全新版大学英语听说教程第三册 Unit 14

Unit 14 Part B Text 1 Genetic Engineering: for Better or Worse? Technology is not only used to build spaceships and high-speed computers. It is also being used to create new plants and animals. This technology is known as genetic engineering. At the

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Bluegrass is often associated with the arrival of Celtic immigrants to the Appalachian Mountain region in the 1700s. American bluegrass music remains popular in many parts of the United States. Jam sessions, where musicians get together to play, can

美国国家公共电台 NPR North Korea Designed A Nuke. So Did This Truck Driver

NOEL KING, HOST: This year, deep inside a mountain, North Korea detonated a giant nuclear bomb. It also launched missiles. And so for the first time since the Cold War ended, a lot of us ordinary Americans have started thinking about nuclear weapons.

VOA慢速英语2011--Palestinians Apply to UN; US Links Pakis

IN THE NEWS - Palestinians Apply to UN; US Links Pakistan to Attacks 新闻报道 - 巴勒斯坦申请入联 美国指责巴基斯坦支持国内恐怖组织 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。

NPR 2011-07-11

Ahead of the resumption of budget talks at the White House late this afternoon, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell is suggesting Congress is virtually certain to raise the nations debt limit in time for an August 2nd deadline. McConnell spoke on F

AP 2009-12-09

1. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a major step toward regulating greenhouse gases, saying they are threat to the public health. The news comes as the UN's biggest climate change conference is underway in Denmark. Organizers say this ma

AP 2009-12-14

1. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a major step toward regulating greenhouse gases, saying they are threat to the public health. The news comes as the UN's biggest climate change conference is underway in Denmark. Organizers say this ma

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The top U.S. military officer has welcomed progress toward reversing the Kyrgyz government decision to end U.S. use of a key base for supplying the allied mission in Afghanistan. Admiral Michael Mullen, head of US Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. Niko

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The top U.S. military officer says critics who claim it will take years to even have a chance to defeat the Afghan insurgency ignore the fact that a similar counterinsurgency strategy turned around a similarly difficult situation in Iraq in 2007. The

VOA标准英语2010年-BP Has New Plan to Contain Oil Spill

BP is planning a new line of attack to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after efforts to plug the leak using mud and cement failed. The so called top kill procedure was declared a failure Saturday, prompting company officials to talk about

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The top U.S. military officer says he is comfortable that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are secure, but he says he is gravely concerned about Taliban advances in the country and neighboring Afghanistan. 美国参谋长联席会议主席马伦上将说，他

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The top U.S. military officer says 2009 is a critical year for implementing President Barack Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, spoke Tuesday to a gathering in Washington of senior mi

摇滚:Into The Heart——u2乐队

英文歌词： Into the heart...of a child I stay a while...oh, I can go back Into the heart...of a child I can smile I can go there Into the heart Into the heart of a child I can go back I can stay awhile Into the heart... 凭着狂热的正义感与后朋克实验

魔都教师团成英国数学教育救世主！

Lilianjie Lu stands in a London classroom, struggling slightly with her English but with a winning smile on her face, as she attempts to teach them all about fractions. Lilianjie Lu站在伦敦的教室里，说着不熟练的英语，但脸上挂着信

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奇葩工作大盘点 看有没有你的菜

One of the world's most remote inhabited islands is on the lookout for a new farmer, but with just one village and a population of only 265 people moving there may not be everyone's cup of tea. 最近，世界上最偏僻的小岛之一正忙着招一位

US commander in Pakistan warning

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Mullen says violence in Afghanistan likely to rise

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Violence in Afghanistan（阿富汗） is likely to rise as Spring comes, and the country remains the focus of U.S. national security strategy（战略）, said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: This year, California saw the most destructive wildfire season in its history. Take last month's Camp Fire in Northern California, which decimated more than 18,000 structures, many of them homes in the town of Paradise. It's

英语听书《白鲸记》第258期

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend. 我的兴趣完全集中在跟一个知心朋友共吸一支烟斗。共盖一条毯子的这种精诚的舒适上了。 With our shagg