英语听力文摘 English Digest 79、飞机造成的耳朵不适

When traveling by plane what makes our ears pop, and what is it exactly that pops? Most of us are familiar with this phenomenon of travel: it usually happens on takeoffs and landings. Our ears pop because of the change in air pressure as the plane as

英语听力文摘 English Digest 78、睡前酒到底好不好？

Alcohol can cause you to awake frequently in the night, reduce the amount of deep sleep you get, and cause you to wake up earlier than usual in the morning. The overall effect is that you end up feeling tired the next day. And thus you might be tempt

英语听力文摘 English Digest 77、饮食多样性与肥胖

Studies suggest that when we eat a variety of foods, we are less likely to get bored. But therefore we are more likely to eat more. That might contribute to the current obesity problem in Americapeople like the taste of different foods and keep eatin

英语听力文摘 English Digest 87、BBC 印度板球丑闻

Hi there, I'm Hayley from the BBC World News for Children. Scandal in Indian cricket. World leading scientist says aliens probably exist. And canine courage in the States! The head of the world's richest cricket league - the Indian Premier League - h

英语听力文摘 English Digest 86、有点懒惰的英国人

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What cant you be bothered to do? A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adu

英语听力文摘 English Digest 88、BBC 乌克兰议会鸡蛋横飞

Hi there, I'm Ricky from the BBC World News for Children. Coming up: Smoke bombs and flying eggs in Ukraine parliament. The world famous Hollywood sign is saved. And the cat that was very nearly recycled! First - parliaments are usually quite formal

英语听力文摘 English Digest 89、记不住人的名字

Yael: Hey Don, see that guy over there? I'm always forgetting his name! Don: Oh, you mean Matt? Y: Yeah, that's it! You know, it's really easy for me to remember some names, but others take a lot of work. D: Don't feel bad. It might be because Matt's

英语听力文摘 English Digest 90、爱吃甜食

I love to eat sweets--candy, cookies, caramel apples--- everything. But I don't like getting cavities. Is there a way to eat lots of sugar without ruining your teeth? D: Interesting question. First, let's assume that you're not going to cut out sweet

英语听力文摘 English Digest 91、哪种烟最有害

We all know that smoking cigarettes is bad. But what about smoking a pipe or cigars? Since you dont inhale, is it better for your health? Or at least less bad? Good question.So first, its true that cigarettes are in a league of their own when it come

英语听力文摘 English Digest 436、UFO来袭！

UFO Attack 飞碟来袭 June.Nineteen sixty-nine, not one airliner but two, plus the pilot of an Air National Guard fighter plane, report being harass ed by a team of UFOs. One man estimates the glowing ships have come within a few hundred feet. The

英语听力文摘 English Digest 435、你怕了吗？

The Anatomy of Fear One nice day youre walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a huge rattlesnake , its rattles abuzz. You are deathly afraid of snakes. Various parts of the brain signal the nervous sys

英语听力文摘 English Digest 434、人类听不见的声音

The Lowest Note in the Universe 宇宙中的最低音 It's coming from a black hole in the Perseus Cluster, about two hundred fifty million light years away. A black hole？And outer space？That makes sound? Whats happening out there is that interga

英语听力文摘 English Digest 433、你是福尔摩斯吗？

重点词汇(填空) mystery novel,float,corpse, initially,putrefaction,digestive tips: 怎样阅读才是有质量的阅读了？ 边看边填空吧，重点词汇可是小编为大家认真筛选的,阅读完后，点击【查看答案】和 【查看

英语听力文摘 English Digest 432、吃人的巨型生物

Anaconda 水蟒 Before Jennifer Lopez became J. Lo, she was an up and coming actress. Perhaps her worst movie was Anaconda , about a giant snake that terrorizes a documentary film crew in the Amazon rain forest. Hollywoods version of the snake was pu

英语听力文摘 English Digest 431、爱很伤？

Love Really Does Hurt 爱很伤？ In a recent study, scientists observed that when the participants felt reject ed , the flow of blood increased to the area of their brain known as the anterior cingulated cortex . This same area has been associated

英语听力文摘 English Digest 429、睡觉时为何不打喷嚏

Sleep On, Sneeze Not 睡觉的时候不会打喷嚏 The signs are unmistakabl e : the eyes water, the chest heave s , the nose twitch es , the body tenses, suspense builds until finally a sneeze blasts forth, concluding the drama. It's a momentarily

英语听力文摘 English Digest 428、泥土的芬芳

The Smell of Dirt A lot of people love that fresh-dirt smell. The surprising thing, though, is that it isnt coming from the dirt itself. Microbiologist s have traced the pleasant odor to an organic chemical called geosmin. No way! But how does geosmi

英语听力文摘 English Digest 427、神奇的进化

Maggot evolution 蝇蛆的进化 You may already know how the evolution of a new species happens. Two or more populations of one species have to be separated from each other, such as is the case with Darwins finches in the Galapagos. Various populati

英语听力文摘 English Digest 426、健忘症

Amnesia 健忘症 When we remember something, the neuron s in our brains communicate with each other in a particular way. The chemical and sometimes even structural changes that occur create a pathway called a memory trace. Signals traveling along th

英语听力文摘 English Digest 425、意外的收获

作为社会当中的弱势群体,老年人更需要得到来自他人的不管是身体上还是精神上的帮助.可出人意料的是,那些给予帮助的人在整个提供帮助的过程中能获得意外的收获.今天我们来看看来自密歇