英语听力文摘 English Digest 9、How To Start Your Own Business(2)

Financial experts agree that part of the economic slowdown over the last few years can be attributed partly to the demise of the so-called dot-coms. Investors threw lots of cash at these start-up internet businesses, despite having no clear idea of h

英语听力文摘 English Digest 5、Learning to Sing

The complex vocalizations of songbirds are learned, not inherited. Some even have regional accents. Wrens, thrushes and other songbirds don't hatch with their impressive musical talents. They learn to sing their extensive repertoires by listening to

英语听力文摘 English Digest 565、什么是儿童早衰症？

What Is Progeria? Progeria was first described in the nineteenth century. The mysterious disease is often thought of as premature aging. Children with progeria are normal for their first year of life, but then develop medical problems normally seen i

英语听力文摘 English Digest 464、狗狗和环保

Scoop That Poop Actually, dog poop turns out to have a pretty big environmental impact. If you think that two in five household s in the U.S. have at least one dog and that about forty percent of Americans dont clean up after their pooches, well, all

英语听力文摘 English Digest 493、惨淡的人生

The Nucleus Don: A guy walks into a bar, and sits down next to an electron . The electron has two empty beers in front of him, and was working on a third. My life is a worst, says electron . I just got fired from my job, my dog bit me, my wife left w

英语听力文摘 English Digest 505、不能不说的秘密

Black Tongues and Stomach Aches Don: Oh, no, Ya?l, I think I'm having a medical emergency. Quick! Call an ambulance. Ya?l: A medical emergency, Don? Are you sure? You look fine to me! D: But I'm not. This morning, I had a terrible stomach ache. And n

英语听力文摘 English Digest 42、聊聊性教育吧

This past November, a survey showed that over 65 percent of 3,614 children and young adults queried said they had seen or read materials with sexual content, including pornographic films, Web sites, comics and computer games. After these results were

英语听力文摘 English Digest 41、婴儿语

Ya?l: [In a baby talk cooing voice] Ready for a moment of science? D: Sure, Ya?l, but why are you talking to me like I'm a baby? Y: [Regular voice] Just making a point Don. Why did you think I was talking as if you were a baby? D: Hmmm. Because of th

英语听力文摘 English Digest 26、为什么会有男人和女人？

Why are there males and females? Why are there two sexes instead of three, or twelve, or one? On todayss Moment of Science we'll learn why two is the magic number. Let's start with why there is sex at all. When two organisms reproduce sexually, sperm

英语听力文摘 English Digest 27、狗和狼

Don: Who's the smartest dog in the whole wide world? DOG BARKING Yael: Please. Even if Ralph is the smartest dog in the world, that's not saying much. Any animal that will do exactly what you tell it to do isn't very smart. I'm not saying dogs weren'

英语听力文摘 English Digest 29、长江七号

Hong Kong comedian Stephen Chow has been a major player in the area's film industry for almost two decades, but it wasn't until 2001's Shaolin Soccer followed by 2004's Kung Fu Hustle that Chow really rocketed to the stratosphere, where he currently

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 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 149、儿童新闻

Hi there, I'm Ore with the BBC World News for Children. It's Tuesday the 1st of June. Coming up: The latest attempt to plug the American oil leak has failed. World Cup teams are picked. And a Japanese teenage girl is a baseball hit! First - the Unite

英语听力文摘 English Digest 327、吸血蝙蝠能挽救生命？

Bat Spit 蝙蝠的唾液 Anyone who reads gothic fiction will tell you that vampires are bad news. People who read modern medical journal s , however, might disagreein fact, they think vampires just might help save lives. The kind of vampire Im talki

英语听力文摘 English Digest 328、为尿床平反

Bedtime Blues 尿床的困扰 Never a happy topic, bed wetting is a very distressing problem for five to seven million American kids. If we cant explain why some people like to pick on these kids, can we at least shed some light on what causes bed we

英语听力文摘 English Digest 335、新陈代谢到底是什么？

The Parts of Metabolism 新陈代谢到底是什么？ What is metabolism really? Statements like he can eat a lot because he has a fast metabolism are somewhat misleading. Metabolism isnt about the digestion of food in your stomach; its the name giv

英语听力文摘 English Digest 190、营养基因组学

Nutrigenomics 营养基因组学（nutrigenomics 或nutritional genomics，又叫营养遗传学 nutrigenetics）是研究营养素和植物化学物质对机体基因的转录、翻译表达及代谢机理的科学。 膳食是影响人体健康最重

英语听力文摘 English Digest 208、棘螈

Acanthostega 这种生物已经演化出前后肢，但每肢都有８趾。这种生物是从鱼类进化到两栖类的过渡产物。而且，它具有更多的鱼类特征，如有鳃、鳍和只能在水中起作用的感官。伦敦自然历史博

英语听力文摘 English Digest 255、管风琴

Nice Set of Pipes 尽管管风琴对我们来说还是比较生疏的乐器，但它的发音原理与我国民间流传至今仍在使用的古老乐器芦笙十分近似。据史料记载，公元前250年前古希腊工程师克提西比奥（Ktes