2011-06-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

"Farishta" means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It’s also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Americans love their cars. There are more cars, per capita, in the United States than in any other country - more than eight cars for every 10 Americans, according to recent government figures.But mos

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Environmental activists have relied on public pressure, boycotts and confrontation to advance their cause over the past few decades. Now, a new generation of eco-warriors is revolutionizing environmen

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The White House says President Barack Obama will announce his decision on the size and pace of a U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan on Wednesday. It will come amid intensified national war-weariness

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The couple among many celebrities of a lavish fund-raising dinner at Kensington Palace, tickets cost 10,000 pounds a head for the charity gala. Prince William spoke about what the cause meant to him."

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

They found Star by chance, just in time. These animal welfare officers in Malta had been dealing with a separate case of an abandoned dog when they heard whimpering under the ground. They followed the

2011-06-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

You’re lying in a hammock by a breezy shore. The hammock rocks softly back and forth. In no time…(snoring). It turns out that’s not just the relaxation of being on vacation that’s bringing on slee

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

近来很多市民将手中的闲余资金转投各大银行推出的一些短期理财产品。和其他理财产品相比较，短期理财产品最主要的特点就是资金的流动性好，与银行存款相比，风险和利息稍高……The current annual interest rate for

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

提到醋，你会想到些什么呢？深褐色液体，略带有些清亮，打开瓶盖时一阵酸味扑鼻，不仅有助于消化，还可以养颜美容……When you mention the province of Shanxi to Chinese people, one of the first things that co

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The World Health Organization has added cell phones to its very long list of things that could possibly cause cancer. The conclusion is far from definitive, but scientists reviewe

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

SCOTT SIMON, host: Darrell Griffin Sr. will spend Memorial Day（美国阵亡将士纪念日） at a cemetery in the Los Angeles area remembering his son, Army Staff Sergeant Darrell Griffin Jr., who was killed

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The race to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund is now officially a two-way race after the IMF board disqualified the Bank of Israel's Stanley Fischer on Monday. Analysts say Fren

2011-06-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he came to Sierra Leone to follow up on his initiatives to help the country."This is all part of the initiative we have here in Sierra Leone working along

2011-06-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The obesity epidemic is not just an American health issue. New data from the World Health Organization show that more than 1 billion adults around the world are overweight, nearly a third of them obe

2011-06-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When the ocean liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers died. It made headlines as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. T

2011-06-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

--There are allegations that leader Muammar Gaddafi’s troops have been using rape as a tool of war. And the International Criminal Court is gathering evidence that Libyan leadership has acquired a l

2011-06-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh, lies in a hospital bed in neighboring Saudi Arabia, "severely burned", US officials say, "hit with shrapnel in an attack on his presidential palace." With Yemen

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: The world became slightly less peaceful in the last year. That's according to the new Global Peace Index, which attempts to rank 153 countries. Number one this year, Iceland.

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

About a decade ago, scientists decoded the human genome, creating a gene-by-gene map of our DNA. In the decade since, genetic research has accelerated, but mostly it's stayed in the laboratory. Now,

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The leaders of France and Germany signaled Friday they want to find a quick solution to the economic crisis in Greece. In Greece, the prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced his finance mi

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This is today’s greenminute, and I’m Jim Parks. It’s possible that a baby wooly mammoth carcass that Russian scientists discovered in 2007 which has laid frozen for over 40,000 years may be able to

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I'm at the World Economic Forum in Indonesia, being held for the first time in this country. Now, Indonesia is a big story at the moment. It's got a young but secure democracy, a growing economy and

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-All right, well, the last question I ask everybody that's on the show always has to do with music and always has to do with doing a riddle snippet of some song that means something to you.-Yeah-Now

2011-06-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mmmm, blueberries. It’s the height of the season, and I’ve been tossing a handful onto cereal, into pancakes or just straight into my mouth. Many of our crops were cultivated thousands of years ago,

2011-06-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists have identified a new way of fighting cancer that limits the growth and spread of a variety of tumors in laboratory animals. When you get a cut, the area quickly becomes inflamed - swollen,