英语音频杂志：冬奥会
The Olympic Motto is 'Citius, Altius, Fortius', (or faster, higher, stronger), and when you hear the words The Olympics, you may see mental pictures of tanned men and women athletes in brightly coloured sportswear, trying hard to live up to the motto
英语音频杂志：冰淇淋和银行业
Ice-cream and banking By John Kuti Russian ice-cream is great. Any shop or street seller can offer a choice of different ones for less than ten roubles, thats about 20p in British money, which I think is a fair price. They have natural fruit flavours
英语音频杂志：冲浪
Surfing by Nik Peachey I've spent most of my entire life surfing, the rest I've wasted. (Anonymous) It seems that the oceans of the world have become many things to many different people. For some the ocean is a source of food and income, for others
英语音频杂志：印度
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal
英语音频杂志：危险：小鸟池
Danger: Bird Bath! by Andy Baxter We all know that chainsaws are very dangerous. In Britain, 1207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people, more than twelve times as many, were inj
英语音频杂志：双生子
Twins by Richard Sidaway What do the singer Alanis Morissette, the supermodel Gisele Bundchen and the ex-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan all have in common? The answer is, they all have a brother or sister who was born on the same
英语音频杂志：名字
Names by Katherine Bilsborough Shakespeare told us that a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. But is that true? Are names important? Are you happy with the name that you were given as a baby? And how do you choose a name for your own child
英语音频杂志：哮喘
Asthma by John Russell With World Health day on 7th April, this week we take a closer look at a very common health problem. Does your chest regularly feel tight? Do you find it difficult to breathe after light exercise? Do you sometimes make a wheezi
英语音频杂志：哲学
Philosophy By Julie Bray We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.(Shakespeare) Does this sentence make you think? What does it make you think about? Shakespeare was a dreamer, and some say he was a philosop
英语音频杂志：园艺之起源
By John Russell Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made by singing: -Oh, how beautiful! and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling, The Glory of the Garden Are gardens a recent invention? The modern garden has a history going back many
英语音频杂志：土著人口
Indigenous peoples by Richard Sidaway 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children (Native American proverb) In December 2005, Evo Morales became the new President of Bolivia. He was only 46 years old and openly sup
英语音频杂志：大巴
IKEA by John Kuti Our journey started in a minibus to Lomonosov underground station. In the open area behind the station we could see about 30 people waiting for a bus to the IKEA shop. This bus is unusual for two reasons it is free, and it is one of
英语音频杂志：天气
Weather by Mike Rayner It's hardly surprising that weather is a favourite topic for so many people around the world - it affects where we choose to live, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics. A sunny day can relieve
英语音频杂志：奴隶
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all its forms. Article 4; Universal Declaration of Human Rights.(The United Nations) What does slavery mean? Slavery is the idea that a human is someones
英语音频杂志：学生力量
Student Power by Chris Rose When most people think of strikes, they think of factory workers asking for better pay and conditions, or perhaps refusing to work to support a colleague who has been unfairly sacked. It is not often that people associate
