TEXT It is humorous essay. But after reading it you will surely find that the author is most serious in writing it. Ts There Life on Earth? There was great excitement on the planet of Venus this week. For the first time Venusian scientists managed to

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CD1-track10 Stonehenge What is the main topic of the lecture? A Two different views on the original purpose of Stonehenge. B The detailed history of how Stonehenge was built. C The geological explanation about the stones used in building Stonehenge.

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It was the masterful late and lunatic comedian Bill Hicks who pointed it out in the sarcastic terms of those really wary intelligent beings from another planet or even universe coming to earth, what we call UFOs. Why did they invariably seem to show

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UNIT 6 Text A Pre-reading Activities First Listening 1.Before you listen to the tape have a quick look at the paragraph below. It's similar to what you'll hear on the tape, but there are some differen

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The US House passed a broad 50-billion-dollar income tax relief package today, including incentives for alternative energy production. NPR's Debbie Elliott has more. The bill extends popular and non-controversial tax incentives, ranging from expense

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By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: December 23, 2003 (THEME) ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto while looking at photographs of the night sky. Pluto was the first object to be found

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(woman) Most people think of astronomers as people who spend their time in cold observatories peering through telescopes every night. In fact, a typical astronomer spends most of his or her time analyzing data and may only be at the telescope a few

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Part I Lost in the cosmos 第一章 如何营造一个宇宙 They're all in the same plane.They're all going around in the same direction. . . . 它们都处于同一平面。 它们都在沿同一方向转动...... It's perfect,you know. It's gorgeo

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Newly Discovered Solar System Matches Our Own The American space agency NASA and the technology company Google have identified an eighth planet in a faraway solar system. 美国宇航局和谷歌科技公司已经发现了一个遥远的类太阳系中

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丑石 An Ugly Stone 贾平凹 By Jia Pingwa 我常常遗憾我家门前的那块丑石呢:它黑黝黝地卧在那里,牛似的模样;谁也不知道是什么时候留在这里的.谁也不去理会它。只是麦收时节,门前摊了麦子,

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GRE写作题目: Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously,even when they claim to admire them. 大多数社会都没把最伟大的思想家当回事,虽然有时候这些社会自称是求才若渴的。 GRE写作范文:

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Ten years ago, I wrote a book which I entitled Our Final Century? Question mark. My publishers cut out the question mark. (Laughter) The American publishers changed our title to Our Final Hour. Americans like instant gratification and the reverse. (L

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When a journalist asked the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington 有一位记者问英国天文学家阿瑟爱丁顿, if it was true that he was one of only three people in the world who could understand Einsteins relativity theories, 他是不是

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We now know that Cepheids throb as they do because they are elderly stars that have moved past their main sequence phase, in the parlance of astronomers, and become red giants. The chemistry of red giants is a little weighty for our purposes here (it

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题目: Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty-whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution-is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force. 大多数人被告知忠诚是一

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However, for reasons unknown he calibrated the instrument in a way that put freezing at 32 degrees and boiling at 212 degrees. From the outset this numeric eccentricity bothered some people, and in 1742 Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, came up w

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本期内容: A multinational team of astronomers working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile discovered an Earth-sized planet in orbit around a star four light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is a bit bigger than Earth and orbits within i

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This was truly startling. The universe was expanding, swiftly and evenly in all directions. It didn't take a huge amount of imagination to read backwards from this and realize that it must therefore have started from some central point. Far from bein

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