According to the study, rats have decimated seabird populations across 90 percent of the worlds island archipelagos. Professor Nick Graham of Lancaster University in Britain says at a recent visit at the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, there

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(十一月)

Butterflies are as beautiful as the flowers they feed on. But they appear to be less abundant than in years past and that has scientists worried. Because butterflies, bees and other beneficial bugs pollinate plants and are crucial to as much as eight

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Agriculture Report - Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics 农业报道 - 生态水培技术 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Aquaponics is the idea of producing vegetables and fi

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If you've ever tried out a flirt up at a party or a club or maybe a construction side, you'll know it can be tough making yourself heard above the din. One solution is to go home and text your love interest. But a more immediate one, is to shout. And

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African Penguins Pulled into an Ecological Trap生态陷阱迷惑了可爱的企鹅 Over millions of years, penguins have evolved a keen sense of where to find food. Once theyre old enough, they set off from the shores on which they hatched for the f

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Lesson 80 The Middle School Student 一个中学生 Words: duration n. 持续的时间 duress n. 强迫,监禁 dusk n. 薄暮,黄昏 dusky adj. 微暗的,肤色黑的 dwarf n. 侏儒 vt. 把。。。显得矮小 dwell vi. 居住,生活于 dwelling adj. 住处,寓所 dye n. 颜料,染料;vt

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Despite it making a third of the world's mobile phone batteries, until recently few people outside of China had heard of BYD. But the company exploded into the international consciousness late last year by beating Toyota and General Motors to launch

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Louisiana Using BP Settlement Funds to Restore Coast 路易斯安那州使用BP赔偿资金恢复海岸生态 GRANDE ISLE, LOUISIANA Five years ago, technicians capped a well in the Gulf of Mexico that had been spilling oil for 87 days, polluting bea

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A reporters team made up of major Chinese media outlets is now on a journey down the Yangtze River from Yunnan Province. Their destination is Shanghai, the mouth of the river. Flowing nearly 64-hundred kilometers, the trip will take 30-days down the

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A rare snow leopard has been seen in Xinjiang in the northwest of China, near the border with Pakistan. The leopard remained motionless for a moment next to a riverbed, long enough for soldiers who were on patrol to take pictures and film it. Accordi

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Investors in Taiwan looking for the next big thing are setting their sights on Hualien, snapping up hotels in the eastern county in the hopes of striking gold after the highly anticipated arrival of mainland Chinese tourists. Hualien is famed for its

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今天我们要学的词是blueprint。 Blueprint, 蓝图。美国政府迫切需要削减开支。 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outlined a blueprint to cut spending, 参议院多数党领袖里德提出一份削减开支的蓝图。Classified b

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The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released recently documented 7,500 species living in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science. Most of the

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