2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Loowatt is the name of this simple toilet. It doesn't rely on a system of water for sanitation, saving an increasingly scarce and vital resource. Nor does it rely on liquid chemical solutions to brea

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And from the inner circles of Washington to the outer reaches of the solar system. This just in from Neptune(海王星): The Neptunian day has gotten shorter, at least as we understa

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

June 29, 2011 - ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, host: And I'm Melissa Block.Google and Facebook are wresting for pieces of each ot

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been released on his own recognizance as New York state prosecutors reveal doubts about the credibility of his accuser.Dominique Stra

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

After devastating natural disasters, mobile phone networks, satellites and other computer software are often used to help to pinpoint where help is needed the most. They are crucial for the creation

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I love "Scan It". Why? Because it makes shopping fun. I love those pop-up coupons. "Scan It" is the latest gadget to hit grocery stores, promising to save customers time and money. The system is in us

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It is Tuesday, Jun 21st, 2011. I'm Wilson Tang on cnet.com and it’s time to get loaded. Nokia unveiled its first and only MeeGo operating system-based smartphone called the N9. The slick looking pho

2011-07-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This was the moment America’s first black First Lady met South Africa's first black president. Nelson Mandela is frail now, the age of 92, but still making history. And for Michelle Obama and her tw

2011-07-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, host: I'm Melissa Block. And it's time now for All Tech Considered.Google now draws over a billion

2011-07-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

SCOTT SIMON, host: NPR's Pam Fessler's been reporting this week on food banks and efforts to keep their shelves stocked. Increasingly, that means salvaging（救捞的）food that otherwise would go to w

2011-07-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

An international aid flotilla is continuing with plans to sail to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip despite a series of setbacks.Pro-Palestinian activists organizing the aid flotilla say they still intend to

2011-07-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In yet another instance of an Internet-driven social phenomenon, a growing number of women in the U.S. are joining on-line breast-milk-sharing communities. Their aim is to provide human milk to new mo

2011-07-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-One, the only Alicia Keys, regarding her, get her, her songs “Songs in A Minor”. And you remember what's ten years ago sold 12 million, more than 12 million albums. It is back out 10 years later.

2011-07-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you were to attend a parade or musical celebration of the 235th anniversary of Americans’ declaration of independence today, you’d likely see lots of men and women in the uniforms of the United S

2011-07-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street's sway over politici

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

全国人民代表大会常务委员会通过了最新版本的个人所得税法.结果出乎许多人的预料,将个税起征点提高到3500元,而不是先前的3000元.China's top legislature has passed an amendment to personal income tax law, whi

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

万众瞩目的京沪高铁于今天开始运营.首列列车已经从北京出发,前往上海.中国两大城市之间相距1318公里,最短行车时间不到5小时,大大缩短两大市之间的旅行时间.At a launching ceremony held right before the departure

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We call interactive communications tools such as Twitter and Facebook social media. But lots of commentators have asserted that using them heavily makes people less sociable, if not downright anti-soc

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The end of an era is near. The U.S. space shuttles - the complex workhorses of the U.S. space program - are being retired so NASA can focus on developing spacecraft that can travel beyond low-Earth-o

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Times Square gets even crazier in the summer, so to have the…the courage and the vision to say: "Let's…Let’s create a moment to just chill.” People oftentimes think that yoga is more something th

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It’s fully experimental and we never thought we could fly internationally with this airplane because it’s a… in some ways it’s test bench, but it flew so well, that we accepted the invitation of B

2011-07-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This human musical instrument is the winner of the 2011 Japan Toy Awards,as you can see it,lets you play a tune simply by touching the person playing with you. The company that makes this says it come

2011-06-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

夏天来临了，很多爱美的女性都认为这是个运动流汗、燃烧脂肪的绝佳机会。只是适度运动的前提，一定要保护自己的身体不受伤害。Summer workouts are usually considered the best way to burn off those extra pounds

2011-06-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Greek politicians have voted in favor of $40 billion worth of austerity measures that were a precondition for Greece to receive international loans and stave off financial disaster. But as strikes tak