2011-04-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you've ever wanted to own a piece of Hollywood history, now it's your chance. The Hollywood Memorabilia Auction 44 is filled with key ingredients of popular culture. Profiles in History's Joe Ma

2011-04-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It's Thursday, April 21st, I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded. Amazon announced kindle library lending. This lets you borrow books from over eleven thousand libraries in the US. You can

2011-04-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Seventeen million people died of cardiovascular diseases(心血管疾病) last year alone, and that number is only expected to rise. Heart disease is supposed to be the result of th

2011-04-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Indian prime minister, under pressure for not doing enough to rein in graft, has pledged to introduce an anti-corruption bill in parliament in July. His commitment comes in the wake of a public ca

2011-04-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As World Malaria Day is observed worldwide April 25, VOA takes a look at Malindi, a city on Kenya’s coast that is fighting malaria through community action.As the world works to eliminate malaria dea

2011-04-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Take a fire ant—don’t forget your gloves. Toss it in water, and it’ll eventually drown. But throw a group of fire ants into the water, come back the next day, and they’ll still be floating.Ants ar

2011-04-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The Chinese government is taking on a new ideological task. In China, certain words are politically sensitive - for example, Tiananmen Square or democracy. And these days that li

2011-04-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In a big surprise, chip giant Intel announced 25% jump in quarterly revenues, the much better than expected sales figures helped lift profits far ahead of analysts' forecast. Softness in consumer dem

2011-04-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Hi, Tina.-Hi, how are you? -I’m fantastic. How are you? -I’m good. Thank you. -How are you, feel like, can’t believe it, like you don't have a… I can’t believe it.(-I can’t believe it.)-How in

2011-04-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We learn today that the nuclear crisis is even worse than we thought. Officials have raised the scale of the incident to the highest level, the same as Chernobyl. People within the 12-mile radius of t

2011-04-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: A lot of attention has been paid to the way bookstores and publishing companies are managing the e-book revolution. But far less has been paid to the role of libraries. When Harp

2011-04-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Ukraine they call them ‘Chernobylites’. People affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in then-Soviet Ukraine. Residents evacuated after the April 26, 1986 disaster lost t

2011-04-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

At this McDonald's in Cleveland, the line snaked around the restaurant with people turning out for McDonald's one day hiring blitz. A steady stream of job-seekers filled this McDonald's in Newark,

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: More than four months after presidential elections in Haiti, the country finally appears to have a new leader. Michel Martelly won 68 percent of the vote in a March 20th runoff a

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

What can a cookie tin, a Rubik’s Cube, and a novel tell us about Britain’s royal family? Quite alot according to Robert Opie, who has been a collector since before he can remember. Today, his coll

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

There are just days to go until British royal Prince William weds Catherine Middleton on April 29, in a ceremony that is expected to be watched by billions around the world. Observers have praised the

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

On the outskirts of Beijing, workers are attending to tomatoes at Wang Liufeng's greenhouse, the former electronics manager switching to farming two years ago and what turned out to be a money-making

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Just days before the first anniversary of this, the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, Louisiana fishermen Wright Roberts and shrimper Terry Coons joined other Gulf residents to come all the way to London in

2011-04-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Most plants capture sunlight. And the results are usually green. Because in photosynthesis, plant chlorophyll uses wavelengths of blue and our sun’s abundant red, and reflects green. But what if—as

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

4月1日起北京三大类非居住区停车费进行调整，占道费也相应增加，占道车位每天将多交20元。擅自降价、私自打折等行为将从重处罚。但是这样是否能真正控制车子的数量？Beijing has started charging higher parking fe

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.In today's health segment, people with rare diseases help each other using the Internet. But first, in an increasingly

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Inflation is hitting U.S. consumers hard. The last era of severe inflation was in the 1970s, when prices and wages spiraled upward. This time, while the official inflation rate is still relatively m

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Laos plans to build a hydropower dam on the lower Mekong River, but neighboring countries say more study is needed. Analysts say the high-level opposition puts pressure on Laos to alter its hydropower

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-You think a lot about leadership. What do you think of President Obama as a leader?-Hum, I think he is a remarkable individual, but let me put this in context,Fareed. Just imagine that you are the CE

2011-04-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Celtics? How do you feel about playing in Celtics as a Knickerbocker now?-I'm excited. I'm excited there. It's just, you know, it's just looking back at the history of the whole New York to Bost