美语听力 English Café 528

Topics: Movies-The Usual Suspects; Tribal Colleges and Universities; effectiveness versus efficacy; to consider and to differentiate; common responses to Thank you Words: usual suspect version limp to round up innocent notorious tribal to force reser

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR Adult ADHD Can't Be Diagnosed With A Simple Screening Test, Doctors Warn

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The World Health Organization has endorsed a six-question screening test for ADHD in adults. Now, this is catching a lot of people's attention because, with symptoms like distractedness and disorganization, it can be pretty tempti

The Prospect of Massive Online Open Courses

The growing trend towards online education here in China is starting to raise questions about its effectiveness, and its overall viability. While more and more people are choosing to take part in distance education in so-called Massive Online Open Co

英语角-圆桌会议RoundTable0620 - 你咋不上天呢？

Topic1-Nine years after the plastic-bag ban In 2008, China initiated a national ban on the use of free plastic bags in supermarkets. 9 years later, the effectiveness of the ban is under fire. Environmentalists, congressional delegates, and even state

瞬间秒杀听力 第20期:所有的不快乐都是自我的选择

Your mood of the day depends on your choice You can choose to be happy And be lively throughout the day. You can share positive vibes all day. On the other hand, you can choose to be sad, Be sorrowful all day And it will affect your effectiveness in

每日商务英语 第81期:最大成效

optimal effectiveness 最大成效 英文释义 An expression describing a condition in whichoperations are at their most efficient 例句 Some managers believe that six is the right number of members on a work team for optimaleffectiveness.有些经理

VOA标准英语2011--Study Supports Breast Cancer Screening Every Two Years

Study Supports Breast Cancer Screening Every Two Years A new study finds that women who have a mammogram every other year are less likely to get a suspicious result requiring additional testing as compared to women who have the breast cancer screenin

VOA标准英语2010年-Viagra Improves Effectiveness of Cance

Doctors often use drugs in combination. Sometimes one medicine will enhance the effectiveness of another. Or a drug will have side effects that are eased by a different medicine. Now, researchers have found one drug that does both, and the name of th

VOA标准英语2011--Experts Recommend Screening Newborns for

Experts Recommend Screening Newborns for Heart Defects One of the scariest things a new parent can hear is, your baby has a birth defect. But some of the most dangerous birth defects are are invisible ones, such as deformities in the baby's tiny hear

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lawmakers Weigh Pros And Cons Of Mandatory Screening For Postpartum Depression

NOEL KING, HOST: Lawmakers in California are about to start debating a bill that would make doctors screen pregnant women and new mothers for mental health problems. Many doctors do not like this idea. From member station KQED in San Francisco, April

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Task Force Softens Opposition To Routine Prostate Cancer Screening

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's big news today about one of the most common forms of cancer. An influential federal task force now says patients and doctors should discuss screenings for prostate cancer. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has more. ROB

Scottish bowel screening trial succeeds

BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Routine bowel screening can cut deaths from bowel cancer by 27 percent, a latest Scottish study finds. The result was presented at the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) conference in Liverpool. Funded by the S

Effectiveness of Four-Drug TB Treatment Confirmed

One of the biggest challenges in fighting tuberculosis comes from new drug-resistant(抗药性的) strains of the disease. And one of the main reason those strains have developed is that TB patients often don't take their standard, 14-pill, course of

专业术语-财务英语词汇C23

correction phase of stock market 股市调整期 Correctional Services Industries Suspense Account 惩教工业暂记帐 corrective affidavit 修正遗产申报誓章 correspondent bank 代理银行 C

每日一词【616】untested：没有经过测试的

今天我们要学的词是untested。 Untested, 没有经过测试的，没有经过考验的。最近，香港和印度等亚洲地区陆续发现禽流感。为了预防禽流感对人类的威胁， Several human vaccines for bird flu have been d

2006年VOA标准英语-Study: Screening of Young Athletes Can Reduce R

By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 05 October 2006 watch Athletes Heart Risk One of the leading causes of death among young athletes on the playing field or court is a heart condition called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. But the results of a 25-year stu

每日一词【1140】nutrition：营养

今天我们要学的词是nutrition。 Nutrition, 营养。 The company was accused of misstating nutrition facts on the label, 这家公司被指控在标签上标注错误的营养成分。世界粮食计划署说， Food and good nutrition helps

双语有声阅读：爱神

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back，Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love，observing me grow slackFrom my first entrance in，Drew nearer to me，sweetly questioningIf I lacked anything. 爱神欢迎我的到来，而我的灵魂却在

留美老师带你每日说英文 第842期:美国的医疗水平

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Healthcare providers, too, can be required to change their practices in order to accommodate and cater to foreigners. A recent report on healthcare in developed countries ranked the US last in ef