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

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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

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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

New Device Detects Pilot Blackouts

New Device Detects Pilot Blackouts WASHINGTON During certain maneuvers, jet fighter pilots sometimes experience loss of vision and even loss of consciousness. Although short, these so-called blackouts can have tragic consequences. An Israeli company

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.

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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

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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

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

英语杂谈：46 Light therapy device fights acne

Scientists know all about the therapeutics qualities of blue and red light. But until know, sufferers of acne have to go to hospital to benefit from it. But Lumie, the manufactures of this new LED device hope it would see light therapy moving to the

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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

VOA标准英语2013--Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off

Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off Erik Hersman and his team in Nairobi have created what they say is the first router made especially for Africa. It's battery powered and rugged. And it's gaining attention in Europe and the United States.

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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

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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

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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

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

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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