2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

He famously refuses to allow his children to own any Apple products. But Microsoft founder Bill Gates might want to closely check what mobile phone his 15-year-old daughter Jennifer uses. The teenager

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often and realize how fortunate you are right now. It’s about the simple pleasures that make you happy, the compassionate deeds you

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s.
意大利一对夫妇将成为世界上最高龄的离婚者。99岁

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

It’s been long said that the year 2012 will see the end of the world. The movie 2012 even makes an attempt to show us the catastrophic events leading up t0 the worldwide disaster, and a modern versio

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

大多数女性在遭遇办公室色狼挑逗性的注视后，会感到不舒服。不仅如此，由于注意力被分散，还会影响她们的工作表现。研究发现，工作中，受到男同事“色咪咪凝视”的女性在数学测试中的分数低于那些未受“凝视”的女性

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

导读：如今,网购风靡,网民们在享受便捷和实惠的网购商品的同时,也处处面临着危险:网页上的是实物图吗?会不会与实物相差很远?资金安全吗?店主会不会在收款之后不发货?……这一系列问题在一些优秀且广受欢迎的购物网站

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

We are witnessing the decline and fall of investment banking as we have known it for the past 40 years.现在，投资银行业正在经历衰退和没落，难复过去40年间的辉煌。The evidence is everywhere. The increas

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The U.S., Japan and India on Monday held their first trilateral security meeting to discuss security issues in East Asia, and the Washington event is set to be the start of a trend. Beijing is predict

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

历史在发展,时代在进步,人们的生活水平在提高,但与此同时也出现了一些新型疾病,不仅仅是生理上的,也包括心理上的。这些疾病,有些极其普遍而又不被重视,有些则并不被普罗大众广泛接受称之为“病”。无论如何,Hot Word

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

If you are reading this on Friday you cannot be in Samoa.Friday, December 30, has been cut this year for the tiny South Pacific island nation as it ditched a time-zone alliance with the United States

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s.The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the ca

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

日本家庭正经历着社会角色互换的过程，许多家庭的妻子和女儿开始赚取家庭收入的大部分，而男性在就业市场中不再受宠，进入“衰退”状态。据报道，日本工厂和建筑公司在频繁地解雇工人，而许多服务公司更青睐女性员工

2011-12-31 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

美国全球语言研究所近日预测2012年英语热门词汇，英国剑桥公爵夫人凯特·米德尔顿凭借时尚、知名度和王室身份轻松“当选”第一。依照全球语言研究所的估计，全球大约18.3亿讲英语者会经常说到这个词。“奥林匹亚”有

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

For many of us, it might seem that a dark cloud descends on Monday morning and only lifts when it's going-home time on Friday - or a holiday such as Christmas.
很多人都有这样的经验，周一早晨上班时常

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

New Year's Day | Jan. 1
1月1日：元旦Roman numerals replace letters of the Google logo to celebrate the year 2011.
罗马数字代替了谷歌图标的字母，庆祝2011年新年的开始。MLK Day | Jan. 17
1月17日：马丁

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

On June 7, 2011, Li Wei, at a height of only 1.2 meters, walking on his amputated shanks, with his head held high, and "walked" on the red carpet to attend the 2011 national college entrance examinati

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

　　The year end is coming, before we move on to the new year, it’s high time for all of us to do a review for the year. To me, doing this annual review is like getting a report card. It’s no differ

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Dress Made of Fruit, Vegetables水果，蔬菜，小礼服！昨天的趣图妙语向你展示了服饰配饰，一领蔬菜水果们的时尚风范，今天更牛，直接裁衣上身，快来看看这几件小礼服，你猜得出它们是什么材质的吗？Made of eggplan

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

春节临近，节日的气氛越来越浓烈，不少人却莫名地焦虑起来。来自工作和生活各方面的压力陡增，让人不禁感叹年关难过。这就是“年关焦虑症”。Year-end panic refers to the self-reproach and overall feeling of pa

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

In a move that may cause headaches ─ real ones ─ for millions of people, China is about to launch a 3D television channel. That has the government sounding nearly as excited as any Hollywood executi

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Sanrio's head honcho is cute-ifying some fashion mag covers this month.三丽鸥公司的“当家花旦”这个月将可爱带到了时尚封面上。A life-size Hello Kitty (with feet and everything!) graces the cover of El

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Can't step away from the BlackBerry? Leaving a work voicemail at 10 p.m.? You might be a workaholic. No surprises there.与黑莓手机寸步不离？在晚上10点钟给别人留工作语音短信？那你可能就是个工作狂人，这

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Ancient bike could be worth 50,000 pounds.105岁自行车拍卖高价达5万英镑。Just 1,698 pairs of these rare cycles were produced 105 years ago, with its "unrestored" state meaning the relic could fetch as

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

　　The BBC has defended its decision to name a panda among the 12 women in its Faces of 2011 as "a light-hearted addition" to the list.　　Sweetie, who is also known as Tian Tian, is one of a pair of

2011-12-30 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list