2010-09-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pop star Cyndi Lauper admits she was born to sing the blues. So far, fans seem to agree, sending her new album "Memphis Blues" to the top of the blues chart for 12 consecutive weeks.Cyndi Lauper's r

2010-09-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, President Barack Obama said U.S. policy will emphasize incentives for economic growth over food or financial aid, and encourage countries

2010-09-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In his 40th film as director, Woody Allen revisits themes of life, love and mortality that he has examined before; but this time the humor is a bit darker and the characters, perhaps, more desperate.H

2010-09-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Japanese prosecutors say they will release a Chinese trawler captain who has been detained since his boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels in disputed waters. The incident enraged China, which re

2010-09-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia and China have conducted their first-ever joint naval exercise involving the firing of live ammunition. Ongoing tensions between China and the United States forced organizers not to invite

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study shows community health workers can effectively and safely treat malaria and pneumonia with just a little bit of extra training. In many rural areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa, an import

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Getting a flu shot can help prevent influenza. But now, a large study in Britain indicates that older adults who get an annual flu vaccination are less likely to suffer a heart attack. The study invol

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

If you've ever hurt yourself - bumped a leg or arm while walking, maybe - you might have instinctively grabbed the place that hurt, and that seemed to ease the pain. Now, new research on pain and sel

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Middle East peace talks are facing their first major challenge just three weeks after they began.A showdown is looming in the Middle East with a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction due

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Clinton Global Initiative has concluded its annual meeting in New York with multi-billion dollar commitments from participants to help address problems of poverty, disease and injustice around the

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Illegal immigration often is the subject of heated debate in the United States. What gets less attention is legal immigration, and how newcomers become citizens. It is not easy. They have to pay a fee

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Lebanese city of Saida is known for its historic ruins dating to the 5th century BC. It also is known for its giant garbage dump, which residents call "trash mountain." The mountain has grown ste

2010-09-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Actor Michael Douglas has become the international face of throat cancer since he announced he had the disease. The actor says his doctors give him an 80 percent chance of beating the cancer. Michael

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama called on the global community Thursday to rally behind U.S.-led efforts for a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within a year. In his U.N. General Assembly add

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

(本篇仅为大概文本,非完全一致,喜欢机器人的恒星网友可以看看)These days, robots are more common than you might think. Consider the Roomba, a programmable robotic vacuum which cleans floors on its own.

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Robert Cohen knows a thing or two about photography. He's a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of America's most respected newspapers.

One day this past August, he set off t

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command, Army General Keith Alexander, said the Pentagon's vast computer system is probed by potential enemies a quarter-of-a-million times every hour and needs to

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A prestigious Indonesian Islamic theologian is traveling to Europe to promote the country's tolerant, pluralist interpretation of Islam and counter the violent ideology of radical extremists. The tou

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An international HIV/AIDS advocacy group says the United Nations has failed the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. AIDS-Free World says it's time for the U.N. to stop passing resolutions on t

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For more than 30 years the United States has led the charge in sanctions against Iran, justifying them most recently by its suspicions about Iran's nuclear program. Every Iranian leader from Ayatoll

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More and more, Brazil is flexing its bulging economic muscle. At a time of constrained global economic expansion, Brazil's projected seven-percent growth rate this year is among the world's highest.

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sandra Cohen has never had breast or ovarian cancer, but she had surgery to remove her breasts and ovaries. She made the decision to undergo surgery after her grandmother and mother both died from th

2010-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Pakistan and Russia, in China and the United States, torrential rains and severe heat have killed thousands of people and left many more homeless.Appearing before U.S. lawmakers, these climate scie

2010-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Yemen's government says four of its soldiers have been killed in a continuing offensive against suspected members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The government has laid siege to a southern to

2010-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Thai cargo ship MV Sun Sea arrived on Vancouver Island in Canada last month, carrying nearly 500 Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka. They claim to have faced murder, kidnapping and extortion back home and