2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The failure of the latest round of Middle East talks has left politicians and analysts grappling over whether a peace agreement achievable in the near future. U.S. negotiator George Mitchell met sepa

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen had bluegrass in common when they met as teenagers in Los Angeles back in the early '60s, but the two didn't make much music together until years later. Hillman first

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama awarded the highest U.S. military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor, to U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta on November 16, 2010. Since then, the Iowa native h

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sensitive information released by the Wikileaks website has generated a heated debate in the United States. Should the news media publish classified information and does it compromise national securi

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's Christmas time in Washington. For hundreds of families in the nation's capital and beyond, that means attending a production of the Christmas Revels.The Revels, festive Christmas productions fe

2010-12-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. refugee agency announced a milestone has been reached in its efforts to provide shelter for returnees and internally displaced people in Afghanistan. After eight years of work the UNHCR has c

2010-12-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday expressed deep concern about the situation in Sudan's oil-rich Abyei region, where a referendum on the region's future is scheduled for next month.The

2010-12-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Street protests in Ivory Coast against incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo have turned violent with at least four dead. Witnesses said heavy artillery fire has been heard near the base of president-ele

2010-12-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Kashmir Himalayan region has been a hotly disputed area for decades, with both India and Pakistan laying claim to it. But some Kashmiris see their homeland not only as an area of conflict, but als

2010-12-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A research group known for exposing toxic chemicals in children's toys recently turned its attention to home improvement products such as flooring and wallpaper. After testing more than 3000 sample

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in jail after Swedish prosecutors appealed a British judge's decision to grant bail. Assange is wanted for questioning in connection with allegations of s

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russia spent much of 2010 trying to mend fences with the West. It settled a big border dispute with Norway, and normalized relations with Ukraine, after a pro-Kremlin leader took over. But Russia's b

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iranian media report suicide bombers have killed at least 39 people in Chahbahar, a mainly Sunni city in troubled Sistan-Baluchistan province. More than 50 other people were wounded in the attack, wh

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping federal tax bill that will swell America's national debt by hundreds of billions of dollars and, it is hoped, stimulate a lagging U.S. economy.

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new wave of strikes in Greece disrupted transportation and closed schools, banks and courts Wednesday, while similar protests took place in other European Union countries against government austerit

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chinese media has come out with a report saying that more than 40 million foreigners around the world are learning Chinese. The reports quote a senior official with the Confucius Institute Headquarter

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The local food movement is growing in the United States. Restaurant owners and families look to nearby farms for fruits, vegetables and meat. Now small forest owners want to join the local food party.

2010-12-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New York, the state with the nation's largest metropolitan area, is also home to 2.5 million hectares of protected mountain wilderness. Conservationists believe that protection is why moose - which w

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke died Monday at the age of 69 after undergoing heart surgery. The longtime diplomat's death drew reaction from around the world.Words

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new report finds malaria control programs have saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the past decade. The World Health Organization, which has just published its World Malaria Report 2010, say

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After months of drought, storms pounded Lebanon during the weekend, destroying or damaging most of the 60 homes in Jal al-Bahr, one of Lebanon's poorest communities of Palestinian refugees.On the sho

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chinese economic authorities have signaled that fighting rising prices will be their top priority next year.China's government set an average inflation rate target this year of 3 percent, but some ec

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the most popular books in the United States right now is by an author who has been dead for a century. "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" is the first of three volumes which make up writer Samue

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Oscar nominations could go to Mark Wahlberg and co-star Christian Bale for their performances in a new drama directed by David O. Russell and based on the true story of a boxing champion from a workin

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For more than four decades after its creation in the wake of the Second World War, North Korea relied on its communist ally, the Soviet Union, to provide fertilizer for its farms. When the Soviet Unio