2011-03-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

-Let's talk about the Japan crisis. How worried are you that this could curtail demand for oil?-Yeah, good morning. Let me first say that obviously our thoughts and our condolences are with the Japan

2011-03-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This NCAA basketball tournament generates analogue close to a billion dollars, maybe more than a billion dollars?Well, we pay 11 billion dollars for it, and my concern is I don't think you can pay co

2011-03-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We see it all the time on shows like Bones and CSI. Skeletal remains can yield all sorts of clues—gender, age, past physical traumas. But not the person’s weight. Now, scientists say that skeletons

2011-03-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

沙尘暴是沙暴和尘暴两者兼有的总称，是指强风把地面大量沙尘物质吹起并卷入空中，使空气特别混浊。春天刚刚到来，人们还来不及欣赏美景，沙尘暴就袭来了。There is an old saying that a year's plan starts with s

2011-03-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel.Problems at three nuclear reactors near Fukushima（福岛）, Japan, ha

2011-03-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

One of the most famous and most talked-about actresses to come out of Hollywood has died. Film legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.Taylor's striking b

2011-03-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

New census figures for the Midwest U.S. state of Michigan show dramatic population declines. Michigan was the only state in the 2010 census to lose people. Its biggest city, Detroit, once the fourth l

2011-03-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Pregnant women shouldn’t drink. It’s become gospel, because of the danger of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Alcohol can disturb the normal development of a fetus, leading to a lifetime of learning

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

2012世界末日的传言近日来愈演愈烈，而对于即将举办2012年奥运会的英国伦敦来说，安全问题无疑也是其头等大事。除了防止恐怖主义袭击、为应对自然灾害做好准备，倒票的“黄牛”也被他们视为安全隐患，要力争灭绝殆尽

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Stock markets plunged around the world today on concerns that the tragedy unfolding in Japan could devastate the country's economy. And that could push the rest of the world back into recession.Japan

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more , for a glass o

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Nearly one billion people around the globe lack access to clean, safe water. It's a common problem in many parts of the developing world, but its severity and human impact are not widely known, accor

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

That's what you are hearing at the moment is the tsunami warning. It's the second time that it sounded tonight. People across the islands in Hawaii have been told that the wave could hit in about 4

2011-03-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

X rays are so common today you probably never stop to think about them. They help check a broken wrist, a sprained ankle, the state of our teeth. But a little more than a century ago, x ray machines p

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

碘是人体的必需微量元素之一，健康成人体内的碘的总量为30mg（20~50mg），国家规定在食盐中添加碘的标准为20-30mg/kg。近期人们大量抢购盐，造成有的超市无盐可卖。可是补碘也要小心。Supermarkets in many parts of

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LIANE HANSEN, host: The nuclear cliffhanger in Japan continues today as engineers struggle to avert meltdowns at several damaged nuclear reactors. The most serious situation is in Fukushima Prefecture

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A new organization aims to sharply improve the quality of African laboratories, allowing health professionals to better track, treat and test for diseases. It’s called the African Society for Laborat

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Spring has just sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means an annual natural spectacular is just a couple of weeks away, deep in the heart of Texas. There are no other natural wonders in the ru

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We are talking now to Dr. Michio Kaku, our friend from City University of New York, Physicist. Just as important, you have friends and family in Japan, you've been in contact with them? That's right

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Breaking at this hour, Libya is declaring a ceasefire, Libya's foreign minister just announced the government will halt all military operations. The government is also denying that its airspace is cl

2011-03-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mark Twain called it “the most delicious fruit known to men.” He was talking about the cherimoya. If you never heard of it, there’s good reason. It has a feature that has prevented it from becoming

2011-03-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Scott Simon is away.We begin this hour with the latest from Japan after an explosion at a nuclear power station to

2011-03-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The nuclear crisis in Japan are causing many Japanese and Americans living there to seek a safe haven with their family and friends in the U.S. Some of them say they are not returning to their homelan

2011-03-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

日本地震引起了核电站的爆炸。面对日本核反应堆爆炸引发的核泄漏,人们到底应该怎样保护自己才能将核辐射伤害降到最低,中国又会不会受到日本核泄漏的影响?Reporter:The Japanese government says radiation from Japa

2011-03-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Japan's prime minister has vowed to "rebuild the nation from scratch" as estimates of the cost of last week's earthquake and tsunami reach upward of $120 billion. The massive wave wiped out a whole