2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Smokers and former smokers who develop lung cancer are more likely to survive if their disease is detected with a computed tomography, or CT scan instead of a standard chest x-ray, according to a rece

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The South Korean resort of Pyeongchang has been selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. It took only one round of voting in Durban, South Africa, for Pyeongchang to defeat Munich, Germany, and Fra

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Environmentalists are pushing for tighter regulations after the rupture of an Exxon Mobil oil pipeline which runs beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana. Before it was shut off, the burst pipe spil

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the country is at a crossroads as it begins taking on responsibility for its own security.The senior U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, Staff

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced his government plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons modernization by 2020. In his address to parliament earlier this year, Puti

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The fledgling capital of Southern Sudan, Juba, is open for business, according to the World Bank's recent survey "Doing Business in Juba 2011". Out of 183 countries surveyed, Juba ranks 159th on the

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Christine Lagarde gave her first news conference Wednesday, one day after starting her new job as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The former French finance minister has a busy a

2011-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers have found that an inexpensive and widely-available drug used to treat river blindness in Africa and head lice in American school children is also effective in reducing malaria transmissio

2011-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The mechanical toy robots known as Transformers first appeared on store shelves in the 1980s. They spawned TV shows, comic books and finally big, loud motion pictures. The third film in the franchise

2011-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you were to picture the sort of person who might take the lead in gathering radiation data from the Fukushima nuclear accident, Marcelino Alvarez probably wouldn’t come to mind.“My background is

2011-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The hallways at Ganado High School are bustling in between classes. But they’re not nearly as crowded as they were just three years ago. “I’m looking at a high school that, in the mid 2000s, ran ab

2011-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The cost of pensions and medical care for retired people is rising sharply in the United States and in some other nations where the elderly are a growing percentage of the population. As governments a

2011-07-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There are reports of talks between representatives of the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and members of the opposition that have been fighting to oust him since February. There is skepticism about the

2011-07-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A 2006 animated hit from Pixar introduced a world of talking motor vehicles, especially a shiny red racecar and his rust-encrusted best friend, a tow truck named "Mater." Now they're back for an adve

2011-07-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

South Sudan is set to become the world’s newest country on July 9, with Juba as its capital. Until relatively recently, Juba was a small outpost, but it is now one of Africa’s fastest-growing towns.

2011-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been released on his own recognizance as New York state prosecutors reveal doubts about the credibility of his accuser.Dominique Stra

2011-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After devastating natural disasters, mobile phone networks, satellites and other computer software are often used to help to pinpoint where help is needed the most. They are crucial for the creation

2011-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An international aid flotilla is continuing with plans to sail to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip despite a series of setbacks.Pro-Palestinian activists organizing the aid flotilla say they still intend to

2011-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In yet another instance of an Internet-driven social phenomenon, a growing number of women in the U.S. are joining on-line breast-milk-sharing communities. Their aim is to provide human milk to new mo

2011-07-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you were to attend a parade or musical celebration of the 235th anniversary of Americans’ declaration of independence today, you’d likely see lots of men and women in the uniforms of the United S

2011-07-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street's sway over politici

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kevin Rudd became the first Australian foreign minister to visit Burma since 2002, when he touched down in the country on Thursday.He is one of many international envoys to travel to the long-isolated

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thailand is readying for general elections Sunday seen as marking a further test of country's democratic institutions. Opinion polls indicate a tight race, with about one third of voters still undeci

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

We call interactive communications tools such as Twitter and Facebook social media. But lots of commentators have asserted that using them heavily makes people less sociable, if not downright anti-soc

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Soon after it gained independence, modern India outlawed discrimination against so-called "untouchables," the lowest of social classifications outlined in Hindu scripture.In reality, hundreds of milli