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发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(227) / 评论(0) 分类 情景英语口语100主题

In the Southeast Asian country of India, exhausts from old cars and motorcycles, pollutions from industries, dust smoke from cooking and fires from when farmers burn their crops double, all of this contributes to the toxic air pollution in the Indian

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年11月

Threat of Creeping Lava Has Hawaiians on Edge 夏威夷火山持续喷发 熔岩威胁附近居民区 PAHOA, HAWAII Hawaii's Kilauea, one of the most active volcanos on Earth, has been erupting for more than 30 years. But lava from a vent near Pahoa

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

Qantas has given the green light for flights to take off from London. Earlier this morning, passengers were stranded as flights were cancelled or delayed for more than ten hours because of a new threat from volcanic ash. Airlines are putting on extra

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年

First story takes us to the South Pacific nation of New Zealand, where a powerful earthquake jolted the country's south island just after midnight on Monday. A little more than a million people live in the south island and though earthquakes are comm

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年11月

What country has more historically active volcanoes than any other? 历史上哪个国家活火山最多? United States, Indonesia, Japan or Philippines? 美国、印尼、日本还是菲律宾? According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are more

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年5月

Greek Island Shows Signs Of Volcanic Unrest Fira is a typical Greek city overlooking the Aegean Sea. Sitting atop a twelve hundred foot cliff on Santorini Island, its an ideal vacation spot. But this island wasnt always a paradise. Thirty five hundre

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Our climb continued. The gradients got steeper and narrower. Sometimes they were cut across by deep pits that had to be cleared. 我们继续往上走。石径愈来愈难走,愈来愈狭窄。有根深的空洞时时把路径切断,我们必须跳

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

This is AP News Minute. President Trump heads to Canada on Friday for a meeting of the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations. Contentious discussions are expected after the President recently imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the EU. A woman left

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(六)月

Rangers Watch Over America's Protected Sites 国家公园管理员照管美国的历史遗迹 It was called The Yellowstone Act, a law passed by Congress in 1872 that created Americas first national park. 在1872年国会通过的被称为黄石法的这

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(四月)

宇航员们在夏威夷进行模拟火星训练 These Volunteers are living for eight months in terrain that looks much like the surface of Mars. Six people are isolated high atop Mauna Loa, a volcanic mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii in a make-

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we start today with a by-the-numbers look at the dangerous situation on Hawaiis big island. Thats where the notoriously active Kilauea volcano has been erupting again for about a week and a half now. 头条新闻,我们通过观看一组数据来了解

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年5月

Large Impacts May Cause Volcanic Eruptions巨大冲击引发火山喷发 Other rocky planets in our solar system show a common feature: within giant craters caused by impacts theres evidence of volcanic activity. Which made scientists wondercan big i

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年Scientific American(六)月

A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volca

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2008年

Glatsmire's model shows that the magnetic poles swap places spontaneously due to / complex processes within the core. We were used to the idea that a compass points somewhere near the North Pole and hence we can use it for navigation, but there are p

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Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture? But for the longest time ,the question was taboo to science . Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassi

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The canyon has power and attraction compelling the visitor to gaze into its depth. These few points to a time when rainfall here would be significantly greater and the river evermore able to cover its channel through the granite landscape. This volca

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Really, its a balance between the size of the object, its speed into the atmosphere and critically the altitude at which it explodes. Too high, if its too small and it explodes too high, the shockwave has little effect on the ground. If its quite low

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2014年

Data from the first flyby of the planet Mercury in January of 2008 by the spacecraft MESSENGER are reported in eleven papers this week in the journal Science. The findings reveal new details about the solar system's smallest planet 77 million kilome

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

Tortoise Not Seen for Over 110 Years Found on Galapagos Island A kind of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years has been found in the Galapagos Islands. 加拉帕戈斯群岛发现了一种110多年未见的乌龟。 A female from a species known a

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