2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The judge’s warning could hardly have been starker. If appropriate specialised care was not provided for a 17-year-old determined to kill herself, he said, ‘We will have blood on

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

How beauteous mankinde is? O brave new world
That has such people in’t.In some ways I envy members of my family: my brother, daughter, son; my niece, my late mother – all scient

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Have you heard the one about the priests and the pub? 7 men show up in a pub in Cardiff dressed as priests. The barman who is already on the alert for fancy dress parties asks them

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The tardigrade - or water bear - is no more than a millimetre in size. It can survive radiation, freezing and even the vacuum of space. A recent study from the University of Edinbu

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. It was reported yesterday that some students at British universities receive as little as 26 hours of one-to-one tuition in an entire three year course. Economics and

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

At ten to four in the morning, one hundred years ago today, the Battle of Passchendaele started just outside the Flemish town of Ypres. It would be one of the deadliest battles of

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Do I keep taking the tablets, or do I stop when I’m feeling better? Doctors have long advised that a course of antibiotics should always be finished, for fear of undermining any g

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Yesterday morning I had just finished my cereals, when I opened my newspaper to a front-page headline: ‘Advert chiefs allow milk to be branded inhumane.’ Diary farmers had argued

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Every day thousands of prayer requests are written and candles lit in cathedrals and churches all over Britain. Here in Norwich Cathedral I’ve noticed how frequently

2017-08-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The weekend post brought its usual appeals for donations to help in alleviating suffering in Syria, Iraq and other areas of the Middle East The scale of suffering, wrought by inter

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.The sound of silence will today mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Inaugurating the first Armistice Day in 1919 King George V called for “all locom

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. In a rally in Iowa back in February, Donald Trump’s son, also called Donald, talked about his father. ‘While he may be the billionaire from New York, he’s much mor

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning! It’s finally here—Election Day in the United States. I left the U.S. four months ago to move to London, and I was already weary of the election bombast back in July

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good MorningOn Friday the historic accord on climate change agreed a year ago in Paris, came into force having been ratified in record time by an impressive range of countries. Thi

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. A number of celebrities have come forward this week to apologise for cultural appropriation. In an interview on Radio 1, Lily Allen said she'd been 'guilty of appro

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Streaming instead of dreaming, went the headline that caught my eye this week. Using phones or tablets before bedtime, it said, is stopping kids from sleeping. A series of research

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. The Justice Secretary’s announcement today highlights concerns among Prison Officers about increasing violence against staff and suicides amongst prisoners. These co

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.The Football Associations of England, Scotland and Wales are to have discussions with Fifa following Fifa’s ruling that players may not wear poppies during matches sc

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Today and tomorrow, many Christians are celebrating the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Death is, in the words of Hamlet, ‘The undiscovered country, from whose b

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. 'From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!' On this Halloween, a number will be tempted to a

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. If you’ve been to see your doctor recently, you may’ve been a little surprised if they asked: what would you like me to do for you? The answer might seem obvious: m

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Tomorrow in synagogues throughout the world, Jews will be starting again our year-long reading of the Mosaic books, with their famous opening sentence: “In the beginning God creat

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

It is said we live in interesting times. Europe is on an uncertain political trajectory, the Middle East is challenging, Russia is flexing its muscles, and the United States is abo

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.A headline that tells us that women are reaching equality with men, is generally good news – but not when the equality is in levels of alcohol consumption associated

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. One of Europe’s most magnificent medieval paintings, The Ghent Altarpiece, has recently been restored. The central panel is a vast representation of paradise. People