SPEAKING EFFECTIVE AMERICAN ENGLISH

There are six characteristics of speech, all of which are vital to speak effectively. In this section we'll look at each of them separately. These speech characteristics are basically important to you

THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

BY STEPHEN R .COVEEY The first habit is 1)proactivity. Be proactive. The word proactivity is fairly common in management literature, but you won't find it in the dictionary. It means more than merely

Supper Shopping Mall

Supper Shopping Mall Forget the 1) notion about quiet, 2) suburban shopping centres. The twenty-first century mall is an involving world of retail drama. It’s a place where shoppers are 3) electrifi

美国社会阶层差距扩大

Health costs have been rising for middle-class families. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans cannot afford health insurance, contrast that with health insurance companies that are in great financial shape. United

2007年VOA标准英语-Hypnosis - Effective Pain Reliever for Breast C

By Melinda Smith Washington 31 August 2007 Centuries ago doctors used hypnosis to help relieve the excruciating pain of surgery. It then fell out of favor with the introduction of anesthesia. Now as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, new studies show a hos

剑桥雅思六阅读Test4同义词替换

1. drug company=pharmaceutical company 医药公司n. 2. promotion=marketing 营销n. 3. increase=escalate=rise=go up=grow 上升v. 4. research=study=survey=investigation 研究n. 5. work=be an effective way=be useful=help=achieve=succeed=have an eff

2009年ESL之就医和人际交往09 Having Limited Mobility

09 Having Limited Mobility GLOSSARY crutch one of two long sticks where one puts one end under ones armpit(between ones arm and body) and the other end reaches the ground, used to support ones weight and help one walk when one cannot put very much we

2007年VOA标准英语-Gates Says NATO Effective in Afghanistan, Even

By Al Pessin Brussels 13 June 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the NATO alliance has demonstrated that it can be effective in Afghanistan in spite of continuing shortfalls in the number of troops member-nations are providing. VOA's Al Pe

Social Mobility

NB: This is not a word for word transcript Rob: Hello, I'm Rob, and Yvonne has joined me for today's 6 Minute English. Hello, Yvonne! Yvonne: Hello, Rob. Rob: Today, we're talking about social mobility in the UK and a plan by the government to try an

VOA标准英语2008年-Triple-Drug Therapy Found Most Effective Agains

By Jessica Berman Washington 14 May 2008 Researchers have determined that commonly prescribed triple-drug combination therapies that use old antiviral drugs are the most effective for suppressing the deadly virus that causes AIDS. The findings have m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Peter Singer: How Can We Be More Effective Altruists?

GUY RAZ, HOST: I want to ask you about this really famous Talmudic notion - actually, it might be that in the Quran as well - but this idea that, you know, if you save a single life, then you have saved all of humanity. You know that one? PETER SINGE

ESL Podcast 486 – Having Limited Mobility

Gail: Oh! Mike: Are you okay? Gail: Yeah, Im just not used to these crutches yet. The doctor said I should start using them if I ever want to get out of this wheelchair , but I dont have the strength to stand up. Mike: Youll get the hang of it . Dont

有效的睡眠疗法

Sleep well, sleep better If sleep has plunged to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not alone. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night, the average American logs only six hours and 40 minutes.

英语美文：真心英雄

The sun shone brightly in the cloudless blue Wabash, Indiana, sky. 印第安纳州沃巴什县晴空万里的蓝天上，太阳光芒四射地照耀着。 That was an especially beautiful sunny day, recalls Jimmy Mitchell, a statuesque man in his ear

给15A座乘客的一封信

Want to get even with an annoying fellow airline passenger? Forget Twitter. After all, 140 characters wont get you very far when you have a lot to complain about. Do like 24-year-old Munyee Lau did after a recent nightmarish eight-hour AirAsia flight

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Are You Lifehacking Too Much? Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that our obsession with productivity is getting in the way of our lives. Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out

雅思范文—如何对待罪犯

题目：Should criminals be sent to a jail or let them do something else as punishment instead of sending into a jail? Why and give your reasons. 范文：There has long been controversy concerning the objectives of the justice system. Sending crimi

Help for the Helper

At age eighteen, I left my home in Brooklyn, New York, and went off to study history at Leeds University in Yorkshire, England. It was an exciting but stressful time in my life, for while trying to adjust to the novelty of unfamiliar surroundings, I

一个好学位能抵抗经济衰退？

Young adults have long faced a rough job market, but in the last recession and its aftermath, college graduates did not lose nearly as much ground as their less-educated peers, according to a new study.The study, published on Wednesday by the Pew Cha

英语六级写作范文

09年12月英语六级作文范文一： Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Say No to Pirated Products. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1．目前盗版的现象比