2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next, an editorial reflecting American ideals and institutions.John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, once said that “To sit back and let fate play its

2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Wall Street is rejoicing.Following six consecutive weeks of growth, the Dow Jones index continues in uncharted territory.The bottom line: Investors are encouraged, heading into 201

2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s a different type of Santa’s workshop.In this warehouse located near the nation’s capital are hundreds of bicycles and rows of bags filled with clothes,dolls

2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than two and a half years ago, IS militants captured this village Bashmana, saying they were “liberating” the population from the government, before destroying liv

2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Throughout the former Soviet Union, Belarus was famous for making tractors at the state-run Minsk Tractor Works, which this year celebrated its 70th anniversary.The Minsk Tractor W

2016-12-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The man who hosted the meeting that ended the Soviet Union is proud to say he was the first to sign the declaration, followed by Russia's Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine's Leonid Kravc

2016-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LJUBLJANA — Former model Melania Trump will soon become the first foreign-born woman to be first lady of the United States in almost 200 years. Before the election campaign,

2016-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Denzel Washington returns to the director's chair for the movie Fences, a character drama adapted from August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning theater play. Two-time Oscar winner

2016-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LONDON — Twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union's formal dissolution marked communism's collapse in Europe and a new era of democracy, Western-style liberalism and economi

2016-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LOS ANGELES — In the new Sci-Fi film Passengers, by Sony Pictures Entertainment, people on Earth are on a 120-year trip to colonize a new planet. But something goes wrong on

2016-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

NATO members must always reaffirm the importance of collective defense and democratic solidarity, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Speaking at the recent NATO ministerial m

2016-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The partnership between the United States and Germany has a long history and is rooted in their common understanding and commitment to NATO and to a Europe that is whole and free.T

2016-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

From time to time, the United States identifies certain individuals as crucial to the operation of terrorist organizations. Most often these are top leaders, or they help finance t

2016-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The deaths of three more top ISIL leaders by a coalition airstrike was recently announced by the Pentagon. Two of leaders -- Salah Gourmat, and Sammy Djedou – - were involved

2016-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Welcome to Santa Claus, Indiana.Though the town may be 6,000 kilometers south of the North Pole, the residents are some of Santa’s best helpers.That’s because every yea

2016-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.Gender-based violence is a global problem affecting millions of people each year.It threatens lives, undermi

2016-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers have known for some time that those who can afford better health care are generally healthier than people who can’t afford it.But now they know who is more likely

2016-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.The United States, along with other governments, advocates, journalists, and girls, is sounding a rallying c

2016-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Their stately properties with prime addresses, golf resorts, skyscrapers all carry high mortgages for president-elect Donald Trump.These three properties are of particular concern

2016-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

WASHINGTON — Washington continues to speak with a cacophony of voices on Russian meddling in last month’s U.S. presidential election, displaying a lack of consensus dur

2016-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.The United States is committed to helping the Democratic Republic of the Congo find a peaceful way forward a

2016-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s another hot day here in Juba.And an Ethiopia battalion has just begun its afternoon patrol of UN protection of civilians, or POC camp,housing about 39,000 internally dis

2016-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.Four months after the official launch,Mexico’s Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security S

2016-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As sea levels rise, the number of floods hit in coastal towns from Florida to New York grows more frequent and serious.Here in Norfolk, Virginia, the nearby sea, bay and rivers bro

2016-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The rolling hills of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau are home to some of the nation’s most beautiful and productive fields and forests.Underneath those fields is a very