2010-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And now a Hollywood saga involving L.A.'s famous sign. Some investors from Chicago were planning to develop a track of land next to this local landmark. People here naturally wo

2010-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Doctors are calling it a milestone. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind prostate cancer treatment. It is not a cure, but it can extend the lives of those fighting the

2010-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Anti-government protesters in Thailand are threatening to use more aggressive measures in their fight for fresh elections. As part of a new strategy that stopped wearing red shirts to make it hard for

2010-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The tension on the streets of Bangkok eased just slightly as riot police withdrew from the barricade that marked the confrontation line with red-shirt demonstrators. But the police maintained a substa

2010-05-02 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Wallace Stegner was born on an Iowa farm, but in his youth roamed with his wondering family, all over the American West and up in the Saskatchewan. Somewhere along the way, he developed the urge to wr

2010-05-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Blue whales are still endangered, but their population is now on the rise again. And that might explain why the pitch of their songs has gotten lower. That’s according to John Hildebrand of the Scrip

2010-05-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

网络时代的新生代电子图书将大行其道。毋庸置疑，与传统图书相比，电子图书有其无法比拟的优势，其市场占有率将超过90％。难道用纸张、油墨印制的图书真的要进入博物馆了吗？To be or not to be? While the governme

2010-05-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MICHELE NORRIS, host: Boeing's massive C-17 cargo plane is manufactured in Long Beach, California. The sprawling plant there provides jobs for 5,000 workers, and it's one of the last vestiges of a o

2010-05-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The leaders of Britain's top political parties have concluded the last of three live televised debates before the upcoming general election. With less than one week to go before voters head to the ba

2010-05-01 所属栏目:英语听力材料

They still haven't found any Martian microbes, or telltale signs of alien biospheres orbiting distant stars. But scientists looking for signs of life in our solar system and the universe beyond are n

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

中国最大的动漫盛会28日在杭州隆重开幕。为期六天的动漫节吸引了来自世界各地的动漫粉丝，全球著名的动漫机构如美国梦工厂、日本集英社、"阿凡达"制作团队等也出席了这次活动,漫友们可千万别错过啊!The China Intern

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And I'm Renee Montagne. Today in Your Health, we have the story of a mother raising a daughter wit

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

“So we are making sure we are forming our letters correctly…” At Saint Jan de Chatal Elemental School in Berthersder, cursive writing is still king. “By the time they come to 4th grade, we are cur

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Oh, that hurts...Stuart Lane is terminally ill. He isn't sure how long he has to live but he’s absolutely sure how he wants to die, quickly, peacefully, no suffering.--I’m petrified. I am petrified

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

With the stroke of a pen, Arizona governor Jan Brewer has put into effect the toughest immigration law in the US. “I have decided to sign Senate Bill 1070 into law because, though many people disagre

2010-04-30 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Any school kid can tell you that comets are made of ice. That frozen water burning off is what gives comets their characteristic tails. But asteroids were generally thought to be dry. Or at least fros

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

25日，丹麦的著名标志之一“小美人鱼”在上海世博园揭开面纱，这标志着丹麦馆正式开馆。“小美人鱼”铜像96年来第一次离开故乡，连同哥本哈根的海水，在上海滩讲述一个丹麦的童话......Starting from this moment, t

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Ed Weiler: The Hubble has discovered things that we could never have anticipated. That is, it’s literally changed our view of the universe. 爱德华•威勒：哈勃望远镜带来的新发现是我们未曾想过的。

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It also revealed that 28 percent had choked on crumbs, while one in ten had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit. More unusually, three percent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host: A rare and dangerous fungus has been spreading in British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. It causes serious lung and brain infections. It can be fatal. Now, researchers h

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials. The aim: to get agreement on a b

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The morning after a major entrepreneurship conference wrapped in Washington, Clinton spoke at a breakfast for women from around the world who attended that summit. Clinton, one of the world's most po

2010-04-29 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Immigration activists held a lunch-time rally to protest Arizona's new law that is aimed at deporting illegal immigrants. They said it would encourage racial profiling by allowing local police to dem

2010-04-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do? A study into how laz

2010-04-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sheila Conant: Hawaii is unique in its rate of what we call endemism. And that is the existence of species that occur in Hawaii and they occur nowhere else in the world.希拉•柯南特：夏威夷的独特