1-3 备战奥运：新老城市

Learn English for the 2008 Olympics New City Versus the Old Foreigner: Beijing is developing so fast that in effect, it is a completely new city. Impressive as your new skyscrapers are, they are chang

1-14 军 团 病

Legionnaires' Disease 1 Legionnaires' disease is a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia 2 . Legionnaires' disease is caused by infection with Legionella bacteria which are found naturally in

1-15 同忧郁症作斗争

Battling Against Depression “I was demoted 1 and demoted and demoted,” says Betty Whelan of how her depression affected her job. “I was lying in bed all day watching the clock go round and hatin

1-8 西伯利亚大铁路

Trans-Siberian Express The six thousand mile journey is the longest rail line on earth. Few things in Russia impact the lives of as many people as the Trans-Siberian Express. And few engineering proje

1-9 1月25日——彭斯之夜

January 25 Burns Night Robert Burns 1 , the eighteenth century “common man’s poet” who wrote of humble matters in his brash 2 “ Lallans 3 ” dialect 4 , remains Scotland’s favorite native s

3-1 另类音乐小子——科里·考克斯

Cory Cox -- An Alternative 1 Music Boy Zhao Wei: Although you are the host of MTV English now, many of us get to know you from your program XFM on CRI. Could you please talk about your experience of b

1-12 诺贝尔大师自传：西德尼·奥尔特曼

Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Sidney Altman I was born in Montreal 1 in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill 2 and my father in a grocery store before the

6-1 给我们的孩子留下一个生机勃勃的地球！

Let’s Leave Our Children a Living Planet E Huiyuan: Most Chinese people are not quite familiar with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), could you give our readers a brief introduction about your organ

6-13 肥胖症与驾车的危险性

Obesity and Risk in Driving Heavier people are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in car accidents than lighter people, according to new research. That could mean car designers will have to

4-3 护身符和象征：十字形

Charms and Symbols The Cross Although the cross has come to be a symbol of Christianity 1 , it was venerated 2 both as a religious and lucky sign for centuries before the Christian era. It has been fo

2-1 大山——语言学习有感

Dashan’s Feeling about Language Learning Zhao Wei: You have been in China for so many years, what’s your feeling about living in China? Do you enjoy it? Dashan: Well, actually, I lived in China fu

2-15 有关医疗的谬论与事实

Medical Myths and Facts You've read them before and these health tips have been passed down over generations, but do they really work? We applied modern science to some of the most often repeated word

2-11 现代奥运回顾：1964年东京奥运会

Modern Olympic Games Review 1964 Olympics, Tokyo The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia. Twenty six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resi

5-10 我母亲教我的

What My Mother Taught Me My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done:

5-11 慈母颂

Mother Machree There's a spot in my heart which no colleen may own; There's a depth in my soul never sounded or known; There's a place in my memory my life that you fill; No other can take it no one e

5-6 5月8日—欢庆舞节

May 8 -- the Furry Dance Nothing whatsoever to do with fur, the name of the Furry Dance -- as practiced every May in Helston 1 , Cornwall 2 -- is likely derived from the old Cornish 3 word

3-10 南非—观鸟胜地

South Africa -- The Birding Mecca 1 South Africa’s diverse habitat and vegetation provides a perfect breeding ground for a lively and varied selection of birdlife. It ranks as one of the top birding

3-11 泰姬·玛哈尔陵

Taj Mahal Few buildings on earth can compete with the legendary beauty of the Taj Mahal. Towering over 1 the ancient Indian city of Agra, the Taj Mahal is the grandest monument to love ever created. T

3-13 1968年墨西哥城奥运会

Modern Olympic Games Review ——1968 Olympics, Mexico City The Games of the Nineteenth Olympiad were the highest and most controversial ever held. Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin

3-3 护身符和象征：奠基石

Charms and Symbols Cornerstone 1 Even buildings made of steel and glass usually have a cornerstone, often engraved with the date construction began. It is a talisman 2 intended to bring luck not only