2011-09-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

World markets rose sharply Tuesday on hopes that Greece will be able to avoid a disastrous default. The country's finance minister told journalists that Greece expects to receive bailout disbursement

2011-09-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but try telling that to electrons: when current flows down a wire, these particles zig and zag, moving indirectly from one end to the o

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A few days after the Mid-Autumn Day holiday, various mooncake boxes could be seen filling the garbage bins in most neighborhoods. The packages can be delicate and vary in shape. Some are made of plast

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In China's cultural city of Xian, high-level government authorities met with their peers and other tourism industry stakeholders from Euro-Asian member states to discuss the further development and p

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Premature babies have more than their share of health problems early in life and now a new study finds they also face an increased risk of premature death well into adulthood.

Premature babies are

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Brad Pitt is getting rave reviews and there's 'buzz' about a possible Oscar nomination for his performance in a new film set inside American professional baseball. Moneyball is based on a true stor

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Alarmed by the sense of mistrust of Muslims she felt after the 9/11 attacks 10 years ago, Pakistani-American Samina Sundas started American Muslim Voice.The organization, which now has chapters across

2011-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Well, the last big good beach weekend of the summer is upon us, but many beach-goers on both coasts will like be avoiding the water altogether. Sharks, and lots of them have been turning up in some ve

2011-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Ramallah, people flooded the city center hours before Abbas's speech at the United Nations. A sea of Palestinian national flags and portraits of Abbas demonstrated the power of solidarity on this

2011-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Nature has made the sound of a crying baby deliberately distressing. The sound makes us want to protect them.Laboratory research has already shown that people react differently to photographs when tea

2011-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Saturday that the euro area sovereign debt and banking crises are the biggest threats to the global economy and that European officials need to address a

2011-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A growing number of Americans grow fruit and vegetables at home in their own gardens. These small plots let gardeners savor the flavor of fresh-picked produce and improve their diet. One company in

2011-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We willl protest. Not only taxi drivers, everybody, everybody has to go on strike. We need general strike in Greece. They always say. That's all we have done. We will take normal measures. But every

2011-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

进入6月以来，生猪价格和冷鲜肉价格达到历史高位，价格一路飙升的猪肉再次引发人们的关注。2011年8月份，全国居民消费价格总水平同比上涨6.2%。其中，食品类价格同比上涨13.4%，猪肉价格上涨45.5%，不可小觑。人们不

2011-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Although Beijing is a participant in this world-wide event, people are largely unaware of or simply ignore Car Free Day. Using the question "do you know today is the World Car Free Day?", I randomly a

2011-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The policy says public-rental housing program mainly is for low and middle income households, newly employed urban workers and migrant workers who have stable jobs in the city. The average accommodati

2011-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The international community came together Saturday at the United Nations to find ways to mitigate the current crisis in the Horn of Africa, but also to prevent future ones from happening. At the meeti

2011-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Heads of state and government representatives assembled at the United Nations this week to address the emerging threat of non-communicable diseases worldwide. One of those so-called "NCDs" is cancer.

2011-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new study links aggressive breast cancer and stress. But the lead researcher suggests the findings raise as many questions as they answer.The study included about 1,000 breast cancer patients in Chi

2011-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A medication that builds bone mass in patients with osteoporosis might actually help repair damaged joints and could be used to treat people suffering from arthritis, according to University of Roches

2011-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There was no shortage of star power at the Toronto International Film Festival or "TIFF" as it's known locally. Celebrities from Brad Pitt to George Clooney to Madonna walked the red carpet at the pr

2011-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Diplomats from the United States and Europe walked out of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday amid a strident address by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian leader blamed Western powers

2011-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Barack Obama has addressed the 66th United Nations General Assembly about what he calls a time of transformation, especially in the Middle East and Africa.In his roughly 35-minute address, t

2011-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said while much has been done to combat racism and xenophobia, much remains to be done. He spoke on the 10th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Program of Act

2011-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

So much friends' sickness and in health, religious TV personality Pat Robertson says that divorcing a spouse suffering from Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is a form of death. Here's