大学英语六级听力 017

Controling Cancer There are two main causes of cancer: heredity and environment. We can do nothing to change our heredity, that is, the basic physical characteristics that are passed on to us by our parents. However, we can do a great deal to control

美国习惯用语-第873:gray area

美国大选结束了，各种拉票和选战活动也终于告一段落。就拿我们家附近的教会来说，他们现在不用再向教友推荐应该给哪个候选人投票了。 美国禁止宗教机构支持某一候选人，不过有些教会

A New Device is

Broadcast: Jan 15, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Many millions of people around the world suffer from problems of the small intestine. Bleeding from abnormal gr

和老外聊天的地道口语第87期:我想买个Mp4

C: my mp3 player is broken, so I want to change it for an mp4 player. Can you offer any advice about which brand and model to buy? J: an mp4 player? why don't you buy a new cell phone? You can find an mp4 player inside any of the latest cell phones.

白领口语应急80主题 工作之余75 购车

75．购车 常用应急场景 范例一：A green car M: Lucy, what are your priorities when buying a car? W: I guess the first thing is the price, the second is the size, and of course the color will play a role too. But I have to be honest. It is our todays r

英语PK台 第148期:家在何方(2)

Section 2: When I got out of my car, the air was pulsing. The whole place was absolutely silent, but the silence wasn't an absence of noise. It was really a presence of a kind of energy or quickening. And at my feet was the great, still blue plate of

听一分钟英文：Telephone-电话

Telephones are a major part of our lives these days. When I was growing up, I perhaps used the phone once a week. It was almost a big event when it rang. Everyone rushed into the living room to find out who was calling. Of course, it was an old-style

医学英语轻松学 第18期:目视前方

One of the first lessons new drivers learn is to keep their eyes on the road. 新手上路的第一课，目视前方。 Unfortunately, cell phones and other electronic devices are causing many drivers to lose their focus and sometimes their lives. 然

新西兰英语 803 No ‘man ban’ for Labour

The Labour Party will not ban men from becoming candidates for election in some seats. The Labour Council wants to discuss the idea during the Labour Party conference in November of having 50% women MPs. However, David Shearer, the leader of the Labo

新西兰英语 692 Labour Party Leadership

First check back to November 18th about the Labour Party conference. During the conference last weekend, David Cunnliffe refused to say if he supported David Shearer as Leader of the Opposition. This looked as if Mr Cunnliffe wanted to challenge Mr S

新西兰英语 693 Labour Party Conference

The Labour Party held their annual conference over the weekend. More than 500 members attended. A member is someone who pays a membership fee to belong to the Labour Party. This includes the 34 Labour Members of Parliament. The Leader of the Oppositi

The Wayback Machine Shows History of the Internet

One of the more infuriating things about the Internet is when a website closes down. You might follow a favorite writers blog, save links to helpful articles, and share interesting posts on social media. But then one day, you return to the website to

黎巴嫩小伙开发能为手机充电的沙滩垫

AS IT IS 2015-10-06 Beach Mat Charges Mobile Phone 黎巴嫩小伙开发能为手机充电的沙滩垫 Some people do not like being separated from their telephone, even while enjoying a restful holiday at the beach. So, a university student from Leb

VOA标准英语2012--Life-saving Heart Pump Developed for Children

Life-saving Heart Pump Developed for Children Sixteen-year-old Marco Murguia can now play basketball and live a normal life. But in early 2007, when he was ten, his mother, Connie Murguia, noticed he was acting sluggish and took him to Texas Children

财富精英励志演讲 第114期:互联网会改变一切(1)

It's a pleasure to be here today. In many ways it's kind of interesting because if somebody would have asked, would an Internet working company be given a key note at COMDEX just two years ago, how many people in this room would have said that would

【英语时差8,16】时间之谜--计时工具的发明

Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day. It has a stick or other object that rises above a flat surface. The stick, blocking s

【英语时差8,16】时间之谜--世界通用的时区划分

So, we have devices to mark the passing of time. But what time is it now. Clocks in different parts of the world do not show the same time at the same time. This is because time on Earth is set by the sun's position in the sky above. We all have a tw

新西兰英语 538 Labour Party Leadership

After the Labour Party lost the election, the leader, Phil Goff, resigned. Later this week the Party will choose another leader. They will choose between two men David Shearer and David Cunliffe. Both men have been speaking at Labour Party meetings.

英语博客：An app for A Cup of English.

Today, I have an announcement to make. I am very excited to tell all of you that A Cup Of English is available in app (or application) for the iPhone, the iPod touch, the iPad or similar devices. It is already available in iTunes. For those of you wh

新西兰英语 461 Technology in schools

Orewa High School in Auckland expects all year 9 students next year to have their own iPad, netbook or other mobile device like a Smart phone. The school says the most suitable is the iPad which costs between $800 and $1,000. The reason that the scho