2011-03-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural products near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week's earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation.In what is likely t

2011-03-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Experts and diplomats are predicting Japan’s recent deadly earthquake and tsunami, along with its ongoing nuclear reactor crisis, will not have too much of an effect on Japan itself in the long-term,

2011-03-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: That earthquake is being described as the strongest one ever recorded in Japan's history. It struck offshore to the east of Japan about 80 miles from the northern coastal city o

2011-03-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Some of America's brightest students came to Washington for the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science competition. The awards ceremony was the culminatio

2011-03-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As the nuclear crisis continues in northeastern Japan, the government is telling people near the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi reactors to stay indoors. The US government is warning Americans already in J

2011-03-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

We wanna bring NBC chief science and health correspondent Robert Bazell. Bob, it's not just the Japanese people affected by the radiation. We had the Pentagon report that our aircraft carriers, the o

2011-03-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Wanna get out of the hospital alive? Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with it. Now a study finds that a patient’s risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is

2011-03-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

日本近期发生了9.0级大地震，同时还引起了一系列的灾难。日本的大地震和海啸不仅给当地社会和经济带来毁灭性的打击,也影响了全球的产业链.一些中国的电子企业正面临着生产断线的困难。Reporter:The disaster has sus

2011-03-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE MARTIN, host: Finally, it's Valentine's Day, a day when we celebrate love. And even with all that's going on in the world, I think it's important to take a moment to think about our intima

2011-03-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Belarus, the nation that most suffered from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials recently signed a deal for their first nuclear power plant from Russia. Despite the authoritarian government in

2011-03-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Vietnamese officials are criticizing the Lao government’s controversial plan to build a dam on the Mekong River. Analysts say opposition from Vietnam and other lower Mekong countries could force Laos

2011-03-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

“We are definitely in uncharted waters, particularly given that the spent fuel pool appears to either not have water or have very little water. It’s completely exposed to the atmosphere.”David Biel

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

随着中国经济迅猛发展，越来越多的人认识到学习中文的重要性。在欧美和亚洲国家，兴起中文热，英国也不例外。加之中国教育部门近年来也努力在英国拓展孔子学院，宣传中国文化，因此汉语的学习在英国搞的如火如荼。但

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

ARI SHAPIRO, host: Over the past week, stars like Mariah Carey and Beyonce have publicly apologized for playing parties for members of Moammar Gadhafi's family. That got us wondering: How can I get B

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Thursday, March 17, is Saint Patrick’s Day, a time when native-born Irish and Irish-Americans will parade and pipe their way up Manhattan’s famed Fifth Avenue. The 2011 event, which is expected to i

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Auto experts say electric vehicles are a practical alternative to gasoline-powered cars, at least for some drivers. The biggest challenge for the auto industry is expanding the infrastructure for rec

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Stock markets in the United States, Asia and Europe plunged sharply on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks over worries about the nuclear crisis in Japan. The Japanese government is trying to reassure

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Today’s decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee will be the most hotly anticipated in months. And the reason, well, inflation in the UK is rising and consensus among committee me

2011-03-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Congress has finally acted on global warming—by denying it exists. It’s in the grand lawmaking tradition of the Indiana state legislature’s 1897 attempt to redefine the value of pi. The Republican-

2011-03-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

必需承认，我们的国家人实在是太多了。计划生育实行以来，人口的增长被控制了，但人口比例失调和老龄化问题又成了社会不稳定的巨大隐忧。今年有两会委员提议放开生二胎政策，引起很大的争论。如果政策允许，你，愿意

2011-03-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Japan's central bank moved quickly Monday to reassure investors that sufficient money will be available to rebuild the nation's quake-damaged economy, injecting nearly $200 billion to stabilize fina

2011-03-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you speak more than one language, you have a better chance of staving off memory loss and, possibly, the mental and physical decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease. New research shows that ev

2011-03-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Imagine life without fire. A lot of huddling for warmth.The consensus was that humans could make and control fire when they first migrated north to colder Europe, about a million years ago. But new re

2011-03-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

在现代城市发展过程中，尽管已经实现了九年义务教育，但是幼儿园上学难、上学贵的问题一直都困扰着许多家庭。望着堪比上大学费用的入园费，让很多工薪家庭望而却步。究竟该如何解决这一问题呢？政府官员如是说……Do

2011-03-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host:From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.ROBERT SIEGEL, host:And I'm Robert Siegel.Let's say you love a band, and you want to make sure they keep making m