2011-08-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People are fascinated by the objects created by Karl Fabergé, not just because they are beautiful and crafted from precious metals and jewels, but also because they are associated with the last tsar

2011-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The world’s largest ongoing HIV vaccine study has been expanded to consider multiple ways a vaccine might boost immune response to the AIDS virus. The U.S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

2011-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It is well known that food is hard to come by in parts of North Korea, where the U.N. World Food Program has been helping feed more than 3.5 million people since April in the wake of severe food short

2011-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Famine is forcing Somalis by the hundreds of thousands to leave their homes in search of survival. Some are fleeing across the border to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, where international aid ag

2011-08-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Republican presidential hopefuls campaign in the Midwesteern state of Iowa are encountering voters increasingly concerned about the state of the economy. The recent debate about raising the U.S. d

2011-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Korea says that it has twice exchanged artillery fire with North Korea in western frontier waters. No casualties are reported.Second round, artillery fired
South Korean military officials say a

2011-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A recent study finds tiny particles suspended high in Earth’s atmosphere are having a greater impact on global climate than previously believed.The airborne particles, known as aerosols, are blocking

2011-08-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization is urging many low and middle income countries to ban the use of currently-available commercial blood tests to detect active tuberculosis. This is the first time WHO has

2011-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The relationship between the United States and Pakistan has been severely strained in recent months. Two former top U.S. intelligence officials say the relationship has been sorely tested because Pak

2011-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Bigger refugee camps are going up along Liberia's eastern border for more than 150,000 people who fled Ivory Coast's political crisis, earlier this year. Many Ivorian refugees are living in local v

2011-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"The group today are unidentifiable. And that is because the crash that they were in was so horrific, and the state of the remains - there was no easy way to look and see, 'This is this person, this

2011-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Egypt moves to write a new constitution, many are looking to secure more rights for women. That effort comes after decades of growing traditionalism in the country, including more use of Islamic ve

2011-08-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When one thinks of the sports in which China excels, swimming, gymnastics or track and field usually come to mind. But ice hockey? While the sport may not have as big a following as soccer or basketba

2011-08-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thirteen years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was embroiled in a sex scandal, famously answered a grand jury question by saying, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”A lot o

2011-08-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ivorian refugees who backed former president Laurent Gbagbo say the new government in Abidjan has not made it safe enough for them to return home. Amnesty International says Ivory Coast security force

2011-08-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Singing star Jordin Sparks rose to fame in 2007 on the popular television show American Idol. After winning the title at age 17 Jordin has scored three Top 10 Billboard Chart hits and appeared in a B

2011-08-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is the prequel to "Planet of the Apes," the sci-fi saga which debuted in 1968. Back then, a crew of astronauts crash-lands in the distant future on a planet where inte

2011-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Japanese economy was hit hard by the huge earthquake in March, with the twin disasters of the tsunami and the ensuing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant impacting severely on economic output. I

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International advocates are using the annual observance of World Breastfeeding Week - which is August 1-7 - to raise awareness of breastfeeding’s health benefits and to provide the societal support m

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers at Cornell University in New York have developed an artificial spinal disc that may help patients with chronic back pain and other disc problems. The spine is a column of bones alternating

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists have developed a new test for prostate cancer that may help patients and their doctors make difficult treatment decisions. But identifying the most aggressive and dangerous prostate cancers

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two new science studies provide a glimpse of how some important Pacific Ocean sea creatures could adapt to a changing climate.One study describes how gray whales successfully adapted to previous cycle

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. researchers have developed a new way to promote the growth of blood vessels which potentially could improve treatment in diabetes, organ transplants, stroke, and heart attack.The veins and arteri

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Midwest farm state of Iowa is so proud of its string of blue-water lakes - the Okoboji Lakes - that it calls them “Iowa’s Great Lakes.” They’re ringed by resorts, marinas, and fishing cabins.

2011-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Months after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, mental health experts say the psychological effects of the disaster might only now be coming to the surface. Phone counseling services are bui