听一分钟英文：Mobile Phones-手机

How important to you is your mobile phone? Do you really need it? In the 1980s there were no mobile phones. People still managed to phone their family and friends and do business. Of course, there were more public telephones then. There was a telepho

听一分钟英文：Models-模特

Models are strange people. Its almost as though they live in a totally different world to the rest of us. Every day they are told how beautiful they are. Im sure this affects them in some way. They constantly think about their beauty and their figure

听一分钟英文：Modern Living-现代生活

Are you happy with your lifestyle? What kind of lifestyle do you lead? It seems that we think about our lifestyle more and more these days. Every time we turn on the TV or open a magazine, there is an ad, programme or article about this lifestyle or

听一分钟英文：Memories-回忆

If youre lucky, you have more good memories than bad ones. Im very lucky. I have lots of good memories. I dont have many painful memories. I dont know why. Lots of bad things happened to me when I was younger but I dont really have strong memories of

听一分钟英文：Microsoft-微软

What would life be like without Microsoft? Impossible? Perhaps not impossible, but definitely difficult. Microsoft seems to be a big part of our lives today. Most of us use Microsoft products every day. We need MS Word to create documents and Excel t

听一分钟英文：Men-男人

Are men really from another planet? A lot of women think so. There are a lot of books about how strange men are. This is rubbish. Men are men, the same as women are women. Of course men are not perfect, no one is. Men actually have done a lot of bad

听一分钟英文：Mothers-母亲

Mothers are the people dearest to us. We all have a special relationship with our mother. We are naturally bonded to our mother. We spend nine months growing inside her and she is the person who looks after us when we are babies. Our mother does ever

听一分钟英文：Moon-月亮

The Moon is a very mysterious thing. It has fascinated us for thousands of years. It is mentioned everywhere in science and literature almost from the time humans started writing. And today, it still fills us with wonder. The most amazing thing about

听一分钟英文：Money-金钱

Money makes the world go round. I wonder if this famous English expression is very true. If you have money, the world goes round very gently and you are happy. If you dont have money, the world might not go round so smoothly. They also say that money

听一分钟英文：Monarchy-君主制

Do we really need a monarchy in the 21st Century? Its such a strange idea. It certainly is not a democratic idea. No one votes for someone to be king or queen. When a prince or princess is born, he or she automatically has a wonderful life. This is n

听一分钟英文：Management-管理

Management is a funny thing. Most of the people I know who are in management are not actually managers. I mean, they dont have any qualifications to say they are managers. I think most managers are like that. They spend a year or two in a job and the

听一分钟英文：Marathons-马拉松

Im full of admiration for people who run marathons. I couldnt do it. I love running and have done a few half-marathons, but I always found a full marathon to be too much. Marathon runners are special. I dont think I have the stamina to do it. Not pro

听一分钟英文：Marketing-销售

Marketing is a funny thing. Sometimes I like it, other times I hate it. There is definitely an art to marketing. Some of the advertising campaigns you see are the work of a genius. Someone has thought of a great idea, slogan and advertising campaign

听一分钟英文：Marriage-婚姻

Marriage seems to be a dying institution. Everywhere we look, there are more and more statistics saying marriage is on its way out, divorce is on the increase, or people are leaving it later and later to tie the knot. A worrying trend over the past f

听一分钟英文：Mathematics-数学

When I was a kid I was top of the class in maths. I was really good at mental arithmetic and doing sums. Things were easy back then, It was all addition and subtraction, multiplication and division. I knew my times tables like the back of my hand. Th

听一分钟英文：Meat-肉

Im a big meat-eater. I love meat of all kinds. I have eaten all sorts of meat. Even though I love meat, I could easily stop eating it, and I dont think Id miss it. A long time ago I heard the vegetarian slogan Meat is Murder. If you think about it, t

听一分钟英文：Media-媒体

Where would we be without the media? How would we get information about the world? All of us are interested in the news. We all want to know whats happening around the world. We switch the TV on just to watch the news. It seems as though every train

听一分钟英文：Medicine-药物

I dont understand how anyone can like medicine. Ive never liked it. I used to refuse to take it as a kid because the taste was so disgusting. Im not sure whether or not medicine is a good thing. Im sure that most of the time our body will recover nat

听一分钟英文：Meditation-冥想

Meditation is one thing Id really like to be able to do. I cant do it. I have tried many times but nothing seems to happen. I have read a lot about meditation and it sounds really good. You can relax anytime you want. Twenty minutes of meditation is

听一分钟英文：Magazines-杂志

There are magazines on just about anything you can think of. Just walk into a big bookstore and see the hundreds of different kinds of magazines. There are magazines for men, magazines for women, for children, for bankers, stamp collectors and even E