2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Standing on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words. Friday's historic launch of Atlantis marks the beginning of t

2011-07-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Cameras were once big and bulky. Today, really good cameras fit in your pocket. And now, researchers at Cornell have developed a camera that’s just a half-millimeter on each side and a hundredth of a

2011-07-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The number of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled in the past three decades - jumping to nearly 350 million. And it continues to surge, according to a new study in the journal Lancet

2011-07-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The countdown is on for South Sudan's independence July 9, and the country's future capital is making its final preparations for the big day.Joy in Juba
APSouthern Sudanese military police partici

2011-07-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scotland today, everywhere else tomorrow. No one expects Scottish Power to be alone among the big energy suppliers to increase their prices before winter comes. All say they keep their prices under co

2011-07-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

(Chirping sound.) That may not sound like much–but it’s the loudest animal in the world. For its size, that is. The insect called the water boatman is two millimeters long. And these peeps can be he

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

位于北京中关村的太平洋数码商场已经关闭,是什么导致大型的数码商城也经营部下去了呢?The once bustling digital world, the Pacific Digital Center in Zhongguancun is now completely quiet and empty. The build

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

中国目前的狂犬病传染率很高，每年因狂犬病而死亡的人数仍然高于2000。近几年中国也成为狂犬病死亡率仅次于印度的第二大国家。但是理论上狂犬病是可以控制升值消除的，那中国出现这种状况的原因到底是什么呢？Once a

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

July 4, 2011 - STEVE INSKEEP, host: OK. You may think of July 4th as Independence Day but to competitive eaters, this is the day of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York City's Coney Is

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In March, two doctors at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston achieved what medical experts call a major milestone by implanting a continuous-flow artificial heart in a human patient. The mechanical h

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Smokers and former smokers who develop lung cancer are more likely to survive if their disease is detected with a computed tomography, or CT scan instead of a standard chest x-ray, according to a rece

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The South Korean resort of Pyeongchang has been selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. It took only one round of voting in Durban, South Africa, for Pyeongchang to defeat Munich, Germany, and Fra

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Big deadline for app publishers. Some people worry we might not be able to find some of our favorite apps online. Kindle is one of those in the front line. What's happening? That's right. Well, back

2011-07-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Were you blushing at all at some of the lines? You are naughty. -Sadly I wasn't. I was kind of comfortable. Sort of a dream, just sort of living in that sort of that skin and just feel to say those

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

近年来，一批“有事您动嘴，办事我跑腿”的专业跑腿公司纷纷落户各大城市。但是，跑腿公司数量虽然多，真正“跑”起来的却比较少， 究竟该往哪里“跑”这是关键。On a lovely spring day or on leisurely occasions,

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.STEVE INSKEEP, host: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.If you ever buy stuff online, there's a good chance you boug

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Another royal wedding is being celebrated in Europe. Prince Albert II of Monaco weds South African Charlene Wittstock in a two-day-long affair. Albert is the son of the late Amer

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The mechanical toy robots known as Transformers first appeared on store shelves in the 1980s. They spawned TV shows, comic books and finally big, loud motion pictures. The third film in the franchise

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you were to picture the sort of person who might take the lead in gathering radiation data from the Fukushima nuclear accident, Marcelino Alvarez probably wouldn’t come to mind.“My background is

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Security is a real concern, no question, we would argue in green channel cloud, your data is more securer in the cloud platform and can ever be within the premise or this means building if you like.

2011-07-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A brief scare for French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was greeting well wishers in southern France when a man grabbed him from behind security barrier and tried to pull him over the gate. Security gu

2011-07-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Among the middle schools of Fuling district, Chongqing municipality, two of them are considered to be prestigious: Fuling No.5 Middle School and Fuling Shiyan Middle School. Over the past five years,

2011-07-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Transformers 3-"Dark of the Moon" is shot in 3-D and opened in US cinemas on June 29. The robots look very real in the movie, however, many people may wonder - could machines such as these soon be inv

2011-07-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A 2006 animated hit from Pixar introduced a world of talking motor vehicles, especially a shiny red racecar and his rust-encrusted best friend, a tow truck named "Mater." Now they're back for an adve

2011-07-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

South Sudan is set to become the world’s newest country on July 9, with Juba as its capital. Until relatively recently, Juba was a small outpost, but it is now one of Africa’s fastest-growing towns.