Teddy Bears Anniversary Americans give and receive many gifts during the holiday season. One gift for children has remained popular for many years. It is the teddy bear. The American-made teddy bear celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary last month

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

021B 远足旅行: 中级课程 Daphne和Roger一起去山里露营。到了晚上,俩人坐在campfire - 篝火旁边聊天儿。 Professor: That's right, Winnie. You know, being out in the woods at night can be pretty scary if you're used to city

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The tubas stopped playing, the marchers stopped marching. But the Aldens didnt stop looking for Herr Bear. Im sad Herr Bear is still missing, Violet said when the doors to the Old Mills Town Hall opened to the public. But Im glad Mrs. Keppel didnt ta

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House hunting One day Mother Bear said. This house is too little for us. Baby Bear has nowhere to play on cold days. Yes, said Father Bear. The cold winter is coming. Let's go and find a big cave. In the morning Father Bear, Mother Bear and Baby Bear

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After spending a year or so as larvae under water, they transform into winged adults and take to the skies. The millions of tiny flies attract far bigger animals. As they hold a mass mating orgy along the banks of the lake, brown bears come to feed o

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Few have witnessed this moment, for the male, his only tender encounter in an otherwise solitary life. But it doesn't last long. A rival suitor has also caught the female's scent. Courtship has to be put on hold. He must fight for his rights. He sees

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This is a high-risk strategy. Like the male at the whale carcass, some bears don't do sharing. She stands up to make herself look bigger. The cub copies. Luckily, this bear has no appetite for a fight. There is a feeding etiquette around a seal carca

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Back on Svalbard, it's high summer. Barnacle geese that had overwintered in Scotland have started to breed. Their calls bring hope to hungry bears. The cub stays back as his mother explores the possibilities. Bears have only recently discovered this

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Its seaweed. Kelp is not wildly exciting, but it does contain carbohydrates and some protein too. The cub must find acrobatics rather strange. Hungry bears eat virtually anything. Its a question of making the most of whats around, and its never too s

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Hot water scorches and drowns the roots of trees encroaching on the valleys. It can keep the forests in check and the rich pastures / open. Those pastures now produce the new grass needed to make rich milk and feed a bison baby boom. The few calves b

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This is AP News Minute. A fast and furious hurricane Michael sped toward the Florida panhandle on Tuesday with 110-miles-per-hour winds and a potential storm surge of 12 feet, giving tens of thousands of people precious little time to get out or boar

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By David Byrd Washington 30 January 2007 National Football League head coaches Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears have been friends for years. Dungy mentored Smith when both were with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the United States, with an insatiable demand for illegal drugs, bears co-responsibility for rampant drug-related violence in Mexico along the U.S. border. Clinton is in Mexico City for talk

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This is absolutely breath taking, it is actually quite hard to believe in some ways the Egyptians did what they did when they did it, at a time when the rest of the planet, or most of it anyway was in intellectual darkness, the Egyptians were creatin

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But hot tempers on a hot rock beats being on the outside trying to get in. This exclusive resort, isnt accepting new guests. Come evening, a cool mist hangs over the lake, as the last of the egg-laying caddis flies get picked off by ducks and bears.

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Bison lose the last of their winter coats. In the heat, tempers fray. To escape soaring ground temperatures, cowbirds choose a bison's back as a cool place to feed and catch the breeze. Biting insects now become a draining nuisance. A grizzly bear es

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The islands of Svalbard in Arctic Norway. They might be remote, but they are under surveillance. Spy cameras are capturing the most intimate images ever taken of polar bears. They're revealing some remarkable behavior and discovering an animal of sur

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She's aware of his difficulties and uses her body as a shield. She must stay attentive if her cub is to survive in this harsh Arctic world. Realizing he's exhausted, she digs a hollow to rest him. In the dens like this, she suckles him six times a da

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The air was crisp and cold. Jack and Annie shivered. They looked out thewindow at a dark gray sky. The tree house was on the ground. There were notrees and no houses--only an endless field of ice andsnow. Morgan and the owl were gone. R-r-read the ri

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 汪培珽儿童英文分级书单《神奇树屋》

By the time the dogsled arrived at the tree house,the snowstorm had become a blizzard. Can you wait just a minute? Jack asked the sealhunter. So we can check something?The hunter nodded. His dogs whined as Jack andAnnie climbed through the tree house

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