2011-08-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: And in Europe, the debt news has been bad too. The uncertainty has been undermining financial markets, both there and in this country. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that investors on

2011-08-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The world’s largest ongoing HIV vaccine study has been expanded to consider multiple ways a vaccine might boost immune response to the AIDS virus. The U.S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

2011-08-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It is well known that food is hard to come by in parts of North Korea, where the U.N. World Food Program has been helping feed more than 3.5 million people since April in the wake of severe food short

2011-08-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Millions of people in five countries across the Horn of Africa are gripped by severe drought and have been for months. But now in one of those countries, Somalia, the UN says that the situation is so

2011-08-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Ican’t believe this. You had a birthday and it's 50 years old.You’re not 50 years old. Are you really 50 years old?-Yeah,50, 50. Yeah.-Imean you look tremendous. You look like you’re thirty-five.

2011-08-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

At a KFC outlet in Shanghai, officials from the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Inspection Bureau are testing the frying oil to see whether it meets safety standards. "I'm testing whether the wasted

2011-08-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: Earlier this week, the online gossip site Gawker reported that one of the GOP（Grand Old Party 美国共和党的别称）presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich, may have bought most of th

2011-08-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

South Korea says that it has twice exchanged artillery fire with North Korea in western frontier waters. No casualties are reported.Second round, artillery fired
South Korean military officials say a

2011-08-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A recent study finds tiny particles suspended high in Earth’s atmosphere are having a greater impact on global climate than previously believed.The airborne particles, known as aerosols, are blocking

2011-08-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The World Health Organization is urging many low and middle income countries to ban the use of currently-available commercial blood tests to detect active tuberculosis. This is the first time WHO has

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Screaming police sirens have been roaring across London over the past few nights, after a demonstration in connection with the police shooting of a 29-year old man degenerated into rioting in the low-

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: This week, NPR's Louisa Lim is reporting on China's rapid pursuit of high technology. And today, she picks up with China's Sputnik（人造卫星） moment. That was the announcemen

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Building your own light aircraft would be a daunting task for any professional engineer - not so for an Australian teenager.Solomon Tessaye has created his own plane in his parent's garage - using ju

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The relationship between the United States and Pakistan has been severely strained in recent months. Two former top U.S. intelligence officials say the relationship has been sorely tested because Pak

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Bigger refugee camps are going up along Liberia's eastern border for more than 150,000 people who fled Ivory Coast's political crisis, earlier this year. Many Ivorian refugees are living in local v

2011-08-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Wall Street ended its worst week since November, 2008 when it closed on Friday or so it thought. Now, Standard & Poor's has axed the top notch US AAA credit rating. It's unprecedented reverse of for

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

当第一趟从北京到上海的高速列车开动时，人们都将这视为开始"中国创作"的重要一步。温州动车事故到现在还影响着一部分市民，这将会把“中国创造”推向哪一步？Tens of billions of dollars has been put into China

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHEL MARTIN, host: I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.Coming up, the Barbershop guys give their take on the effort to get a deal on the deficit and the debt ceiling, and the

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Here in China, some people are gearing up for a special day tomorrow: Qi Xi festival, or Chinese Valentine's day. Traditionally, Qixi festival was a day for women to show off their needlepoint skills

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Guan Jianzhong has poured over the US financial books and he doesn't like what he sees. He once worked as an accountant for Chinese firm on Wall Street, but now he says he's lost faith in America's

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When one thinks of the sports in which China excels, swimming, gymnastics or track and field usually come to mind. But ice hockey? While the sport may not have as big a following as soccer or basketba

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Thirteen years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was embroiled in a sex scandal, famously answered a grand jury question by saying, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”A lot o

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Maybe Cameron's recent visit to Camp Bastion signaled the withdrawal of 500 British troops from Afghanistan. Facing deep cuts in spending, the British army is itself now in the crossheads. Seven thou

2011-08-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Developing countries don’t have the same access to satellite information as do first-world nations. A given country might want to monitor dust storms, measure rice yields or track population migratio

2011-08-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

人们都认为,新生命的诞生会给每一位父母带来无尽的喜悦和快乐,但是事实却不尽如此,妈妈们会在怀孕和生产的过程中产生抑郁的情绪.但是最近,心理学家们发现,怀孕和生育的过程,同样会让爸爸们患上抑郁症.The birth of a