英语听力:自然百科

Out of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest Georgia, the cold waters of the Conasauga River descend toward Tennessee. Flowing back and forth across the state line, the River's abundant wildlife and unspoiled beauty is a remnant of the past--a fading

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Arava, the disabled tortoise is using her new set of wheels to get around in more ways than one. Keepers at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo say the 10-year-old Spurred Tortoise was fitted with custom wheels to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 55-p

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Celebrations in honour of the dead take place in July and August in Japan. Prayers are set and graves are tended during the festival of O-Bon. In Tokushima city around 100 thousand costumed people dance in the streets. This is an incredible scale, th

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In Antarctica, everyday is (an) Olympic one. These Emperor Penguins are near the end of a two-week fishing marathon, bringing food for their hungry chicks, waiting miles away. But a challenger threatens the entire competition. A Leopard Seal waits at

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The Florida Everglades are home to alligators, dozens of bird species, beautiful flowers and exotic plants. It's easy to see what attracts people to these places. But Florida's population growth, coupled with farms that require a never-ending supply

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Here we are on the Serengeti Plain in Africa, where an ostrich has abandoned an egg and a hungry jackal means to make a meal out of it. What weve got here is a highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum. Its just

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This is East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, a land in constant upheaval. The flamingos and baboons here at Lake Bogoria live in harmony. They share this landscape and all it has to offer. They may not be compatible. But in the midst of Bogoria's boun

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At Madison Christian Community, they gather each Sunday to worship a higher power. These days, seeing the light means much more. My prayer now is God, let your light shine in my life. So, I am always happy when the sun is shining. Pastor Jeff Wild ap

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The warm glow of the summer morning settles on the slopes of western Colorado. But as the sun climbs higher, deep shadows shield the landscape that remains dark and forbidding. It is among the nation's deepest, steepest and narrowest canyons. You may

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The herdsmen of Inner Mongolia have freely roamed the plains for many centuries with their livestock grazing on fertile grasslands stretching across the horizon. But now their age-old customs are being stamped out because of relocation the Chinese go

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Tucked away in the United Arab Emirates northernmost region, a very delicate experiment is underway to bring some luster back to the regions pearl industry. Since 2005, one company has been cultivating pearls commercially, the first such modern opera

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Dawn on the tropical island of Trinidad. Birds are arousing in the trees, calling, flashing brilliant colors amidst the endless shades of green, and Roger Neckles is arousing too. For the last decade, he has been documenting the island's winged inhab

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Millions of Americans enjoy playing golf. But golf courses are not known to be environmentally friendly. They demand a lot of fresh water, fertilizers and herbicides to keep them looking green. Thats true of most golf courses. But lets look at one th

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In animals, this part of the brain evolved around the time of the dinosaurs before mammals existed. It's hardwired to beat starvation. For three days Jean-Luc has been trapped underground. He hasn't had a morsel to eat. He doesn't know it, but his br

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Members of a Beijing diving club had the chance to experience China's Great Wall in a way few others have by exploring a section of the landmark that was submerged in the cloudy waters of a reservoir. There is no doubting that the Great Wall of China

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With the exception of the trains that roll in the town a couple of times a day, the small ranch town of Malta, Montana is pretty quiet these days. The landscape is a far cry from what it was 77 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the area. The no

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The most powerful atom smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as new forces of nature or even extra dimensions of space, after it's switched on in August. The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, basically consists of a ring of superc

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Carried by the female anopheles mosquito, malaria is a disease of the poor. In rural Africa, it is killing the young and the vulnerable. The need for a vaccine which would dramatically reduce mortality has never been greater. Dedicated teams of scien

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It might be the cheeks flushing with embarrassment or a voice choking with emotion. Our physical reactions can reveal what we truly feel. And some think they can show when someone's lying. Typically when a person tells a lie, they begin to sweat. I'm

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The Shaolin monks of China are famous for fighting skills and acrobatics, but above all, for their ability to somehow manage their senses. Does this really not hurt or do they just not mind the pain? To prepare themselves for their grueling acts, the

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学英语单词
accidental slip
airzol coffee
allenhurst
anticomedy
aout
aphotic marine environment
articles of expenditure
assassinated
axial skeletons
beet alcohol
Bio-beads S
blanket properties
broiled
Cadott
cetiricin
cockcroft-walton voltage multipliers
Cologne, University of
commercial court
compound fault
cow-parsleys
critical collision frequency
cross-flow channel
cut sb to pieces
deep space
elaborative sequence
endow with
epiglottis
estimation method of man-hours by experience
fane
ferrous castings
first swing
flat out like a lizard drinking
foreclosure order
genus acanthocereuss
glide along
hinshaws
houseshoes
hydriodates
inclination of nozzles flange
Karisaka-tōge
lends a hand
local infiltration anesthesia
luo-diallogite
material appropriation
metal forming equipment
Millettia unijuga
multistage
nabns
Newton-Cotes
Nīmāvar
obschina
optimum rate of change
originalists
osteanaphysis
oxide colour
Palaeoconcha
parament
pass the hat
plunger stroke
pole piece
posterior preputial muscles
pseudogyna gemmans
ratchil
ratfucking
re-choose
rectifier voltmeter
reed type
relativement
remeta fibre
requirements specification
reverse-acting valve
Roella
ruqayya
sararre
shelf support
Sinian period
sky man
strawstone (carpholite)
suberne
submember
suckling sow
swear an affidavit
symphonie concertante
syngenetic water
tamaney
target laser illumination
test task
tropyl
twin strand
under favourable growing conditions
universal logic element
unreeve
Unzenberg
valve tower
vector diagram of phase-modulated wave
Vicq d'Azyr's stripes
Vt. R.
watermarks
weight loss on heating
white knighted
wild mango trees
women's day