2011-09-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thailand’s recently elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made her first official visit to Cambodia. The one-day trip marks a new start in bilateral relations, which have been poor in recen

2011-09-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Top Indian officials say they need to prepare for terrorism threats that may arise both within and outside the country. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday described recent terror attacks

2011-09-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Blake Shelton reached Number One with his 2001 debut single “Austin,” but it’s taken him a decade to reach superstar status. But, 2011 will be remembered as his breakthrough year.Shelton’s eighth

2011-09-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Australia there are still strong emotions around a contentious social policy that ended in the 1970s. For nearly 100 years, the Australian government forcibly took children from Aborigine families.

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For the third time in a week, President Barack Obama is campaigning for his jobs plan in a state that could be crucial to his re-election effort. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than half of Am

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New diagnostic tools are being tested that would quickly indicate whether a person has African sleeping sickness. Current methods of diagnosis are slow and cumbersome and delay life-saving treatment.H

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Learning to surf would be challenging for anyone, most especially someone like Dana Cummings, who mastered the sport after losing his leg in a car accident.Now, he shares his love of riding the waves

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The cops-and-robbers genre gets an Irish twist in a new film by writer-director John Michael McDonagh. Irish actor Brendan Gleeson co-stars with American Don Cheadle in this story set in the wild west

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Who knew acclaimed jazz trumpeter Rick Braun could sing? His latest album showcases superb vocal skills as well as his grasp of the Great American Songbook.Braun has turned his life-long passion for

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A hit novel about black and white women in the American south 50 years ago has been made into a film that is winning widespread critical acclaim. Alan Silverman has this look at The Help.

"I was ra

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Grammy-winning jazz singer Diane Schuur takes a country turn on her latest album, The Gathering.

Schuur has always had an ear for country music. In fact, her earliest recording was a country singl

2011-09-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization has released its second major report in six months on the growing worldwide threat from noncommunicable diseases, especially the five biggest killers: cancer, heart disea

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There is a breed of modern day treasure hunter that utilizes the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure to acquire its prize. But these 21st century explorers ar

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Archaeologists working in northwestern Kenya have found a skillfully hand-crafted stone ax which appears to have been made nearly 1.75 million years ago, making it the oldest such tool ever discovered

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When the tiny African-American community on Georgia’s St. Simons Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize the building was linked to an historic effort to combat racial dis

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

About 3,000 sub-Saharan migrants remain stranded in the western Libyan town of Sebha, which has been under attack from anti-Gadhafi forces. Humanitarian agencies say food, water and shelter are in ver

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Libya, forces opposed to former leader Moammar Gadhafi, backed by NATO air strikes, continued their attacks Tuesday on the Gadhafi strongholds of Sirte and Bani Walid. The fighting came as the lead

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the Philippines, the government and the country’s largest Muslim rebel group have been trying to reach a peace deal through nearly 15 years of on-and-off talks. In recent months, there have been s

2011-09-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Libya, forces opposed to former leader Moammar Gadhafi now control most of the country. But Gadhafi continues to evade capture and fighting continues in several important cities. The central coasta

2011-09-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Going away to college used to be the ultimate flight of young people from the nest. It represented freedom for them and their parents alike.But last school year alone, instead of flying free, a whoppi

2011-09-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers say they've developed a safer way to treat sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that is fatal if not treated. Sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, is a chronic medical problem in 36 c

2011-09-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

African lions are increasingly hunting domestic cattle. And many of them are being killed as humans retaliate. Now, in Botswana, a pilot project is underway to save the lion by making cattle taste bad

2011-09-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Fossils found in a South African cave might belong to a new species of early humans that holds a unique place on the evolutionary road to modern man. On a 2008 mapping expedition in Malapa, South Afri

2011-09-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There’s a well-worn phrase in real estate: “location, location, location,” meaning that where a property is located, alone, means more than anything else when it comes to assessing its value.But “

2011-09-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On a day as clear as September 11, 2001, President Barack Obama and former president George W. Bush walked with their wives to the memorial pools built in the footprints of the former twin towers of t