时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2015年11月


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 A volcanic 1 eruption 2 near Bali. This is a popular resort 3 island in the pacific island country of Indonesia. That's key here. Because even though this eruption of Mount 4 Jali wasn't actually on Bali, the wind blew its volcanic ash toward 5 the island. And even though the eruption wasn't a major threat to people on the ground, it is to planes in the air. Volcanic ash can melt if it's stuck in an aircrafts' engines. It turns into a glasslike substance that can cause them  to lose power and break down. So from Tuesday night until today, around seven hundred flights in the region 6 were cancelled, leaving people stranded 7 either unable to leave Bali or unable to get there.


  Ice in the Antactica. There's a lot of it. That doesn't sound much like breaking news. But new information suggests it's increasing. That's puzzling scientists because research over the last ten years suggested that Antactica is losing  ice and the melting is contributing to rising sea levels. Last year NASA reported that Antactica's sea ice reached a new record size. Now it looks like the continent's ice sheet is growing.
  We know the sea levels around the world are rising and current thinking is that part of that sea level rise comes from melting ice in Antactica. But one recent study from NASA scientists says that may not be the case. Antarctica is a big place, roughtly the size of the US and Mexico combined. So as you might expect, changes in its ice are not uniform across the entire continent. Nearly all scientists agree that ice is being lost from the western part of Antarctica and along its peninsula 8. On the eastern side ices are actually being gained. But where the study is different is they measured the gaining of ice along eastern Antarctica is outpacing the loss on the western side. What's behind this addition of ice is snowfalls that started becoming heavier around ten thousand years ago. The scientists noticed this by looking into the ice core 9 data. Why is this important? It would mean that Antarctica is not contributing to sea level rise. Bottom line: There is still a lot we need to learn about how Antarctica is reacting to climate change.

1 volcanic
adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
2 eruption
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
3 resort
n.凭借,手段,常去之地,胜地;vi.求助,诉诸,采取(某种手段等),常去
  • He couldn't have passed the exam without resort to cheating.他要不是靠作弊是通不过这次考试的。
  • Beidaihe is noted for its summer resort.北戴河以避暑胜地而著称。
4 mount
n.山峰,乘用马,框,衬纸;vi.增长,骑上(马);vt.提升,爬上,装备
  • Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
  • She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
5 toward
prep.对于,关于,接近,将近,向,朝
  • Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.突然间我看到一个高大的身影朝警察靠近。
  • Upon seeing her,I smiled and ran toward her. 看到她我笑了,并跑了过去。
6 region
n.地区,地带,区域;范围,幅度
  • The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
  • It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。
7 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
8 peninsula
n.半岛
  • Dalian is in the south of the Liaodong Peninsula.大连位于辽东半岛南部。
  • Korean peninsula lies to the west of Japan.朝鲜半岛在日本以西。
9 core
n.中心;核心;(苹果、梨等果实的)果心
  • We didn't get to the core of the subject.我们没触及问题的核心。
  • The pear is rotten to the core.这梨全烂了。
学英语单词
airsick
Allahfearing
Ameritards
automatic anodizing equipment
bag dust filter
black-figures
by design
Calvinized
Castanopsis megaphylla
chromous sulfide
circuit-clearing device
coarse grained coal
compounding feedback
contract for the delivery of goods by instalments
coordinate scheme
current switching diode logic
depreciation-equal-annual payment
disincentivises
doctor with
dot-bar generator
duck-pin
endospore
extra strong steel pipe
extra-flexible wire rope
falling-film tutbular absorber
field discharge resistance
focused reflector
food-bearing
friedans
front-cell focusing
giovanni leone
glomus formosanum
go mental
hogwort
homophasic reproduction
iacovelli
insomuch that
installation risk
isotopic spin multiplets
katan
Keller-Killian reaction
lechatelierites
lineatum
Loveshka Oblast
maximum paving speed
mend like sour ale in summer
metallogenic prediction
meteorologic rocket network
momentum transport hypothesis
myoider
ninox japonica totogo
numptyish
nursing gown
off-the-book loan
oldass
oligoporus lowei
operation module
optional product
overlapped read
overnumbered
paleological
palmaris brevis
panji stories (indonesia)
pendulograph
Peyrelevade
phosphoaspartate
polymelius
powered cable logging
prairie landscape
predicated data
punchy
reciprocal holdings
recognizingly
relative damping of an instrumen
replacement method (of depreciation)
Richmonds in the field
rockaway
rockin'
sancturies
self-fertilizations
slave-trade
spastic ileus
Sr-O system
stomatopodous
synchronous exception
tear propagation
TestCPU
the legislature
thialisobumalnatrium
think good to do something
throuble
times of life
trance dancing
trochus hanleyanus
tumblehomes
uniform plan
Unitarianize
vaginal cystectomy
weigh your words
woodblocks
woodenwalls
Wormwood Scrubs