2011-07-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Once upon a time, all books had pages and we only bought in stores. What a fairy tale! Today we read things called Kindles or Nooks, and books are downloaded anywhere, anytime. To see how much things

2011-07-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now. Well, now it’s your chance to turn the tables, picnic and otherwise, on these

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This patient may be going under the surgeon's knife, but as far as her mind is concerned, she's many miles away from here.The anesthetist here is more interested in keeping her mind in an altered st

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The second Beijing CRD International Beer Festival is set to kick off next month in a special outdoor venue in Shijingshan Amusement Park, in the west of Beijing. Beside beers coming from America, Spa

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sometimes I think that if I could change the world,and run everything the way I want, then the world would be a better place. I'm a good guy. I have good intentions.I want the best for everyone; so i

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: Earlier this month, a teacher from a charter school in El Paso, Texas walked free from a Mexican prison. She'd been caught with a hundred pounds of marijuana in her car trunk

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. President Barack Obama came into office with strong voter support among Hispanic Americans, while promising to make immigration reform a top priority. But many lawmakers in Washington oppose eas

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

What if there was an exact copy of us living an alternate life on an alternate earth? Mike Cahill's new science-fiction drama explores that possibility."Another Earth" focuses on Rhoda Williams, a pr

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We learn today that Apple is on the verge of becoming the most valuable company in the world, breathtaking new profits, billions of dollars pouring in, and so we ask tonight: what's the secret? Can o

2011-07-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-You know it's amazing because you learn so much about your family, I mean, you went 200 years back on my mother side and 200 years back on my father side and I just found out things I didn't know a

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This flight is not an ordinary flight. The cabin staff are specially trained to deal with people who have an acute fear of flying. That's because every passenger on this flight is convinced they coul

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

William Gonzalez's world collapsed when his wife of more than 50 years developed Alzheimer's Disease. She can still perform basic tasks like putting out the laundry, but she seems to be in a world o

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Norway's prime minister says European intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into last week's terror attacks that left at least 76 people dead. Jens Stoltenberg says the country's cor

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Europe is suffering from its worst ever real-estate market. And one country that seems to be pushing back hard at its government is Spain. More than two months after Spain's so-called "indignados" be

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have hailed a "new era of cooperation," after meeting for the first time since peace talks between the rival nations resumed earlier this year. The officia

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Greece has been talked about. We’ve heard that they’ve rejected the deal. That is something that we would like to know a little bit more about. And also fears over Italy.Yeah, great fears over Italy

2011-07-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

You—well, not YOU—race through an intersection as the light turns red. And then you notice the camera. They got you. And a ticket is on its way. Well, researchers have quantified the financial benef

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Finlay MacKay is a photographer from Glasgow. He's been involved in a photo exhibition project with the National Portrait Gallery over the past eight months, taking pictures of the athletes of Team G

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

网购相比大家都不陌生了吧。现在网购覆盖的地区很广，可以买到的东西也是很多，基本上都包含了我们生活所必须的东西。现在白酒上完也能买到了，泸州老窖一个月的时间就卖了200吨白酒。For one month from July 19th

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Alex Steinweiss，唱片封面设计的教父，本周辞世，终年94岁。他并不是一个特别有名的人，但是他的贡献——为唱片设计风格独特的封面从而增加音乐的吸引力——却是改变了我们的日常生活的伟大事情。MICHELE NORRIS, h

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Top U.S. lawmakers of both major political parties are pledging to defeat their opponents' last-ditch proposals to cut federal spending and raise the government's borrowing limit. One day after Pre

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Chicago Board of Trade is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. There, commodities and other financial instruments are traded daily. As the clock ticks towards a deadline to raise th

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Another of Iceland's volcanoes is showing signs it could soon blow, threatening Europe without...with another debilitating ash cloud. The Hekla volcano which's been called the Gateway to Hell has th

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Antibiotics don’t work against viruses. But doctors sometimes give antibiotics to patients who have what turns out to be a viral infection. Which adds to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

2011-07-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Think humans are at the top of the food chain? Not quite, in parts of Africa. Lions have attacked over 1000 people in Tanzania in the last 20 years. Two thirds of those attacks were fatal, and the vic