The Reading Group 02

ANNOUNCER: Youre listening to The Reading Group from the BBC World Service. In this series we bring together listeners, students of English, literature teachers and other contributors from the world of books to share their enthusiasm for reading. We

The Reading Group

The Reading Group Part 1 This programme was first broadcast in 2002. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. ANNOUNCER: Youre listening to The Reading Group from the BBC World Service. In this series we bring together liste

新课标小学英语第五册（一年级起点外研版）Reading

新课标小学英语一年级第五册（一年级起点外研版）Reading Reading for Pleasure The Little Red Hen Reading for Pleasure By the sea.

新概念英语第四册Lesson 44 Patterns of culture

Lesson 44 Patterns of culture 文化的模式 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What influences us from the moment of birth? Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of great moment.

Part 7 Academic reading

Academic ListeningPart 7 - Academic readingThis programme was first broadcast in 2001. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. ANNOUNCER: Its time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universi

Stay on Top of Your Reading

Stay on Top of Your Reading By Richard G. Ensman Jr. Thousands of pages of reading material are put in front of you each month. How can you manage to digest it all? T hey just keep coming and coming:

【英语时差8,16】超流=超级怪异

Superfluid = Super Weird Imagine youre enjoying a nice cool drink on a hot summer day when all of a sudden your cool liquid leaps out of the cup towards the sun, or starts climbing up the sides of the cup and spills over the edge. You might think you

80天攻克雅思核心词汇-31

aberrant异常的 basement地下室 bizarre奇怪的 deviate背离 eccentric古怪的 dwarf使矮小 exceptional特殊的 exotic异国情调的 eclipse黯然失色 hysterical歇斯底里的 indignant愤慨的 irritate激怒 jerk猛拉 madden使恼火

数学英语 11 How to Use Median Averaging

by Jason Marshall In the last two articles weve learned how to calculate two types of average values: the mean and the median. Today, were going to continue where we left off and talk about how median averaging can be useful in everyday, real life si

Reading the classics

Alice: Hello this is 6 Minute English, I'm Alice and today, I'm joined by Yvonne. Hello, Yvonne! Yvonne: Hello Alice! Alice: Now Yvonne, if I said Don Quixote, what would you say? Yvonne: Oh, it's a famous classic Spanish novel but that's all, becaus

2006年VOA标准英语-US Tests Missile Defense Amid North Korea Tensi

By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 June 2006 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is conducting a test in the Pacific Wednesday, but an official says the event was long-planned and is not related to tension over a possible North Korean missile launch. Meanwhile, t

2006年VOA标准英语-Australian Stem Cell Discovery Could Help

By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 05 January 2006 Scientists in Australia have discovered a stem cell that is expected to provide clues about how breast cancer develops, and how cancer cells evade current th

雅思口语part3遇到reading怎么办

关于reading，不论是在p1p2p3哪一个part，它都是经常会出现的问题。然而Reading helps to relax，My favorite book is ，这些梗是不是都已经滚瓜烂熟了?今天我们要谈的是阅读的变化。开始之前，你可以自

Intelligent Reading 聪明的读书方法

In your reading you must have in view some definite aim ---- some aim other that the wish to derive pleasure. I conceive that to give pleasure is the highest end of any work of art, because the pleasure procured from any art is tonic, and transform t

How to Improve Reading Skill

Reading is one of the most important ways to judge a person's command of a foreign language. There are two effective ways to improve reading comprehension. Reading widely is of primary importance. Reading is basically a process in which a reader trie

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic?

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re

新西兰英语 380 15 year olds score well in reading

Each year, the OECD tests half a million 15-year old students in 70 countries in reading, mathematics and science. The results for 2009 were published this month. They showed students in Korea and Finland had the highest scores for reading literacy.

The lost art of reading

The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it. Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having troubl

TED演讲:内心的喧哗(5)

I'm now very proud to be a part of Intervoice, 身为众声喧哗的一员，我引以为荣! the organizational body of the International Hearing Voices Movement, 它是国际听声组织的筹划单位 an initiative inspired by the work of Professo

万物简史 第344期:孤独的行星(9)

It has been suggested, not altogether cynically, that this was out of a purely contrarian instinct, 有人认为。而且不完全是挖苦地认为，这纯粹是出于一种敌对的本能。 and that if he had been born in the Soviet Union he woul