听基础单词,练听力第8期:每只海豹"average"费用8万

【今日基础词】Average 【Transcript】 The average cost of saving one seal was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively-saved animals were released into the wild among cheers and applause from people. A minute later, a kille

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

Gene Linked to Stroke Risk

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 1, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Iceland say they have identified the first gene linked to common forms of

【有声英语文学名著】一家的故事

文本节选 Iam a dwarf. God made me this way. Im little, just like He made you have brownhair and blue eyes. Basedon birth records, its estimated that there are at least 15,000 people withdwarfism in the United States. And there are more than 200 d

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

英语小达人 57 Just Average

Just Average 普普通通 In my third year of school, something happened and my attitude about working hard changed. I'm not sure what it was, but something encouraged me to study a little harder for this one particular test we were going to have at

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Ginkgo as Memory Aid Disputed / New Fi

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - September 17, 2002: Ginkgo as Memory Aid Disputed / New Findings About Deadly Skin Cancer / Hair and Sex Lives of Lions VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Stev

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

英语歌曲:摇滚小美女新作No Average Angel

摇滚小美女新作No Average Angel 相信你一定可以被她欢快的节奏所吸引的。 歌手：Tiffany Giardina 歌曲：No Average Angel Stupid chosen blind ambition Blowin' up the television It's your life, a never ending video Prada shoe

科学美国人60秒 SSS 2013-10-07

The mid-day nap is a pre-school tradition, but is it necessary? Some pre-school plan to eliminate this downtime to fit in more teaching, which could come the expense of learning. Because study suggests that a snooth may help children to retain more i

英语小达人 188 The Effect of Advertisement

The Effect of Advertisement 广告的效果 Some businessmen were talking about advertising on TV excitedly. As none of them had ever done it before, every one had his point of view. At this moment, Mr. Grey came by. He was a car dealer and he had on

VOA标准英语2010年-Tumors Shrink When Mice Live in Stimul

Researchers believe activity and interaction activated a communication channel in mice that prompted fat cells to stop releasing a hormone which accelerates cancer growth. Related Links Cell New research has found that mice with cancer are better abl

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

中考英语热点作文：温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

英文短篇故事（纽约）252 Proud of His Average Son

Jerry had a son. He named him John. Jerry didn't want John to be the best. He didn't even want John to be better. He wanted John just to be average. That way our boy won't get hurt. You get hurt if you try to climb too high. It's safer to be part of

【英音模仿秀】蒙娜丽莎她是谁

模仿文本： The Mona Lisa is gazed at by an average of 6 million people a year. Now scientists think they may have found the final resting place of Leonardo da Vinci's muse for the picture, and they want to open her grave to carry out DNA tests.

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Medicine prices at public clinics have been notably reduced thanks to a policy that promotes basic medicine, an office of the State Council said Thursday. Current price levels of basic medicine used by government-funded t