2011-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LIANE HANSEN, host: As the days grow longer and warmer, employers who run roller coasters(过山车), water parks and hot dog stands are preparing for the summer rush. They're seeking workers to fill jo

2011-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There is compelling new evidence that a little bit of belly fat can be extremely hazardous to your health if you’ve had a heart attack. The study’s findings compare the increased risk of death to sm

2011-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, U.S. involvement in Afghanistan faces greater scrutiny. Some lawmakers, and analysts, in Washington, D.C., want President Barack Obama to do more than begin the init

2011-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-When is the last time you wore jeans? When I, when you were here last, you said, I said what do you sleep in. I said you are on pajamas. And you said you sleep in whatever you’re wearing. -I very of

2011-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity. The corroboration appears online in the journal Physical Review Letters. [Francis Everitt

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

美国时间5月1日晚，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马发表电视讲话，正式公布了基地组织头目本·拉登的死讯。这位时代枭雄也如流星般陨落，现在让我们一起，看看这位恐怖组织头目的人生轨迹。Osama bin Laden was born in Jedd

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: India's latest census reveals a disturbing trend. There are far fewer girls born there each year than boys. Activists say the disparity is deliberate. Much of Indian culture rega

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As government officials from eight Arctic nations - the United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland - prepare to meet in Greenland next week to discuss the challenges

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The American economy has traditionally been divided into three sectors: government, for-profit businesses and non-profit charities. In more recent years, students of American business have begun talki

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

You've heard of renting a palace, renting a mega yacht, even renting an island. How about renting a country? For $70,000 a night with a two-night minimum and a very strict cancellation policy, you ca

2011-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Some things are best done after dark. Setting off fireworks. Telling scary stories. And charging your plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Because a new study shows that topping off your car battery at ni

2011-05-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: We've been following the numerous reports about air traffic controllers caught sleeping on the job. Controllers often work overnight shifts or rotate among many different shi

2011-05-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mother’s Day is a popular spring holiday in the U.S., a time when families get together and honor mom with cards, flowers and gifts. It is also big business, one of the biggest weekends for retail s

2011-05-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you smoke more than a pack or two of cigarettes a day, you are classified as a heavy smoker. And new research also shows the longer you smoke, the greater your risk of developing life threatening

2011-05-05 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Parents wring their hands over infant sleep patterns. And so when those patterns change, parents tend to panic. But if your baby is sleeping more or napping at weird times, maybe he or she is just gro

2011-05-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

NOAH ADAMS, host: A while back, we brought you the story of a breakthrough technology: the robot journalist.It's actually a software program. You feed it data, it eats that data and spits out a news

2011-05-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Snoring can be irritating or funny - depending on whether or not it's disturbing your sleep. But it can also be deadly, especially when someone suffers from sleep apnea, a condition where a person st

2011-05-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

According to that IMF forecast, China's economy could overtake that of US to become the world's biggest by 2016. That is much earlier than previous predictions, some of which called it for 2030 or a

2011-05-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I see, Donald Trump and his pretended campaign.-First of all, I disagree with your premise, but I will say this: I don't know why we are taking him so seriously? Why are we listening to this curiosit

2011-05-04 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The tabloids love a good celebrity romance. But so do scientists. One has even used movie stars as models for understanding why people tend to marry partners with similar levels of education. The star

2011-05-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: Today is the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch. NASA's aging shuttles will be retired this year with just two flights to go. After that, the iconic(形象的) black

2011-05-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. President Barack Obama was preparing to announce Osama bin Laden was dead when word got out and crowds started gathering late Sunday outside the White House in Washington and at Ground Zero in Ne

2011-05-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

NASA says engineers at Kennedy Space Center believe they have identified the cause of the heater failure that forced the postponement of the launch of the shuttle Endeavour.NASA technicians say the fu

2011-05-03 所属栏目:英语听力材料

And we did specifically go to Sony, Andrew, with that question "why did it take you six days after you found out that the system had been hacked". Well, Sony says that what they’ve done is that they’

2011-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

现在很多人，不管男女老少都很拼命的工作，为了买房子，为了结婚，为了孩子的未来，为了一家人的生活。人们为了不同的理由奋斗着，但是很多人都无视了健康问题，要赚的多也要小心身体啊！The death of a 25-year-old