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

World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance

World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the stron

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

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

VOA标准英语2008年-Lord's Resistance Army Warns Against UN-Backed

The spokesman for the Lord's Resistance Army says Congolese forces and U.N. peacekeepers in Congo Kinshasa are preparing to move against the rebel group, which has yet to sign a peace deal to end a 20-year reign-of-terror in the region. VOA Correspo

China builds first tower-type solar-thermal power station

China builds first tower-type solar-thermal power station BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- The first tower-type solar-thermal power station in Asia has been built in northwest Beijing, chief of the program said on Monday. Wang Zhifeng, a researcher at th

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

VOA标准英语2012--Antibiotics Breed Drug Resistance in Pigs

Antibiotics Breed Drug Resistance in Pigs Pigs given low doses of antibiotics had more E. coli in their guts, and that bacteria showed an increased resistance to antibiotics, according to new research. The study confirms the routine practice of feedi

VOA标准英语2010年-Antibiotic Resistance Called Growing T

Vidushi Sinha | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance one of the three greatest threats to human health. Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against so

VOA标准英语2015--Kenya: Misuse of Antibiotics Leading to Resistance by Immune System

Kenya: Misuse of Antibiotics Leading to Resistance by Immune System NAIROBI In Kenya, the rise of drug resistant bacteria could reverse the gains made by medical science over diseases that were once treatable. Kenyans could be at risk of fatalities a

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Assault On Mosul Looms, Resistance Grows — And ISIS Grows More Brutal

As Assault On Mosul Looms, Resistance Grows And ISIS Grows More Brutal play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:43repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your

2015年CRI Nobel laureate Tu Youyou Calls for Attention on Artemisinin Resistance

Artemisinin, also known as QingHaoSu in Chinese, was discovered by Chinese scientist Tu Youyou. She received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for the drug's discovery by her team more than three decades ago. In her speech at the Karol

新西兰英语 79 New Geothermal Power Station

Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

2007年VOA标准英语-Study Finds Drug Resistance Fades Quickly in Ke

By David McAlary Washington 10 January 2007 One of the main weapons to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus during birth is the drug nevirapine. But when nevirapine is used alone just once, HIV starts becoming resistant to it. Rese

男女对温度的感受不同?

It happens every summer: offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into popsicles. But until now, there was no data to understand why women felt cold and were slipping on cardigans while men just rolled up their sleeves at the same tempe

英文歌曲:爱的反抗力 Muse - Resistance

爱的反抗力 Muse - Resistance Resistance Muse Is your secret safe tonight? And are we out of sight? Or will our world come tumbling down? Will they find our hiding place? Is this our last embrace? Or will the walls start caving in? (It could be w

新GRE填空考试推答案的技巧运用

方法: 如果有两个空格，有一个空格我们拿不准，另外一个空格我们可以判断出哪个选项里的答案具有相对优势，但是与这个具有相对优势答案搭档的另一个词却是我们不怎么看好的，或者是说