2011-06-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new analysis of life expectancy around the world finds Americans are lagging behind other industrialized countries, and also identifies vast disparities within the United States itself. Life expecta

2011-06-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A report in Wednesday's New York Times quotes unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Pakistan has arrested five people, including a Pakistani military official, accused of passing information

2011-06-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Heart-stopping moment as it happened on our air last night, Eyewitnesses reporter Darla Miles was reporting from the Bronx at 6 pm when a powerful storm, suddenly swept through and nearly swept Darla

2011-06-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Scientists at the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta today released results of a study which shows that the life style of some male homosexuals has triggered an epidemic of a rare form of

2011-06-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Well, this is the case, you know, where you have …eh… geopolitics and oil mixing. It's gonna probably force the hand of the OPEC members. This persistent rise of crude above $100 a barrel on the fr

2011-06-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Climate change affects seasonal events—spring flowers open earlier, songbirds breed sooner. But what about mammals? A new study documents the effect on a special breed of cows in the U.K. Northumberl

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many years ago, a baby boy came into this world. But unfortunately, he didn't come with a cry, which was a big problem from the medical point of view. The doctor, tough and quick, turned the baby ups

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

一系列地震6月13日再次袭击新西兰南岛城市克赖斯特彻奇，致使多人受伤。这座城市过去一年内地震多发，今年2月22日，6.3级地震就曾导致181人死亡，财产损失严重。尽管如此，新西兰总理约翰·基表示重建的决心没有减弱

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: The United States and its allies are preparing for a post-Gadhafi Libya. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Libyan leader's days are numbered. She met today with diploma

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Barack Obama is appealing to the warring sides in Sudan to cease fighting that threatens the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 to end the country's 21-year civil war. The presid

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Following their first major presidential debate, Republican White House contenders have made it clear they intend to make the 2012 U.S. presidential election a referendum on President Barack Obama's

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In East Africa, millions people are in need of emergency food assistance because of the prolonged, severe drought. Now a U.N. agency warns that things could get worse.Steady rain is hard to come by in

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Apart from working and sleeping, the thing Americans do the most is watch TV—5 hours a day on average. But all that time in front of the tube may up your risk of death, according to a review in the J

2011-06-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Was I right? The chronology of this-when the Katie Couric came to anchor the CBS evening news. -I took her old job. -You took her old job and it’s five years, and you both… did you both know you we

2011-06-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

似乎随着考试的越来越多，学生的压力也越来越大，作弊的情况也越来越严重。很多的专家都认为我们应该组织学生富人作弊行为，从学校到社会大家都应该一起改善这种情况。When all is said and done, over 9.3 million

2011-06-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

因为Facebook的强大影响力，很多政客，包括奥巴马，都与其有良好的私人关系。这使得许多人担心这种关系会最终导致政府对Facebook监管的力度的加大，从而有一天威胁到用户的个人隐私。MONTAGNE: Before Mr. Obama vis

2011-06-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from allergies, and their numbers are growing. New studies suggest that climate change may be at least partly to blame. Scientists say rising av

2011-06-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The American Theater Wing gave out its annual Tony awards on Sunday, honoring plays and musicals staged on Broadway in New York - considered the highest level of the U.S. theater industry.Broadway is

2011-06-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

When the internet first got kicking, some scholars of democracy and civil society thought that online discussions could create what they called a "conversational democracy”: an ongoing town hall with

2011-06-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Sony unveiled its next generation portable video game device on the eve of a big game industry conference in Los Angeles.NPR's Nina Gregory has more.NINA GREGORY: Before Sony pr

2011-06-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As the Syrian government continues its violent crackdown on protestors, thousands of people are fleeing across the Turkish border. In the village of Güveççi, Turkish residents have been

2011-06-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This is the man who wanted your mortgage to go up last summer. Andrew Sentance says it’s bad for the economy that the base rate of interest is so low because it makes inflation worse. Since June of l

2011-06-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Well now, speaking of A list-Yeah.-And I'm sorry, and don't take this the wrong way. I didn't know that when your friends, hum, explain the relationship to us, was Cher, for God's sakes, how does

2011-06-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A public-private health consortium is asking international donors for $3.75 billion to help provide vaccines that could save the lives of four million children around the world by 2015. The Global All

2011-06-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Janet Wahib has worked in quality control at this Cairo garment factory for six months. She wasn’t out on the streets during the revolution. She felt she should keep on working, so the country didn’