2011-06-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

New York has legalized same sex marriage, making it the sixth U.S state to do so. Gay rights advocates call the vote a major victory in their quest for equality.The New York State Senate approved th

2011-06-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Witnesses say that Syrian security forces moved into the Damascus suburb of Kaswah Saturday, a day after they surrounded the area and swooped down on protesters. A Syrian rights group says at least 2

2011-06-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Protests in Madrid over Spain’s economic crisis, and this day also against the European Union’s economic policy, concerned here that efforts to protect the euro will mean more economic austerity mea

2011-06-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Ah, tell, tell us about the book, Go the, Go the blank to Sleep. This is a, an actual a book, kind-of, sort of a joke, right? -Ah, from what I understand, the guy, ah, wrote on his blog last year as

2011-06-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Milk filled with melamine which killed babies, seasoning mixed with toxic chemicals like Sudan Red, and oil extracted from waste being used in restaurants…food safety scandals in China seem to just k

2011-06-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In a televised speech, President Obama made the announcement that many saw coming."Starting next month, we will be able to remove 10-thousand of our troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, an

2011-06-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Regal independent department stores were once landmarks and the retail bedrock of every American city. Pampered shoppers could sample perfumes, select suits for which tailors would carefully measure t

2011-06-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Farm ministers from the G20 group of leading and emerging economies wrapped up their first-ever meeting this week with a call for better regulation of the global commodity markets.

French leaders

2011-06-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Counting on food with fake fats to help you slip into last year’s bathing suit? Better count again. Because a new study with rats shows that low-cal fat substitutes can actually promote weight gain.

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

你还在为拍婚纱照，但没有自己偏爱的风格而烦恼吗？80印象馆将令你耳目一新！这里的摄影师以80后年轻人不同的人生和艺术视角去理解摄影，并创造出独特的80后风格。他们怀着对生活梦想和年轻人的激情和丰富的创造力，

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

JACKI LYDEN, host: After battling financial difficulties for several years, Crystal Cathedral Ministries has declared bankruptcy. Church spokesmen say that they will allow the ministry, known for its

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

June 16, 2011 - STEVE INSKEEP, host: One hundred years ago today a Wall Street financier named Charles Flint merged three small firms to form what he called the Computing Tabulating Recording Company.

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Men who smoke cigarettes are more likely to die of prostate cancer, according to a new study. Smoking also increases the risk of a recurrence of the disease.There are about 900,000 cases of prostate c

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Tuberculosis continues to be a major threat around the world, especially in developing countries. A new vaccine has gone into testing, and the results may change how childhood vaccinations are given.T

2011-06-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth’s magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilities—in our eyes. So says a study in the journal Nature Commun

2011-06-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years.When he ran for president in 200

2011-06-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The space shuttle Atlantis is preparing for the final mission of the U.S. shuttle program next month. Atlantis's crew is excited and reflective before the space craft's last flight.The crew, led by

2011-06-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

His company, he says, is on a mission to save the world, from computer viruses and bottlenecks and the other threats posed by cyber crime. But when Kaspersky Labs started up in 1997, the firm that wou

2011-06-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Its shocking that people are just so stupid. Tonight, 20-year-old Eley London is charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police say she went on Facebook late last month after arguing with her baby'

2011-06-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Saliva contains many useful components. Lubricants. Enzymes for breaking down food. And now, compounds that can reveal a person’s age. That’s according to a study in the journal Public Library of Sc

2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

当我们每晚在自己的家中安然入睡的时候，可否想到那些无家可归的人们？在澳大利亚，有这么一群CEO， 在百忙之中选择了一年一度的圣文尼CEO露宿慈善活动——露宿街头，体验这种无家可归流浪者的感受。于是，16日晚悉尼

2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

JACKI LYDEN, LYDEN: Throughout the spring, U.S. farmers faced floods, tornados, downpours and droughts - everything but locusts（蝗虫）. All of that bad weather made planting difficult. Now in June, i

2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: And let's travel next to Japan, which has been struggling with power shortages since the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant. To save electricity, th

2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: You could say countries have personalities just like people do. Researchers set out to define those differences using a scale that measures how tight the social rules and standar

2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This spring, so-called “100-year floods” swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America’s largest commercial waterway.The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, whi