2011-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A twenty-five year search for one of the keys to understanding the structure of the universe is coming to an end at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab in suburban Chicago. The Tevatron Acceler

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The leaders of the Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to reconcile, under a deal criticized by Israel.The reconciliation deal aims to unify the rival Palestinian governments with an inte

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The bride's family is wealthy; the groom's is working class. If they can get through the wedding ceremony, the young couple may stand a chance. It's a new film about family secrets as well as cultu

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There are an estimated 300,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries in the United States each year.A national study by a major pediatric research center of young athletes 15-to-24 years old reveals

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle started losing money in 1998, its CEO began a search for a new management system that would get the hospital back on track.After two years of visiting hos

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Mother’s Day is a popular spring holiday in the U.S., a time when families get together and honor mom with cards, flowers and gifts. It is also big business, one of the biggest weekends for retail s

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Bees play an important role in agriculture, pollinating crops and providing us with the natural sweetener, honey. Environmental stresses are taking their tolls on the insects, however, and this year

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you smoke more than a pack or two of cigarettes a day, you are classified as a heavy smoker. And new research also shows the longer you smoke, the greater your risk of developing life threatening

2011-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. government recently unveiled its newest tool for safeguarding public health, a robot capable of screening thousands of chemicals each week for potential human toxicity. The robot is not only

2011-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the past five decades, American composer Steve Reich created and honed a recognizable style that has made him one of today’s top American composers. In the process he has helped propel so-called

2011-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Pakistani government has reacted sharply to the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, warning that countries should not think that they have free reign to come and go through Pakistan. Pakistani

2011-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was found and killed is at least six times the size of the typical house near it. Abbottabad is a military town, where many from the Pakistan

2011-05-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Snoring can be irritating or funny - depending on whether or not it's disturbing your sleep. But it can also be deadly, especially when someone suffers from sleep apnea, a condition where a person st

2011-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Several Pacific Northwest Indian tribes want to move their coastal villages to higher ground. This comes after the March earthquake off the coast of Japan underscored the dangers of living in a tsunam

2011-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning Palestinian-American poet who has written or edited nearly 30 books and published five collections of poems for both adults and young people.For Nye, poetry is at

2011-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

NASA says engineers at Kennedy Space Center believe they have identified the cause of the heater failure that forced the postponement of the launch of the shuttle Endeavour.NASA technicians say the fu

2011-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This past Thursday, we saw a lot of fresh new faces at our Voice of America Headquarters Building. It was "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day," not just here but at job sites nationwide.This ann

2011-05-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama was preparing to announce Osama bin Laden was dead when word got out and crowds started gathering late Sunday outside the White House in Washington and at Ground Zero in Ne

2011-05-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than a million people descended on Rome to take part in the beatification ceremony of the late Pope John Paul II.Throngs of people jammed Saint Peter’s Square, the boulevard leading up to it and

2011-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After a bloody day of anti-government protests Friday in which say at least 62 people were reported killed, eyewitnesses said Saturday that Syrian tanks and helicopters had entered the southern city o

2011-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

About one billion people on earth do not have access to adequate or clean water supplies. More people die each year of water-borne illnesses, such as dysentery and cholera, than are killed in wars. To

2011-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams - both multi-Grand Slam title winners - have not played competitively recently because of various injuries and ailments. They have continued, though, to pro

2011-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Barring any final legislative hurdles in Seoul, the European Union and South Korea are to eliminate 97 percent of all tariffs on each other’s goods from the beginning of July. The EU’s first free-tr

2011-05-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of the U.S. Central Bank flung the doors of the normally secretive Federal Reserve wide open Wednesday to hold the first of three planned news conferences. Fed chief Ben Bernanke fielded que

2011-04-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a familiar old-time movie scene, a policeman on a motorcycle hides behind a billboard, waiting to roar out, siren wailing, after a driver who’s speeding past. In the 1950s, car-mounted radar becam