英语听力文摘 English Digest 370、太阳会消失吗？

So Long, Sun 再见了，太阳 D: Wow! What a beautiful sunset. Y: Enjoy it while it lasts, the sun wont be around forever, you know. D: You mean, one day the sun will disappear? Y: Not exactly disappear, but the sun will eventually burn out and die

英语听力文摘 English Digest 368、屎壳郎的“导航仪”

The Eye of the Dung Beetle A number of animals, including honeybees and butterflies, use sunlights polarization in their navigation s , but the dung beetle is the first animal ever discovered to use moonlights polarization to guide its travels. Polar

英语听力文摘 English Digest 367、用“耳朵”治口吃

Stutter ing Ear 用耳朵治口吃 Remember that kid in your grade school class who stutter ed ? Well, he was in good companya whopping three million people in the United States alone are affected by this problem. 还记得小学时班上那个说话结

英语听力文摘 English Digest 366、神奇的“鼻子”

Sperm Sniff Out Their Targets 精子靠嗅觉发现卵子 Scientists who study human sperm have long wondered whether human sperm could somehow sense the presence of an egg . Then, just about a decade ago, it was discovered that sperm have protein s

英语听力文摘 English Digest 365、“不平等”的肌肉

肌肉生而不等 Don:Its not fair! Yal: Whats not fair? D: I was rereading the Constitution of the United States. It says here that All people are created equal.Thats just not true! Y:What do you mean? D: Well, its always being my dream to become t

英语听力文摘 English Digest 364、外星人要吃人？

Why Alien s Wont Eat Us Are alien s going to eat us? Thats more of a science fiction question. But science does have something to say here, and sometimes purely imaginative questions are great tools for helping us think about how the real world works

英语听力文摘 English Digest 363、鸟是如何呼吸的？

How Birds Breathe 鸟是如何呼吸的 Y: Don, flying is tougher than walking or running, right? So how come birds dont get winded and run out of breath? D: Actually, in terms of distance per unit energy, flying is pretty efficient . Plus birds have

英语听力文摘 English Digest 362、超市的诡计

Shopping and Hummingbird s 购物和蜂鸟 Yal: Did you know, Don, that your shopping habits maybe similar to a hummingbird s? Don: Are you going to tell me that hummingbird s are also sold on flash colors and miracle diamonds? Y: No. But it turns ou

英语听力文摘 English Digest 369、“勒不死”的苍蝇

Can You Choke a Fly? 你绝对勒不死苍蝇 Don:These dark flies are driving me badly! I wish I could strangle each of every one of them! Yal:Im sorry to say, but thats impossible. D: I realize that. I dont mean that I have to strangle all of them.

英语听力文摘 English Digest 135、裘德洛重新点燃爱情之火

Jude Law, star of Sherlock Holmes, has gone public with his reconciled romance with British actress Sienna Miller, despite cheating allegations and a very public break up in 2005. The pair were photographed together on the red carpet at a charity gal

英语听力文摘 English Digest 253、拄着拐杖飞

Flying in a Crutch Who can walk faster, a ballet dancer whose leg muscles are extremely fit, or a couch potato whose legs are soft and flabby? Did you ever have a broken leg? Or did you ever see someone else in a cast? If so, you may have noticed som

英语听力文摘 English Digest 16、John Lennon's Story Comes to Broadway

NEW YORK, NY, August 02, 2005 From Evita to Buddy Holly to Jackie Onassis, the lives of famous people have inspired works for the stage. Now, almost 25 years after his murder, John Lennons story is coming to Broadway. The new musical, Lennon, is sche

英语听力文摘 English Digest 15、How To Start Your Own Business(3)

The economic fallout from the Enron bankruptcy scandal is one example of why it's important for you to find a good accountant. Experts say start-ups and established businesses can avoid legal problems that can doom their companies by finding trusted

英语听力文摘 English Digest 14、Checking Your Credit Score Regularly

You might want to find out what your credit score is, because it's a very important number that many of us probably don't know. As Susan Jhun explains in this NY1 For You report, it can have a huge effect on your life. If you don't know what your cre

英语听力文摘 English Digest 12、广岛原子弹爆炸60周年

Montreal and other Canadian cities are holding memorials on the weekend, six decades after the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima and killed 140,000 people. Montreal, which twinned with the Japanese city in 1998, began with a peace ceremony in its b

英语听力文摘 English Digest 13、交配8-9个小时的生物

Don: All right, Yael, you're a moth. And mating for you is a big deal because it takes eight or nine hours. So the last thing you want is for some predator to interrupt you and your mate in the act. Yael: I'm guessing that's true not just for moths.

英语听力文摘 English Digest 68、超重的南非警察

South Africa's police force has an image problem. Faced with one of the world's highest crime rates, its officers are seen by many as ineffective, sometimes corrupt and often lumberingly overweight. That's now all supposed to change under Bheki Cele

英语听力文摘 English Digest 74、干旱的成因

For those of us lucky enough to always have enough food and water, it may be hard to imagine living through a drought. A drought occurs for a variety of reasons, usually including a lack of rainfall and warm temperatures.Soil moisture severely dwindl

英语听力文摘 English Digest 73、外科口罩的功效

Dohn,Surgical masks arent designed to protect you. Theyre designed to protect those around you from the germs you might be spreading, by blocking those droplets you shoot out when you sneeze or cough. Surgical masks also divert airflow so that you do

英语听力文摘 English Digest 72、去太空旅行吧!

Its 60 feet long, made of lightweight, fuel-efficient material and can carry eight people out of this world and back. The first commercial spaceship was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson, who hopes to start passenger trips within two years. The price t