时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2012年VOA慢速英语(六)月


英语课

 



Education Report - A Living Science Exhibit Grows at a Museum


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


Outdoors, in the open air, seems like a natural place to study natural science. It also makes sense in a place like Southern California where people like to be outside a lot. Now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is working to bring the indoors to the outdoors for its visitors.


The museum has redesigned an outdoor space into a living exhibit. This is a big change for the one and a half hectare area. It used to include a parking lot. Now, instead of cars, it welcomes birds, butterflies and other living things.


EVA ENG: "What else do the plants need, Jaime?"


CHILDREN: "Sunshine!"


Teacher Eva Eng and her young students recently visited the museum's outdoor campus. Ms. Eng says they enjoyed their experience. The children were learning about plant science in school.


EVA ENG: "They really like hands-on things, getting their hands in the mud, and planting seeds, watering them, watching them grow."


Scientists who work at the museum come outside to describe plants and insects in the natural setting of this outdoor laboratory.


Greg Pauly specializes in studying turtles, like the western pond turtle. He tells the students how development has changed its natural habitat. He says these turtles are happiest around small bodies of water that grow and shrink with the seasons.


GREG PAULY: "You know, one hundred fifty years ago, before there were very many people here, all the streams were just seasonal 1 streams. And the western pond turtle loved that habitat. And with people, we have changed the habitat."


Today, he says, there is a lot more permanent water, like a pond at the Natural History Museum itself. And he says the changing habitat is one reason why western pond turtles are shrinking in number.


In addition to science lessons, the open-air exhibit can provide contact with nature in a way that some city children rarely get.


Landscape architect Mia Lehrer says children can get real-life answers to questions they may be wondering about.


MIA LEHRER: "What does it mean to see what strawberry plants look like, that they do not come from a container in the store? And a tomato -- children have been asked, 'Where does ketchup 2 come from?' They do not know." 


Only parts of the new outdoor campus are open now. But Karen Wise says more changes are coming. Ms. Wise is the museum's vice 3 president for education and exhibits.


KAREN WISE: "Now we are opening up the whole museum, making it an indoor-outdoor experience, so that our visitors can be a part of the experience."


The work is expected to be completed by June of twenty-thirteen. Next year is the museum's one hundredth anniversary.


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. You can watch a video about the new outdoor exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County at www.voanews.cn. You can also read, listen and learn English with our programs and activities. I'm Bob Doughty 4.




adj.季节的,季节性的
  • The town relies on the seasonal tourist industry for jobs.这个城镇依靠季节性旅游业提供就业机会。
  • The hors d'oeuvre is seasonal vegetables.餐前小吃是应时蔬菜。
n.蕃茄酱,蕃茄沙司
  • There's a spot of ketchup on the tablecloth.桌布上有一点番茄酱的渍斑。
  • Could I have some ketchup and napkins,please?请给我一些番茄酱和纸手巾?
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
adj.勇猛的,坚强的
  • Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质:脾气倔强,性格刚强。
  • The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。
学英语单词
abstractify
acnemia
additional tax
amphigamy(renner 1916)
Amsil silver copper
Bacab
baggable
base64
centrifugal pump performance
cephalin-cholesterol flocculation
chaff dispensing device
charmphysics
colour fastness to perspiration
conducting fire back to its origin
contextual discourse
cosmicism
dams
Davidstow
dead beat instrument
Deliva
demur the instance
diaphragm cylinder
discalceated
draw up a list
drawgate
E.S.A.
ecological validity
esthetes
feather-light
floor plan graph
fluidized-bed gasification
forebodement
freeish
fringed geckoes
fully directional submersible vehicle
general call to all stations
give one's regards
glucocentric
half-off
hammer stalk
have one's an ear to the ground
head the list
herpeses
Holzknecht's scale
honourary chairman
imbroglii
inculcating
index correlation
interlandi
iPhone SDK
Japanese spindle
jetplanes
lel
lepery
maximum transfer
Maxine taffeta
minimum temperature prediction
monovalent sera
morbus ecdemicus
mutational delay
non-recurring item
nonfatal trauma
not be born yesterday
oculudato
oil-ring retainer
Patricios
perforatorium
Periclor
philipstadite
position-sensitive
quasi logical
resalue
rosined soap
S-code
San Vicente, C.
sanitary wares
say hi to
short-run trend
similar permutation
spizofurone
steam ejector gas-freeing system
steam pocket in water tank of radiator
sublethal heat stress
sulfuric acid cooler
teutonomania
the Post Office
tidal pressure ridge
times-standard
tommy bar nut
torsion indicator
transgentleman
transrectus incision
tripalmitates
tsiranana
two-time someone
tyret
Upper Triassic
vocalistic
war supplies
welding up
wreck mark
zigzag rule