2010-05-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 96 people Monday, and wounded about 200 others. The violence began before dawn, with gunmen in speeding cars killing soldiers and police at checkpoints ac

2010-05-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Imagine a kitchen without pots, pans or even recipes. It's a concept that one of the world's largest appliance makers envisions for the future. The heart of the whole unit is an all-in-one kitchen s

2010-05-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This spring-like statuette will be handed out next month on June 14th in New York City. Hey, you see last year’s recipient for the Best Political Blog Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, recei

2010-05-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Lady Macbeth famously tried to clean her conscience by rubbing invisible blood stains off her hands. Well, Shakespeare was on to something. Hand washing can ease psychological tu

2010-05-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Thorsten Markus: We should not underestimate the importance of sea ice to the global climate system.
托尔斯滕•马库斯：我们不能低估海冰在全球气候系统中的重要地位。You are listening to Thorsten M

2010-05-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed the first deposits of oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico have hit the shores of the southern state of Louisiana. The oil spill has local fishermen worr

2010-05-10 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I think people actually look and listen to the substance, they'll see somebody who is completely on top of these facts, knows exactly the policies that he believes the country should follow. And you

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

世博会不仅吸引着国人的目光，其独特的魅力也深深感染着住在中国的老外们。热心的他们组成了世博会志愿者大军中的“多国部队”，用自己的行动支持世博会，传递着中外人民间的友谊。世博志愿服务队队长、土耳其担保银

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. And we're joined this morning by the chief executive of BP. That's the company leasing the well that is n

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Members of Britain's third party - the center-left Liberal Democrats - met privately Saturday as they considered a power-sharing offer from the center-right Conservatives. The Conservatives garnered

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A coalition of U.S. Civil Rights and Labor organizations say they intent to boycott major events in the Southwestern state of Arizona.
This development is the latest in a growing number of protests a

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

"Egoli" is the Zulu name for Johannesburg. It means "place of gold". For most of the past century, this city has been the epicenter of the world's gold production. South Africa's gold mines which ar

2010-05-09 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In an election that's entering its final hours, the party leaders have been crisscrossing the nation in a final push for votes. David Cameron's been on the road for nearly 36 hours straight, going a

2010-05-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Lane Wood : Before the earthquake, a third of Haiti didn’t have access to clean water.莱恩·伍德：地震来临之前，海地三分之一的地区缺乏清洁用水。You are listening to Lane Wood of the New York-based or

2010-05-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

还在玩农场？你已经凹凸啦。现在流行Bejewel！ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Online games connected to social networking sites like Facebook are going viral. Games like FarmVille, a game in which you cultivate an

2010-05-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Opinion polls have shown that President Barack Obama's widely-publicized speech in Cairo last June calling for improved U.S. relations with the Muslim world raised public expectations for such an out

2010-05-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits China to bury past tensions and lobby on global issues. Beijing had canceled a meeting in late 2008 after the French president had met with the Tibetan Dalai La

2010-05-08 所属栏目:英语听力材料

[Clip of Rodney Dangerfield, saying “It’s not easy being me; when I was born the doctor told my mother, ‘I did all I could, but he pulled through anyway.’”] Rodney mighta felt bad … but he shoul

2010-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Is global warming causing an increase in volcanoes? We got that question several times after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. EarthSky asked volcanologist Bjorn Oddsson in Icel

2010-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Next, we'll report on people so in touch with the world they can barely stand it. Last week in Your Health, NPR's Alix Spiegel introduced us to a little girl named Isabelle who

2010-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh says a national unity government is a way to end Thailand's cycle of political conflict that has contributed to eight weeks of protests in the Thai capital

2010-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The waterfall at the Venta River in Latvia. It is here, near the town of Kuldiga, once a year fish can be seen jumping into the air trying to climb over a waterfall in an attempt to reach the upper co

2010-05-07 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time. Well, new research has maybe found the most promising tool yet—a technique to watch individual neuro

2010-05-06 所属栏目:英语听力材料

当游客们涌入上海观世博时，上海周边城市也准备借此东风吸引更多的旅客。旅游内部人士透露，今年夏季，世博旅游热潮将会一直持续。Drive northwest out of Shanghai, pass by the Taihu Lake, and you will come to

2010-05-06 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: I'm Robert Siegel. And it's time now for All Tech Considered. (Soundbite of music) SIEGE