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

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35.Set email boundaries. 设置看邮件的范围。 Use self-control and only check email two to three times a day (unless you are in a business that requires you to continually monitor your emails). 使用自制,一天只检查电子邮件两到三次

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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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

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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

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

公众人物毕业演讲 第149期:史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克于加州大学伯克利分校(6)

Also bought my first guitar for $25 there Music was an important part of my life And it's just so relaxing to play with the guitar every day for twenty years 我也在那里花25美元买了第一把吉他音乐是我人生重要的一部分二十年来

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

新西兰英语 699 Pike River Report

The Royal Commission Report on the tragedy at the Pike River coal mine was released today. On 19th November 2010, 29 men died in an explosion in the Pike River mine. Listen to November 20th 2010 to hear about this. Between July and November last year

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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

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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

【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

【文摘】快速减肥法

In this Moment of Science Don tells Yael about another weight loss program. At least this one has some scientific validity, but don't count on losing a lot of weight this way. D: One thing you listene

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AS IT IS 2016-06-24 Solar-Powered Airplane Lands in Spain 太阳能飞机飞越大西洋后在西班牙降落 An airplane powered totally by the sun landed in Seville, Spain early Thursday after completing a 71-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

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