2009-05-22 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

It's summertime， and the livin' is easy. For many Americans， this is the season to travel. Why？ Because school is out. Because the weather is great. And most of all， because we all deserve a bre

2009-05-21 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

1. BUMP IN THE FRONT? IT'S A BOY 肚子前面凸，是男孩If the fetus is male, the mom carries most of the weight low and in the front, like a basketball shooting from her hips. "That's clearly a myth," s

2009-05-20 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

There is no reliable measure of who spends more among the rich: men or women. Both will say the other is the bigger spender.
目前还没有可靠的方法来评断富人堆里谁花钱更多：是富翁还是富婆。双方都会说对

2009-05-20 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

It was 1964 and a degree was one of the conditions of employment so Mr Geffen told his bosses he had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. When a letter from UCLA arrived casting doubt

2009-05-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Aldo Rustichini is a genial Italian economist with a head of hair that seems to have been modelled on Albert Einstein's. A professor at Cambridge and the University of Minnesota, he quickly transform

2009-05-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

With electricity costs rising -- along with global-warming guilt -- consumers across the country are struggling to wean themselves from the A/C. It remains to be seen whether they'll take a cue from

2009-05-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

THE PROBLEM
问题I have recruited a sales person whose job is to represent our business to senior types in banks. He constantly uses the construct “we was”, as in: “We was hoping you'd recognise u

2009-05-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Romance does not have to fizzle out in long-term relationships and progress into a companionship/friendship-type love, a new study has found.
最新研究发现，长期的爱情关系并不一定导致浪漫元素的减少，也

2009-05-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

香港地区法院日前就陈冠希“艳照门”案作出判决。在陈冠希电脑送修后，将电脑内艳照复制并烧制光盘送人而导致艳照传播的主犯史可隽被判入狱8个月15天。庭审过程中，被告律师认为被告在本案中并没有涉及利益，也没有任

2009-05-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

盛夏，炎热…… 寻觅清凉的你自然得在着装上费一番工夫了！夏季选衣，浅色服饰自是首选；其次，对于爱出汗的朋友来说，避开厚重的亚麻、选择质地自然的棉料可是防汗一窍门！喜欢大手提袋的MM注意了，夏天最好换款玲珑

2009-05-17 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

记得念初一时，一位同时教我和弟弟英语的老师曾很困惑地问我：“你和你弟怎么那么不同？简直一个天，一个地。你读书那么认真，又不好动，你弟却活蹦乱跳的，整天玩，一点都不喜欢读书。”回到家把话转给妈妈听，弟弟

2009-05-15 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Greece wants to discourage women from wearing stiletto heels at summer performances held in key archaeological sites because of damage to the monuments, a senior culture ministry official said Thursda

2009-05-15 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

“Blue is the colour, football is the game,” as Chelsea fans like to sing. Tonight their team is playing Barcelona in the semi-final of Europe's Champions League in the Catalan city's Camp Nou stad

2009-05-14 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

At around 8:30pm on May 7, 25-year-old Hangzhou resident Tan Zhuo was killed by a speeding Mitsubishi sports car as he walked across a pedestrian crossing. He was dead on arrival at the hospital. Ac

2009-05-14 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

澳大利亚新南威尔士州政府于日前推出一项教育活动旨在打击目前在学生当中盛行的“色情短信”风潮。该政府表示，此类包含裸体照片或者色情内容的短信在传播过程中可能会被发布到因特网或转发到更多人的手机中而无法完

2009-05-13 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Greek Gift(s)直译是“希腊人的礼物”，出自荷马史诗《奥德赛》以及古罗马杰出诗人维吉尔（Publius Virgilius Maro,公元前70-前19年）的史诗《伊尼特》（Aeneis）中关于特洛伊城陷落经过的叙述。据《奥德赛》卷8记述

2009-05-13 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published a study showing that, because of food production and transportation factors, a population of heavier people contributes more

2009-05-13 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Women whose mothers have big hips may be more likely to develop breast cancer, research suggests.
研究显示，妈妈屁股大，女儿更有可能患乳腺癌。A study led by the University of Southampton found breast

2009-05-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Global companies are deploying a new tool to reinforce their brands with students, build links with universities and management schools, find talent and deliver management education.
全球企业正在运用

2009-05-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says avoidable behaviors like cigarette use, poor diet and lack of exercise are the underlying cause of half of the deaths in the United States. A n

2009-05-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

You've got your blu-ray, HDTV and iPhone--but soon you'll be lusting after these amazing new gadgets.
虽然你已经拥有了蓝光DVD、高清数字电视和iPhone手机，但用不了多久你就会疯狂地想拥有下面这些奇异的

2009-05-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

语言学家预计，按照目前每天产生14.7个新词的速率，6月10日10点22分将产生第100万个词。现在有可能成为第一百万字的候选词有 defriend（去友），把某人从自己的朋友名单中踢除，greenwashing（漂绿），经过包装看起来

2009-05-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

ROSCOE, a piebald dachshund, was the runt of his litter. No one wanted to buy him. So the breeder gave him to Jeremy Dingle, who soon realised that he had a special pup, now a top dog in the dachshund

2009-05-09 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

I recently moved to Grand Cayman to avoid London in the recession. I'm house-sharing with a friend of a friend, and came home recently to find him in a compromising position on the sofa with my boss.

2009-05-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

“Office hours sometimes get very hectic,” says 25-year-old D. Karthik as he waits with his colleague and fiancée, K. Tejaswania, at the juice bar of their employer, Mphasis. “If we are still able