2011-07-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems. That is the challenge posed for innovative young people participating in the ninth annual Imagine Cup in New York. The event, whic

2011-07-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Several years ago, the U.S. automobile-rental company Avis came up with an imaginative, if not exactly boastful, advertising slogan. “We’re Number Two!” in number of rentals, it went. “We Try Har

2011-07-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Young people in a tent city at the center of Cairo's Tahrir Square chanted a song from the 1950s, with words updated to refer to their revolution, saying they want to return Egypt to what they see as

2011-07-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Welcome to the grogram, thank you so very much. This must be a long day for you. What time did you get up this morning? -I got up at about three. -Three, oh, man! That stinks. What, what time do you

2011-07-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

You're watching all-American marketing magic. Nathan's hot dog eating contest is a bonanza for the fast food company. As the eaters have expanded their gastric capabilities, the event's popularity

2011-07-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

给宝宝起名子不是一件容易的事情。 Laura Wattenberg 是一个人气博主，也是"The Baby Name Wizard"这本书的作者。NPR的主播采访了她，请她分析了近年来名字的流行趋势。 MICHELE NORRIS, host: As part of our child

2011-07-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

An analysis of more than a dozen drug studies finds that smokers who take the drug Chantix to help them kick the habit face significantly higher risks of cardiovascular problems including stroke, hea

2011-07-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the world's third most important food crop: the potato. Researchers from 26 institutions around the world worked on the project to sequence, or map, t

2011-07-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In the early 20th Century, more than two million African-Americans left their homes and small farms in the South and moved to northern industrial cities to escape overt racism and search for better wo

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

我们平时穿的衣服很多再制造的过程中都会产生大气污染，近期研究者们制造出了纳米制作的衣服，它可以净化大气，缓解大气污染，提高了我们的空气质量。Designers at Catalytic Clothing claim their nanotechnology "

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

慢餐宣言：城市的快节奏生活正以生产力的名义扭曲我们的生命和环境。我们要以慢慢吃为开始，反抗快节奏的生活。Outside of Beijing, far from noisy cars and crowded sidewalks, Beijing's newer trend of Slow Fo

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.And it's time now for All Tech Considered.NORRIS: Here we are, working on a holiday. All of you out there liste

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Quick - name a Chinese brand, just one. The fact is, after 30 years of bone-shaking, mind-bending economic group, everyone knows about brand China, but few can name a specific Ch

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Rhode Island on Saturday adopted a law legalizing same-sex civil unions. The week before, New York became the sixth American state to allow the marriage of two men or two women. Twenty-nine states ha

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The News of the World phone-hacking scandal in Britain has claimed its latest victim - the newspaper itself. News International, the parent company of the newspaper owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It's Thursday, June 30th, 2011. I'm Wilson Tang on Cnet.com and it's time to get loaded. As we reported yesterday, MySpace is up for sale and it looks like it's found a buyer in Specific media. As

2011-07-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This has been a very tough issue for the Supreme Court. It was a very divided court at all of arguments. But by a 7 to 2 vote today, the Supreme Court said that California's attempt to limit the sale

2011-07-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

South Sudan celebrated its independence day Saturday with a flag-raising and a swearing-in ceremony for the new president in the capital Juba. A party that started at midnight carried on into Saturday

2011-07-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A warring cheer for Thailand’s new political leader in the fourth election in seven years, voters made a historic decision for the vary first time, Thailand will be headed by a female prime minister.

2011-07-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." American author Ernest Hemingway once said. This wine club in Seoul would agree, but the high cost of imported tipple in South Korea means it's a tast

2011-07-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-GMA viewers on Twitter had some questions, too, for America's favorite “Girl Next Door”. -Everybody is desperate to know that you are still friends with the Friends. -Friends with the Friends. Yes

2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Wowotuan or 55tuan.com is one of the major group-buying websites in China, attracting thousands of online visitors every day. Recently, the company decided to offer a number of gift cards online to th

2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This year, the University of Hong Kong expected to enroll 300 mainland students but it received 10,362 applications from mainland students, representing an increase of 14.8 percent over the previous y

2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ever wonder why foods that are bad for you - such as fat-laced potato chips and French fries - taste so good? It turns out they follow the same pleasure-inducing biochemical pathways through the body

2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

With the United States' unemployment rate at its highest level this year, President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to pass a series of his administration's proposals to improve the economy. O