos. A recent conference by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) highlighted the importance and the difficulty of doing

2011-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Participants getting classes in political activism from how to deal with police to learning tactics from recent upheavals in North Africa

Participants in the multi-city Occupy movement in the Unite

2011-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.The Finger Lakes region of New York is named for its 11 long, skinny lakes, and the surrounding hills provide fertile grou

2011-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many Australians are looking for more efficient ways to run their homes.Across the country, hundreds of residences are on show to mark Sustainable House Day, an initiative that began ten years ago des

2011-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Can you picture a trillion yuan? It might take you a minute to really grasp how much that is. You could try imagining one billion people who each have 10 thousand yuan in hand. This immense figure is

2011-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his country's refusal to grant immunity from prosecution to U.S. troops led to President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw the remainder of American force

2011-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The six-nation east African regional group the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has pledged full support for Kenya's military offensive against al-Qaeda linked militants in southern

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There is a saying about the dilemma in the courier industry: being the first to increase prices is equal to suicide, but keeping prices low is just waiting for death. These aren't particularly attrac

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The experiment shows the two laptops transferring data to each other at a speed of 10 megabits per second. There are no cables or wireless router - the data is being transferred by light.One computer

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: The Occupy Wall Street protests that has spread across the country and around the world have taken up many different causes, but the protests share some common themes, including t

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Midwest state of Iowa has scheduled its presidential caucus vote for January 3, in what amounts to the official start of the process to choose a Republican Party nominee to run against President B

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has invoked special civil powers granted under the country's natural disaster law as Bangkok residents brace for flood waters. The steps by the Prime Minister

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As the United States struggles with a high unemployment rate, many older Americans looking for work say it is especially difficult for them to find employment because of their age. According to the U

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

They're throwing everything they've got at Gaddafi's home town in what they're calling the Final Push."This is as far forward on the frontline as you can go, over the last 36 hours, the revolution

2011-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

“The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in the human genome, that technology is avail

2011-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Colonel Moammar Gadhafi died Wednesday, ending his months-long fight against transitional fighters. To the end, he refused to step down, a stubbornness that reflects his 40-year dictatorship. He was t

2011-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

NATO officials say they are close to ending their nearly seven-month-long bombing campaign in Libya, designed to prevent forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi from attacking civilians. The op

2011-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Discontent runs high in Italy among the population due to the country's economic difficulties. This led to massive protests over the weekend attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators.It was mean

2011-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The China Education Expo was held at the World Trade Center on Oct. 15th and 16th in Beijing. More than five hundred colleges and institutions from over thirty countries and regions attended, all hopi