双语有声阅读:Why Don't Girls Think Like Boys? 为什么女

Why Don't Girls Think Like Boys? Do you believe that only boys do well in science? Does it seem to you that girls have better vocabularies than boys? In your opinion, are boys better at building things? If your answer to each of those questions is Ye

双语有声阅读:Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent? 有了病才

Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent? One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred

双语有声阅读:Dieting Your Way to Health 节食是通往健

Almost everyone considers going on a diet sometime in his or her life. All, regardless of sex and age, have something in common - losing weight and losing it fast. Though their common aim may seem basically good, they probably do not realize that mis

双语有声阅读:Sleepwalking - Fact or Fancy? 梦游，是真

There is an endless supply of stories about sleepwalkers. Persons have been said to climb on roofs, solve mathematical problems, compose music, walk through windows, and commit murder in their sleep. In Revere, Massachusetts, a hundred policemen sear

双语有声阅读:Why Are Maps Drawn with North at the Top? 为

Now it is hard to visualize a map that does not feature north at the top, but this was not always so. The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the word was drawn about 3,800 BC, and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopot

双语有声阅读:You Have a Choice 你可以选定一种解释

Two trains are traveling side by side and at the same speed along parallel tracks. We are seated in one of the trains, and with us we have a special speedometer that measures their relative speed. Since the trains are traveling at the same speed, the

双语有声阅读:The Killer Smogs 历次重大的烟雾杀人

On the night of December 1, 1930, a dense fog moved over the Meuse Valley, in Belgium. Many factories in the valley poured smoke and fumes into the foggy air. This created a dark smog of smoke and fog combined. People in the valley began to cough and

双语有声阅读:You Can't Do It Because It Hurts Nobody 并不

Who do you think breaks the law in our society? If you believe that only tough guys commit crimes, you may have to think again. Answer the following questions honestly. Has anyone you know ever driven drunk? Can you think of a friend who has used dru

双语有声阅读:Marriage in Iran and America: A Study in C

Though marriage is practiced in almost all countries of the world, the customs are quite different from one culture to another. It is interesting for me to compare the customs of marriage in the United States with those in my country. I've lived in t

双语有声阅读:The Language of Uncertainty 模糊语言

Uncertainty spreads through our lives so thoroughly that it dominates our language. Our everyday speech is made up in large part of words like probably, many, soon, great, little. What do these words mean? Atomic war, declared a recent editorial in t

双语有声阅读:People and Colors 不同的人与不同的颜

One person chooses a bright red car, but another prefers a dark green. One family paints the living room a sunny yellow, but another family uses pure white. One child wants a bright orange ball, but another wants a light blue one. Psychologists and b

双语有声阅读:Non-verbal Communication 非语言的文字的

If anyone asked you what were the main means of communication between people, what would you say? That isn't catch question. The answer is simple and obvious. It would almost certainly refer to means of communication that involve the use of words. Sp

双语有声阅读:Saving the Rainforests for Future Generati

Rainforests are being cut and burned form Brazil to Indonesia at such a rate that they could well disappear from the earth's surface before the year 2050. They are being cleared for valuable timber and other resources to speed up the economic growth

双语有声阅读:Life on the Tundra 接近北冰洋的冻土带

Tundra is the name given to the low, marshy plains of Europe, Siberia, and North America that border on the Arctic Ocean. In Alaska, the vast, cold region known as the Northern Slope is part of the tundra. Nature sets harsh terms for survival in this

双语有声阅读:American Men Don't Cry 美国男子汉一般

American men don't cry because it is considered not characteristic of men to do so. Only women cry. Cry is a weakness characteristic of the femele, and no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine. Crying, in ou

双语有声阅读:What Is a Decision? 什么是决策?

A decision is a choice made from among alternative courses of action that are available. The purpose of making a decision is to establish and achieve organizational goals and objectives. The reason for making a decision is that a problem exists, goal

双语有声阅读:Black Holes 黑洞

What is a black hole? Well, it's difficult to answer this question, since the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon are inadequate here. Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is a region of space (not a thing) i

双语有声阅读:Worlds within Worlds 世界中的世界

First of all let us consider the earth (that is to say, the world) as a planet revolving round the sun. The earth is one of mine planets which move in orbit round the sun. These nine planets, together with the sun, make up what is called our solar sy

双语有声阅读:Euthanasia: For and Against 安乐死:赞同

We mustn't delay any longer swallowing is difficult and breathing, that's also difficult. Those muscles are weakening too we mustn't delay any longer. These were the words of Dutchman Cees van Wendel de Joode asking his doctor to help him die. Affect

双语有声阅读:Advantage Unfair 不公平的优势

According to the writer Walter Ellis, author of a book called the Oxbridge Conspiracy, Britain is still dominated by the old-boy network: it isn't what you know that matters, but who you know. He claims that at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Oxbr