2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Space shuttle Discovery has launched on a mission to deliver new science equipment to the International Space Station.Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and rose toward orbit s

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Much has been written about the profoundly negative effect that the Internet has had on the newspaper business.So many readers have switched to the Web for information that sales of the printed papers

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For hundreds of years the Khmer empire ruled in what is now Cambodia.But in the 13th century, the capital city, Angkor, died off, and a new scientific study indicates that climate, specifically decade

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the zebra finch. Their work reveals a lot about songbird genetics, and opens a new door to understanding the basis of human speech.

2010-04-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Francisco Ayala is a man at the intersection of science and religion, who sees no conflict between the two. The molecular biologist has revolutionized evolutionary theory, leading to new ways to preve

2010-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Easter celebrations in Jerusalem began with a sunrise service at the Garden Tomb, as pilgrims from around the world sang hymns of the resurrection. The garden and ancient tomb carved into a rock are

2010-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The controversial youth leader of South Africa's African National Congress has praised Zimbabwe's program for taking over thousands of white-owned farms, and says his country will follow the example

2010-04-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iraqi authorities say at least 41 people have been killed in three massive explosions in Baghdad. More than 200 people have been wounded in the blasts, which came as politicians struggle to form a ne

2010-04-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Key shopping malls in tourist locations in central Bangkok were closed or disrupted as anti-government protesters moved to blockade several intersections in a bid to pressure Thailand's government to

2010-04-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Apple is calling its new tablet computer, the iPad, a "revolution." At electronics stores across the United States, customers lined up before the sun rose April 3, 2010 to get their hands on one. But

2010-04-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It sounds almost like science fiction: could some patients believed to be in vegetative or minimally conscious states really be conscious all along? And perhaps with new technology, be capable of comm

2010-04-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Roman Catholics around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But allegations that priests sexually abused children have tarnished the image of the

2010-04-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the wake of the subway bombings in Moscow, public transport systems seem vulnerable. London's system is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Officials in the British capital have long

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

High up a mountain near the town of Petit Guave, farmers are preparing the rocky soil to plant corn, beans, potatoes and other crops before the rains begin.

Sixty percent of the food produced in H

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week, Kenya has announced it will re-double efforts to control diarrheal diseases, one of the biggest killers of children under age five. Among the causes are unsafe water, as well as poor sanit

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It was a sea of Christian pilgrims in the narrow cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City. The faithful came to the Via Dolorosa, or Way of Sorrows, from all over the world.Carrying crosses, sin

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week, Jews began the holiday of Passover with seders, ritual dinners with family and friends, to commemorate the freeing of ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt some 3,000 years ago.In San Rafae

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

恒星小编注:本篇文本并非与音频完全对应When you peel away the obvious outside differences, it turns out people and bananas have a lot in common.Humans and banana trees are 60 percent genetically similar

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Cuban-born singer and composer Jon Secada is known for his rhythmic fusion of pop, soul, ballads and Latin music. But, he reveals another side to his ever-growing repertoire with his latest release,

2010-04-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week on Our World: A city doomed by climate change — centuries ago ... inventors get the Hall-of-Fame treatment ... and probing the genetics of how birds learn to sing ...

CLAYTON: "When a bi

2010-04-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jewish and Christian pilgrims have converged on Jerusalem as Passover and Easter coincide.Thousands of Israelis participated in a Passover tradition: the biblical Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall

2010-04-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Dmitri Medvedev is in Dagestan in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, where another bomb blast added to a streak of deadly explosions that began this week in the Moscow subway. Chech

2010-04-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In India, a landmark law which makes education a fundamental right for all children between six and 14, has come into effect. But many challenges lie ahead in ensuring access to education for all in a

2010-04-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Throughout the scraggliest parts of the American West, in fields where jackrabbits keep company with rattlesnakes, you see symbols of an earlier era of prosperity.

Often rusted, but sometimes new a

2010-04-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Northern Senegal is on the front lines of the fight against desertification. Teachers are enlisting children to protect their village from the advancing Sahara.The children in this classroom are not r