英语听力文摘 English Digest 132、当香蕉变坏

Y: So Don, yesterday I was walking down the produce aisle when I saw it--long, ripe,yellow. The perfect banana. It really looked delicious and I had to have it. I took it home and hung it on a banana hanger. The very next morning, it developed nasty

英语听力文摘 English Digest 133、老式冰激凌制作

Have you ever seen an old-fashioned ice cream maker? Nestled inside a wooden bucket, there's a metal canister with a hand crank on top. Cranking the handle scrapes the sweet, creamy mixture from the sides of the metal canister, which sits in a bath o

英语听力文摘 English Digest 134、苏门答腊犀牛

This is the first time that researchers have captured an image of a female Sumatran rhino believed to be pregnant. There are so few of these animals left in the wild - possibly no more than 30 on Borneo - that experts say each new calf is a lifeline

英语听力文摘 English Digest 136、男人真的比女人能喝酒?

Well, yael, the average weight difference between women and men is one reason why women tend to get intoxicated faster, but theres more. Women also tend to have more fat and less muscle than men, even tall women. This is significant because muscle ti

英语听力文摘 English Digest 121、节约用水减缓全球变暖

The Water Resources Agency (WRA) of Taiwan has called on people to save water as a way to reduce carbon emissions. The WRA pointed out that the low price of tap water in Taiwan, which has not increased in 14 years, has led people to waste the valuabl

英语听力文摘 English Digest 120、对抗晕船的方法

Typical indicators for seasickness are a dry mouth, cold sweat, dizziness and nausea, sometimes followed by vomiting. Medically speaking seasickness is a variation of motion sickness or kinetosis. Though it does not always end up with the affected pe

英语听力文摘 English Digest 119、宠物航空公司

An estimated one million animals fly each year in America, usually in a plane's cargo hold. One such trip for Jack Russell Terrier Zoe was enough to convince her owners Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that pets needed to travel in style. The husband and

英语听力文摘 English Digest 118、太空衣是时尚

Spacesuits are the ultimate in couture. Think about it: Custom-fit garments, dozens of layers deep, made from innovative textiles that can run US$5,000 per square foot, with eye-catching accessories. Gemini suits, moon-dust-coated boots and Neil Arms

英语听力文摘 English Digest 117、辛普森家庭登上美国邮票

America's most famous dysfunctional cartoon family The Simpsons were unveiled as the latest faces on a set of commemorative stamps released by the U.S. Postal Service. A total of one billion The Simpsons stamps will be issued across the United States

英语听力文摘 English Digest 116、孩子在家喝酒安全吗？

Dear Annie: My daughter is in high school and splits her time between my house and my ex-wife's. She often attends parties, and I've hosted many myself. Recently my house has become unpopular because I don't serve alcohol. My daughter has been to par

英语听力文摘 English Digest 115、毕业班倦怠症大流行

I've recently spoken very directly with a few of my students about a malady that afflicts a certain small percentage of students in that final run of days that lead to the big one: GRADUATION DAY. That malady is not the dreaded H1N1 virus, nor bronch

英语听力文摘 English Digest 113、培养健康饮食习惯

The Ministry of Education and the John Tung Foundation recently sponsored a two-week camp for underweight and overweight children from grades three through six. Nutritionists taught the students about sugar and grease content in a variety of foods, a

英语听力文摘 English Digest 112、在网上被跟踪

Dear Annie: I'm a 15-year-old girl who has been having problems with another girl for about a year. She's basically stalking me over the computer. I've received multiple threatening messages from her on MySpace. She says, Why don't you just go and ki

英语听力文摘 English Digest 111、恼人的垃圾电子邮件

The flood of e-mail spam, or junk e-mails, that bombards Internet users daily has become a nagging problem, according to a survey released by the Taiwan Internet Association. The survey found that Internet users receive an average of 29 junk e-mails

英语听力文摘 English Digest 110、数码时代对EQ的影响

Harvard University professor John Palfrey recently spoke in Taipei on the subject of youth and contemporary media, the digital age, and parenting. I read the news on his lecture with care. (Palfrey) said it is down to parents and schools to determine

英语听力文摘 English Digest 109、美文欣赏-大学生的偶像

Successful entrepreneurs have surpassed pop stars as college students' idols, a recent Fudan University survey has found. In the survey, which sampled 150 students from different grades and departments, 96 chose successful entrepreneurs as their idol

英语听力文摘 English Digest 108、青年旅馆

A hundred years after the first youth hostel was created, do such establishments have a part to play in the 21st century? After all one of the traditional images is of big draughty rooms that you have to share with snoring strangers, while being orde

英语听力文摘 English Digest 107、当铺

Lack of money can cause big financial problems for people. While the banks are closing down branches in city centres, weve seen a growth of pawnbrokers in the high streets.Paul Atkin, the director of online pawnbroker Borro. Here he explains the hist

英语听力文摘 English Digest 114、与怀恨在心的人打交道

Dear Annie: I am a 24-year-old female and have been friends with Danielle for 12 years. In fact, she is the only friend I have. Recently, I expressed some personal frustrations to her about my brother-in-law's lifestyle. Last weekend, he came to visi

英语听力文摘 English Digest 99、BBC 美国爆炸嫌犯被捕

Hi there - I'm Sonali from the BBC World News for Children. Coming up: Man arrested over planned U.S bombing. The ash is back. And elephants on the loose! First - police in America have arrested a man on suspicion of driving a car bomb into one of th