2010-05-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Today, a climate scientist in the U.K. responds to critics of computer modeling. Critics claim that if forecasts of weather just days away are often wrong, how can scientists claim to know what climat

2010-05-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on WORDMASTER: baby talk.(MOVIE SOUND)The movie "Babies" is now showing in theaters in the United States. It's a documentary that follows four

2010-05-20 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Let's get to the debate here. Is it really a case of not separating Apple from the software developers, doesn't want Adobe kind of stick in a wedge between here on the platforms?Yeah, I mean, this h

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Y: So Don, yesterday I was walking down the produce aisle when I saw it--long, ripe,yellow，the perfect banana. It really looked delicious and I had to have it. I took it home and hung it on a banana

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

EarthSky spoke with biomedical engineer Ted Bateman of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. With support from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, he’s testing therapies to hel

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The U.S. military uses dogs to help troops on sentry duty and bomb-sniffing patrols. But dogs are also proving their worth off the field of battle by helping wounded soldiers recover. A new documentar

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

More than a thousand American soldiers have died in the war in Afghanistan. On Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was joined by Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well as General Stanley McChrysta

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

This is the first step forward for America where we can actually say that the amount of oil leaking at the Gulf of Mexico could be slowing down. What BP tells us is that last night they successfully i

2010-05-19 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Could the eradication of smallpox have been a factor in the spread of HIV? That’s the question posed by researchers in the journal BMC Immunology, who think that the vaccine might have offered partia

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a powe

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

One of you asked this question. “Does a magnetic compass point to the North Pole?” The answer is … not exactly. The North Pole is the spot on Earth’s globe that marks the northern end of an imagin

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

中国有句俗语叫"笑一笑,十年少".而日前,美国罗马琳达大学心理神经研究家李·伯克博士研究发现,笑具有调节血压、胆固醇的功效,从而降低了心脏病的发病频率(Soundbite of movie, "A Night At The Opera") Mr. JULIUS H

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Many of the so-called Red-Shirt protesters who have spent more than two months demonstrating against the government on the streets of Thailand's capital come from the country's rural poor and urban

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Basic need

Laura Stachel is crouching on the floor of her Berkeley kitchen, which is cluttered with spools of wire, small solar panels and assorted tools. She lifts the cover of a black carry-on su

2010-05-18 所属栏目:英语听力材料

How do baby coral find a new home in the open ocean? They listen – very closely—for reef sounds.
Scientists at the University of Bristol in England had already discovered in the last few years tha

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

A strict no-air-conditioning ban was enforced for 87,000 Taiwanese students taking the college entrance examinations this month despite temperatures in many areas reaching 34 to 36 degrees Celsius.尽管

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

六个月前，年轻帅气的军火商托尼•斯塔克经历了人生最大的一次危机－－不仅身体被改造，还被一直亲密无间的合作伙伴狠狠的摆了一道，幸亏凭借自己研制的全新战服才得以化解危机，斯塔克在公众前的代号，除了花花

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

非洲联合馆的外形虽然是一个规则的立方体，但在这个立方体的外立面上，合欢树、沙漠、海鸥、长颈鹿等特征明显的非洲元素一一呈现，勾勒出非洲大陆的别样风情与风貌，将古老的非洲文明抽象地展示出来。步入世博非洲馆

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

St. John's College looks like a typical American college. But what goes on inside its classrooms is unlike just about every other college in the United States. At this small institution, about 60 k

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

After a series of violent protests and strikes in Athens, Greece, tourism officials in the country say Greece is still a great destination for a family vacation. Angela Gerekou is the Greek Tourism Mi

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Even in the era of diminshing marketing budgets within the music industry,the market for music vedios remains voracious.Online is,essentially, a visual medium and I don't know whether there are any b

2010-05-17 所属栏目:英语听力材料

I'm Shepard Smith this is the Fox Report, it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news.Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is expected to start meeting with senators within the next coupl

2010-05-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

DAVE DAVIES, host: The new film "Mother and Child" stars Annette Bening as a woman who gave birth to a daughter at age 14 and gave her up for adoption. Naomi Watts plays that daughter 37 years later,

2010-05-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Street fighting continues in the Thai capital, Bangkok, as anti-government protesters try to push back soldiers who have surrounded their camp. At least 22 people were killed in the last two days and

2010-05-16 所属栏目:英语听力材料

President Barack Obama is urging the U.S. Senate to pass his financial reform legislation. The president says the bill will protect consumers, banks and the financial system.In his weekly address, Pr