2010-09-28 所属栏目:英语听力材料

City living has obviously influenced human culture—as have often been noted, how you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree'? But urban life may have also influenced human genes,

2010-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

2010年的上海世博会即将华丽闭幕，可是这些世博园内的各大馆别的去留也成了一大难题。鉴于本次博览会很大程度上以可持续发展为热点，与会的国家和地区不得不绞尽脑汁，选择最妥善的安置方案。According to the gover

2010-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

EarthSkyMany scientists believe that – more than 60 million years ago – an asteroid six miles wide struck in Mexico’s Yucatan and triggered the end of the dinosaurs. EarthSky spoke with astrophysic

2010-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Forget the dreaming spires and the bicycles, the reason I've come to Oxford is leather bound with meaning. The Oxford English Dictionary has turned over a new leaf, having undergone a digital makeove

2010-09-27 所属栏目:英语听力材料

People here in Hong Kong have been practicing Feng Shui for generations. And many of the office buildings here in centre the financial district were built with Feng Shui in mind. We asked one local ma

2010-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

中国2010年上海世界博览会（Expo 2010），是第41届世界博览会。于2010年5月1日至10月31日期间，在中国上海市举行。此次世博会也是由中国举办的首届世界博览会。上海世博会以“城市，让生活更美好”（Better City, Be

2010-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格在出席“欧普拉秀”节目时宣布他将捐资1亿美元给新泽西州纽瓦克公立学校。而一部以Facebook创建为主题的电影“社会网络”也将在下周上映。两者间是否有联系呢？一起来听听本期节目吧！S

2010-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Japanese prosecutors say they will release a Chinese trawler captain who has been detained since his boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels in disputed waters. The incident enraged China, which re

2010-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Australia and China have conducted their first-ever joint naval exercise involving the firing of live ammunition. Ongoing tensions between China and the United States forced organizers not to invite

2010-09-26 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of a Chinese captain, whose trawler collided with two Japanese coast guard ships near disputed islands in the East Chi

2010-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

If you've ever hurt yourself - bumped a leg or arm while walking, maybe - you might have instinctively grabbed the place that hurt, and that seemed to ease the pain. Now, new research on pain and sel

2010-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Getting a flu shot can help prevent influenza. But now, a large study in Britain indicates that older adults who get an annual flu vaccination are less likely to suffer a heart attack. The study invol

2010-09-25 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Batteries add weight, and they need recharging. That’s serious business for implanted medical devices. When the batteries die, patients sometimes have to undergo another surgery. But what if there we

2010-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The lying when it's a really profound psychological symptom we call pseudologia fantastica. And it means that there are some people that literally can not tell the truth about anything. So here is 5

2010-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

It's Thursday, Sept.16th. 2010, I'm Jeff Barkla, and it's time to get loaded. Microsoft has released a beta version of Internet Explorer 9 and early reviews are quite positive. The new browser now

2010-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

The annual address to the General Assembly by the U.S. president is normally a wide-ranging compilation of the nation's foreign policy themes. Mr. Obama put unusual stress, though, on the U.S.-broke

2010-09-24 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Dieters may try to estimate a meal’s calorie count. Now a study by Northwestern University’s Alexander Chernev finds that even the order in which food is presented—and whether the food is thought o

2010-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

中秋节，农历八月十五，我国的传统节日之一。关于节日起源有很多种说法，也有很多关于这天的传说和传统。中秋节与春节、清明节、端午节并称为中国汉族的四大传统节日。自2008年起中秋节被列为国家法定节假日。"The f

2010-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Chocolate lovers around the world take note: two separate groups of scientists have unraveled the genetic code of your favorite sweet.It's good news for the millions of small farmers in Africa, Asia

2010-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

In Kenya, the specter of drought is never far from the minds of the millions who make their living on the farm. Agriculture is Kenya's most important product. The industry employs nearly three quar

2010-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Well, despite the rain here in Beijing, these people have been lining up, some for a few hours, others for a few days. Now that Apple's iPad is officially on sale here in China.I've been waiting for

2010-09-23 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Last month's salmonella outbreak got over 1,500 people sick. And one reason salmonella may be such a heavy hitter is that it actually hijacks our immune response for its own benefit. That's accordin

2010-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

城市越来越大，生活越来越紧张。在北京、上海、广州等一线城市，订餐服务越来越火爆。短短几年内，一线城市的订餐网络市场被迅速催化，这些网站不仅可以给网民提供海量的餐厅信息、交流美食心得的平台，而且可以给订

2010-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

World leaders are meeting at the United Nations this week seeking to assess progress on ending global poverty, hunger and disease within the next five years. Each day more than 7,400 people worldwide

2010-09-22 所属栏目:英语听力材料

Recently, we tried one of those word-association games on our colleagues here at VOA. We used the word Indiana and asked for the first thing that came to mind.

Farms, one person said. Notre Dame U