2009-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Taliban insurgents are threatening to target Afghans who vote in the country's November 7 presidential runoff. Afghan election officials are working to improve security w

2009-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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The Obama administration signaled impatience with Iran after the Tehran government ignored a Friday deadline to respond to a U.N.-brokered deal aimed at easing concerns ov

2009-10-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Late Show host David Letterman return to work today to face an audience for the first time since revealing the extortion plot. He is literally just starting taping a show

2009-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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You might call it a new version of 'The Da Vinci Code', the discovery of a previously unknown masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hiding in plain site. The key to the disco

2009-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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"Colleen, it's the biggest insider-trading case having to do with the hedge fund, specifically. And basically, what it is, is you also have at the top of the indictment,

2009-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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How can the war in Afghanistan be won? With the conflict entering its ninth year and few signs that the fighting is easing, many think the answer lies in sending even more

2009-10-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Some people eat to avoid being bored. Others to avoid doing something they’d rather not, like preparing a podcast. Now a report says we might eat to avoid fungi. Because

2009-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Slovakia to ask NATO defense ministers to help the United States respond to the request for more resources made by the U.S. and

2009-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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U.S. President Barack Obama is welcoming the Treasury Department's order to slash top executives' pay at seven big companies that have not paid back their government bai

2009-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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The United Nations has released a report that says mobile phone use is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world. The report also says Internet connections

2009-10-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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It’s one of the most vexing problems in modern science: which wine to order with the Chilean sea bass. One thing’s for sure, though—you’d only ever order a white wine,

2009-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

音频下载[点击右键另存为]今年的诺贝尔物理学奖授予了华人科学家高锟，以及两名美国科学家韦拉德-博伊尔 (Willard Boyle) 和乔治-史密斯 (George Smith)。瑞典科学院说这三位科学家对光导纤维在通讯上应用的基本原

2009-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing plans to make more credit available to America's small businesses. The president is shifting the focus of the government's fina

2009-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Like in any big city Johannesburg's prostitutes walk the streets for money.For some it's a way to earn a living. For others they sell themselves to pay for drugs like th

2009-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Lebron, we wanna quote you about being on the cover of Sports Illustrated when you were 17. You said recently “we became big-headed jerks, me in particular”.You talked

2009-10-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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A nightlight may keep those monsters under the bed. But it may also open the door to the blues. Because a new study reveals that animals exposed to light all night long sh

2009-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Last year it was a Chinese business group that bought up 收购 Chateau la Tour le Grande, a leading Bordeaux vintage 佳酿/美酒。Now the interest is in the other direction,

2009-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Afghan election officials have ordered a second round in voting after a fraud investigation into the country's August 20 presidential poll dropped President Hamid Karzai

2009-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Well the North Pole has nothing on one city in China, you could call it Christmas town, and it supplies the US with a lot more than just cheap seasonal decorations.But thi

2009-10-21 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Searching the Internet can be a totally exhausting experience, as you bounce from one site to another to another, sometimes until you can’t remember what you were looking

2009-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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芬兰交通和通讯部日前宣布，从明年7月开始，每位芬兰人都有权拥有至少1Mbps的宽带连接。芬兰将因此成为全球首个通过立法的形式保证宽带接入为公民权利的国家。而且，这仅仅还是一个开始

2009-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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The Obama administration says it will spend $3.5 billion over the next three years to help developing-world farmers produce more food and get their products to market. Sec

2009-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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Iranian opposition leader, Mir Hossein Moussavi, is encouraging his supporters to continue their struggle, despite the government's control of the media.

Iran's top

2009-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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It is moving, it is sobering, it is a reach back into history. The tales about the family tree of first lady Michelle Obama and an American map that traces her back to the

2009-10-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

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In 1865, Pierre Paul Broca pinpointed the part of the brain responsible for language by autopsying brains of the language-impaired—the region is now called Broca’s area.