2009-12-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

1822年诞生了一首传奇版的圣诞经典诗：A Visit from St. Nicholas。圣尼古拉就是我们不能再熟悉的平安夜主角。平安夜来临，我们一起仔细聆听圣诞昨天与今天的声音……原来圣诞魅力从开始到现在从未改变。
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2009-12-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. President Barack Obama has drawn crowds wherever he goes. Visiting Europe earlier in the year, he was treated almost like a rock star.

For many, he was a symbol of hope and inspiration. Brit

2009-12-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Speaking in the capital, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said "12 or 13 potential terrorist attacks" have been foiled in 2009. And, that any one of them could have led to a repeat of las

2009-12-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:And I'm Linda Wertheimer.All along the East Coast, airports are returning to normal after the wi

2009-12-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Picture a gamer, someone who spends countless hours immersed in one of those online role-playing alternate realities. And what do you see? Is it a physically fit female closer to 40 than 14? If not, y

2009-12-23 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 la

2009-12-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Christmas is just around the corner. For the rest of today's program, we bring you some famous Christmas tunes by the world famous Jingle Cats, a singing group composed of nine real cats. The group,

2009-12-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad lashed out at the United States again in a speech Tuesday, the latest outburst in what analysts say is an attempt to regain his political stature in the wake of t

2009-12-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Asia is being seen as a growth center in the globalization of health services thanks to rising demand from developed countries as well as the region's expanding middle class. But there are concerns t

2009-12-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.RENEE MONTAGNE, host:And I'm Renee Montagne.For American troops, getting out of Afghanistan means training Afghans

2009-12-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In 2008 astronomers discovered surprising amounts of water molecules where planets were forming near young stars. But how, they wondered, could those molecules survive? They should have been destroyed

2009-12-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A massive storm that dumped about a half-meter of snow from Virginia to Maine did more than frustrate motorists. It added to the woes of retailers that were already bracing for weak holiday sales as

2009-12-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Soft drinks have become a staple of diets in both wealthy and poorer countries. Now research shows that calories from those sugary drinks might increase a woman's risk of developing diabetes while s

2009-12-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.RENEE MONTAGNE, host:And I'm Renee Montagne.For all the troops the U.S. is sending to Afghanistan, the war there depe

2009-12-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It’s the season for celebrating – and many of those celebrations include imbibing alcohol. Which sometimes leaves us the next morning with uncomfortable reminders of our excesses. But does what we d

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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[en]Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

由于网购的便利性，现已有越来越多的消费者倾向于上网购买自己所需品，但是面对着网络上的众多商家，你可能不知该如何选择，那就让Better Business Bureau 来帮你拿定主意吧。As the National Retail Federation pre

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Every afternoon, Tang Yinjuan takes a walk along the Wanzai harbor accompanied by the voice of tour guides welcoming passengers aboard a cruise ship. Tang is the founder of the cruise tour company. Te

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In recent weeks, Iran has rejected a plan to process nuclear material outside the country and tested an upgraded medium range missile believed to be capable of reaching Israel.A senior advisor to U.S.

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Blizzard conditions have descended upon a wide section of Europe. While snow has brought smiles to the faces of children who have dusted off their sleds for the new season, for others, this cold snap

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The internet is often described as the World Wide Web but how truly global is it when millions of users have no choice but to use a Latin-based alphabet to name websites and email addresses? All of th

2009-12-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

GUY RAZ, host:Now, members of Congress looking to cut health care costs ought to listen to this next story, because if they're really looking to save money, a lot of money, they might want to start b

2009-12-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

MELISSA BLOCK, host: More than 1,100 Saab dealers worldwide got bad news today. General Motors is no longer trying to sell the company, instead GM will close Saab. Michigan Radio's Rina Miller report

2009-12-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Lawmakers in the lower house of Afghan parliament have begun debating President Karzai's nominees and they must endorse them before the Cabinet becomes official. The Afghan president has been under i

2009-12-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Years of warfare have wrecked Afghanistan's health care system. The country's health infrastructure was completely destroyed by the time the U.S. invasion began at the end of 2001.Since then, with