2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hopes dashed

Aziz Aziz owns a clothing factory in the northern Gaza Strip. Five years ago, he was full of hope that the end of the Israeli occupation was going to mean more business opportunity.

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Seven-and-a-half years after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Obama thanked the troops for their service and announced that their combat mission has concluded. "Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At a colorful ceremony in one of Saddam Hussein's old palaces outside Baghdad, the U.S. military formally ended its combat role in Iraq and passed command of the remaining 50,000 American troops to a

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Western Iraq Wednesday, the place where U.S. troops and local tribal leaders began an effort four years ago that helped turn the tide of the Iraq war. Gate

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he does not regret his decision to take Britain to war in Iraq, but did not foresee the nightmare that had unfolded there. The revelations come in Mr. Bla

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made a three-day visit to Italy this week to mark the second anniversary of the signing of a Friendship Treaty between Tripoli and Rome. Mr. Gadhafi was given a lavish we

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People often turn to entertainment in tough economic times and, as a result, Hollywood has been seen as recession-proof. But, major studios are struggling to make a profit and some are closing produc

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new survey by business economists paints a mixed picture of the US recovery. In the poll by the National Association of Business Economists (NABE), the nation's leading economists give high marks

2010-09-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This Sunday, analysts, industry leaders and decision markers from around the world gather in Stockholm to discuss water problems at an annual event called World Water Week. The lack of access to safe

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq for talks with the country's top leaders. He is due to preside over a formal change-of-command ceremony Wednesday to mark the start of "Operation New Dawn."T

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. officials say Hurricane Earl is expected to bring severe weather and possible flooding to some parts of the eastern U.S. coast this week.Weather officials said Hurricane Earl was moving northward

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

America's Wild West was known for the phantom howls of coyotes, which were often heard but seldom seen. However, in the past 20 years, these desert dogs, indigenous to the North American wilderness,

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Vermont's Long Trail is the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the country.It follows the spine of the Green Mountains more than 400 kilometers from one end of the northeastern state to the other a

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indonesia and Malaysia have stepped up efforts to protect Asia's great ape, the orangutan. Saving the endangered "man of the forest" may also help fight global warming.Under a canopy of green in Mala

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Frogs secrete compounds that could be used to battle MRSA and a new emerging bacterium that affects many wounded soldiers in Iraq.
According to Mideast researchers, the amphibians could provide seve

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the early 1980s, Gordy Mengel served as a Peace Corps volunteer in an isolated community in what was then called Zaire, now Congo.

"I was placed somewhere in the middle part of the country," s

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

“As every high school child knows, water runs through absolutely every we do,” says World Bank Water Sector Manager Julia Bucknall. “We can’t grow any food without water. We can’t live without

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Suryadharma Ali, the Religious Affairs minister, has said that the Jamaah Ahmadiyah sect should to be broken up because its followers violated regulations and are not Muslim. The Ahmadiyah sect, which

2010-09-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The president is expected to explain to Americans what the U.S. has accomplished in Iraq since 2003, underscore a continuing commitment to Iraq's stability, and pay tribute to the sacrifices by Ameri

2010-08-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This month, authorities ordered more than half a billion eggs off the shelves at American supermarkets due to fears of salmonella. More than 1,000 people have become sick after eating eggs contaminate

2010-08-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. television honored its best programs Sunday at the annual Emmy awards in Los Angeles. Mad Men was named best dramatic series. Modern Family was named best comedy. Key Emmys also went to telev

2010-08-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A big meeting of North Korea's only political party could herald the beginning of the succession to a third generation of the Kim family in the reclusive Communist state.Announcment airing on state t

2010-08-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama turned his attention to the state of the U.S. economy Monday, in a statement issued at the White House to underscore challenges ahead. In the wake of recent disappointing econo

2010-08-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Eboo Patel says he has always been interested in the diversity of religious experience.

He was born in 1975 to Muslim Indian parents, and emigrated with them from Bombay to Chicago when he was an

2010-08-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Sunday observed the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people in the region and caused some