2009-12-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Jake Sully is a wounded warrior: a U.S. Marine paralyzed from a battlefield injury. The chance to walk again is what initially draws him to a distant, dangerous moon.

"You are not in Kansas anymore

2009-12-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Some of our early ancestors weren’t just scavenging fruit and nuts and hunting animals. That’s the conclusion of scientists who discovered evidence of the grain sorghum on hundred-thousand-year-old

2009-12-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

[Crowd Noise] That's the sound of climate change negotiations—and CO2 being released. All this talking is a seemingly significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and not just because negotiators

2009-12-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

美国市场上的80万支甲型H1N1流感疫苗12月15日被宣布召回，原因是其药效发生了弱化。 美国疾病控制与预防中心表示，那些疫苗是在11月份上市的，并且大都已经被接种，是法国赛诺菲巴斯德公司专门为半岁至3岁儿童研制并

2009-12-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Senate Banking Committee has voted to approve the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term as head of the U.S. central bank. The move paves the way for a vote by the

2009-12-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is prepared to work with other countries to fund $100 billion a year by 2020 to address climate change needs of developing countries.

2009-12-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

STEVE INSKEEP, host:Commentator Brittany Hunsaker of Youth Radio has not started her career yet, but she's already worried about health insurance. She grew up in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and is helping

2009-12-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Smaller can sometimes be better, at least when it comes to fingers. It turns out that people with smaller fingers have more sensitive fingertips, according to a study in the Journal of Neuroscience.

2009-12-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

随着中国总理温家宝、美国总统奥巴马的陆续到来，气候变化大会16日正式进入高级别会谈阶段。如此重大的会议当然是丹麦首相拉斯穆森当主席比较合适。他将致力于平衡发达国家与发展中国家在气候问题上的分歧。Danish P

2009-12-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

圣诞节转眼将至，在开心的同时是不是夹杂着那么一点点烦心？不知道送什么礼物给朋友吧？如果你朋友是美食实践家的话，或许Dorie Greenspan 可以为你指点迷津。This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Ro

2009-12-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Mobile phones have revolutionized communications in many countries making it possible for people in distant and rural places to connect. Now high-tech smart mobile phones may be on the verge of revol

2009-12-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act has enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support. This has intensified as the Obama administration's outreach to Iran has been rebuffed and Tehran has defied inte

2009-12-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.ARI SHAPIRO, host:And I'm Ari Shapiro, sitting in for Steve Inskeep.The last year has been terrible for many American c

2009-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Jon Foley: You sometimes encounter these cliffs where you push the system a little too far, and things would just tip over and fell. And so these boundaries were meant to be defining kinda where the e

2009-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Sitting in for Steve Inskeep, I'm Ari Shapiro.RENEE MONTAGNE, host:And I'm Renee Montagne.CT scans are commonplace in American medicine. A new study says they

2009-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

That’s Beyonce singing her hit Irreplacable. And it goes with dance moves that involve—you guessed it—moving to the left. But what Beyonce, and many of us for that matter, might not realize is th

2009-12-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

As we all know, time flies when you’re having fun. But according to a study in the journal Psychological Science, the reverse is just as true: we enjoy ourselves more when we think time passes quickl

2009-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Within the U.S. government, climate change is not just the concern of White House and environmental officials. The Pentagon will soon list global warming among the security threats facing the United S

2009-12-15 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder due to a single genetic mutation. It remains in populations because the mutation has a flip side—it helps to protect against malaria. Now another mutation has

2009-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

日前，歌手John Mellencamp14岁的儿子 Speck Mellencamp为使父亲戒烟，与其达成一项协议，如果有一百万的人加入其FACEBOOK网页，签名支持该做法的话。John Mellencamp将从此戒烟。目前，“战事”如何，我们拭目以待吧

2009-12-14 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In a trial operation, the speed of the MU Train reached 394 kilometers per hour, the highest in the world. Though the speed during normal operation may be at 350 kilometers per hour, but this newly bu

2009-12-13 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The actions of Tony Blair have again come under scrutiny in Britain as he admits in a BBC interview that he was behind regime change in Iraq.The war was sold to his cabinet, to parliament and to the B

2009-12-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicted Friday that the international community will impose stronger economic sanctions on Iran unless its leaders change their policy and live up to agreements r

2009-12-12 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Thieves may leave fingerprints at the scene of a crime. But does an author leave a metaphorical fingerprint on the book? The answer may be yes, according to a study published in the New Journal of Phy

2009-12-11 所属栏目:英语听力材料

音频下载[点击右键另存为]THE PRESIDENT: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:I receive this h