2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday awarded retiring Defense Secretary Robert Gates the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award came during a military tribute to Gates on his final day in office.

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece

2011-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The end of an era is near. The U.S. space shuttles - the complex workhorses of the U.S. space program - are being retired so NASA can focus on developing spacecraft that can travel beyond low-Earth-o

2011-06-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Britain not to deport two Somalis who have been convicted of serious crimes, saying they could face torture or other "inhuman" treatment if they are forc

2011-06-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Greek politicians have voted in favor of $40 billion worth of austerity measures that were a precondition for Greece to receive international loans and stave off financial disaster. But as strikes tak

2011-06-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chimpanzees who've been subjected to invasive laboratory experiments show signs of Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and other psychiatric disorders seen in traumatized humans, according to a new study by

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After spending the past 20 years performing as half of Brooks & Dunn, the Country duo’s lead singer Ronnie Dunn is striking out on his own with his debut solo album.Ronnie Dunn recorded three singles

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The usual story of invasive species goes something like this: an exotic plant or critter hitches a ride on some incoming cargo, alarm bells go off and an eradication campaign starts. But now, Japanese

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists are declaring victory over a deadly animal disease that cattle herders around the world have dreaded for millennia. Rinderpest becomes the second disease in all of human history to be succe

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

观看VOA视频与学习问题交流群组: http://bbs.hxen.com/group-276-1.htmlFrench Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is the International Monetary Fund's new managing director. The 24-member IMF Executive Bo

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

观看VOA视频与学习问题交流群组: http://bbs.hxen.com/group-276-1.htmlPolice in Athens have fired tear gas on angry protesters in Athens. The street clashes on Tuesday came on the first day of a 48-hour

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

观看VOA视频与学习问题交流群组: http://bbs.hxen.com/group-276-1With the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and a trusted ally, some analysts say

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Three decades since the Khmer Rouge decimated Cambodia, killing up to a quarter of the population in pursuit of a communist utopia, the devastation to families is still being felt. As the four most se

2011-06-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

观看本篇视频: http://bbs.hxen.com/thread-63278-1-1.htmlIt's a common belief that eating in moderation, whatever you eat, is the key to successfully managing your weight. But that belief is being cha

2011-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The cicadas are back. Over the past few weeks, across a wide swath of the eastern United States, the notoriously noisy bugs have emerged by the billions from their long, underground adolescence.On a m

2011-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After a long Palestinian struggle, Israel on Sunday began changing the route of its security fence near a West Bank village.Israel started dismantling a section of its controversial West Bank separati

2011-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In many parts of the world, people now rely on the Internet, smart phones and Twitter in their daily affairs. In rural Ethiopia, the same can be said for donkeys, horses and mules. A new study looks a

2011-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is a great time of year in the historical impersonator business, although the people who are dressing up like Uncle Sam or President George Washington prefer to be called “historical interpreter

2011-06-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As President Obama announces his plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, military communities around the country welcome the news. Watertown, New York, is near Fort Drum, home of the Army

2011-06-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, beginning next month, is widely seen as a compromise - more than what top military officers advised, yet fewer tha

2011-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Witnesses say that Syrian security forces moved into the Damascus suburb of Kaswah Saturday, a day after they surrounded the area and swooped down on protesters. A Syrian rights group says at least 2

2011-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israelis are calling for the release of one of their soldiers held captive in Gaza for the past five years. The soldier's freedom has become an urgent public cause in the Jewish state.Israelis are r

2011-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New York has legalized same sex marriage, making it the sixth U.S state to do so. Gay rights advocates call the vote a major victory in their quest for equality.The New York State Senate approved th

2011-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In January, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was assassinated by his bodyguard, who claimed Taseer had violated the country’s blasphemy law. Taseer, a Muslim, was shot dea

2011-06-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Farm ministers from the G20 group of leading and emerging economies wrapped up their first-ever meeting this week with a call for better regulation of the global commodity markets.

French leaders