The Pantheon here was built by the Emperor Haydrian in the 2nd century AD and its 1)dome is still one of the largest 2)concrete domes in the world. It's 50 yards across and its concrete is up to 20 fe

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The Earths crust is old. Billions of years old. So old that its nearly impossible to imagine. And now scientists have discovered what may be the oldest

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This is Scientific America's Sixty-Second-Science. I am Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Some interesting electrical activity in the clouds of ash drifting around Europe as a result of that Icelandic volcano. Models predicted that electrical charge should

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Lesson 72 Part Ⅰ Lesson 72 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Numbers an Dates: Volcanoes of the World Volcano Height Year of Eruption 1.Kronotskaya,the USSR ____m. ________ 2.Sundoro, Java ____m. ______

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Mount Etna is a volcano located in southern Italy. It is on the island of Sicily. Now, Mount Etna is spewing out red hot rocks and ash. However, experts say that there is no danger for people. Mount Etna has often erupted in the past. The last erupti

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Rescue workers pulled at least 10 people alive from ash and mud flows around Guatemalas Volcan de Fuego on Monday. The countrys national disaster agency reported at least 62 people have died since the volcano exploded Sunday. Officials say the number

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10 minutes. No commercials. The top news of the day delivered right to your classrooms. This is CNN Student News! I'm Carl Azuz. Let's go ahead and get started. We start things off today with a presidential visit that's actually a kind of homecoming.

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Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, welcoming all of you to CNN Student News on this International Women's Day, March 8th. It's the reason why March was picked to be Women's History Month, and we are commemorating it all month long here on CNN Student News. Today tho

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1. White House says the killing of twotop al-Qaeda forces in Iraq is a potentially devastating blow to theterrorist network. US and Iraqi forces killed the two figures in anight-time rocket attack. 2. The sky has been carved up into three zones, brea

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Working With Clay: A How-to GuideBy Gary Garriott Broadcast: Monday, January 09, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. Clay is found almost everywh

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Passage One 26. A. They were possibly caused by man. B. They were mostly caused by volcanoes. C. They were certainly caused by nature. D. We know nothing about their causes. 27. A. Afraid. B. Excited. C. Curious. D. Indifferent. 28. A. Copper and iro

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随着冰岛火山灰对欧洲空中交通影响的逐步减弱,欧洲的领空上周三重新开放。各家航空公司想方设法清理因大量冰岛火山灰云影响而停飞的积压航班。 请看外电的报道: Many European flights t

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1. President Barack Obama is offering to help India and Pakistan resolve their long-standing dispute over Kashmir. The president said both India and Pakistan have an interest in reducing tensions in the region. The president is in India as part of a

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I'm deep in the heart of the Chihuahuan desert, western Texas,and I've reached arroyo. 我身处德克萨斯州西部的 奇瓦瓦沙漠的中心地带 现在我来到一处河谷 Look at this.A slash of green vegetation fed from spring water emergin

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On June 4th, a volcano in southern Chile erupted, sending volcanic ash into the air. The large particles of ash soon dropped to the ground but the small particles were carried, high in the air, by the westerly wind to Australia and New Zealand. This

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We have absolutely nothing to compare it to. 我们绝对没有任何东西可以用来与它比较。 The biggest blast in recent times was that of Krakatau in Indonesia in August 1883, 近代最大的一次是1883年8月印度尼西亚的喀拉喀托

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The ash fall from the last Yellowstone eruption covered all or parts of nineteen western states (plus parts of Canada and Mexico), 上一次黄石火山爆发所喷出的火山灰,铺满了西部19个州的全部地区或部分地区(加上加拿大

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15 Dangerous Beauty 第十五章 美丽而危险 In the 1960s, while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone National Park, 20世纪60年代,美国地质勘测局的鲍勃克里斯琴森在研究黄石国家公园火山史的时候, Bob Chri

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Walter was a geologist specializing in paleomagnetism, Luis was a physicist and I was a nuclear chemist. 沃尔特是地质学家,他的专长是古磁学;路易斯是物理学家;我是核化学家。 And now here we were telling paleontologis

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Perseids lead us up to where the money is Where kings had lived Both of us are leaving town when we get old enough We're moving up We are gonna see greater heights Theyll put our names up in neon lights Rolling volcanoes in the night Glowing in the d

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